Jaffer is a serial entrepreneur. His first venture began in 1982. With his uncles, Jaffer created one of the first independent home video labels in the country: MPI Home Video. Initially his responsibilities included PR and VP of Sales & Marketing. MPI was responsible for The Superbowl Shuffle, the Beatles' exclusive home video distributor and for seven years the exclusive distributor for ABC News, including Nightline.

In 1991 Jaffer left the family business to found Fusion Fulfillment, a division of Fusion Industries Inc., a video catalog operation he started in 1988 with two childhood friends. Jaffer sold that company in 1995.

That is when Jaffer created Pulse with his sister Anisa Ali and cousin Tom Zegar. Pulse was an infomercial, direct-to-consumer marketing company. They were responsible for some of the top television consumer promotions including: Riverdance, Lord of the Dance and Stomp.

In 1998, Anisa, Tom and Jaffer moved all of their marketing online and created PulseTV.com. From 1998 until 2007, the trio worked on building media assets. Pulse first coupled media sales and e-commerce before using its media exclusively for e-commerce. In 2007 PulseTV began deploying a Deal-of-the-Day via email while using video demonstrations on its landing pages. PulseTV ranks #648 in the Internet Retailer Top 1000 online retailers for North America and has made the Inc. 5000 fastest growing privately held companies for 3 straight years.

Active in email marketing since 1996, Red Pill Email founder, John Caldwell, has worked on the agency side, the client side, and as a consultant, using deployment tools from ESPs to in-house to homegrown email systems.

A Member of the Email Experience Council since 2006, John has served on the Member Advisory Committee, as Chair of the Marketing & Membership, Co-Chair of the Email Measurement Accuracy Roundtable/Advisory Board, member of the former Speakers Bureau and of the former Career Paths Roundtable.  John was on the advisory panel at the founding of Only Influencers and remains a charter member. 

Jen Capstraw leverages a multifaceted background and first-hand experience to deliver email-centric marketing strategy that delivers meaningful decreases in acquisition costs along with boosts in conversion rates and campaign ROI. Jen is currently a Consultant at Adobe where she is a subject matter expert on email marketing, personalization, and cross-channel strategy. In 2016, Jen co-founded Women of Email, an association aimed
at promoting leadership and cultivating professional growth among women in the email space. WoE boasts roughly 600 members to date. Follow Jen at @jencapstraw and Women of Email at @womenofemail.

Jared plays an instrumental role at Staples, managing the organizations email strategy and innovation efforts entirely focused on delivering the nirvana of a data-driven, real-time, personalized email program. Spending a decade on the agency side with e-Dialog/eBay and 89 Degrees, Jared helped key clients like Avis Budget Group, Discover Financial Services, Southwest Airlines, and IKEA develop relevant, timely, multi-channel messaging programs.

Jordan Cohen is a well-known industry veteran and frequent speaker, author, and media spokesman on a wide variety of digital marketing topics, whose insights have been featured in The New York Times, USA Today and the Wall Street Journal, among other major media outlets. As Chief Marketing Officer for Fluent, the industry's leading customer acquisition platform, he is responsible for all strategic marketing, branding, demand generation, communications, and strategic partnership programs. Cohen played an instrumental role in the Fluent's successful acquisition in late 2015 by IDI, Inc., and has gone on to lead projects spanning from the company's recent rebrand, to its high profile role in the 2016 presidential election cycle.

Prior to joining Fluent, Cohen served as Vice President of Marketing for real-time email technology innovator Movable Ink, where he rapidly established the company as a well-known entity in the email marketing space. Before Movable Ink, Cohen served as Vice President of Business Development for mobile advertising start-up Pontiflex, and earlier in his career, held senior marketing roles at Pivotal Veracity/Unica (now part of IBM), Goodmail Systems, Bigfoot Interactive/Epsilon, and the DMA. Cohen graduated from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor with a BA in Communication Studies.

George DiGuido is Head of Email Strategy for About.com. About.com is reimagining the way people find expert advice and answers online. Through its premium vertical brands including Verywell, The Balance, Lifewire and its namesake About.com, we help millions of monthly users answer questions, solve problems, learn something new and find inspiration on topics they deeply care about. Prior to About.com Mr. DiGuido served as the Head of Email Marketing at Airbnb, a trusted community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book unique spaces around the world – online or from a mobile phone. George has also held roles in product development and campaign services at leading email service providers Zeta Interactive and Epsilon Interactive working with key accounts such as Capital One, Chase, GlaxoSmithKline and others. George holds a B.A. in Business Administration from Villanova University with majors in Management Information Systems and Marketing.

