Privacy Enhancing Technologies Evolution Series (PETs)

Devon is the Vice President, Product Marketing at InfoSum. Joining at the start of 2022, Devon is responsible for bringing next-generation data collaboration and data clean room solutions to market that provide superior connectivity, privacy, and security. 

Devon has more than 14 years of experience helping the world’s top brands, agencies, publishers, platforms, and walled gardens build better data-driven strategies. Prior to InfoSum, Devon was the Senior Director of  Product Marketing at Neustar, a TransUnion company, leading go-to-market efforts across their Marketing Solutions business including identity resolution, data management, activation, measurement, and privacy/cookieless solutions.

Eddie Dingels is Chief Technology Officer at GroundTruth, leading technology, product, data science, and WeatherBug business initiatives. Throughout his career, Eddie has worked in multiple product and technology roles, supporting corporate and production infrastructure, as well as leading cloud and technology initiatives.

Before being named CTO, Eddie was General Manager of WeatherBug, overseeing business strategy, technology, and product development, and overall operations for WeatherBug. 

In 2016, WeatherBug became the first technology acquisition by GroundTruth. Over the course of his career, Eddie accelerated company revenue and profitability while innovating the company’s product and technology footprint.

Anthony Katsur is a media technology veteran with more than twenty-five years of executive leadership and technical experience at innovative technology companies in the digital media industry.

Most recently, Anthony was SVP, Strategy, Operations and Corporate Development at Nexstar Media Group, Inc., the largest local broadcaster in the United States. Anthony was responsible for overseeing strategy, technology platforms and corporate development across Nexstar’s portfolio of digital assets.

Prior to Nexstar, Anthony served as President of Sonobi, where he implemented their product and go to market strategy around people-based marketing. Anthony recruited, and led highly effective teams while driving strategic partnerships with leading media companies, agencies and brands.

Prior to Sonobi, Anthony held global leadership roles at Rubicon Project as EVP of Business Operations and General Manager of Buyer Cloud. He also held global executive roles at MediaMath and Maxifier, where he served as CEO. Earlier in his career, he joined DoubleClick via the acquisition of NetGravity where he lead multiple engineering divisions and also fulfilled several product leadership and general management roles.

Anthony is an active participant at industry conferences, speaking about the latest ends in advertising at the National Association of Broadcasters, AdAge’s Brand Summit, Advertising Week, Broadcasting & Cable, AdMonsters and GABBCON. He has been quoted on industry trends and provided thought leadership in The Wall Street Journal, AdAge, Adweek, AdExchanger, MediaPost, Econsultancy and Digiday, among others.

Dr. Andrei Lapets is a contributor to IAB Tech Lab PETs initiatives and an entrepreneur focused on bringing PETs to market. He also serves as a board member and chairs the Technical Committee for the MPC Alliance, a consortium of over 50 companies offering MPC-enabled products and services, and is a member of the WFA Halo Industry Technical Advisory Group.

Andrei was formerly Associate Professor of the Practice in Computer Science at Boston University, where he also served as Director of Research Development at the Hariri Institute for Computing and Director of the Software and Application Innovation Lab. He has led and co-led multiple research efforts supported by sponsors such as the National Science Foundation and IARPA that involved the development, production deployment, and evaluation of PETs, with a focus on usability and web-based delivery. Andrei has over 15 years of industry experience consulting both large organizations and small start-ups focused on bringing new technologies to market. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Boston University and S.M. and A.B. degrees in computer science and mathematics from Harvard University.

Bosko is a seasoned technology entrepreneur who has spent the last two decades developing advertising and marketing technology products and leading teams. He co-founded Optable in May 2020 in order to help innovative companies manage customer data.

Bosko started his career as a systems developer in the telecommunications industry, and spent several years as an active contributor of open-source operating system and networking software. Bosko was also co-founder and CTO of AdGear; an adtech company acquired by Samsung Electronics in 2016. He subsequently led global teams of product managers and engineers at Samsung Advertising through several years of triple digit revenue growth.

He lives in Montreal, Canada with his wife and three young girls and is a Computer Engineering alumnus of McGill University.

Edik is the General Manager of Privacy Cloud at AppsFlyer. The AppsFlyer Privacy Cloud is an ecosystem collaboration and innovation environment which preserves end-user privacy. From the data infrastructure, through Data Clean Rooms, leveraging Privacy Enabling Technologies, to a marketplace where app developers, publishers, and tech partners can all collaborate to create a better, safer digital experience for all of us.

The first part of his career, Edik spent in an elite IDF intelligence unit in software development roles. Later he transitioned into product management and held various senior and executive positions in companies from very small to very big, such as Conduit and Wochit.
Prior to joining AppsFlyer at the beginning of 2021, Edik was Director, AutoCAD Mobile, and the Autodesk Tel Aviv site lead, leading the transition of the heavy, 35-year-old desktop AutoCAD to be fully available on mobile devices.

Edik holds a Global MBA from the Arison School of Business at the IDC Herzliya and a B.Sc. from the Tel Aviv University in Math and Computer Science. He now runs the Venture Creation and Product Innovation program as part of the GMBA.
He is based in Tel Aviv, a proud father to a 5-year-old daughter, and in his free time, Edik is a professional trivia player and an avid sports fan, ranging in all kinds of sports from F1 to baseball.

Sanjay Saravanan is a Software Engineer at Meta, based in Menlo Park, CA. He leads engineering and product initiatives at Meta that are in the intersection of ads, data, and privacy.

Shailley brings several years of product management experience in digital advertising at Yahoo and Say Media building products for mobile advertising, ad operations, targeting solutions, and integrating data platforms. Shailley has supported and worked with multiple IAB initiatives in the past, namely MRAID and Mobile Rising Stars specifications. At Yahoo, he worked on creating innovative ad experiences for mobile and tablet platforms as well as native formats. Shailley has a diverse background as a product leader, consultant, and entrepreneur building and sustaining high performing teams at both large organizations as well as venture funded startups like Paypal, Yahoo, Say Media, Serus, Accenture, and PwC. Shailley has an MBA and Chemical engineering degrees.

Matt is responsible for executing Neustar’s strategy for its federated machine learning Clean Room product. His team is focused on enabling collaboration for measurement, segmentation, and identity use cases in a privacy-preserving way. Matt has a background in data engineering and has 10+ years of product management experience working on attribution, fraud, and data privacy solutions.