# Directory — People — The State of Streaming

> Executives, analysts, investors, and tracked voices shaping streaming and advertising.

Directory URL: https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/
Profiles: 65

## All entries

- [Alan Wolk](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/alan-wolk/) — Alan Wolk is the co-founder and lead analyst of TVREV, the independent media-analysis firm, and the analyst who coined the FAST acronym (Free Ad-Supported Streaming Television) in a December 2018 TVREV piece. His 'Feudal Media' thesis — that the post-monoculture media landscape is fragmenting into bounded, loyal, algorithmically-walled communities — is one of the most-cited independent frames for how trade buyers should think about CTV, podcasts, and creator platforms today.
- [Alex Kayyal](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/alex-kayyal/) — Alex Kayyal is chief financial officer of The Trade Desk, effective August 21, 2025. A longtime venture investor — most recently a partner at Lightspeed and formerly head of Salesforce Ventures — Kayyal joined the TTD board in February 2025 before being elevated to CFO, succeeding Laura Schenkein in a leadership reset under CEO Jeff Green.

- [Anat Ashkenazi](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/anat-ashkenazi/) — Anat Ashkenazi is Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOGL) and Google, a role she assumed July 31, 2024. She succeeded Ruth Porat and joined from Eli Lilly, where she spent 23 years and served as CFO from 2021, presiding over the GLP-1 drug ramp that tripled Lilly's market cap.
- [Anjali Sud](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/anjali-sud/) — Anjali Sud is the Chief Executive Officer of Tubi, Fox Corporation's free ad-supported streaming service, a role she has held since September 2023. Previously CEO of Vimeo from July 2017 — taking it public on Nasdaq in May 2021 — she took the Tubi seat from founder Farhad Massoudi and led the company past 100M monthly active users, 1B monthly hours watched, and its first profitable quarter, with FY2025 revenue of approximately $1.1B and 19% year-over-year growth.
- [Anthony Katsur](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/anthony-katsur/) — Anthony Katsur is CEO of IAB Tech Lab, the ad-tech standards body behind OpenRTB, ads.txt, and the Global Privacy Protocol, a post he has held since August 2021. A 27-year ad-tech veteran, he previously led DoubleClick (via NetGravity), Maxifier (as CEO), Rubicon Project, Sonobi (as President), and Nexstar Digital before taking the standards role.
- [Bill Koenigsberg](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/bill-koenigsberg/) — Bill Koenigsberg is the founder, chairman and CEO of Horizon Media, the largest privately-held independent media agency in the world. He has led the company continuously since founding it in 1989 and is a frequent industry voice on the value of independence versus holding-company consolidation. In 2014 he became the first media-agency executive to chair the 4A's board.
- [Bill Wise](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/bill-wise/) — Bill Wise is co-founder and CEO of Mediaocean, the ad-infrastructure platform that processes more than $200 billion in annual media spend. He has led the company since its 2012 formation from the merger of MediaBank and Donovan Data Systems, and previously served as President of Right Media through Yahoo's $850 million acquisition in 2007.
- [Brendan Carr](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/brendan-carr-2/) — FCC Chairman since January 20, 2025; commissioner since 2017. Authored Project 2025's FCC chapter, framing the broadcast public-interest standard as a content-and-conduct lever — a posture carried into office through the Kimmel suspension, Nexstar-TEGNA approval, NFL sports-distribution proceeding, and the April 2026 TV Parental Guidelines NOI that for the first time pulls streamers into FCC content-rating scrutiny.
- [Brendan Carr](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/brendan-carr/) — FCC Chairman since January 20, 2025; commissioner since 2017. Authored Project 2025's FCC chapter, framing the broadcast public-interest standard as a content-and-conduct lever — a posture carried into office through the Kimmel suspension, Nexstar-TEGNA approval, NFL sports-distribution proceeding, and the April 2026 TV Parental Guidelines NOI that for the first time pulls streamers into FCC content-rating scrutiny.
- [Brian L. Roberts](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/brian-roberts/) — Brian L. Roberts is Chairman and Co-CEO of Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ: CMCSA), which he has led since becoming CEO in 2002. Son of founder Ralph Roberts, he has served as president since 1990 and added the chairmanship in 2004. As architect of the NBCUniversal (2011) and Sky (2018) acquisitions, he shifted to a Co-CEO structure with Mike Cavanagh on January 2, 2026.
