Chief Executive Officer
Paul Palmieri
Paul has spent the past 16 years building businesses in and around the wireless technology and media industries. As a founder, corporate executive, investor, industry leader and entrepreneur, Pauls work has had a profound impact on the growth of the mobile media industry.
As Millennial Medias President and CEO, Paul is responsible for leading the companys growth and industry leadership. He has guided the company from startup to its current position as the leading mobile advertising network in the US by focusing on the needs of advertisers, innovative technologies and industry growth.
Paul is a well-known pioneer and industry leader in the global mobile entertainment and data marketplace, and led many groundbreaking efforts while at Verizon Wireless. His leadership resulted in new and successful business models that have led to rapid growth in mobile media.
Vice President
Hemang Gadhia
Hemang is the Co-Founder & CEO of Revmetrix, a big data startup based in Washington DC. Revmetrix is building data intelligence software that helps retailers maximize the value of their own data. With minimal integration, Revmetrix allows retailers to better understand their customers, precisely measure marketing ROI, and get a real-time view of their KPIs.
Prior to Revmetrix, Hemang was the Founder & CEO of Condaptive, a big data startup that derived behavioral insights from large sets of unstructured data. Within a year of its founding, Condaptive was acquired by Millennial Media, a leading mobile advertising network. While at Millennial, Hemang and his team leveraged Condaptive’s technology to successfully build the industrys most advanced data intelligence platform.
With a deep background in data analysis and retail/eCommerce, Hemang is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and events.
Chief Financial Officer
Michael Avon
Michael Avon serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Millennial Media, where he is responsible for the company’s overall financial, legal, and corporate development activities. He has spent the past decade building early-stage companies as a venture capitalist, operator, entrepreneur, and attorney.
Most recently, Michael was a Principal at Columbia Capital, a leading communications and media-focused venture capital fund, where he focused on digital media, wireless and consumer internet investments, such as Avail-TVN, Social Gaming Network, Webs.com, Gizmoz, and Millennial Media. Michael was also a venture capitalist with Toucan Capital, and led Business Development at FOLIOfn. Earlier in his career, Michael served as a corporate finance and transactional attorney at Gunderson Dettmer, focused on serving the needs of emerging growth companies and venture capital funds.
Chief Technology Officer
Chris BrandenBurg
With an extensive background architecting, implementing and operating complex, highly scaled, intelligent transaction systems, Chris is a technology leader in advertising, targeting and wireless technologies.
In his role as CTO, Chris leads the development and operations of the companys MYDAS advertising platform. His experience includes leading engineering and operations for Advertising.com (acquired by AOL), and CAC2S software engineering with Solipsys (acquired by Raytheon). He has consulted with behavioral targeting companies on the development, integration, and implementation of targeting technologies.
Vice President Engineering
Hellmut Adolphs
VP, Engineering Frameworks at Millennial Media
Director
George Zachary
George led Charles Rivers early stage investments in Twitter, Yammer (enterprise social networking)(acquired by MSFT 6/2012 for $1.2B), Millennial Media (mobile advertising)(IPO March 2012; NYSE MM), Geni (social networking based on genealogy)(acquired by MyHeritage Ltd.), Udacity, Pebble, Cotap, Crushpath, and CloudShare. In addition, he led CRVs investment in Metaplace (acquired by Disney/ Playdom) and in Jambool (acquired by Google) and has sponsored many seed investments through the CRVs industry leading seed program.
George joined Charles River in 2004, bringing more than 20 years of operating and investing experience in computing and consumer technology. Georges focus is on building consumer internet and infrastructure companies.
Director
Lichi Wu
Lichi heads up the Global Monetization Solutions, SE Asia team at Millennial Media.
With an early passion for digital advertising and mobile technology, Lichi began his professional career in Silicon Valley at Google. Lichi worked on Google AdWords, helping clients in travel and local verticals maximize their ROI.
He later relocated to Singapore to join Google Southeast Asia, helping to deepen relations with regional advertisers.
Lichi subsequently joined AdMob where he was in charge of key accounts and strategic partnerships.
After Google acquired AdMob, with a passion for small and nimble companies, Lichi joined local Singapore based startups, Foond and Chalkboard in the capacity of business development, helping to build new business in the space of mobile/app and location based advertising.
Director
Mike Coppola
Since 2009, Coppola has focussed his time within the mobile ecosystem; both apps and web, helping guide major Fortune 100 corporations, such as Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola, Microsoft, McDonald’s, Disney, etc. through the process of becoming present in the space.
