As CMO of Rubicon Project Mari Kim Novak oversees a global team that is charged with driving the adoption of a unified platform for advertising across all screens, devices and formats. Leveraging her relationships across the industry, Mari Kim ensures that buyers and sellers alike realize the power of Rubicon Project’s automated platform to execute against all levels of the marketing funnel. Prior to her role as CMO, Mari Kim was SVP of Global Advertising Solutions at Rubicon Project where she was responsible for new business initiatives and key strategic relationships with buyers on the Advertising Automation Cloud.

For over 17 years, Mari Kim has worked for many participants in the advertiser and buyer community, including 9 years at Microsoft as their Global Head of Marketing for Microsoft Advertising based in NYC and responsible for Microsoft’s global marketing budget, industry outreach and sales enablement programs supporting brands including MSN, XBOX, SKYPE and Bing.

Mari Kim holds positions within the industry as SVP Executive Board of Directors for The Advertising Club of New York; Board Member of Advertising Week; Executive Director - Advisor of Content for Creative Week 2013; Advisory Board Member of 2013 Internet Week; Judge of the AAF Hall of Fame inductees; Jury facilitator for International ANDY Awards; 2011-2014 Arts and Letters Committee Member for the YMCA's Y After School Initiatives.  Mari Kim most recently appeared on Internet Week’s list of The Most Powerful Women in Mobile Advertising.