- [Brian Lesser](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/brian-lesser/) — Global CEO of WPP Media, the agency holding company's media arm rebranded from GroupM in May 2025. A returning WPP executive — Lesser co-founded programmatic buyer Xaxis in 2011, ran GroupM North America, then left to lead AT&T's advertising business (later Xandr) and identity-data firm InfoSum before being recalled in 2024 to overhaul the world's largest media-buying group.
- [Cathy Oh](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/cathy-oh/) — Cathy Oh is the Chief Marketing Officer of Samsung Ads & Services, the global advertising arm of Samsung Electronics, where she has been one of the original leadership voices since the unit's earliest days. Recognized in 2024 by Ad Age as a Leading Women honoree and by Chief Marketer as a People of the Year — CMOs of the Year, she is the named voice on Samsung's CTV-OS, ad-stack, and identity story across NewFronts, CES, and Cannes Lions stages.
- [Chad Engelgau](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/chad-engelgau/) — Former Acxiom CEO (2020–2024) who spent 17 years at the Conway, Arkansas data-marketing firm before departing in January 2024 to lead nonprofit fundraising services company Innovairre. His exit triggered the leadership transition that ultimately unified Acxiom and KINESSO under successor Jarrod Martin.
- [Cindy Rose](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/cindy-rose/) — Cindy Rose is CEO of WPP plc since September 1, 2025 — the first woman to lead a global agency holding company. A nine-year Microsoft veteran (UK CEO, Western Europe President, Global Enterprise COO), she succeeded Mark Read with a turnaround mandate. Her Elevate28 plan, unveiled February 2026, restructures WPP into four operating units built on WPP Open, targeting £500m in cost savings by 2028.
- [Dan Rayburn](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/dan-rayburn/) — Dan Rayburn is a 30-year veteran of the streaming media industry whose podcast, blog, and conference programming sit at the center of the streaming-tech beat. As chairman of the NAB Show Streaming Summit and a former Frost & Sullivan principal analyst, his weekly readouts on Q1 earnings, NFL rights renegotiation, and live-sports streaming production are the canonical primary read for the operator side of the business.
- [Dave Penski](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/dave-penski/) — Global CEO of Publicis Connected Media, the umbrella unit that combines Publicis Media, Epsilon, PMX, Influential and Publicis Groupe's digital experience agencies. A 25-plus-year Publicis veteran who rose through Zenith and PMX before running Publicis Media in the U.S.
- [David Cohen](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/david-cohen/) — David Cohen is President and CEO of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), the U.S. trade body for digital advertising, since September 2020. He joined IAB as President in April 2020 from MAGNA, IPG's media-investment arm, where he ran more than $20 billion in annual media spend. A 21-year IPG veteran, he leads the IAB's NewFronts and the IAB/PwC revenue report — distinct from IAB Tech Lab, the standards arm IAB spun out in 2014.
- [David Ferris Ellison](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/david-ellison-2/) — Chairman and CEO of Paramount Skydance Corporation since the August 7, 2025 close of the Skydance-Paramount merger. Founded Skydance in 2006 (formally launched 2010 with $350M financing), built it into a film-and-TV producer behind Top Gun: Maverick and the Mission: Impossible series, then engineered the $8B Paramount take-private and the pending $110B Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition agreed Feb. 27, 2026.
- [David Ferris Ellison](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/david-ellison/) — David Ellison is chairman and CEO of Paramount Skydance Corporation, a role he assumed when the $8B Skydance-Paramount merger closed August 7, 2025. Son of Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, he founded Skydance in 2006 and built it into the studio behind Top Gun: Maverick. In February 2026 he agreed to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery for ~$110B; WBD shareholders approved the deal April 23, 2026.
- [David M. Zaslav](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/david-zaslav-2/) — David Zaslav is President and CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, the role he has held since the April 2022 close of the Discovery–WarnerMedia merger he engineered. Previously CEO of Discovery Communications from 2007 through the WBD combination. Zaslav is the dealmaker behind the pending Paramount Skydance acquisition of WBD — a deal shareholders approved on April 23, 2026, the same day they rejected his merger-related compensation by an 82% advisory vote.
- [David M. Zaslav](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/david-zaslav/) — David Zaslav is President and CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery (NASDAQ: WBD), a role he has held since the April 2022 Discovery–WarnerMedia merger close. On April 23, 2026, WBD shareholders approved the Paramount Skydance acquisition while rejecting Zaslav's up-to-$886M merger pay package by an 82% advisory vote — the third consecutive year of shareholder compensation pushback under his tenure.
