Webinar: The Value of Quality Environments

Karen is Senior Director of Commercial Innovation at The Telegraph, leading commercial products, measurement and first-party data innovations to support the company’s subscriber first strategy. She has worked previously at companies including Global, DMGT, Innovid, DC Thomson and Centaur. She is also a trustee board director of charity Clic Sargent.

Lauren has a wealth of experience across the digital industry. She has run sales and strategy across all major agency groups (WPP, Omnicom, Publicis) and ran the GroupM business at Weve, a joint venture from the leading Telcos; O2, EE and Vodafone. Lauren joined MailOnline initially to focus on client strategy, before moving to focus on maximising commercial opportunities across their digital platforms and rich data assets. Lauren is responsible for product development and commercial strategy across all channels, including video, programmatic and the data suite, as well as identifying additional opportunities for diversification and opportunities driven by on boarding new partners, technologies or market innovation. Lauren is passionate about new technology and how it can be harnessed for businesses of all sizes.

Mat Smith is Operations Director (Digital Media) at GroupM UK, the world’s leading investment group. Mat began his career in 2011 at one of the world’s largest newspaper brands. Over his five and a half years there he worked across many different aspects of the programmatic landscape. From trading campaigns across the open exchange, to helping build the programmatic infrastructure for one of the most recognised publications in market. Now at GroupM UK, Mat’s role sees him manage the operational side of GroupM Premium Supply, a marketplace built to provide GroupM agencies and clients with access to the best inventory in market. With a key focus on building a closer relationship with the media providers and delivering the best outcomes for his clients.