Advisory Board

The Brand Safety Institute's Board of Advisors helps direct BSI's efforts and design the brand safety curriculum for BSI's accreditation program for corporate executives. The Board includes senior executives focusing on brand safety and related issues from top trade associations – including the 4A's, IAB UK, ISBA, and TAG – and companies – including Bank of America, Zefr, Oracle Advertising, GroupM, NBCUniversal, and Spotify.

"If you want to establish a rigorous standard for brand safety knowledge and expertise, you need to consult with the industry leaders who have set the bar on those issues," said Neal Thurman, co-founder of BSI. "Working together, we can give brand safety executives the information and tools they need to protect their brands – and our ecosystem – from the growing range of brand safety threats."

The Board chair is Rachel Nyswander Thomas, Chief Operating Officer at the Trustworthy Accountability Group.

Joe Barone

Managing Partner, Digital Ad Operations
GroupM North America

Rob Beeler

Founder & CEO
Beeler.Tech

Alisa Bergman

VP & Chief Privacy Officer
Adobe

Jason Bier

Chief Privacy Officer and Legal Counsel
ALC

William Bock

VP, Group Partner, Global Brand Safety
UM Worldwide

Dave Byrne

Director, Global Advertising Brand Safety
Spotify

Steve Chester

Director of Media
ISBA

Scott Cunningham

Founder
Cunningham.Tech

Christine Desrosiers

Director of Product Management
Boltive

Abrahim Farraj

Senior Director, Brand Safety
NBCUniversal

Chris Fehrmann

Vice President, Digital Products
TEGNA, Inc.

Greg Garunov

EVP, Strategic Development
Sightly

Rachel Glasser

Chief Privacy Officer
Magnite

Marc Goldberg

Method Media Intelligence

Chris Hallenbeck

Senior Director, Marketplace Quality
OpenX

Stacey Hultgren

Senior Manager, Ad Quality Measurement
Pandora

Marla Kaplowitz

President, CEO
4A's

Ashwini Karandikar

EVP Media, Technology, Data
4A's

Jessica King

Senior Product Manager
Unruly

Tina Lakhani

Head of Tech
IAB UK

Sam Mansour

Sr. Principal Product Manager
Oracle Advertising

Jon Morra

Chief Product & Data Officer
Zefr

Mazen Mroueh

Global Head of Performance Marketing
BORZO

David Murnick

formerly EVP, Digital Operations and Technology Partnerships
Dentsu Aegis Group

John Murphy

Chief Quality Officer
Confiant

Richard Murphy

EVP
BPA Worldwide

 

Amanda Pallach

Manager, Ecosystem Partnerships
InMobi

Dan Realson

Senior Vice President, Digital Ad Sales and Business Development
Fox News

Terri Schriver

SVP, Enterprise Media
Bank of America

Amit Shetty

VP Product
Pixalate

Jason DaWayne Smith

President, Diversified Investments
Spark Foundry

Rachel Nyswander Thomas

Chief Operating Officer
Trustworthy Accountability Group

Sal Tripi

AVP, Digital Operations & Compliance
Publishers Clearing House

Oliver von Wersch

Partner/ Member of the Board
nxt statista

Eric Warburton

VP, Ad Operations
Horizon Media