Named of Marketing Magazine's Top 30 Under 30 Smartest Young Thinkers in Marketing, Kelsey Cole boasts a 10 year career working on the biggest brands in the world. From brand management at L'Oréal, to leading PR at Revlon Canada; Kelsey spent 6 years in corporate America before starting her own successful digital communications & advertising agency servicing clients like Tesla & TIFF. A creative, Canadian, cryptocurrency co-founder; she serves as Chief Strategy Officer of Adbank - a Canadian startup aiming to fight the $50 billion digital ad fraud problem using AI & blockchain technology. In addition to her post at Adbank, Kelsey is an advisor to Tel-Aviv based blockchain travel startup Cool Cousin, and Seattle based RedPen founded by a former member of the US intelligence community and 4x Grammy winning duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis. In addition to her work in the tech space; Kelsey is also a founding board member of Ripple Africa Canada - the canadian arm of a UK based charity supporting an ecosystem of sustainability projects in Malawi, Africa.
Kelsey delivers keynotes on the marketing of blockchain technology, cryptocurrency adoption, digital advertising innovation, and tech for social good. She is a passionate and active advocate for female empowerment and gender parity and a leading female figure in the crypto space landing her coverage in publications like Forbes and Coin Telegraph.
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Host: Jenna Watts
Editor: John Rowland Media Productions