- [David Sanderson](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/david-sanderson/) — David Sanderson is the founder and CEO of Reelgood, the entertainment-data company that reconciles streaming catalogs across platforms with what the company describes as the only AI-native title-matching engine in the industry. He posts data-anchored predictive calls on industry inflection points — including a same-morning prediction that Netflix would walk from the WBD bidding war — and his SVOD content-concentration figures circulate widely as a primary read on streaming-catalog economics.
- [Dennis Cinelli](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/dennis-cinelli/) — Dennis K. Cinelli is the Chief Financial Officer of Paramount Skydance Corporation (NASDAQ: PSKY), effective January 15, 2026. He is the first permanent CFO in the post-Skydance-merger era, succeeding interim CFO Andrew Warren. Cinelli arrived from Scale AI, where he was CFO during Meta's investment that valued the company near $30 billion. Earlier roles include senior finance and operating positions at Uber and CFO of GE Ventures.
- [Evan Shapiro](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/evan-shapiro/) — Evan Shapiro is the independent media analyst widely known as the 'Media Cartographer' for his self-published Media Universe maps, which redraw the streaming, advertising and platform landscape monthly using only public data. His Substack newsletter, Media War & Peace, is one of the most-cited independent reads in the industry, and his recurring critiques of Nielsen's monthly Gauge methodology are an editorial reference point during upfront season.
- [Field Garthwaite](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/field-garthwaite/) — Co-founder and CEO of IRIS.TV, the contextual-video data platform whose IRIS_ID became a de facto content identifier across CTV. Garthwaite has led the company since founding it in 2013 and continues to run the unit inside Viant Technology following the November 2024 acquisition.
- [Florian Adamski](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/florian-adamski/) — Florian Adamski is the global CEO of Omnicom Media, the post-merger media-services arm of Omnicom Group. A longtime Omnicom operator who rose through OMD Germany before running OMD Worldwide, he has led the holding company's media division since November 2021 and is now charged with absorbing IPG's UM, Initiative, Mediahub and Acxiom into a single Omnicom Media platform.
- [Grant Parker](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/grant-parker/) — Grant Parker is President of the combined Flashtalking and Innovid business under Mediaocean, the independent ad-tech stack formed when Mediaocean closed its acquisition of NYSE-listed Innovid in February 2025. He reports to Mediaocean co-founder and CEO Bill Wise and oversees product, strategy, operations, sales, and client success across the merged creative-and-measurement platform.
- [Gregory K. Peters](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/greg-peters-2/) — Co-CEO of Netflix since January 2023, sharing the role with Ted Sarandos. Peters runs the product, technology, advertising, and live-events side of the house — including the November 2022 ad-tier launch and the programmatic stack now closing on half of Netflix's non-live ad inventory. Joined Netflix in 2008; previously CPO (2017–2020) and COO (2020–2023).
- [Gregory K. Peters](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/greg-peters/) — Greg Peters is Co-CEO of Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) with Ted Sarandos since January 2023, when founder Reed Hastings became Executive Chairman. Peters owns product, technology, advertising, and live events. He joined Netflix in 2008, became CPO in 2017 and COO in 2020, and launched the ad-supported tier in November 2022. On the Q1 2026 call he projected $3B in 2026 ad revenue and programmatic above 50% of non-live ad inventory.
- [Hugh F. Johnston](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/hugh-johnston/) — Hugh F. Johnston is Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of The Walt Disney Company, a role he assumed December 4, 2023 after 34 years at PepsiCo, where he served as CFO from 2010 and Vice Chairman from 2015. Disney extended his contract through January 2029 in November 2025. His commentary on streaming margins, sports rights, and capital allocation is closely tracked by investors.
- [Jarrod Martin](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/jarrod-martin/) — Global CEO of the unified Acxiom and KINESSO since June 2024, sitting atop the data, identity, and tech stack inherited by Omnicom in the November 2025 IPG merger close. Career data-and-analytics operator who joined IPG Mediabrands in Australia in 2013.
- [Jason S. Armstrong](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/jason-armstrong/) — Jason Armstrong is Chief Financial Officer of Comcast Corporation (NASDAQ: CMCSA), promoted from Deputy CFO and Treasurer in January 2023. He oversees all financial functions across Comcast's Connectivity & Platforms and Content & Experiences segments and has been the public face of the Versant spinoff and Peacock's path to profitability.
