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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.

With a 22-year tenure at The Very Group and a background in Graphic Design, Mark has managed the Creative transition from a traditional Catalogue model to one of the UK’s largest online retailers. With a passion for people and culture, Mark leads teams across the e-commerce studio to deliver 6000 products to their sites each month with end-to-end discipline through samples, planning, styling, AD, photography and retouching, partnering with leading tech teams and brands to deliver high-quality content at pace in a demanding retail workspace.

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.

Todd Challe is the VP, Creative Production and Marketing Operations at Coach, Inc., overseeing production on all global consumer-facing marketing initiatives for the iconic lifestyle brand. Leading a multi-functional in-house team comprised of project managers, print, shoot and film producers as well as studio operations.

Mr. Challe is a graduate from the University of Wisconsin with a Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism and a minor in Fine Art. He resides in New Canaan, Connecticut with his family.

With over 20 years of experience in the technology industry, Rob has spent the last 7 of those helping 100s of clients achieve success with their Digital Asset Management implementations.

After graduating as a Software Engineer and working as a developer for a few years – Rob moved into Project and Program Management, finally moving to MediaValet in 2014 to run the client facing side of the organization.