During this historic period of growth, Coppola worked closely with hundreds of top publishers, such as Zynga, Bravo, E!, AOL, etc. looking to monetize in emerging ways. An important part of Coppola’s time is spent helping connect the various players in the ecosystem and coming up with innovative solutions that better engage consumers.
Specialties
Mobile, Product, Monetization, Social, Local, Media Sales, Partnerships, Business Development, Public Speaking, Advising
Relationships
Fortune 100/500 Brands, Media Agencies, Trading Desks, DSP’s, SSP’s, Exchanges, Ad Networks, Aggregators, Ad Servers, Content Platforms, Payment Platforms, Rich Media Providers, App Discovery, Carriers, Devices
Director
Alan MacIntosh
Alan MacIntosh has over 20 years of international business experience starting in oil exploration with Schlumberger. He later undertook a product management role with Hewlett-Packard, before joining Canada’s Telesystem group in 1990, where he established TIW’s mobile operations in eight countries including the UK where he managed operations for three years. In 1997, Alan moved to sister company Microcell and co-founded GSM Capital, the first global wireless fund, backed by nine of the world’s leading operators.
Alan is a co-founder and the Managing Partner of Acta Wireless, a Partner with Actium Advisors and sits on the boards of WaveMetrix, Millennial Media, Cellfish Media and OZ Communications. A native of Scotland, he holds a BSc (Hons) in Offshore Engineering from Heriot-Watt University and MBA from INSEAD.
Director
Patrick Kerins
Patrick joined NEA in 2006 as General Partner focusing on a broad range of information technology investments with particular emphasis on enterprise software, Software-as-a-Service, and Internet companies.
Pat sits on the boards of BuzzFeed, ChannelAdvisor, Millennial Media, Spring Wireless and Videology.
Prior to joining NEA, Patrick was General Partner of Grotech Capital Group where he specialized in high-tech investments and served on a number of boards including Advertising.com, CDnow, Fieldglass Software, Hillcrest Labs, SALIX Technologies, and Synchrologic.
Prior to Grotech, Patrick spent nearly 10 years at Alex. Brown & Sons as an investment banker for high technology companies. At Alex. Brown & Sons, he was responsible for a range of financing and advisory projects including initial public offerings and mergers and acquisitions for high-tech companies.
Prior to that, Patrick was a consultant with McKinsey & Co. Patrick served as an officer in the U.S.
Chief Operating Officer
Steven Root
Director Sales
Louis Del Vecchio
Director of Sales, East at Millennial Media
Vice President
Jeff Tennery
As Senior Vice President, Publisher Services, Jeff is responsible for the growth and development of the companys industry-leading mobile publisher and developer portfolio.
Jeff brings over 20 years of sales and marketing experience in the wireless telecommunications industry, including executive roles at Verizon Wireless, SunCom (Telecorp PCS), nTelos and AT&T Wireless.
Engineering
Christopher Brown
Sr. Engineer at Millennial Media
Vice President Sales
Marcus Startzel
Senior VP of Sales at Millennial Media
Vice President Engineering
Eric Hastings
senior vice president of engineering at Millennial Media
Director
Wenda Millard
Director
Robert Goodman
Mike Rowehl
Mike is an entrepreneur, website scalability engineer, founder of the Silicon Valley Mobile Monday group, and one of the organizers of the Mobile 2.0 conference.
Director
RIshi Kumar
Senior Director at Millennial Media
Director
Gavin Stirrat
Managing Director, EMEA at Millennial Media
John Hadl
John Hadl is founder and CEO of Brand in Hand, a company that advises mobile companies and major brand marketers engaged in the mobile marketing arena. In 2006, he was responsible for more than 50 in market mobile campaigns for his various clients. Hadl is often credited for being a primary driver of growth within the mobile industry.
Hadl has served as a strategic adviser to Procter & Gamble for mobile since 2005 and is currently chief mobile strategy adviser. He also provides counsel to more than a dozen emerging media companies providing mobile marketing and brand strategy advice in the areas of mobile messaging, TV and video, content downloads, search and mobile web media and trend breakthroughs. Hadl serves on various boards and is presently chairman of the board for Total Beauty, Inc.
Vice President
Matt Gillis
Senior Vice-President, Global Monetization Solutions at Millennial Media
Vice President
Carl Wartzack
Senior VP Networks at Millennial Media
Vice President
Jamie Fellows
Senior Vice President, Product at Millennial Media
Alex Villa
Chief Product Officer at Healthify, Inc.
Ho Shin
General Counsel & Chief Privacy Officer at Millennial Media
Nolan Brown
Technical Manager at Millennial Media