Kevin Gentzel is Vice President, Head of Advertising Sales, North America at Yahoo, overseeing the field advertising sales teams in the US and Canada. He has more than 20 years of advertising sales leadership and management experience. 

Previously, Kevin was chief revenue officer of The Washington Post where he oversaw print and digital advertising, the conferences business, and all special sections. He also led advertising innovations, including the Brand Connect native advertising product set. Prior to that, Kevin was chief revenue officer of NDN, an online video syndication and distribution company. Before joining NDN, Kevin was chief revenue officer at Forbes Media where he was responsible for advertising revenue and marketing for Forbes.com and Forbes magazine, among other publications. He launched their native product AdVoice on Forbes.com and in Forbes Magazine. During his time as CRO, Kevin built out the Forbes CMO Practice and ran the Annual Forbes CMO Summit.

Kevin has spoken at top industry conferences including Business Insider's IGNITION, Financial Times’ Digital Media Summit, Financial Times’ Marketing Summit, Advertising Week, Forbes CMO Summit, and Digiday's Publishing Summit.