Chris sent his first email campaign in 1995 as the founder of KeyWest.com and FloridaKeys.com. He’s worked on strategy directly with Fortune 500 companies, retail giants, nonprofits, SMBs and government agencies in all facets of their email marketing programs. Chris has been a member of the OI group since back when it was the Email Insiders as well as a member of the ANA/Email Experience Council..

Nick is Vice President of Product Marketing at Netcore Cloud where he develops, owns, and executes go-to-market strategies. He evaluates new growth opportunities for the Netcore roadmap, presents thought leadership at industry events, and leads cross-functional teams for product launches and market announcements. Before joining Netcore, he was a product marketing leader at Cheetah Digital, and served for five years as Chief Research Officer and Principal Analyst at The Relevancy Group. Nick earned his BA from Kenyon College, MBA from The University of Washington, and lives in Seattle with his wife and three children.

Skip Fidura is a consumer centric digital marketer with over 20 years' experience on the client, agency and provider sides. Working for dotmailer, OgilvyOne and Acxiom Digital, he has helped B2B and B2C brands like BT, Fred Perry, Paul Smith, DHL and Copa Airlines have real conversations with each customer across all digital channels. Skip has also been an Executive Director at the dotDigital Group plc and a Non-executive Director of the UK DMA. As Chair of the Responsible Marketing Committee he continues to shape the discussion and define best practice around the responsible use of data and marketing channels. He currently works with a number of companies as a Non-Exec Director and/or Board Advisor helping them to protect and monetise their data assets.

Skip is a globally recognised data-driven marketer whose high energy talks are more about useful suggestions than buzzword bingo. Making complex concepts actionable, his talks focus on using technology to have real conversations with customers, consumer centric uses for data and responsible marketing. 

Bob Frady is the Chief Marketing Officer of Maropost. The Maropost system transforms the complex process behind successful email and other digital marketing channels into a manageable process, enabling users to segment and target prospects, craft content, optimize message delivery, track customer behavior and create collaborations within a single dashboard.

Prior to joining Maropost as the CMO, Bob was VP of Monetization for Zeeto.io in San Diego, CA. At Zeeto, Bob had primary responsibility for Zeeto's near 3-billion-piece email program, overseeing a 10x increase in revenue during his tenure.

Prior to Zeeto, Bob had leadership positions at Expedia - where he oversaw global email communications - and Live Nation, where he built the email infrastructure that generated more than 15,000 unique campaigns per year.

Bob has been a featured speaker on digital and email marketing at a number of conferences, including the DMA, EEC, Email Insider and Smarter Data Conference in New Zealand.

Ali Swerdlow Francolla is the Managing Director of Marketing Technology Platforms at LiveRamp where she leads relationships with Email Service Providers, Customer Data Platforms, and other players in the industry. Formerly, she was at Oracle Data Cloud where she worked with consumer technology brands to optimize their data strategies.

Kelly Haggard has over 15 years of experience in email marketing leadership roles in B2B and B2C environments spanning across publishing, finance, eCommerce, healthcare and technology. Kelly currently serves as Assistant Vice President of the Consumer Marketing Email Programs at CareCredit, a division of Synchrony Financial.

As Senior Strategic Consultant at Airship, Samantha Iodice utilizes her expertise in Mobile, Email, Content, and Customer Experience Strategy to provide the ultimate individualized customer experiences for her clients. Samantha is a charter member of Women of Email, a member of Only Influencers, and a Women of MarTech member and mentor. She is a proven optimizer focused on growth and engagement, a dynamic speaker, educator, and writer.

Kayla Jedele is an email marketing guru at zulily in Seattle where she works on email engagement with a subscriber list of over 20 million. Currently she's working on advanced subject lines, data management and personalization techniques for the company.Kayla is a proud graduate of the University of Washington’s Entrepreneurship program and originally hails from Minneapolis, Minnesota (go Twins!). When she’s not pushing the boundaries of email marketing she is embracing life in Seattle, expanding her vinyl collection, sipping coffee, wearing flannel and laying waste to opposing teams on the volleyball court.

Simms Jenkins is Founder and CEO of BrightWave, North America’s leading email marketing agency. The award-winning firm specializes in elevating email marketing programs that drive revenue, cut costs and build relationships.  Jenkins has led BrightWave in establishing a world-class client list including Aflac, Chick-fil-A, Cox Business, Equifax, Google, Mattress Firm, Phillips66 and Southern Company. The agency has been ranked among the fastest growing private companies by Inc. Magazine the past three years.

