EP230: Nicole Lapin, News Anchor, Author, and Businesswoman

Nicole Lapin is the New York Times and Wall Street Journal Bestselling author of Rich Bitch, Boss Bitch, Becoming Super Woman and Miss Independent. Lapin has been an anchor on CNN, CNBC and Bloomberg. She is the founder of Money News Network, which is the home of her daily show “Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin” that reached #1 on Apple’s business charts.

EP227: Tiffany Xingyu Wang, Chief Marketing Officer, OpenWeb

Tiffany Xingyu Wang is the Chief Marketing Officer of OpenWeb. OpenWeb, which powers over 1,000 publishers and brands, is a comprehensive, Web3-ready solution designed to create trusted spaces for online conversation and build highly engaged communities.

An award-winning social entrepreneur and marketer, she champions trust, safety, and ethics in web3 development. She co-founded and serves as the President of the Oasis Consortium, a think tank that helps advance digital sustainability through ethical standards and technologies, which launched the first-ever User Safety Standards for the metaverse.

EP225: Natalie Bastian, Global Chief Marketing Officer, Teads

As Global Chief Marketing Officer of Teads, Natalie Bastian oversees a team that spearheads public relations, lead generation, digital, social, events, communications, and branding. Bastian’s charter focuses on doubling down the expansion of the brand in the US market and enabling growth across Teads’ portfolio, including new omni-channel products such as its recently launched CTV offering.

EP222: Nicola Mendelsohn CBE, Vice President Global Business Group, Meta

Nicola Mendelsohn CBE is a British advertising executive. Active in the advertising industry since 1992, she was named vice-president for Europe, the Middle East and Africa for Facebook in June 2013. In 2021, Nicola was named Vice President of Meta’s Global Business Group. She is also a non-executive director of Diageo. The Daily Telegraph has called her “the most powerful woman in the British tech industry”. She was named in Campaign magazine’s Power 100 2020 list of top marketers.

EP221: Josh Johnson, Comedian

Josh Johnson is a stand-up, Emmy-nominated writer, performer, and NAACP award-winner from Louisiana by way of Chicago. He is currently a writer on The Daily Show, and is a former writer and performer on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where he made his late-night debut. Johnson is Comedy Central’s ‘most watched comedian ever’ with 40M+ views to date across their platforms.

EP220: Stephanie Dobbs Brown, Chief Marketing Officer, Intercontinental Exchange (ICE)

Stephanie Dobbs Brown leads the marketing team at Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) and the New York Stock Exchange, a Fortune 500 company. ICE is a global data and technology company that designs, builds, and operates digital networks across asset classes, with 9,000+ employees around the world committed to connecting people to opportunity through digital networks.

EP219: Kevin Gentzel, Global Chief Commercial and Growth Officer, Newsweek

This week on Great Minds, we’re pleased to welcome Kevin Gentzel. Kevin is the Global Chief Commercial and Growth Officer of Newsweek. He previously worked at Gannett | USA TODAY NETWORK as a President Marketing Solutions and CRO. Kevin Gentzel attended the University of Florida.

EP218: Michael Nyman, Founder & CEO, Acceleration Community of Companies

Michael Nyman has made a career by being on the leading edge of marketing trends. With his latest venture, Acceleration Community of Companies, he has created another new go to market strategy.

With Acceleration, Nyman, the former long-time PMK*BNC Co-Chairman & CEO, has developed a new business approach with a series of strategic and complementary acquisitions and build outs aimed at providing a unique collective of specialized agencies, designed to help clients move quickly and efficiently with their branding, marketing and media decisions.

EP217: Harshit Jain, Marketer, Storyteller, Doctor

A healthcare innovator, Harshit Jain, MD has been driving health transformation across the globe, delivering life changing, creative and sustainable solutions since his days as a Healthcare Professional. An MD from Chicago’s Northwestern University, Harshit practiced Medicine for a few years, after which he decided to cut his teeth at big advertising agencies, including McCann, where he held a series of positions including Country Head, Marketing Director & Innovation Lead in Asia, Europe and America. In the 13+ years of his professional journey, Harshit has skillfully (and successfully) weaved together his medicine domain expertise and marketing acumen, to grace the world with some outside-the-box campaigns in the healthcare space. Making the best use of advertising media, Harshit has addressed some of the biggest health challenges over the course of his career– Immunization, Vitamin D deficiency, Diabetes, etc., by using data creatively and innovatively. For his pathbreaking work, he has been conferred with eminent industry awards and accolades.

EP216: Courtney Rose, VP of Services Sector, Google

Joining Google in 2007, Courtney leads a team of ad industry experts across Google’s Services sector, including higher education, apps, B2B tech companies, home services, and performance advertisers. Her team is focused on maximizing client business outcomes and modernizing marketing across creative, data & measurement.

EP208: Julia Boorstin, Journalist (CNBC) and Author

Longtime friend of Advertising Week, Julia Boorstin, joins the show to discuss her career, from her early inspirations to her present career as at CNBC as Senior Media and Technology Correspondent, and her work with CNBC’s Disruptor 50.

Be sure to check out Julia’s new book, When Women Lead, from Simon & Schuster’s Avid Reader Press. Available now!

EP207: Paul Caine, President, IMG Events and On Location

Paul Caine is President of IMG Events and On Location, the premier experiences leader and official partner of the NFL, acquired by sports and entertainment leader Endeavor in 2020.

Through partnerships with more than 150 rights holders, including the NFL, NCAA, PGA of America and USTA, and relationships with key festivals, musical artists and other creators, On Location provides official and exclusive access for corporate clients and fans to memorable experiences at marquee events.

Before joining Endeavor and On Location, Caine amassed an extensive track record building, operating, transforming and investing in small- and large-scale public and private businesses. He most recently served as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) of Bloomberg, as Chief Executive Officer of Westwood One and in numerous roles at Time Inc. over 23 years, including Executive Vice President, CRO and Group President. He is also the Founder of PC Ventures (an investment and advisory company), Chairman of the Board of Engine Group, where he also served as Interim CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Telaria (formerly Tremor Video), where he also served as Interim CEO.

In addition to his executive positions, Caine has held various industry leadership roles, including serving on the boards of the IAB (Interactive Advertising Bureau), RAB (Radio Advertising Bureau) and MPA (Association of Magazine Media), as well as retail franchising company Nexcen Brands.

Caine’s philanthropic involvement includes serving on the board of the John A. ReisenbachFoundation and the Indiana University Media School Dean Advisory Board and previously as Chairman of MusicCares (National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences). Caine and his wife Pam are also the founders of Griffin Cares.

Caine lives in Tenafly, NJ, with his wife and three children.