Great Minds

The CEO of Republicom Group Tunji Adeyinka discusses growing marketing firms like Connect Marketing Services, Image & Time, Integral, Quore Media, and Neukleos, as well as bringing Advertising Week Africa to South Africa.

Maria Bartiromo has been a pioneer in financial news television. In 1995, she became the first journalist to report live from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on a daily basis. She is host of Mornings with Maria and Maria Bartiromo’s Wall Street. She worked at CNN for five years before joining CNBC, where she worked for 20 years. In 2013, she joined Fox Business and Fox News, and she’s also the anchor of Sunday Morning Futures on FOX News. In 2009, the Financial Times named her one of the “50 Faces That Shaped the Decade.”

Currently, Alvin Bowles holds the position of Vice-President-Global Marketing Solutions at Facebook. He leads Facebook’s audience networking department. It is the technology that makes advertisements more viable for small business owners and directs them toward the proper audience.

Michael Ventura is the CEO and founder of Sub Rosa, a strategy and design firm that has worked with some of the world’s largest and most important brands—from Johnson & Johnson, Pantone, and Adobe, to the TED Conference, Delta Airlines, and The Daily Show.

Ambassador Ido Aharoni serves as a global distinguished professor at New York University’s Program of International Relations in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Ambassador Aharoni is a 25-year veteran of Israel’s Foreign service, a public diplomacy specialist, founder of the Brand Israel program, and a well-known nation branding practitioner. Ambassador Aharoni, who served as Israel’s longest-serving consul-general in New York and the tri-state area for six years, oversaw the operations of Israel’s largest diplomatic mission worldwide.

Jeff was the guy who originally wrote “got milk?”. He is among the co-founders and serves as co-chair of Goodby, Silverstein & Partners in San Francisco. Goodby is also a director and illustrator whose work has appeared in Time and Mother Jones.

Mathew Knowles is an American record executive, talent manager, and businessman. He is best known for being the manager of Destiny’s Child. He also managed the solo careers of his daughters Beyoncé and Solange Knowles.

Guru Gowrappan is CEO of Verizon Media, a powerhouse of trusted media and technology brands, including Yahoo, HuffPost, and TechCrunch. Prior to this role, he was Global Managing Director of Alibaba where he focused on international expansion and e-commerce for key consumer and enterprise products