Jenkins has been awarded some of the most prestigious honors in the digital industry, including the first Lifetime Achievement Award from the Atlanta Interactive Marketing Association, the AMY Marketer of the Year from the American Marketing Association and the Email Marketer of the Year at the Tech Marketing Awards held by the Technology Association of Georgia.  Jenkins is regarded as one of the leading experts in the email marketing industry and is regularly cited by the media as such and called upon by the financial community to provide market insight and consulting.

Jenkins is the author of two definitive and highly regarded books on email marketing; The New Inbox (published in April 2013 by ClickZ/Incisive Media) and The Truth About Email Marketing published by Pearson's Financial Times Press in 2008). Jenkins is currently the Email Marketing Best Practices Columnist for ClickZ, the largest resource of interactive marketing news and commentary in the world, online or off. His industry articles have been called one of the top  information sources for email marketers. 

He has been featured in The New York Times, Fortune Magazine, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, Adweek, Bloomberg TV, Wired Magazine and scores of other leading publications and media outlets. Jenkins is a regular speaker at major digital industry and general business conferences.

Additionally, Jenkins is the creator of EmailStatCenter.com and SocialStatCenter.com, the leading authorities on email and social media metrics. Prior to founding BrightWave, Jenkins headed the CRM group at Cox Interactive Media.

Jenkins serves on several civic and professional boards, including Atlanta Families, Zoo Atlanta’s Marketing Board and Fernbank Museum’s Corporate Leadership Council. He has served as a mentor at Flashpoint, a Georgia Tech based startup accelerator program. Jenkins is a graduate of Denison University in Granville, Ohio and resides in Atlanta’s Buckhead neighborhood with his wife and three children.

Jeanne Jennings is a recognized expert in the email marketing world and a sought-after speaker and author on industry topics. Jeanne has over 20 years of experience in the email and online marketing and product development world.

She is also the Founder of Email Optimization Shop, a consultancy with a direct response approach to digital marketing strategy, tactics and creative direction. They help their clients make their email marketing initiatives more effective and more profitable.

In addition, Jeanne is Chair of the Email Innovations Summit, Las Vegas and General Manager of Only Influencers, a community of email marketing professionals. And she is an adjunct professor teaching digital marketing to students earning their Masters in Integrated Marketing Communications at Georgetown University.

From 2001 to 2016 she wrote a regular column on Email Marketing for ClickZ.com. She is also a regular contributor to her own Email Optimization Shop Blog and the Only Influencers Blog.

Justine is director of marketing at Litmus, a Boston-based SaaS company that lets you preview and test your emails before you send. A recovering designer, she now leads community, content and education initiatives—publishing original research and organizing the world's only conference for email designers. Prior to joining Litmus, Justine led the creative services team at ExactTarget and was responsible for designing, building and managing email campaigns for SMB through Fortune 500 customers. She’s strangely passionate about this email marketing thing, hates being called a spammer, and still gets nervous when it's time to hit the send button.

Jeff serves as CEO of PowerInbox, an innovative technology company helping companies monetize their email newsletters through dynamic content. Before joining PowerInbox, Jeff served as President and CEO at Oversee.net, managing worldwide operations and building Oversee's owned and operated portfolio of domain names into one of the world’s largest, establishing the company as the leader in Internet real estate. Under his leadership, the company diversified into lead generation, building several high growth and high margin businesses. Before that, Kupietzky served in leadership positions with X1 Technologies, Digital Insight (Intuit), Siebel Systems (Oracle), and Loudcloud/Opsware (Hewlett-Packard). Jeff began his career as a consultant for McKinsey & Co., developing business strategies for software, insurance and banking clients. A frequent speaker at Digital Media conferences, he has also been featured on CNN, CNBC, and in many news and business magazines. Jeff earned an MBA with high distinction from Harvard Business School and graduated Summa Cum Laude with B.A. in Economics from Columbia University.

Heidi Lehmann is an emerging media + tech entrepreneur, advisor, and new market maker focused on wearable technology, connected devices and cross platform video.

Currently Heidi is a consultant to venture capital firms to assist portfolio companies with market entry. Engagements include strategic advisor to Trellie a smart jewelry / wearable technology company backed by Ron LeMay former CEO of Sprint PCS, Anser Innovation / PetChatz an internet based consumer electronics (robotics) company that facilitates remote interaction and Healthy You Now a Wellness Subscription Service founded by Tonya Lewis Lee.

