The Ad Podcast

Jo is perpetually bored with the status quo, she's a visionary leader at the forefront of transforming the future of work through generative AI & the agentic future. After a successful tenure as CEO of Burns Group—where she drove significant growth & participated in the company's acquisition by a leading agency—she redirected her passion and expertise to redefine organizational transformation across industries. She employs a future-back approach, partnering with companies to reimagine every workstream & workplace, not just for efficiency but to envision entirely new ways of working, with a particular focus on marketing, advertising & insight.

Mat transform how brands connect with their markets by fusing creative storytelling with strategic rigor. From copywriter to CMO at Prophet, my 25+ year journey spans digital innovation, agency leadership, and brand transformation for Fortune 500 clients. My expertise bridges the brand-demand divide to drive measurable growth in both B2B and B2C environments. I've led digital disciplines of 30+ specialists globally, served as CCO at OgilvyOne, and pioneered integrated marketing approaches since 1996. Beyond client work, I have judged at Cannes Lions and Effies, spoken at industry events such as B2BMX and ANA Brand Masters, host two podcasts (Cidiot and Rising), and written "Bronze Seeks Silver"- a memoir on creative marketing leadership. Recently named among "Top 25 Marketing & Sales Consultants" by The Consulting Report.

Jonathan Haber is a cofounder of Giant Spoon, an independent, integrated agency that expands the ways people experience brands. Giant Spoon is known for turning marketing upside down. Obsessed with culture and driven by insatiable curiosity, the agency blends teams across creative, media, and experiential to stir shit up for ambitious brands.

Pep loves working with amazing people, He loves solving problems, and he loves meeting new folks from everywhere in the world. Currently, he has the privilege of leading a fantastic team of engineers and business leaders. Together they are driving the future of brand-consumer relationships. They are building SaaS that helps brands uncover authentic conversations at scale and help them put the most effective marketers front and center – everyday people with 4-8x better engagement on vertical video than produced, branded content. Zelf brings together Pep's long-time passions. Originally from the Netherlands, he studied astrophysics while dipping his toes in video-making and progressive political activism. At the age of 9, he had his first entrepreneurial venture and had the fortune of living various lives since: from popcorn baker, to video editor, to sustainability activist, and eventually joining the consulting firm McKinsey & Company, before founding his first company. McKinsey allowed him to see the workings of a wide array of industries (consumer goods, e-commerce, retail, food, finance, etc.), took him all over the world and allowed him to live and work on all of the six major continents, with most notably business building adventures in Vietnam, Thailand, Sydney, Madagascar, Colombia, and the US, all with fantastic people. From there, he had the honor to pursue his MBA at MIT Sloan — where I founded Alfie one of the first movers in ISAs (Income Share Agreements) and through which he met so many of the amazing people that are now helping me build Zelf.

Damaune serves as Global Chief Growth Officer at 72andSunny, one of the world’s most admired and innovative creative agencies, where he is responsible for the global revenue of the business including marketing and revenue operations, business development, and corporate communications. For Journey, success means driving growth on both the agency and the client sides of the partnership, and he works across 72andSunny’s four global offices, as well as its long roster of brands, including the National Football League, United Airlines, Zoom, and Audible. Previously, Journey was Chief Growth/Marketing Officer at Private Medical, a concierge medical practice serving select UHNW families across the United States. In this role, he successfully developed and led the organization’s growth and expansion strategy. Prior to Private Medical, Journey was hired by private equity firm TPG Growth to serve as Chief Revenue Officer at the renowned private security firm Gavin de Becker & Associates, where he was responsible for revenue growth, marketing and commercial operations, and scaling strategy. As an executive and business unit leader at ShotSpotter, a venture-backed technology company, Journey helped lead the firm’s IPO with its 2016 NASDAQ listing and was a featured protagonist in the Harvard Business School case, “ShotSpotter: A Gunfire Detection Business Looks for a New Market” about his efforts. Before ShotSpotter, he led global marketing and business development for CSECO, where he successfully expanded the business to international markets on four continents. Outside of his private-sector career, Journey has proudly served as National Chairperson and advisory board member of the National Society of Black Engineers and currently serves as a board director for a number of non-profits and social enterprises. Journey has a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial & Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Born and raised in Flint, Michigan, he lives in Oakland, CA with his wife and their two young children.