At CFO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top New York based CFO’ operating in the Advertising space. If you think a CFO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Rory Parness
Chief Financial Officer of Foursquare
As CFO, Rory leads the company’s financial planning, accounting and operations. Prior to joining Foursquare, Rory served as CFO at several companies in the technology, healthcare and music industries. He spent 13 years as a finance executive at Jive Records where it grew from a small boutique hip hop label to the world’s largest independent record company and a multi-billion dollar exit. He has extensive experience in finance and leadership in the technology, media, healthcare and entertainment industries.
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About Foursquare: Foursquare is a location technology platform offering business solutions and consumer products through a deep understanding of location.
Randall Weisenburger
CFO and Executive VP of Omnicom Group
Randall J. Weisenburger is Managing Member of Mile26 Capital LLC, and formerly was the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Omnicom Group Inc. Before joining Omnicom, Mr. Weisenburger was a founding member of Wasserstein Perella & Company Inc., and a former member of the First Boston Corp. Mr. Weisenburger’s other corporate board service includes the Carnival Corp. and Carnival PLC as well as The Health Hospital Corp. He is also a member of the Board of Overseers for the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and a member of the Board of Trustees for the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Foundation. He has served as a Valero director since 2011.
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About Omnicom Group: Omnicom Group provides advertising and marketing communications services for their clients.
David Granville-Smith
Executive Vice President And Chief Financial Officer of A+E Networks
David “Digger” Granville-Smith is the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of A+E Networks. Granville-Smith joined A+E Networks as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in July 2014. In December 2016, he was named to his current position. Granville-Smith leads all key financial functions across A+E Networks, including A&E®, History®, Lifetime®, LMN®, FYI™, H2®, Crime & Investigation Network®, History en Español™, Military HISTORY®, LRW®, A+E Studios™, A&E Indie Films®, A+E Networks International®, A+E Networks Digital® and A+E Networks Consumer Products™. In addition, Granville-Smith oversees the Production, Operations, Engineering and Information Technology departments and is responsible for the Corporate Development, Strategy, Investments and Ventures Group. He provides strategic and operational leadership across all of the divisions of the company, including the Brand Portfolio Group, Ad Sales, Distribution, Digital and International, in order to drive the company’s overall growth and value creation. Granville-Smith serves on the boards of A+E Networks Latin America and VICELAND. Prior to joining A+E Networks, Granville-Smith worked at J.P. Morgan and Bear Stearns, which was acquired by J.P. Morgan, for 23 years. Prior to that, he worked at Smith Barney in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group. At J.P. Morgan, he was a Managing Director and Head of the Media Group in the Investment Banking Division. Throughout his career in banking, Granville-Smith worked on a number of significant strategic and financing transactions for diversified media, cable network, cable distribution and telecommunications companies. Granville-Smith is a trustee of the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, New York. He also serves on the President’s Advisory Council for the College of Brown University. Granville-Smith received an A.B. degree from Brown University. He resides in Manhattan with his wife and two children.
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About A+E Networks: A+E Networks is truly a global media company with joint ventures and channels all over the world.
Chris Esposito
Chief Financial Officer of Grey
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About Grey: Grey Group is a global advertising and marketing agency with headquarters in New York City
Chris Lynch
Chief Financial Officer of Sprinklr
Chris is a financial executive with extensive knowledge in technology software and advertising businesses. In his current role, he is working to maximize Sprinklr’s opportunities for overall growth and international expansion. Chris is best known for his work at Bazaarvoice and his key role in its successful IPO. Through innovative thinking and diagnostic problem solving, Chris has led global finance organizations through periods of rapid growth. He brings passion for a high growth technology environment to his role at Sprinklr.
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About Sprinklr: Sprinklr provides enterprise software for customer experience management.