- [Jay Askinasi](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/jay-askinasi-2/) — Chief Revenue Officer of Paramount, a Skydance Corporation (NASDAQ: PSKY), since November 3, 2025, dual-reporting to CEO David Ellison and President Jeff Shell. Joined from Roku, where he was SVP of global media revenue and growth, and previously served as CEO of Publicis Media Exchange U.S. Led Paramount's first upfront under Skydance ownership on April 16, 2026, anchored by a streaming fixed unit and live programmatic insertion on UFC.
- [Jay Askinasi](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/jay-askinasi/) — Chief Revenue Officer of Paramount, a Skydance Corporation (NASDAQ: PSKY), since November 3, 2025, dual-reporting to CEO David Ellison and President Jeff Shell. Joined from Roku, where he was SVP of global media revenue and growth, and previously served as CEO of Publicis Media Exchange U.S. Led Paramount's first upfront under Skydance ownership on April 16, 2026, anchored by a streaming fixed unit and live programmatic insertion on UFC.
- [Jean-Briac Perrette](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/jb-perrette-2/) — JB Perrette is President and CEO, Global Streaming and Games at Warner Bros. Discovery, where he runs the HBO Max streaming business and the company's games portfolio. A Discovery veteran since 2011 and longtime lieutenant to David Zaslav, Perrette is the executive face of WBD's streaming-segment profitability turn and Max's international rollout, with the pending Paramount Skydance acquisition of WBD now reshaping his portfolio's future.
- [Jean-Briac Perrette](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/jb-perrette/) — JB Perrette (Jean-Briac Perrette) is President and CEO, Global Streaming and Games at Warner Bros. Discovery, overseeing the Max streaming platform and WBD's games portfolio. A Discovery veteran since 2011, he drove WBD's streaming Adjusted EBITDA from $677 million in 2024 to $1.37 billion in 2025. He signed a new post-split contract in 2025 to lead streaming at the standalone Warner Bros. entity through 2029.
- [Jeff Shell](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/jeff-shell/) — Veteran media executive whose career spans Fox Cable, two decades at Comcast/NBCUniversal — including a three-year run as NBCUniversal CEO that ended in an April 2023 termination for cause — and a brief tenure as President of Paramount Skydance from the August 2025 merger close to his April 2026 departure.
- [Jeffrey Terry Green](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/jeff-green-2/) — Jeff Green is the founder, chairman, and CEO of The Trade Desk (NASDAQ: TTD), the largest independent demand-side platform. He co-founded the company in 2009 after Microsoft acquired his first ad-exchange venture, AdECN, in 2007, and took TTD public in September 2016. Green is the most vocal industry advocate for the open internet against walled-garden consolidation, and is the architect behind Unified ID 2.0, the cookie-replacement identity standard now stewarded by Prebid.org.
- [Jeffrey Terry Green](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/jeff-green/) — Jeff Green is co-founder, chairman, and CEO of The Trade Desk (NASDAQ: TTD), the largest independent demand-side platform in ad tech. Green founded The Trade Desk in 2009 with Dave Pickles after Microsoft acquired their first venture, AdECN. He took TTD public in September 2016 and architected the Ventura Ecosystem launch in February 2026. He is the primary public advocate for Unified ID 2.0 and the open internet against walled-garden consolidation.
- [John D. Wren](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/john-wren/) — John D. Wren is Chairman and CEO of Omnicom Group Inc. (NYSE: OMC) — the world's largest marketing-services holding company since his all-stock acquisition of Interpublic Group closed November 26, 2025. He has led Omnicom since 1997, one of the longest-tenured CEOs in advertising holdco history. His contract runs through 2028 at a $1 base salary with a fully at-risk stock award.
- [John Ternus](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/john-ternus/) — John Ternus is Apple's Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering and CEO-designate, set to succeed Tim Cook as chief executive on September 1, 2026. A 25-year Apple veteran who joined the company in 2001, Ternus leads hardware engineering across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, AirPods, and Apple Vision Pro — the full portfolio that underpins Apple TV+ and tvOS.
- [Kirby Grines](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/kirby-grines/) — Kirby Grines is the founder and CEO of 43Twenty, the streaming-positioning consultancy and content marketing agency, and the publisher of The Streaming Wars newsletter. His running editorial focus is engagement, frequency, and session length as the actual drivers of streaming-platform value — a frame that consistently cuts against the subscriber-counting consensus and pairs well with our CTV-OS, attention-economy, and platform-economics coverage.
