Terry Kawaja (Founder & CEO, LUMA Partners)

Michael Hauptman (Founder & CEO, AdLib)

Michael Hauptman makes a compelling case for how The Grateful Dead and Phish led led to the tech boom and what he does at AdLib today.

Ari Paparo (CEO Marketecture, Beeswax)

Ari Paparo is an adtech serial entrepreneur, my old boss when I was CMO at Beeswax, and the author of Yield: How Google Bought, Built, and Bullied Its Way to Advertising Dominance (comes out Aug 5). I noticed his paintings in our Friday 1:1s we'd do over Zoom during the pandemic. Earlier this month, he invited me to his apartment to show me his art and talk about creativity, building companies, and painting. Preorder his book here: https://www.amazon.com/Yield-Google-Bullied-Advertising-Dominance/dp/B0F67HV2BB

Terry Kawaja (Founder & CEO, LUMA Partners)

If you work in adtech, you'll know Terry as the guy responsible for most of the M&A that's happened in the last two decades. And that he does highly topical and incisive parody videos that are some of the best marketing in what is generally a pretty dry industry. Behind all that, he's been a comedian for 50 years. We dive into "what's the deal with the parody videos?" and get a sense of how Comedian Terry and Banker / Thought Leader Terry are all the same authentic self that has differentiated him and driven his incredible success.

Gavin Dunaway (Director of Marketing, The Media Trust)

Gavin is unapologentically a musician. But maybe it wasn't always like that: while he's been in bands his whole life (current one here [https://linktr.ee/libeltheband]), like many of us, he used to wonder how much of that side of himself to reveal. Is the wall between creative and "business guy" ever there for a good reason? We discuss. Also check out his other musical project where he engineered and mixed.  https://thejaguarclub.bandcamp.com/album/close [https://thejaguarclub.bandcamp.com/album/close]

Michael Nevins (CMO Equativ, Host @ Kick & Snare Podcast)

Michael Nevins made a career in advertising, adtech, and music tech that led him to start his consultancy (and podcast!), Kick & Snare LLC [https://kickandsnare.llc]. But before that, he helped manage the band Living Colour [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xxgRUyzgs0&list=RD7xxgRUyzgs0&start_radio=1]. How did a front row seat to massive rock stardom in the late 80s lead him to advertising, tech, and where he is today? s/o to https://jazzwahi.org/ where Michael volunteers doing live sound. Check them out! "Cult of Personality" by Living Colour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xxgRUyzgs0