Elise Garofalo
Chief Financial Officer of Outbrain
Elise Garofalo is Chief Financial Officer at Outbrain. From February 2010 to April 2014, she served as the Senior Vice President, Treasurer and Investor Relations at Revlon, Inc. Prior to that, Elise was the Chief Financial Officer of Marakon Associates, Inc. Elise holds a BS in Accounting from The University of Connecticut’s School of Business and an MBA from Vanderbilt University.
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About Outbrain: Outbrain provides a recommendation platform to connect advertisers to open web consumers.
Jeff Lupinacci
Global Chief Financial Officer of IPG Mediabrands
Jeff manages over $37 billion in global media on behalf of IPG Mediabrands’ clients. He also oversees the client finance, accounting, technology, legal & compliance teams globally. Jeff has spearheaded a number of strategic acquisitions including Media Experts, one of Canada’s premiere media agencies, CUBOCC, one of Brazil’s leading digital creative shops, and Interactive Avenues, India’s largest independent full-service digital agency, among others. In 2012, Jeff was the first CFO to be named a “Media All-Star” by AdWeek.
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About IPG Mediabrands: IPG Mediabrands is committed to driving automated buying, pay-for-performance, and digital innovation solutions.
Richard Haydock
CFO of PulsePoint
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About PulsePoint: PulsePoint is a technology company using data to accelerate healthcare marketing.
Richard Haydock
CFO of PulsePoint
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About PulsePoint: PulsePoint is a technology company using data to accelerate healthcare marketing.
Jonathan Hsu
Chief Financial Officer / Chief Operating Officer of AppNexus
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About AppNexus: AppNexus operates a cloud-based software platform that enables and optimizes programmatic online advertising.
Brent McDonald
Chief Financial Officer of Chartbeat
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About Chartbeat: Chartbeat tools measure and monetize website visitors’ attention and engagement on page content and advertising.
Kevin Clarke
CFO & COO of Authentic Brands Group
Kevin’s investment banking experience includes over twenty years of working with companies in a variety of industry sectors. Most of his investment banking experience was spent at Bear Stearns & Co., where he was a senior managing director and head of health care mergers & acquisitions.
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About Authentic Brands Group: Authentic Brands Group is a brand development, marketing, and entertainment company that manages the value of global brands.
Michann Thompson
Chief Financial Officer of SocialFlow
Chief Financial Officer at SocialFlow.
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About SocialFlow, SocialFlow: SocialFlow is a social distribution and monetization platform that is purpose-built for media companies.
Andy Greenstein
Chief Financial Officer of Purch
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About Purch: Purch is a digital publishing and marketplace platform uniquely positioned at the intersection of content, commerce and customer.
Matt Novick
CFO of PlaceIQ (left in May 2022) Now CFO at Covera Health.
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About PlaceIQ, PlaceIQ: PlaceIQ provides location intelligence services that enable advertisers to reach mobile brand audiences for marketing activities.
Ellen Johnson
Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer of Interpublic Group (IPG)
Ellen Johnson is Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer of IPG. In this role, she has direct management responsibility for all areas of Global Finance, Information Technology and Investor Relations. She is also the executive sponsor of ESG programs related to climate action, social programs and governance across IPG.
Before becoming CFO, Ellen Johnson was Senior Vice President of Finance and Treasurer of IPG, with direct responsibility for Treasury, Corporate Development and Financial Planning and Analysis, managing the company’s liquidity and capital structure, as well as handling its relationships with banks and rating agencies. She also oversees the mergers and acquisition function as well as the short and long-term budgeting, forecasting and worldwide financial planning. In 2018, Ellen added the role of CFO of IPG Mediabrands, where she was responsible for all areas of global finance, accounting, technology, legal and compliance.
Under Ellen’s leadership, IPG has transformed its balance sheet and has increased the strength of its financial position, including achieving investment-grade credit ratings. She helped initiate IPG’s return of capital programs in 2011. Since that time, the company has returned $4.5 billion to shareholders in dividends and share repurchases.
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About Interpublic Group (IPG): Interpublic Group (IPG) provides advertising, digital marketing, communications planning, media buying, PR and specialty marketing services.
