LEADERSHIP
LEADERSHIP TEAM

Michael Yavonditte
Founder & CEO

Rick Eaton
CFO & Co-Founder

Teddy Jawde
Chief Strategy Officer and Co-Founder

Duc Chau
Chief Technology Officer

Eric Picard
Chief Product Officer

Mari Kim Novak
Chief Marketing Officer

Jeremy Steinberg
Chief Revenue Officer & GM, Exchange

Meagan Soszynski
Chief People Officer
Bringing more than 15 years of human capital management to her role as Chief People Officer, Meagan is responsible for fostering an environment of heightened individual and team performance and unlocking the culture framework that makes organizations tick. Meagan focuses on growing talent through learning and development programs, coaching effective leadership teams, and establishing talent programs that promote and inspire career development. From articulating an employer brand to leading internal hackathons, Meagan deploys a variety of culture-building initiatives that energize teams’ and people’s highest potentials.
Prior to Yieldmo, Meagan’s experiences spanned industries—including ad tech and digital media—and company stages from startup to established. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Syracuse University and a master’s from American University.

Todd Coleman
Chief Architect and Co-Founder

Lisa Bradner
General Manager Analytics

Melissa Gallo
SVP, Global Exchange Operations

Chris Bolte
SVP Revenue Strategy & Business Development
Throughout his career, Chris has built products and businesses to help companies engage with targeted consumers across multiple platforms, from national and cable television to online display and search advertising.
Most recently, Chris co-founded and was CEO of Paysa, the purpose of which was to enable employees to optimize the value of their careers, across their full career arc. Prior to Paysa, Chris was VP of customer acquisition and retention for Walmart Labs, where he was responsible for building and managing Walmart’s demand generation platforms, including SEM, SEO, affiliate, email, targeting, and personalization as well as their WMX ad platform. He came to Walmart from Kosmix Right Health, a customer-focused health information property that, prior to its acquisition by Walmart, was one of the most-visited health properties in the world.
He joined Kosmix Right Health from Datapop, a company he co-founded, which specialized in performance-based targeted advertising. Prior to that, Chris was vice president of strategic alliances at Overture Services Inc., responsible for sales strategy, channel sales (including technology sales), and development and monetization of new products. Overture was acquired by Yahoo! in 2003, at which point Chris became Vice President of Strategic Alliances at Yahoo!. He developed performance-based advertising products for Yahoo! and ran channel sales, strategy and operations for its advertising division.

John Tigg
GM International
Over nearly 20 years in advertising, John has a long history of building successful teams and businesses across the industry, in particular in the ad tech space. A specialist in the advanced TV sector, John most recently served as VP & Managing Director EMEA for Cadent, leading the company’s successful expansion in Europe as the leader in addressable TV advertising. Prior to that, John served as SVP of Enterprise and Media solutions at Videology Inc., playing a key role in the executive leadership group that in under 5 years grew a start-up business with into the clear market leader in EMEA. John has also held senior leadership roles at Yahoo Inc. and lives in London, UK.

Zach Rosen
SVP, Global Supply Partnerships
As SVP, Global Supply Partnerships of Yieldmo, Zach Rosen is responsible for leading the supply and business development team and driving strategy for building global supply partnerships.
Prior to joining Yieldmo, Zach served as VP, Partner Development at Index Exchange, where he was responsible for building and managing a 50-person global division focused on growth and success with publisher clients, operating in 11 key markets across North America, EMEA, and APAC. When he arrived at Index Exchange in 2013, he spearheaded the opening of the company’s first US headquarters, forging partnerships with every major publisher and media owner and growing the team to more than 100 individuals.
Zach is passionate about fostering community and career development with the next generation of young professionals in the ad tech, digital, and broadcast industries. As a founder of the Furman Metropolitan Fellowship, he’s helped establish numerous professional connections with his Alma Mater, Furman University, to provide funding, mentorship and job opportunities to college students seeking careers in New York City.
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Dan Contento
SVP, Partnerships

Scott Jones
SVP, Buyer Development
As SVP, Buyer Development of Yieldmo, Scott Jones is responsible for leading the company’s North American sales efforts. He brings more than 27 years of sales and senior management experience to the team, having previously grown and scaled sales and support teams for both programmatic and ad tech companies. Scott joined Yieldmo from AdTheorent where he served as Head of Brand Partnerships and prior to that was VP, Sales at Goodway Group, where he led his team to the top position within the organization, driving growth in excess of 20% over the company goal for several years straight. He has also previously spent time at Spongecell, Specific Media, The New York Times and Boston.com.
Scott is passionate about mentoring and growing the sales leaders of the future and has fostered strong relationships with both team members and clients through the years. He is a graduate of the University of Missouri and the University of Iowa and outside of work, enjoys spending time outdoors and seeing the world with his four amazing children and wife, Sara.

Stephen Cutbill
UK General Manager
Stephen is Yieldmo’s UK General Manager and an experienced international digital leader. Stephen has spent more than 15 years working on both the buy and sell-side of the advertising ecosystem, at companies such as Future PLC, MediaMath, OpenX, and TripleLift. He joined Yieldmo from Cavai, where he had previously been VP of Global Partnerships.With expert knowledge of leading — and organising — commercial and client service efforts across DSPs, SSP’s and publishers, he is charged with spearheading the development and execution of Yieldmo’s UK strategy, as well as acquiring new clients. In addition, Stephen brings expertise in management and people development as he builds and leads Yieldmo’s UK team.

Brian Margolis
General Counsel
Brian is Yieldmo’s General Counsel and Corporate Secretary. He is responsible for all legal and compliance at Yieldmo, including corporate transactions and governance, commercial agreements, intellectual property and data protection, and privacy matters. Brian has 30 years of experience practicing law in the New York offices of various international law firms, where his practice focused on corporate and transactional matters, including capital markets transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate governance advice.
Brian received a BA in Political Science from Columbia University, a JD from Harvard Law School and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
BOARD MEMBERS

Michael Yavonditte
Founder & CEO

Brad Burnham
Union Square Ventures

Doug Chertok
Vast Ventures
For more: www.vastvc.com

Allison Goldberg
Independent Director
Allison graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where she received a Bachelor of Science in Economics, with concentrations in Finance and Operations & Information Management. She is married with two kids and lives in New York City.

Erik Nordlander
Google Ventures
Erik was also a developer on Google’s core infrastructure, creating a distributed file system that Google.com and Gmail rely on today. Erik studied computer science and engineering at MIT. He completed his graduate research at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory where he focused on unique data extraction and disk forensics. Erik is an avid runner and an expert in television game show theory.

Mike Fazio
MARCorp Financial, LLC