- [Laura Schenkein](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/laura-schenkein/) — Laura Schenkein served as chief financial officer of The Trade Desk from June 2023 until stepping down in August 2025, after more than a decade in finance leadership roles at the ad-tech company. She remained as a non-executive officer through year-end 2025 to assist the transition to her successor, Alex Kayyal.
- [Lisa Utzschneider](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/lisa-utzschneider/) — Lisa Utzschneider has been CEO of Integral Ad Science since January 2019, taking the ad-verification firm public on Nasdaq in June 2021 and through Novacap's $1.9 billion take-private close in December 2025. She previously served as Chief Revenue Officer at Yahoo and as Amazon's VP of Global Advertising Sales.
- [Mark J. Penn](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/mark-penn/) — Mark Penn is founder, chairman, and CEO of Stagwell Inc. (NASDAQ: STGW), the Nasdaq-listed marketing holdco he created by combining The Stagwell Group with MDC Partners in August 2021. A former Microsoft chief strategy officer, Burson-Marsteller CEO, and co-founder of polling firm Penn, Schoen & Berland, Penn served as President Clinton's chief pollster for six years. He is among the most publicly outspoken top-five holdco CEOs.
- [Mark Lazarus](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/mark-lazarus/) — Mark Lazarus is CEO of Versant Media Group (Nasdaq: VSNT), the cable-networks-and-digital company spun out of Comcast on January 2, 2026. He is a 35-year media-industry veteran who previously chaired NBCUniversal Media Group and ran Turner Sports.
- [Mark Read](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/mark-read/) — Outgoing CEO of WPP, the London-listed advertising holding company. Read led WPP from September 2018 until stepping down on August 31, 2025, succeeded by former Microsoft executive Cindy Rose. His seven-year tenure ended amid a steep share-price decline and the loss of major accounts including Mars and Coca-Cola to rival Publicis.
- [Naveen Chopra](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/naveen-chopra/) — CFO who steered Paramount Global through the streaming-pivot earnings cycle from 2020 to mid-2025 before exiting to become CFO of Roblox. A two-decade media-and-tech finance operator with prior CFO seats at TiVo, Pandora, and Amazon's Devices and Services group.
- [Ofer Druker](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/ofer-druker/) — Group CEO of Nexxen International (NASDAQ: NEXN) since April 2019, when the merger of Taptica and RhythmOne created the entity that was rebranded Tremor International and, in January 2024, Nexxen. Druker has steered the company toward a CTV-focused, end-to-end programmatic stack and signed Nexxen on as one of the first two collaborators in The Trade Desk's Ventura Ecosystem in February 2026.
- [Paul Caine](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/paul-caine/) — Paul Caine is the Chairman of the Board of Magnite (NASDAQ: MGNI), a role he has held since the April 2020 Rubicon Project–Telaria merger that formed the largest independent sell-side ad platform. A 23-year Time Inc. veteran, he was previously CEO of WestwoodOne and Chief Global Revenue Officer of Bloomberg Media. He currently serves as President of On Location at TKO Group Holdings.
- [Peter Csathy](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/peter-csathy/) — Peter Csathy is founder and chairman of Creative Media, the entertainment-and-tech advisory firm. A Harvard Law-trained entertainment attorney who has negotiated more than $3 billion in deals, he runs two of the most consistent independent voices on AI-and-media policy: the Fearless Media podcast and 'the brAIn' Substack. His sustained beat is platform/AI ethics, copyright fair-use, and synthetic-performer disclosure law.
- [Peter Liguori](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/peter-liguori/) — Peter Liguori is a longtime media executive who served as CEO of VideoAmp from July 2025 until January 6, 2026, when president Tony Fagan succeeded him; Liguori remains on the VideoAmp board. His earlier career spans CEO of Tribune Media (2013-2017), COO of Discovery Communications, chairman of entertainment at Fox, and CEO of FX Networks.
- [Rajeev Goel](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/rajeev-goel/) — Rajeev Goel is the co-founder and CEO of PubMatic (NASDAQ: PUBM), the independent sell-side advertising platform he founded with his brother Amar Goel and co-founders Anand Das and Mukul Kumar in 2006. He took PubMatic public on the NASDAQ Global Market on December 9, 2020, and serves on the boards of the Interactive Advertising Bureau and Johns Hopkins University.
- [Ruth Porat](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/ruth-porat/) — President and Chief Investment Officer of Alphabet and Google since September 2023, after nearly a decade as Alphabet's CFO. Previously CFO of Morgan Stanley from 2010 to 2015. Among the most influential CFOs of the 2010s tech era; her successor Anat Ashkenazi took the CFO seat in July 2024.