Andrew Schleimer
Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President of Digital Turbine
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About Digital Turbine: The leading independent mobile growth platform — leveling up the landscape for advertisers, publishers, carriers and OEMs.
Josh Weiss
CFO of Kubient
Josh Weiss is the Chief Financial Officer at Kubient. He graduated from Yeshiva University with a degree in BS Accountancy.
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About Kubient: Kubient’s Audience Cloud marketplace is a single point of entry for advertisers and publishers to reach, monetize and connect audiences.
Rick Eaton
Co-Founder, CFO of Yieldmo
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About Yieldmo: Yieldmo is a digital advertising technology company that increases the value of advertising inventory for buyers and sellers.
Bob Curcurutov
Chief Financial Officer of Ampersand
Bob Curcuruto was named Chief Financial Officer for NCC in June 2004. In this role Curcuruto oversees all of the Controllership Functions, Human Resources, and Business Information Systems. Curcuruto joined NCC in June 2004, bringing with him nearly three decades of finance and management experience in the radio, television and cable industries. He spent 25 years rising through the ranks at Viacom Corporation (formerly CBS Corp.-Westinghouse Electric) eventually holding the dual position of Vice President/Controller of WCBS-TV and Senior Vice President of Viacom Station Sales in New York. Prior to Viacom Corporation, Curcuruto spent 5 years as VP Controller Group W/CBS-TV Spot Sales (an in-house rep firm) in New York. Previously, Curcuruto has been Controller of WJZ-TV in Baltimore, Director of Finance & Accounting with Group W Satellite Communications in Stamford, Assistant Controller of KYW-AM and KYW-TV in Philadelphia and General Accounting Supervisor at Group W Headquarters in New York. Curcuruto graduated from Dowling College and is a Certified Financial Planner (CFP).
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About Ampersand: Ampersand is an advertising sales, marketing, and technology company.
Ho Chin
CFO of RevTrax
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About RevTrax: Offer Management Platform | Helping marketers run smarter offers easily with a platform that connects brand engagement to any purchase.
Bill Bundy
CFO of IRIS.TV
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About IRIS.TV: IRIS.TV is a video data platform focused on onboarding, processing, and activating video data.
David Barron
Chief Financial Officer & Chief Operating Officer of Manifest
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About Manifest: The best experiences are stories worth sharing.
Daniel Daly
Chief Financial Officer of Scanbuy
Daniel Daly joined Scanbuy as Chief Financial Officer in September 2012, to oversee financial, investor and management reporting functions, with a focus on managing growth throughout Scanbuy. Prior to joining, he has worked with organizations, both large and small, driving accountability and improving the effectiveness of financial reporting to support leadership. Mr. Daly graduated from Fairfield University with a B.S. in accounting before joining PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP where he spent almost ten years servicing audit clients in Manufacturing, Technology, Entertainment and Communications.
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About Scanbuy: Scanbuy provides cloud-based mobile connection solutions and a platform to generate, manage, and measure intelligent barcode campaigns.
Lawrence Fish
Interim CFO of Evol8tion
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About Evol8tion: Evol8tion creates partnerships between early-stage startups and brands via mentorship, pilot programs, investments and acquisitions.
Melinda Janik
Chief Financial Officer of GateHouse Media Inc.
Melinda Janik became Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in February 2009. She formerly served as an officer and Vice President and Controller of Paychex, Inc., a provider of payroll and human resource services, from March 2005 to January 2009. Prior to joining Paychex, Inc., she served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Glimcher Realty Trust, a mall Real Estate Investment Trust based in Columbus, Ohio, from July 2002 to March 2004. From February 1999 to July 2002 Ms. Janik was Vice President and Treasurer of NCR Corporation, a technology company based in Dayton, Ohio. She holds an MBA in finance and accounting and a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
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About : GateHouse Media’s business model is to be the preeminent provider of local content and advertising in the small and midsize markets.
Raj Singhal
CFO of Huge
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About Huge: Huge redefines what’s possible for the world’s most ambitious brands.
