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Corey O'Brien, VP of Strategy & Solutions at Aquent Studios, is a seasoned leader with 17 years of experience in creative and digital marketing agencies. His diverse background in web design, liberal arts, and an MBA fuels his ability to spearhead all go-to-market strategies and new business development efforts for Aquent Studios. Based in Seattle, Corey supports new client engagements throughout North America, leveraging his expertise in assisting over two dozen in-house creative agencies and marketers through operational transformations.

Michael Goldberg is an award-winning Creative Director and marketer, with over 15 years experience building powerful brand platforms, creating effective omni campaigns and designing engaging retail experiences, bringing an industry recognized track record of strategy, creative vision and leadership for global brands including PlayStation, Hermès, Beats by Dre, Victoria’s Secret, Sony and American Eagle.

Working within The Very Group for 20 years with a background in Graphic Design, Mark has managed the Creative transition from a traditional Catalogue company to one of the largest online retailers in Europe (Very.co.uk). Managing teams across Digital Planning, Samples management, Retouching and Graphic Design to plan and deliver circa 6000 products to their sites each month alongside multiple campaigns for Very in collaboration with brands such as Nike, Adidas, Samsung and Apple.

Barbara is passionate about bringing people and ways of working into the digital age. With over 15 years in multinational companies across FMCG, Beauty & Luxury, she has spent much of this time around content. In her current role as Director for content platforms at Coty Inc, Barbara works on simplifying the content creation and distribution processes, especially into the digital landscape to create measurable efficiencies, speed and business growth.

Outside of work, Barbara enjoys good food, the outdoors and discovering her new home city of Amsterdam with her family.

Mike oversees the systems and engineers the core processes that underpin creative and brand production for HelloFresh and its portfolio of brands — Factor, Green Chef, and EveryPlate.

Jiva Smith leads Peacock’s Campaign Operations team as a part of the Marketing Division at the NBCU streaming platform. His team works with dozens of creatives and vendors globally to facilitate the execution of all creative production with quality and scale. Jiva, of Maori (native New Zealander) origin, kicked off his career at a major Australian football club, the Sydney Swans, founding their multimedia production department.