Presenter: Mike Aragon, VP, Ad Solutions & Partnerships at Admedia
Mike Aragon is a digital advertising leader with 17 years of ad tech sales, operational, and management experience. He is currently the VP of Sales and Partnerships at AdMedia. He has also worked as the West Coast Sales Director at adMarketplace, as well as working across SEM, Native and Programmatic solutions at Yahoo for over 12 years. He is currently the DAA Los Angeles chair and is involved with Think LA and Network After Work. Michael is certified by the IAB as a Digital Media Sales Professional and possesses the passion and unwavering commitment to evangelize and promote the massive contributions that LA and Silicon Beach have made to the overarching digital landscape. He has also spoken at the UCLA Anderson School of Management as well as various digital conferences.
From ICE to EV
The consumers and products that will lead the way, will cover data-driven perspectives on the transition from ICE to EV and what it means for the consumer, new electric vehicle offerings, automakers’ planned strategies, and the implications for marketers.
Presenter: Adam Lobelson, Executive Director, Polk Automotive Solutions at IHS Markit
Adam Lobelson serves as Executive Director for Polk Automotive Solutions at IHS Markit. In this role, he leads the activation sales team helping OEMs and agencies connect with the right audiences and make smarter data-driven marketing decisions through tech, media channels and platforms.
Before joining IHS Markit, Adam led customer-centric sales teams at Oracle Data Cloud. Prior to his work with ODC he launched the Midwest office for Grapeshot, a leading provider of contextual intelligence, and built the organization's "franchise" model for expansion.
Adam has a degree in Finance from Tulane University and in his spare time, he enjoys live music, spending time at the beach and golf.
Presenter: Stephanie Brinley, Principal Automotive Analyst, IHS Markit
Ms. Brinley is responsible for a daily update of news, events, interviews and product introduction summaries as well as special research reports and company profiles, providing context for and analysis of industry developments to worldwide subscribers. She joined the team in summer 2013 with more than twenty years of experience in the automotive sector, including a decade in automotive analysis, four years of experience in supplier-based strategic communications and as a supplier-OEM marketing liaison, and several years on the editing side of a top automotive enthusiast publication in the United States. Ms. Brinley holds an a Bachelor of Arts in Public Relations and Marketing from Eastern Michigan University, US, and an MBA in Integrative Management from Michigan State University's Eli Broad College of Business, US.