- [Ryan Steelberg](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/ryan-steelberg/) — Ryan Steelberg is the co-founder, CEO, president, and chairman of Veritone, Inc. (NASDAQ: VERI), the enterprise AI company built around the aiWare cognitive-engine platform. A serial entrepreneur whose prior companies include AdForce, 2CAN Media, and dMarc Broadcasting (acquired by Google in 2006), he is a recurring named voice on AI-IP economics — most pointedly his framing of studio-AI licensing deals as a 'shift from behind the model to in front of the model.'
- [Samuel A. Di Piazza Jr.](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/samuel-di-piazza/) — Samuel A. Di Piazza Jr. is the independent board chairman of Warner Bros. Discovery (NASDAQ: WBD), appointed at the April 2022 close of the WarnerMedia–Discovery merger. Before WBD, he spent 36 years at PricewaterhouseCoopers, serving as PwC's global CEO from 2002 to 2009, then as a Citigroup vice chairman and an AT&T board director — the AT&T tenure placing him on both sides of the WarnerMedia transaction.
- [Sean Muller](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/sean-muller/) — Sean Muller founded iSpot.tv in April 2012 and has been CEO continuously since. He scaled the company from a TV ad catalog into one of three alternative national TV-currency providers JIC-certified alongside Comscore and VideoAmp, and closed a $325M Goldman Sachs Asset Management investment in April 2022 at a valuation above $1 billion.
- [Takeshi Sano](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/takeshi-sano/) — Takeshi Sano is Representative Executive Officer, President and Global CEO of Dentsu Group Inc., appointed March 27, 2026. A 34-year Dentsu veteran who built his career inside the Japan business, Sano succeeded Hiroshi Igarashi and simultaneously holds the CEO role for dentsu Japan, the group's largest profit center by revenue and operating profit.
- [Theodore Anthony Sarandos Jr.](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/ted-sarandos-2/) — Ted Sarandos is co-CEO of Netflix, sharing the top job with Greg Peters since January 2023. He joined Netflix in 2000, ran content for two decades, greenlit House of Cards in 2011, and architected the originals strategy that reshaped television. Today he is the company's content-and-Hollywood half of the co-CEO arrangement and a frequent public voice on Netflix's ad-tier strategy.
- [Theodore Anthony Sarandos Jr.](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/ted-sarandos/) — Ted Sarandos is co-CEO of Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX), sharing the role with Greg Peters since January 2023. He joined Netflix in 2000, became Chief Content Officer in 2013, and greenlit the originals strategy that began with House of Cards. As co-CEO he oversees content, studios, and marketing — while Peters leads product and technology. Netflix is targeting roughly $3 billion in ad revenue in 2026.
- [Tim Vanderhook](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/tim-vanderhook/) — Tim Vanderhook is co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Viant Technology (NASDAQ: DSP), the independent AI-powered DSP he started with brothers Chris and Russell in 1999 as Specific Media and took public in February 2021. He is driving Viant's identity-context-attention strategy via the IRIS.TV (2024) and TVision Insights (announced 2026) acquisitions.
- [Tony Fagan](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/tony-fagan/) — Tony Fagan is the chief executive of VideoAmp, the JIC-certified cross-screen TV currency provider. He was promoted to CEO on January 6, 2026, after stints as the company's first CTO and as president, and previously spent roughly 15 years at Google, most recently as vice president of ads data science and engineering.
- [Yan Liu](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/yan-liu/) — Yan Liu is the CEO and Co-Founder of TVision Insights, the Boston-based attention-measurement firm he started while earning his MBA at MIT in 2014. TVision agreed to be acquired by Viant Technology in a $40M deal announced April 15, 2026 and expected to close in Q2 2026.
- [Yannick Bolloré](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/yannick-bollore/) — Chairman and CEO of Havas since 2013, Yannick Bolloré led the agency holding company through its December 2024 spin-off from Vivendi onto Euronext Amsterdam (ticker: HAVAS). He also chairs the supervisory boards of Vivendi and Canal+, and is a son of French industrialist Vincent Bolloré.
- [Zvika Netter](https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/zvika-netter/) — Co-founder and CEO of Innovid, the connected-TV ad-serving and measurement platform he started in 2007, took public on the NYSE via SPAC in 2021, and merged into Mediaocean in early 2025. As of February 2026 he also serves as Mediaocean's Chief Innovation Officer.