Extracts from the Report

• Jackie Hunter, "CE Clinical and Strategic Partnerships" at Benevolent AI enjoys cooking and gardening.
• Benevolent AI saw its valuation halve in 2019.
• Richard Jones was appointed as Cheetah Digital's first CMO in November 2019.
• Cheetah Digital announced that it will be sponsoring and presenting at eTail Palm Springs.
• Bombora promoted sustainable marketing at the SiriusDecisions Summit 2019 (May 2019).
• Bombora was ranked 997 in Inc. 5000's 2019 list.

• Founder and CEO, Stephen Bailey, is an alumnus of Yale Law School and Emory University.
• Chief Commerical Officer, Mark Ozer, is fluent in English, Spanish, and French and multi-lingual negotiations are one of his skills.
• Chief Product Officer, Julie Alexander, has been a Fellow of the Truman Security Project for the last 16 years and counting.
• Michael Pickrum, ExecOnline's Chief Financial Officer is a Member of the Meridian Board of Trustees.

• ExecOnline plans on hosting its ExeConnect in October 2020, their well-known executive leadership conference.
• Chicago's renowned Booth School of Business is a recent addition to the ExecOnline business partnerships.
• ExecOnline has created and curated numerous business resources for uncertainty as the economy reacts to COVID-19.
•  The Washington Post recognized ExecOnline in 2019 for providing high quality education to middle-managers who wouldn't otherwise have access.

• The annual Impact Awards were hosted by ExecOnline in November 2019.
• ExeConnect was hosted in October 2019 to educate over 250 business leaders in L&D (Leadership and Development).
• ExecOnline announced their 2020 Ambassador Program, furthering their L&D mentorship role.

• Chief Financial Officer Michael Pickrum joined ExecOnline in April 2019.

• Sean O'Connor, INTL FCStone's CEO, President and Director, was educated in South Africa.
• Trish Harrod, the Chief Risk Officer, enjoys spending time with her family.
• INTL FCStone's Secretary and Deputy General Counsel, David Bolte, holds his Bar Membership with the Iowa State Bar Association.
• Head of Securities, Charles Lyon, lives in Winer Park, FL and holds a Bachelor's degree from Rollins University.

• On March 17, 2020, INTL FCStone, Inc. began trading as an active liquidity provider on Bloomberg's FXGO platform.
• The same day, INTL FCStone, Inc. appointed Drew Doscher as their Head of Distressed Debt.
• On June 24, 2020, INTL FCStone, Inc. announced the opening of an IT Development Services firm in Bangalore India.
• INTL FCStone, Inc. opened exchange traded financial products in Canada on June 18, 2019.

• INTL FCStone, Inc. are hosting food and energy risk management webinars to learn how companies can best handle risk during uncertain times.
• Within the last year, INTL FCStone, Inc. acquired companies Tellimer, IFCM Commodities, Fillmore Advisors, Gain Capital Holdings, United Overseas Bank Bullion and Futures Limited, and GIROXX.
• The Precious Metals division of INTL FCStone, Inc. released its limited edition pure silver Canadian bullion coin on February 24, 2020.

• There have been no C-Suite changes in the past 12 months at INTL FCStone, Inc.

•  Rene Chen, Managing Director, enjoys photography and working with cold glass as an art form.
• Global Chief Operating Officer Tosh Hall enjoys films by Darren Aronofsky and Danny Boyle.
• Creative Director JB Hartford is a Pratt alumna.
• Guy Lambert, Global Chief Executive Officer, coaches and mentors underprivileged youth.
• North American CEO Sara Hyman is happy to be considered to be outspoken.

•  The One Club for Creativity shortlisted JKR for 15 OneShow awards for 2020. In 2019, JKR received five awards from The One Club.
• JKR worked with client Budweiser to create a reversible logo "selfie Bud" for Super Bowl ad release, a small part of their successful Budweiser ad campaign overhaul.
• Tosh Hall was asked to chair the 99th annual ADC Awards in Brand/Communication Design.
• Jones Knowles Ritchie spearheaded Burger King's sustainability campaign with their marketing and branding ads.

• As part of its award-winning ad campaign for Dunkin' Donuts, Jones Knowles Ritchie helped design Dunkin' Donuts sold-out pop-up holiday merchandise shop.

• The 2019 D&AD awards listed Jones Knowles Ritchie as the Best Design Agency of the Year.
• Jones Knowles Ritchie also won Dieline Awards for Studio of the Year in 2019.

