Great Minds

EP291: Brian O’Kelley, CEO and Founder, Scope3

Brian O’Kelley is CEO and co-founder of Scope3, leading the decarbonization of the media and advertising industry.
A respected entrepreneur and executive with a track record of building companies that have defined and led multi-billion dollar categories, Brian was the co-founder and CEO of AppNexus through its $1.6B sale to AT&T in 2018. He co-founded Waybridge, a supply chain technology company, and served as CTO of Right Media through its successful acquisition by Yahoo. Brian is an active board member of LiveRamp (RAMP), Tech:NYC, and the IAB Tech Lab, and is an executive producer of the Wonderstruck podcast.
Credited with the invention of programmatic advertising and the online ad exchange, Brian is deeply committed to technology-driven innovations that benefit society while improving the health of the planet.
Brian has been named to Crain’s 40 Under 40, Adweek 50 and Silicon Alley 100 lists, holds multiple patents, and was recognized as an E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year in the New York region in 2012. Brian was an early supporter of Girls Who Code and Moms First and is deeply committed to making the technology industry more inclusive.
Brian has a B.S.E. in Computer Science from Princeton University. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, two daughters, and two cats.

EP290: Jeff Kollath, Executive Director, Stax Museum

On this very special episode of Great Minds we welcome Jeff Kollath, Executive Director of the Stax Museum of American Soul Music.

EP289: Murphy “Murph” Dunne, Musician, Composer, and Actor

On this episode of Great Minds we welcome Murphy “Murph” Dunne,  Dunne played “Murph”, the keyboardist for the Blues Brothers, in the 1980 film The Blues Brothers, a role he reprised in the sequel, Blues Brothers 2000.

EP288: Louis Marini Jr., Legendary Saxophonist and Composer

On this episode of Great Minds we’re very pleased to welcome legendary saxophonist and composer Louis Marini Jr. Louis has played with everyone from Frank Zappa to Blood, Sweat & Tears. He was an original member of the SNL house band, as well as The Blues Brothers.

EP287: Jonathan Gudai, Co-founder and CEO, Adomni

Jonathan Gudai is the co-founder and CEO of Adomni.com – a leading platform for digital advertising on screens in the real world. He is passionate about driving innovation to deliver performance marketing results through technology and enhanced creative content on-screen. He sees a world where social media advertising, video advertising and digital out of home advertising converge for performance and brand marketers.
Jonathan serves on the board of directors of the DPAA (Digital Place Based Advertising Association) and the Innovation Committee of the OAAA (Outdoor Advertising Association).
He also is the creator of Shoutable, a platform that brings together social media and digital out of home.
He has written numerous articles for national and industry publications, educating the world on the power of programmatic digital out of home advertising and the future of the industry.
Prior to Adomni, Jonathan spent most of his career in the eCommerce and Adtech sectors – with 20+ years in web and mobile software development.

EP286: Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO & National Director of the Anti-Defamation League

Jonathan is a seasoned CEO with leadership experience in managing complex organizations in business, government and nonprofit environments.
He currently serves as CEO of ADL, the oldest anti-hate organization in the world and one of the longest standing civil rights groups in the US. Since joining in 2015, Jonathan has transformed the agency by modernizing its operations, innovating its products, overhauling its governance, increasing its revenue and enhancing its impact. He has been named to the list of Top 50 Nonprofit Leaders by the Nonprofit Times in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022.
Jonathan has launched and led successful high-growth companies and worked in senior positions at several public companies. In these roles, Jonathan has achieved multiple exits (IPO, trade sales) while generating shareholder value and social impact. He is the co-founder of Ethos Water (acquired by Starbucks Coffee Company, 2005); founder of All for Good (acquired by Points of Light, 2011); former CEO of GOOD Worldwide; and former VP, Consumer Products at REALTOR.com (IPO, 1999; acquired by News Corp, 2014).

EP285: Ed Horne, President, 160over90

Ed Horne is the President of 160over90. In this role, he is responsible for managing all aspects of the business, and for setting the foundation for 160over90’s global growth strategy across all forms of culture. A key element of his role is to help establish and build relationships with major global clients, as they seek to utilize all areas of culture as a business-building platform.
Ed has more than 25 years of experience as an executive in the marketing industry, having started his career in advertising.
Prior to joining Endeavor, he spent 15 years at the National Hockey League leading the business side of professional hockey. At the NHL, he was involved in and oversaw the majority of the global NHL business, including marketing, sponsorship, media, licensing, communications, fan development and events.
Some of Ed’s most notable professional moments include helping to negotiate the first-ever Super Bowl halftime show sponsorship; helping Amazon Alexa normalize voice technology through TV and film integration; and playing a primary role in creating the partnership with the IOC and relevant NOCs and NGBs that saw NHL players participate in the Olympic Winter Games.

EP284: Jessie Peck of The Spinners

For our final episode of 2023, Great Minds is thrilled to speak with Jessie Peck of the legendary R&B vocal group, The Spinners. Great Minds returns January 2024!

EP283: Miha Mikek, CEO, Celtra

Slovenian entrepreneur and CEO of Celtra, Miha Mikek founded a creative development and serving platform for mobile advertising that became a pioneer of mobile advertising technology. Today, the company provides cloud-based Creative Automation software for creative and marketing teams to collaborate, design and deliver digital campaigns across the ever-growing media ecosystem. Powering 400+ creative teams and 2/3 of Fortune 500 companies, brands and publishers alike use Celtra to transform their creative production and collaboration. Miha was recognized with several business leadership awards in Europe and honored as a 2012 Rising Star by Babson College. He lives with his wife Maja, Celtra’s co-founder, and two kids in Geneva, Switzerland.

EP282: Sophie Devonshire, CEO, The Marketing Society

Sophie is an experienced business leader, entrepreneur, marketer and bestselling author who has worked in and with multinational companies, successful start-ups and agencies. An ‘acceleration addict’ she is constantly curious about how to speed up success.
Her book on leadership ‘Superfast: Lead at Speed’ was published by John Murray Press and was shortlisted for Business Book of the Year as well as getting to a no.1 spot on Amazon.
Sophie is an acclaimed keynote speaker, talking to organisations and at events regularly. Her highly creative and commercial approach comes from a career which began with classic management training at Procter & Gamble and then Coca-Cola. She later moved agency-side with Leo Burnett in the Middle East and Interbrand in London.
She has personal experience of being a successful entrepreneur, setting up her own award-winning e-commerce business in the middle of the recession which she sold before running a luxury gifts business. Her most recent role has been as CEO of The Caffeine Partnership, a unique business consultancy which helps leaders to work with purpose and pace, where she has worked with impatient business leaders across the world.
In July 2020 Sophie became the new CEO of The Marketing Society, a global community of senior marketers whose purpose is to empower brave leaders.