Masters of Privacy

Alessandro De Zanche is a multilingual senior executive with over 16 years of experience of data, audience, monetisation strategies and products covering international roles in global companies (News Corp, Yahoo!, Telefonica, GfK, Hutchison 3G, Sizmek). He is currently consulting (among others, with: Financial Times Strategies, Dentsu Aegis Network, DPG Media Group) and writes on AdExchanger on a regular basis.  We took this opportunity to discuss the pains of the open programmatic advertising

Dr. Augustine Fou is a digital marketer of 25 years, currently working as an independent cybersecurity and ad fraud investigator. He was Chief Marketing Science Officer at the Advertising Research Foundation and Group Chief Digital Officer at Omnicom’s Healthcare Consultancy Group. Dr. Fou taught digital marketing at NYU and Rutgers University and he got his PhD, at the age of 23, in Materials Science & Engineering from MIT. References: Dr. Augustine Fou on Forbes Dr. Fou on Twitter

John Marshall is the author of Free Is Bad, as well as a serial entrepreneur and a patent holder in analytics tracking. His companies built advertising and analytics tools and delivered the first distance-learning training courses in digital marketing.  He has recently turned his focus to the nature of web advertising and consumer behavior, becoming a firm believer that our current relationship with the web as a free service has led to untenable compromises in service, information, and truth.

Stéphane Hamel is a seasoned independent digital marketing and analytics consultant, innovator, speaker and startup & agency advisor. He is also Digital Marketing Program Director for the Faculty of Business Administration at Laval University (Quebec City, Canada). He has recently embarked on a mission to protect user privacy and the ethical use of data. References: Stéphane Hamel's personal website Christopher Wylie (Cambridge Analytica) Superweek European Data Protection Law and Practice (CIPP/E

Milton is the CEO of the Luxury Institute, as well as a private investor, a frequent guest speaker at Columbia University, and a well-known entrepreneur. Of particular relevance to us, Milton is an investor in DataLucent and Digi.me, the former of which has recently launched an Advanced Personalization Xchange (APX) together with the Luxury Institute. References: Advanced Personalization Xchange MyData Business Models Prediction Machines, by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, Avi Goldfarb Richard Whitt

Hoping to better understand a human-centric, demand-led future, we have spent a few months interviewing entrepreneurs and pioneers at the intersection of Marketing, Data, Privacy, and Technology. This channel is our attempt to expand on this effort and share our learnings along the way.  Masters of Privacy is hosted and maintained by PrivacyCloud, a Spain and US-based company that helps people, marketers, and publishers take control of their data, their money, and their experiences.