Brand Response Council
Forging the future of performance marketing.
The PDMI's Brand Response Council brings together media outlets, media agencies, and the clients both serve to build more powerful consensus and relationships across various mediums. The council serves as a visionary group, looking ahead to find the brightest marketers and marketing ideas working in the evolving media marketplace.
Council Members
Doug Bognar
ShopLC Global Inc.
Director, Affiliate Relations and Media
317-627-4191
Doug Bognar is director, affiliate relations and media, ShopLC Global Inc. He has spent virtually his entire 30-year career in the direct-to-consumer industry. He has been a media director/senior manager at the agency level, as well as having held director-level sales positions with both rep firms and networks. Bognar has extensive experience developing direct-to-consumer shopping networks and worked for several years building aggregated programmatic platforms. His current role at ShopLC has him navigating the chaotic world of OTT and trying to figure out where cord-cutters and cord-nevers spend their time.
Chris Foster
Modern Postcard
Vice President, New Business
760-535-8904
Chris Foster is vice president, new business at Modern Postcard, a national direct marketing company that services business of all sizes and in all markets. As a marketing and branding executive, he understands how to help any-sized business better position and brand themselves and tell their most authentic story to engage their audience. In addition to leading the creation and execution of new business strategies at Modern, he has taught brand strategy at UCSD Extension since 2009. Chris is a contributing author for TargetMarketing Magazine and NonProfitPro and has presented at numerous professional conferences nationally.
Michaela Giovengo
Hulu
Vice President of Performance Marketing
847-924-0072
Michaela Giovengo is the vice president of performance marketing at Hulu, where she is responsible for leading the team focused on driving Hulu’s direct-to-consumer brand advertising revenue. Since joining Hulu in 2012, Giovengo has been instrumental in the development and growth of the Hulu performance marketing unit, which has tripled in size and has resulted in expansive revenue growth year-over-year. Prior to joining Hulu, she spent more than six years at NBCUniversal as an account executive across a number of the network properties, including USA, Oxygen, Bravo, and SyFy.
Jennifer Karlson
ViacomCBS
Vice President, Ad Sales
212-729-3939
Jennifer Karlson co-leads the direct response sales team at ViacomCBS. She has been a part of that group for 20-plus years and is lucky enough to have sold across all 18 networks. She is responsible for growing the direct-to-consumer business across all linear and digital platforms.
Dan Kelly
Dish Media
General Manager
310-765-5221
Dan Kelly oversees general market and direct response sales efforts for our Central and West Coast based sales teams. He is charged with leveraging DISH Media’s entire suite of advertising offerings across DISH’s satellite and Sling TV properties. His teams are dedicated to elevating the brands’ presence at a market level, while simultaneously providing the latest advanced ad solutions to their clients. In his spare time, Kelly is an avid skier and youth sports coach. He earned a B.S. in marketing from Pennsylvania State University, and lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Penny, and their three children.
Ella Leung
The Walt Disney Co.
Sales Manager, Performance Advertising
646-701-4306
Ella Leung is the sales manager of the performance advertising sales team at the Walt Disney Co. Leung joined ESPN in 2005. She negotiated pricing, advertising placement, content, and event concepts for ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNews, ESPN Classic, ESPNU, SEC, ACC, and ESPN Deportes. In her current role, she is responsible for the day-to-day management of the performance advertising sales team on ESPN, ABC, Disney, Freeform, FX, and National Geographic networks. Prior to joining Disney, she spent three years at WorldLink. Leung holds a B.A. in communications and psychology from New York University and resides in Queens with her husband and two young children.
Teddy Pritikin
Xandr
Vice President, Direct Response and Long-Form
212-205-0507
Teddy Pritikin is vice president of direct response for Xandr, AT&T’s advertising and analytics company. In this role, he oversees all short-form and long-form revenue for direct response across linear, digital, and addressable TV. Prior, he worked on the direct response sales business for DirecTV for seven years, after serving as director of sales for health and entertainment lifestyle programmer Z Living. Prior to that, he was an account executive at GSN. Pritikin holds a B.S. in accounting from Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pa. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and two daughters.
Sean Robertson
Dish Media
Director, Partnerships
917-305-4436
Sean Robertson is director, partnerships for Dish Media. He oversees sales partnerships in his role focusing on connecting new/non-traditional agencies and media technology to the Dish and Sling platforms to drive demand and reduce friction in the planning/buying process. Robertson joined Dish Media Sales in 2011 and has served on various teams across the organization including performance media, digital advertising, programmatic media, and addressable advertising. He earned his M.B.A. at Brown University and IE Business School. He also holds a B.S. in journalism with a focus in advertising from West Virginia University. Robertson lives in New Jersey with his wife Candice and sons Rafael and Brendan.
Mark Sullivan
ViacomCBS
Vice President, Ad Sales
212-846-8235
Mark Sullivan has been with ViacomCBS for 15 years and is responsible for co-managing a team of 13 sales executives across 17 networks and digital platforms. Top networks and digital platforms include Nickelodeon, MTV, Paramount Network, and Comedy Central. Sullivan has helped lead the team into the digital video side of the direct response business, and the Viacom team delivered 125-percent year-over-year (YOY) revenue growth in 2019. He lives in Hoboken, N.J. with his wife and three sons.
Members of the Brand Response Council are regular contributors to PDMI publications and at PDMI events.
The Future Is the Past Is the Future
By Thomas Haire
The buzzwords and evolving media options have changed, but targeting, attribution, and sales are still the name of the game. Yep, the future of media looks an awful lot like the past.
"Best Experience, Best Results"
By Thomas Haire
From upper-funnel awareness to lower-funnel results, Michaela Giovengo and Asaf Davidov say that Hulu’s broad array of advertising opportunities are helping DTC brands cross the digital-to-TV bridge.
Ad Outlet Directory
Contact and demographic information from more than 120 TV channels, streaming outlets, podcast networks, and more.
Ella Leung led a powerful panel discussion about what's next for linear TV at PDMI West 2019 in San Diego. PDMI members can listen to audio of this educational session (and many others) through the PDMI Member Portal.
Michaela Giovengo and Dan Kelly
led a powerful panel discussion about The Future Is the Past Is the Future at PDMI West 2019 in San Diego. PDMI members can listen to audio of this educational session (and many others) through the PDMI Member Portal.
Dan Kelly led a powerful panel discussion about Not Your Father's Linear at PDMI East 2019 in Miami. PDMI members can listen to audio of this educational session (and many others) through the PDMI Member Portal.
Michaela Giovengo and Teddy Pritkin led a powerful panel discussion about Staying a Step Ahead at PDMI East 2019 in Miami. PDMI members can listen to audio of this educational session (and many others) through the PDMI Member Portal.