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Karen is the Chief Commercial Officer at The Telegraph, a leading news brand in the UK. She joined The Telegraph in 2017 as the Director of Digital Sales and Innovation, and since then has been responsible for driving revenue growth based on The Telegraph’s valuable subscriber audience, commercial product development, and strategic digital transformation across the organisation.

With over 25 years of experience in the media industry, Karen has a proven track record of delivering ambitious commercial growth, creative solutions, and strategic partnerships for premium publishers, digital platforms, and video networks. She is passionate about creating engaging and valuable experiences for audiences and advertisers, and leveraging data and technology to enhance performance and insights.

Karen is also a Board Trustee at Young Lives vs Cancer, a charity that supports children and young people with cancer and their families, where she contributes to their digital strategy and safeguarding committee.

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.

Hill is a dad joke aficionado, avid reader, podcast junky, and boasts a 995-day streak on Duolingo. She comes to Tech Lab from Epsilon where she was the product lead for their partnership with The Trade Desk and the Disclosed offering. She got her start with the IAB TechLab in the Distributed Ledger working group via her role at GroupM as the Assoc. Director of Product Management on the Global Investment Systems team. She has varied experience on both the buy and sell side of the industry and enjoys nerding out about all things ad tech.