• Jones Knowles Ritchie announced on November 20, 2019 that effective immediately, Tosh Hall will be JKR's new global chief creative officer; James Nixon will become CEO of Europe and global head of ventures; and, Jonny Spindler will take the role of managing director of London.

Summary of Findings

•  Eliot Horowitz and Dwight Merriman are co-founders of MongoDB; both enjoy writing blogs.

•  MongoDB appointed the new Chief Revenue Officer and Chief Information Security Officer in February and March 2019. Additionally, the company appointed three Board of Directors over the past 12 months.
• In 2019, Adstream launched a new project to reduce global advertising and marketing inefficiencies by $80 billion.

•  Helayna Springate joined Adstream as the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) in July 2019.
•  Geoff Crawshaw is the CTO at Ambra Health and has interests in aviation while Ed Marshall is the CPO for the company, and he is a fan of the Boston sports team and Liverpool Football Club.
• In 2019, Ambra Health partnered with Perspectum, RAPID, and Box.

Anaqua Inc.

Blink Media, Inc.

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Research Strategy

Center for Talent Innovation (CTI)

• The website for Talent Innovation was not functioning on the day of this research. However, the company's LinkedIn profile shows the company is still active. Therefore, information for the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI) was derived from sources such as LinkedIn, rather than the company's website.
• According to LinkedIn, Patricia Fili-Krushel is the CEO. Two executive vice presidents are listed: Julia Taylor Kennedy and Jason Zahorchak.
• Recent news and updates addressed management changes, diversity, and surviving in a pandemic.
• Events and announcements addressed virtual learning events and awards for partners.

GSD/Plative

• C-Suite members identified included Naushad Parpia, CEO, and Greg DelGenio, CRO.
• Recent news and updates addressed business support during the pandemic, the impact of the pandemic, reasons to work for Plative, and analyzing digital products.
• Events and announcements addressed awards given to employees, partnered nonprofit projects, and recent re-branding.

Heady

• Rahul Khosla, Founder and CEO, is the only C-Suite member listed on Heady's website.
• Recent news and updates involved success of clients, technology innovation, and talent needs.
• Recent events and announcements included partnering for cause-related events, conference presentations, and ways the company plans to help during the pandemic.

Salt

• CEO APAC Shaun Barratt enjoys cooking and is a professionally trained chef.
• According to Shaun Barratt's website, he is also a writer, carpenter, and an artist.
• According to CEO Jacqui Barratt’s Twitter page, she loves to follow sports.
• According to CEO Elliot Dell’s Facebook page, he loves to spend time outdoors with his children.
• Some major news from Salt was that it acquired digital recruitment agency Recruit Digital in February 2020 to expand its services to South Africa and in September 2019, it acquired APAC-based firm Xpand to continue increasing its “global talent services.”
• Some major events from Salt was that it was recognized in the London Stock Exchange Group’s sixth edition of “1000 Companies to Inspire Britain report” and in October 2019, it was nominated for two awards at TIARA Awards 2019.

Thirty Madison

• According to co-founder Steven Gutentag's Facebook page, he enjoys traveling.
• Gutentag also enjoys the show Curb Your Enthusiasm.
• According to co-founder Demetri Karagas' Facebook page, he enjoys watching the San Antonio Spurs, Dallas Cowboys, and Svendborg Rabbits.
•  Karagas' also enjoys music by The Score and Bob Sinclar.
• Some major news from Thirty Madison was that in September 2019, it launched its third brand, Evens, which focuses on helping people who suffer from acid reflux while in February 2020, its brand Cove launched a device to manage migraines.
• Some major events from Thirty Madison was that it was added to Business Insider’s "Top 15 DTC Brands" in August 2019 and GQ Magazine named its brand Keeps as one of the best Grooming Subscription Boxes for Men.

Tremor Video

• According to Lior Vainshel’s Facebook page, he enjoys watching the Maccabi Tel Aviv Basketball.

• According to Anthony Flaccavento’s Facebook page, he enjoys football.

• Some major news from Tremor Video was that it acquired News Corp’s Unruly, which is a video marketplace in January 2020 while in September 2019, it brought its “video advertising platform” to LG smart TVs.
• Some major announcements from Tremor Video was that it expanded AI and machine-learning technology in its demand-side platform in September 2019 while in May 2019, it launched its Creative Studio, which creates innovative video solutions for brands.
• In May 2020, Tremor Video’s parent company — Tremor International — appointed Sagi Niri as chief financial officer and Yaniv Carmi as chief operating officer.

