Advisory Board

Carl Fremont has over 30 years of experience in advertising and marketing. During his career, Carl has worked on a myriad of consumer and business-to-business brands. As a media specialist, Carl has played a leading role in the industry. As a frequent industry speaker and consultant, Carl is often quoted in the trade press on his views on the future of digital marketing and media.

At Digitas since 2000, Carl has led the Global Media practice comprised of over 400 professionals in seven domestic and international offices. The Digitas media capability develops channel and media strategies that reach, engage and generate high value customers for their clients including America Express, Whirlpool, Kraft, Mars, Sanofi, Astra Zeneca, Delta, Chilis among others many others. Digitas is one of the leaders in digital-centric performance and brand media encompassing Search Marketing, Online Advertising, email, Social Marketing, Mobile, Gaming, Digital Video and other emerging media forms. Carl has built the premier industry media practice with the leading digital media and technology partner companies. Under Carl’s direction, Digitas has built leading-edge capabilities such as a Media Operations Team responsible for architecting advanced ad-serving cross platform for optimal message management. Under Carl’s leadership, his team has developed numerous breakthrough multi-media platform campaigns showcasing the intersection of insightful, creative thinking and content development and distribution. Carl has driven the use of research, data, technology, analytics and advanced targeting practices to ensure all marketing initiatives deliver measurable business impact. Digitas has been recognized as a media industry leader with awards from OMMA (4 year consecutive Media Agency of the Year), Google (Best Innovation) and Adweek (Plan of the Year) PROMO and the International Festival of Media. Carl was also the recipient of Media Post’s All Star award as well as a Cable FAX award.

Jack is Vice President of Global Advertising & Digital for Colgate-Palmolive, where he is responsible for all the Company’s advertising throughout the world, as well as for leading all Colgate digital activities globally, including all channels of digital marketing, and internal applications of digital technologies.

Mr. Haber had been Vice President, General Manager of U.S. Oral Care where he led the U.S. launch of Colgate Total toothpaste and led Colgate’s business to market leadership for the first time in over 35 years.

Mr. Haber joined Colgate-Palmolive in the Corporate New Ventures and Acquisitions Group where he was responsible for the development of new business opportunities for the Company. He then progressed through increasingly responsible Marketing positions in the US and in Europe and in Global Marketing, where he led the development and worldwide launch of Colgate Total toothpaste.

Mr. Haber was chosen as Brandweek Marketer of the Year in 1998, and was also selected as one of Advertising Age’s top 100.

Mike Kelly is a veteran media executive, advertising industry leader and an expert on digital and cross platform media and advertising.

From 2009 to 2012 Kelly served as CEO and President of The Weather Channel companies, a $4 Billion multiplatform media company. Adopting an aggressive cross platform strategy, TWC consumer usage grew significantly during Kelly’s tenure. Total users/viewers grew to 163 million and customers of all three platforms (Cable, Web and Mobile) tripled to more than 30%. Most pronounced was the growth of mobile. By 2011, mobile web visits grew sharply to 33 million visitors and number of apps downloaded on phones and tablets exceeded 65 million, making TWC a top five mobile company in the United States in traffic and revenue. Overall, TWC has had record revenue and profits over the past 3 years.

Prior to TWCC, Kelly served as a Senior Advisor at Veronis Suhler Stevenson, a $3 Billion private equity fund. He also served on the Board of Directors of several high growth digital media companies including Mediamind, one of the world’s leading digital media services companies. From 2000-2007 Kelly was the President of AOL Media Networks, President of Global Marketing at Time Warner and was co-founder and CEO of American Town Network (ATN), an interactive media company that creates local social networks in thousands of towns. Before establishing ATN, Mr. Kelly had a 17-year career with Time Inc. He was on the launch team of Entertainment Weekly and served as its Publisher from 1996-2000.

Mr. Kelly is an officer of the American Advertising Federation and serves on the board and Executive Committee of The Advertising Council. He is also a founder of The Kelly Gang, a 501c3 organization that benefits grass roots charities.

Krishna Subramanian joined Velti as the co-founder of Mobclix, and in 2011 he was promoted to chief marketing officer at Velti. Previously, Krishna co-founded and was the general manager of new business at Blue Lithium, the world’s largest behavioral targeted ad network, which was acquired by Yahoo! in 2007. He previously led product and marketing at BlueLithium where he pioneered key elements of behavioral targeting: retargeting, predictive targeting, and SIP. Prior to that, Krishna founded Burrp! (acquired by media conglomerate TV18), a localized review and recommendation portal for India, where he ran product and marketing, focusing on ad-supported content delivery to mobile phones. He has a patent pending on mobile analytics and monetization. Krishna graduated with honors from UC Davis.

David Verklin is a marketing consultant who for the past three years served as CEO of Canoe Ventures, LLC, the high profile joint venture founded in 2008 by the country´s leading cable operators. Based in New York City, Canoe is owned by the country’s largest cable MSO’s and continues to be focused on enabling advanced advertising and television technologies delivered via the unified integration of all of the nation’s cable TV infrastructure—nearly 60 million homes.

Prior to joining Canoe Ventures, David was CEO of Aegis Media Americas for, where he was one of the pioneers in the creation of the free standing media agency business in the United States. David brought the media agency Carat to North and South America and quickly grew capitalized media billings to approach $7 billion annually. He reinvented the agency model by integrating on and offline marketing services with the merger of Carat Fusion and Carat USA. This resulted in one operating company which for a short time was the largest fully integrated on/offline agency in the world.

David is a recognized media industry leader. During his tenure at Aegis, David wrote a book, "Watch This, Listen Up, Click Here," a user´s manual for understanding the new media landscape (John Wiley and Sons, 2007) which is still being used as a college textbook. Writing about David, Ad Age once asked the question, "...is there a single other human being who has been as much of a leader, visionary, a force for change and a voice of optimism in the media and marketing industries over the last 15 years?"

David began his career at Young & Rubicam, New York and then helped create Hal Riney & Partners in San Francisco, one of the countries most famous and awarded creative agencies first serving as its Media Director and later as its Managing Director. Under David’s leadership Riney became one of the largest privately held advertising agencies in the United States before it was sold to the Publicis Group.

David’s awards are too many to mention. He was inducted into the Broadcast and Cable Hall of Fame in 2009 and is also a member of the American Advertising Foundation’s Hall of Achievement. CableFAX Magazine recently named him as one of the 100 most influential people in the US cable television business. He also serves on the boards of the New York Multiple Sclerosis Society, Entitle Direct Insurance LLC and the Grace Farms Foundation. David is a graduate of the University of Virginia.