Heidi is also co-founder of video programming platform SWSIMedia (smart women, smart ideas) whose first show “QueenBee” was bought by a television network after launching on-line. SWSI is currently producing five new shows including “Fashion Geeks” which profiles female founders of wearable technology companies in partnership with Manufacture NY a fashion innovation hub focused on smart fabrics and wearable tech.

Previously Heidi was founder and CEO of MoxieQ one of the first influencer platforms in partnership with most all US mobile carriers and BravoTV, and co-founder, VP Strategic Alliances of Third Screen Media, one of the first mobile ad network and ad delivery platform that was acquired by AOL in 2007 for over $100m.

Greta MacDonald is a marketing industry veteran who currently leads the email marketing strategy for all seven ServiceMaster brands, including Terminix, American Home Shield and Merry Maids. ServiceMaster provides essential services to more than 75,000 homes and businesses every day. As the Email Marketing Manager, she relies on her 15 years of experience with major brands like Estee Lauder and Harrah’s to incorporate the latest industry innovations while maintaining executional excellence across all programs. MacDonald earned her degree at nearby Tulane University.

Parry is a self-described digital anarchist, although according to London's Metropolitan Police he's just an anarchist. He's the CEO of Phrasee, the AI-powered subject line optimisation software. He knows language, he knows email, and he can probably beat you in an Excel-off.

Chris Marriott is the President & Founder of Email Connect, a consultancy that for the last 10 years has focused exclusively on guiding brands through the ESP and CDP vendor selection process. A 25-year veteran of digital marketing, including well over a decade in email marketing, Chris is a recognized expert in the martech vendor landscape and vendor evaluation process.

Prior to founding Email Connect, Chris served as a tenured executive at Acxiom, building and leading its Global Digital and Email Agency Services team into one of the industry’s top agency services providers.

Additionally, he is a regular speaker and columnist on the changing martech landscape and the RFP process, and is an adviser to several emerging marketing technology companies including AudiencePoint and Shotzr. He holds a BA from Dartmouth College.

Bill McCloskey has been affectionately called The Godfather of Email and since 2003 has been instrumental in driving awareness of the email marketing industry. In 2003 he founded and launched eDataSource, Inc, the first email intelligence company. He began the Email Insider column (the first of the Mediapost “insider” series) and went on to develop and host the Email Insider Summit. He has twice been a finalist for the EEC’s Stefan Pollard Memorial Marketer of the Year award and has been named one of the 50 Marketing Leaders Over 50 You Should Know by CMO Magazine.

in 2010, Bill left eDataSource to launch Only Influencers, the leading and most influential community for email marketing professionals in the world. OI brings together the world's top thought leaders and movers and shakers and hosts discussion lists, meetups, and blogs by leading email experts. In addition, Only Influencers is a vast resource for new people just entering the email marketing industry and is dedicated to the growth of the individual email marketer, the promotion of the companies that drive the industry, and the growth of the email marketing industry as a whole.

 As Program Director, Marketing Research at Acoustic, Loren McDonald’s role is to produce thought leadership content and educate marketers on digital marketing best practices and emerging trends through articles, white papers, benchmark reports, guides, presentations, and webinars.
 
He has written more than 500 articles and delivered more than 350 presentations in 14 countries and 150 webinars. McDonald has 35 years of experience as a consultant, marketing executive and thought leader at companies including IBM, Silverpop, Arthur Andersen, USWeb/CKS, EmailLabs, and Lyris.

Kath lives and breathes email marketing and is one of the World's Top 50 Email Marketing Influencers (Vocus, 2014). As Founder of Holistic Email Marketing, she devotes her time to developing customer-centric ecommerce journeys using a holistic, multi-channel approach. Kath is recognised as one of the UK's leading Email Marketers and heads up training for Econsultancy on Personalisation and Email Marketing. Some of the retail and B2C brands she has either trained or helped are: Bally, Barbour, Paul Smith, Ocado, EE, Dyson, Marks and Spencer, Wallis, Schuh, Co-operative Group, Argos, Next, Asda, Jaeger, Mont Blanc, Expedia, Net-a-Porter, Secret Escapes, George, Dixons, Bookatable, ShopRush, Adobe, Facebook, VisitScotland – just to name a few.

