Navigating the Divide: Privacy Sandbox Fit-Gap Analysis and Industry Solutions

Paul is a seasoned ad tech professional with over 13 years of experience, initially joining News Corp to lead a small team before swiftly ascending to head the Ad Tech department. Now responsible for overseeing ad tech operations across News Corp Australia’s digital properties and leading their involvement in News Corps global ad tech strategy, he is dedicated to showcasing the critical role of ad tech in driving commercial value for publishers and advocates for empowering publisher ad tech teams. Beyond his professional endeavors, Paul is passionate about exploring leadership concepts and cultivating a positive and inclusive company culture. He is also an active member of the IAB Australia community, with a long tenure on the Standards and Guidelines Council, including time as Council Chair, before moving on to the Executive Technology Council, where he continues to drive efforts to foster industry collaboration.

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.