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Taptica

•  Rivi Bloch, the CEO at Taptica Performance Division, is passionate about gaming/video games. She is also a member of Global Video Games and Esports.

• In June 2019, Taptica International was rebranded to Tremor International and became the parent company of Tremor Video, RhythmOne, and Taptica.

• In April 2019, Taptica acquired RhythmOne (formerly known as Blinkx) for $176 million. Taptica owned 50.1% of the group while RhythmOne owned the remaining 49.9%.

• Taptica's CFO and Director Yaniv Carmi, became the company's COO and Director.

AxiomSL

• Helen Rosen, AxiomSL's Chief Strategy Officer, is also inclined in social services. She was a volunteer in Hire Heroes USA.

• In September 2019, AxiomSL completed RegCloud's Service Organization Control or SOC 2 Type II audit which confirms the effectiveness of the company's internal controls for data protection and compliance.

• In October 2019, AxiomSL announced its partnership with Genpact to help financial firms in the implementation of IntegratedModelView in AxiomSL's platform.

• Recently this month, AxiomSL introduced its regime agnostic offering for Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR) to provide its "counterparties with a reliable process for adhering to international reporting obligations".

• In 2019, David Weber was named as AxiomSL's new CFO and COO, replacing Eyal Amsalem.

Cheddar, Inc.

• At a very young age of 15, Jon Steinberg, Cheddar's founder and CEO, showed interest in working for Disney because of his skills in computer programming. He is also interested in economics and human behavior.

• In May 2019, Altice USA bought Cheddar for $200 million and continued being an online news channel designed for millennials.

• In August 2019, Cheddar's channel focused on education called CheddarK-12 added around 50 original and short-form videos. It became available to Techbook and Discovery Education Experience users.

•  Daniel Schneider was previously the Vice President for Business Development at Cheddar, left the company, and was then hired by Overtime in the second half of 2019.

Selected Findings

• In October 2019, Datto hosted a large European conference for managed service providers.
• On February 25, 2020, Datto formed a partnership with Intel to allow clients greater control of their remote monitoring and management (RMM).
• In November 2019, Datto was honored as the 2019 CRN Tech Innovator Award winner.
• In May 2019, Guidepoint expanded its service offering by launching Insights.
• In June 2019, Guidepoint began its expansion plans in the Middle East by opening an office in Dubai.

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Interactive Brokers Group

• Thomas Frank, being a physicist, occasionally attends physics lectures and events at MIT.
• IBG is rated #1 by Barron’s in its 25th annual ranking of The Best Online Brokers.
• IBG launched IBKR Lite.

MobileFuse

• Kenneth Harlan filed a patent, “System and Method for Location-Based Advertisement Delivery Verification,” on February 26, 2018.
• MobileFuse announced that it would expand to Digital Out Of Home (DOOH) networks.
• CEO Ken Harlan also talked about the future of mobile advertising via TechBytes.

Network To Code

• Jason Edelman, founder, and CTO, is an author, having co-written O'Reilly's Network Programmability & Automation.
• John Marchese, the CEO, is featured by CRN as one of the Faces Of The 2019 Next Gen 250.
• The company announced that its Network Automation Summit will be returning to Interop 2020.

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News America Marketing

Parsec Media

Quotient Technology

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Selected Findings

• In January 2020, Ruder Finn appointed Christie Anbar as their Global Healthcare Lead.
• Social Studies was named number twelve on AdWeek's list of fastest growing agencies this year.
• SoftwareONE had an initial IPO on the SIX Swiss Exchange last summer.

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Key Findings

• The Sill switched to compostable shipping materials in September 2019 to reduce waste as it was previously using bubble wrap to ship products.
• Tradeweb announced integration with Investortools to drive electronic trading in municipal bonds in October 2019.
• Troops surpassed 10,000 Users and saw a 178% Year-on-Year Growth in the past year.

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Selected Findings

• The interests of Dr. Roshini Raj, the co-founder of TULA, include exercising and relaxing at beaches.
• Dan Reich, the co-founder and president of TULA, enjoys hip hop & music, traveling, and volunteering for the National Ski Patrol.
• The interests of Maurice Mitchell, the national director of the Working Families Party, includes performing in political punk-rock bands and meditating.
• Lindsay Farrell, the executive director of the Connecticut Working Families Party, include graphic designing and listening to music.
• David Steinberg, the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Zeta Global, enjoys reading A Gentleman in Moscow.

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