By Luís Daniel Rijo — Oct 20, 2019

SpotX Chief Scientist Neal Richter elected as chairman of IAB Tech Lab board of directors

The IAB Technology Laboratory (Tech Lab) this week announced that SpotX Chief Scientist Neal Richter was elected by its board of directors as the new chair. Neal Richter will guide the Tech Lab’s work to evolve privacy-compliant standards for programmatic advertising, simplify video ad delivery, increase supply chain transparency, and reduce fraud.

According to IAB Tech Lab, Richter takes on the board post with 20 years of experience leading software teams and developing effective, data-driven products that build the bottom line. As co-chair of Tech Lab’s OpenRTB Working Group, Richter has helped lead the development of the OpenRTB protocol, which has standardized the process of programmatic real-time bidding, and has brought transparency to digital inventory through the ads.txt and sellers.json standards.

“The industry relies on the Tech Lab to develop solutions to support a trustworthy and efficient marketplace, across platforms and devices. And now, consumers and governments around the world are rightfully demanding greater data privacy and transparency, therefore, our work on tools such as the Transparency and Consent Framework and Data Label have only become more important,” said Dennis Buchheim, Executive Vice President and General Manager, IAB Tech Lab. “As a brilliant engineering leader and a committed contributor to several of our most widely adopted standards, Neal Richter is the perfect person to lead our board of directors during this pivotal time of change in the global digital media ecosystem.”

The IAB Tech Lab board also elected Eric Picard, Pandora’s Vice President of Advertising Product Management, to join its six-member executive committee, which also includes:

Dennis Buchheim, Executive Vice President and General Manager, IAB Tech Lab
Patrick Dolan, President, IAB
Randall Rothenberg, CEO, IAB
Scott Spencer, Director of Product Management, Google

IAB Tech Lab’s global membership of over 750 companies includes a broad range of digital publishers, advertising technology providers, agencies, and others – and membership grew over 18 percent from mid-2018 to mid-2019. Growth of the Tech Lab board of directors has been even more significant, with 30 companies now represented, up from 17 in mid-2018.

In addition to the executive committee cited above, current members of the Tech Lab board of directors are:

Yoav Arnstein, Director of Product Marketing, Facebook
Paige Bilins, Chief Product Officer, Telaria
Daniel Brackett, CTO, Extreme Reach
Andrew Casale, President and CEO, Index Exchange
Joe Cepollina, Partner, Group Program Manager, Microsoft Advertising
Alanna Gombert, Head of Advertising Technology, ConsenSys
Chris Guenther, Senior Vice President, Global Head of Programmatic and GM of News IQ, News Corp
Anneka Gupta, President and Head of Products and Platforms, LiveRamp
Vincent Karachira, Chief Product Officer, Rakuten Marketing
James Kelm, Senior Director of Product Management, Twitter
Mark Kopera, Head of Product, Oracle Data Cloud
Guy Levit, Vice President, Product Management, Verizon Media Group
Ai Matsubara, Video Ads Specialist, Yahoo Japan
Dale Older, Chief Product Officer, Integral Ad Science
Michael Palmer, Global Vice President, Emerging Technologies, GroupM
Todd Parsons, Chief Product Officer, OpenX
Gruia Pitigoi-Aron, Vice President, Product, The Trade Desk
Mike Romoff, Head of Global Agency and Channel Sales, LinkedIn
John Sabella, CTO, PubMatic
Wilfried Schobeiri, CTO, MediaMath
Steve Silvers, General Manager and Vice President of Product, Customer Experience, Neustar Inc.
Kate Sloan, Programmatic Sales Director, Hearst Magazines Digital Media
Ajit Thupil, Senior Vice President, Identity, Tapad
Steve Truxal, Vice President, Product Management, Xandr
Dorothy Tse, Vice President, Product Management, Quantcast
Ken Weiner, Chief Technology Officer, GumGum
Jason White, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Global Programmatic Revenue and Partnerships, CBS Interactive

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