2025 IAB Tech Lab Council Meeting

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.

Director, Advertising Science, Amazon

Dr. Neal Richter has worked in the software industry since 1996 and since 1999 focused on data science, machine learning, and AI applications. He is currently Director, Advertising Science for Amazon DSP. He oversees a team of data scientists and engineers focused on RTB bidding algorithms and systems across display, mobile, audio, and video. Prior roles include Chief Scientist at SpotX, a streaming CTV ad platform; Chief Technical Officer at Rakuten Marketing; and CTO and Chief Scientist at the Rubicon Project.

Within Tech Lab, Neal has served on the Board going back to the initial incarnation as the IAB Ad Technology Advisory Council. He has been a contributor to the development of the OpenRTB protocol, the deal_id, OpenRTB Native, ads.txt, ads.cert, sellers.json, and other associated standards.

Neal grew up in a log cabin in a rural area of Montana and holds a PhD in Computer Science from Montana State University.

When not sifting through data or designing high-scale systems and learning algorithms, Neal enjoys fly fishing, skiing, and living in the Rockies in Salt Lake City Utah with his wife, four teenagers, and an extremely furry dog.

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.

Hillary Slattery is the Sr. Director of Product Management and stewards Tech Lab’s foundational specifications including but not limited to OpenRTB, OpenDirect, Native Ads API, Ads.txt, and all of Tech Lab’s Taxonomies. 

She got her start with the IAB Tech Lab as a working group participant via her role at GroupM as the Assoc. Director of Product Management on the Global Investment Systems team. She is a solution oriented process monster with varied experience on both the buy and sell side of the industry. She’s also a dad joke aficionado, avid reader, podcast junky, and boasts a 1,500+ day streak on Duolingo.