Michael Gross
Chief Financial Officer of Siegel & Gale
Michael Gross is a Chief Financial Officer at Siegel & Gale.
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About Siegel & Gale: Siegel+Gale is a global brand strategy, design and experience firm. Using facts, intuition and creativity,
Richard O’Connor
CFO of Beachfront Media
Richard O’Connor is the Chief Financial Officer of RhythmOne. Having joined the company in early 2017, he brings over 20 years of finance experience in traditional and digital media companies. Immediately prior to joining RhythmOne, Rich was the CFO of PageScience, the venture-funded, health-oriented programmatic network, where he managed the day-to-day operations and finances of the enterprise, including raising capital, driving the company to profitability and facilitating its sale to Accent Health Media. In 2007, Richard was part of the Private Equity-led buyout team of Prime Visibility Media Group (PVMG) and took over as the CFO of the company, restructuring the operations and balance sheet, and driving revenue growth until its sale in 2011 to RhythmOne plc. His financial career in media includes Warner Bros. Domestic Television, MCA TV, Universal TV, USAI and Vivendi Universal – eventually serving as VP of Finance and Operations at Universal Domestic Television, a $1bn Division of NBC Universal (NYSE: GE). Rich earned a BS (Accounting) from University of Bridgeport.
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About Beachfront Media: Beachfront Media is a leading video technology company enabling distribution and monetization of video across all screens.
Sona Banker
CFO of Lela
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About Lela: Lela Inc. is a cloud based marketing segmentation and content recommendation platform
Daniel Surette
Chief Financial Officer of Waysun
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About Waysun: Waysun is a video game development firm that offers advertising, game data analysis, 3D applications and software development services.
Cam Hackett
Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer of LC Rapid Consulting LLC
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About LC Rapid Consulting LLC: LC Rapid offers a managed package of media management, analytics, and marketing services.
Carolina Andrade
Co-founder & CFO of Kasitoko
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About Kasitoko: kasitoko is the World’s largest influencer aggregator with a white label SaaS that allows networks to manage.
Carolina Andrade
Co-founder & CFO of Kasitoko
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About Kasitoko: kasitoko is the World’s largest influencer aggregator with a white label SaaS that allows networks to manage.
Tal Sharf
CFO and Co-Founder of Wapi
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About Wapi: Wapi is a free ad-driven casino app that enables players to gamble by engaging with targeted ads instead of betting their own money.
Terry Freeburg
Chief Operating Officer & Chief Financial Officer of Advantage Business Media
As COO and CFO, Terry oversees day-to-day operations of Advantage Business Media including Finance, Digital/IT Development, Production and Audience Development.Terry began her career in publishing in 1984 with Murdoch Magazines’ travel and aviation groups. She followed the sale of Murdoch’s travel group to Reed Elsevier, where she held a series of financial management positions before being named Director of Financial Operations. With Reed Elsevier’s sale of the travel group to NorthStar Travel Media in 2001, Terry was promoted to VP of Finance. She joined Reed New Products (Advantage) in 2003.
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About Advantage Business Media: Advantage Business Media offers print publications, e-newsletters, specialized directories, databases, conferences and events, and more.
Terry Freeburg
Chief Operating Officer & Chief Financial Officer of Advantage Business Media
As COO and CFO, Terry oversees day-to-day operations of Advantage Business Media including Finance, Digital/IT Development, Production and Audience Development.Terry began her career in publishing in 1984 with Murdoch Magazines’ travel and aviation groups. She followed the sale of Murdoch’s travel group to Reed Elsevier, where she held a series of financial management positions before being named Director of Financial Operations. With Reed Elsevier’s sale of the travel group to NorthStar Travel Media in 2001, Terry was promoted to VP of Finance. She joined Reed New Products (Advantage) in 2003.
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About Advantage Business Media: Advantage Business Media offers print publications, e-newsletters, specialized directories, databases, conferences and events, and more.