Dela Quist is CEO of Alchemy Worx the first and largest digital agency with a 100% focus on email, in the world. With offices in Atlanta and London Alchemy Worx has over 65 email specialists who work with a wide range of high profile global brands like Vodafone, Hilton Hotels, Sony, Tesco, Lilly and Virgin Holidays. Dela is an entertaining and no-nonsense speaker, who by his reckoning has spent over 20,000 hours thinking about email marketing. He has pioneered research into the Nudge Effect of unopened email, and the surprising effectiveness of longer subject lines. Prior to founding Alchemy Worx Dela spent over 15 years in magazine, newspaper and online publishing.

Michael is currently a marketing manager for the CRM, Loyalty and Stored Value team at Western Union. He focuses on customer retention and acquisition, specifically for the retail channel. He manages email campaign strategy, execution & analysis. He is also the lead marketer for the Western Union NetSpend prepaid card where he strategizes and executes retail (POS, card packaging) and direct to consumer (direct mail, email, social media, digital display) co-branded marketing with the NetSpend team.

Elliot Ross is passionate about pushing email design to provide the best experience possible for audiences. He founded ActionRocket, the creative studio for email, and co-founded Taxi for Email, a platform that helps marketers make great email campaigns. 

He specialises in creative strategy, design and development that works in the inbox. Over 12 years he's designed award winning campaigns for brands including London 2012, BBC, IKEA, British Airways and Sky. 
He speaks on email design at conferences for Litmus, eBay and IBM, authors the Make Awesome Email blog and co-hosts Email–The Podcast. His sense of Britishness precludes him from calling himself a "thought leader", but other people have.

With over 6 years of experience in digital technology, Ari’s innovative work has fueled the growth of Bridge’s marketing automation platform and has allowed Bridge to become one of the leading technology solutions providers in the digital space today. Ari graduated from the University of Maryland and has one of the cutest kids in the world waiting for him at home.

Vivek is leading the charge to make email a more dynamic and relevant communication channel for marketers and consumers. With a background in both sales and product development, Vivek brings a potent combination of engineering talent and business savvy to his role as Movable Ink's CEO.

Karen Talavera is the founder and principal of Synchronicity Marketing, a data-driven digital marketing consultancy. As the current Vice Chair of the ANA’s Email Excellence Center, she is a recognized global expert, thought leader, and speaker with 20+ years of experience in digital and email marketing strategy. Karen has contributed to e-commerce growth for countless brands in DTC, financial services, travel, healthcare, retail, and tech including Google, Disney, Kendo Brands, Lenovo, City National Bank, AAA, Fidelity, Amway, and many more. She has also been a professional educator in the space since 1999, designing and delivering training, certifications, webinars, and workshops for the Association of National Advertisers (ANA), the American Marketing Association (AMA), Digital Marketing Institute (DMI), MarketingProfs, and private companies.

John Thies is the CEO and Co-Founder of Email on Acid, a pre-deployment Email QA platform that strives to remove the inherent fear of hitting the "Send Button". He’s a passionate and engaging industry leader who lives, breathes, and dreams in email (seriously). John also serves as the CEO of Cause for Awareness, a recently formed non-profit that empowers other non-profit organizations with digital marketing resources. He resides in Denver, Colorado with his wife and son.

Curtis is Vice President of Sales, North America at Persado. He is responsible for Sales, Solutions Consulting and Sales Development.Curtis has spent 15 years in Silicon Valley in various sales leadership roles. Before Persado, he spent time at Oracle after the acquisition of Responsys, where he served as Vice President of Sales for both companies.Oracle acquired Responsys in 2014, after their successful IPO in 2011. In between two stints at Responsys, Curtis led Sales and Business Development for Mozes, a mobile marketing platform that was acquired by HelloWorld in2013. He began his career with DoubleClick.

Patrick is focused on product strategy for email and cross-channel marketing at Adobe and has over 17 years of experience in the technology, consulting, and marketing industries. Previously, Patrick led real-time marketing solutions strategy at Neolane, which was acquired by Adobe in 2013. Patrick also worked in product marketing for CRM solutions at Pegasystems. Prior to that, he spent several years in research and product management at Forrester Research. He has also worked in the travel and financial services industries. Patrick has an MBA from Boston University with a concentration in Marketing.

Tim Watson is an email marketing consultant with 14 years experience in email. Providing strategic support to brands, improving results through an analytical process. From small to large – working with complex broadcast and automation programs delivering up to 90 million emails/month. He’s a public speaker across half a dozen countries and twice elected member of the Direct Marketing Association email council.