We are delighted to announce another eleven speakers for ATS Sydney on March 13. The event is fast approaching and preparations are in full-swing. The addition of the following new speakers promises to make this perhaps the best ATS yet, and a superb inaugural event in Australia. Read below for more about our new speakers and check out the event page for full bios, an updated agenda and how to book tickets.

That new ATS Sydney speaker list in full...

Stuart Spiteri, Chief Operating Officer, News Digital Media

Stuart Spiteri joined News Digital Media in December 2011 from Google’s Singapore office, where he was head of platforms across the Japan and Asia-Pacific region. In addition to leading the growth and direction of News Digital Media’s portfolio of standalone businesses, Spiteri works closely with News Limited’s divisional leadership teams to develop and grow News’ newspaper and magazine websites, tablet applications and mobile sites.

Phillip Cowlishaw, Performance Media Director at Ikon Communications

Phil Cowlishaw joined Ikon Communications in 2010 to build Ikon’s strategic solution for all performance based media. Prior to joining Ikon, Cowlishaw spent a number of years driving the media offering for one of the UK’s leading independent full-service digital agency Blue Barracuda. Cowlishaw has been responsible for delivering Performance Media campaigns for a number of clients including: Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Vodafone, Yum Brands, British Airport Authority, Nectar Loyalty and ITV.

Carolyn Bollaci, Country Manager for Australia and New Zealand, MediaMind

Carolyn Bollaci boasts an extensive background in digital media in the Australian, UK and US markets. She has vast experience in client development and management joining Eyeblaster from News Digital Media where she was group sales manager. Prior to News Digital Media, Bollaci was group sales manager for ninemsn. At ninemsn she led a sales team in driving initiatives to achieve national sales goals and build on customer and partner relationships. Bollaci has also worked as an account manager for Microsoft in her native United States where she managed key advertising accounts on MSN, providing strategic marketing consultation and worked towards identifying additional revenue generating opportunities.

Stephen Hunt, Director, Asia-Pacific, Tubemogul

Stephen Hunt is responsible for expanding TubeMogul's business into Australia and throughout the Asia-Pacific region. In 2009, he sought out an opportunity with Adconion Media Group to launch Joost into the Australian market. Being the first video ad network in the market, Hunt and his team were tasked with shifting ingrained Direct Response mentalities towards the true value of branding online, as agencies were finally offered a digital alternative to television's scale. He found that solution in TubeMogul's PlayTime platform which is 'built for branding' offering DSP Technology with AdNetwork Service.

Angus McDonald, Managing Director, emerge Digital

A former Head of Publisher Partnerships for Yahoo!7, one of Australia’s leading digital media companies, Angus McDonald brings twelve years experience in digital media, technology and development to emerge Digital, one of ViDM Group’s newest companies. At emerge Digital, McDonald has expanded the ad technology product offerings currently available to publishers in the Asia Pacific by launching the latest, most innovative publisher audience sales platform that protects data, organizes data, monetizes data and optimizes ad inventory performance.

Robbie Hills, Head of Agency Solutions, SE Asia/India, Google

Robbie Hills is recognized as one of the region’s most authoritative digital marketing experts. In February 2011 he joined Google as Head of Rich Media Asia Pacific. In June 2011, he was also made Head Agency Solutions for South East Asia and India. Most recently, Hills was the General Manager of RockYou APAC. RockYou is the leading innovator, creator, and distributor of content on the social web. Prior to RockYou he was the CEO APAC of WPP’s Group M Search businesses and prior to that was managing director of WPP owned 24/7 Real Media, Australia.

Mike Peralta, CRO, MediaMath

As Chief Revenue Officer of MediaMath, Michael Peralta is responsible for managing global sales and account functions, including customer experience and international expansion efforts. Peralta came from AOL where he was responsible for their national advertiser services team as well as international sales efforts for U.S.-based clients looking to market on a global scale. Peralta also spent several years living in London as Managing Director of Western Europe for Advertising.com with full P&L responsibility for the UK, French and Spanish businesses. While in London, Revolution Magazine named Peralta one of the "Top 50 Most Influential Leaders in the Digital Sector." At Advertising.com, he also started several vertical sectors including education, which became the company's largest revenue driver and helped contribute to AOL's acquisition in 2004. Peralta has over 18 years experience in general management, sales, marketing and operations and has held executive level roles at technology companies Magnetic and Tumri.

Matthias Kunze, Director of Publisher Monetisation, Asia Pacific, Google

Matthias Kunze is the Director of Publisher Monetisation in Asia Pacific for Google and is responsible for the publisher display business including DoubleClick platform products, the DoubleClick Ad Exchange and Google AdSense. Kunze was formerly the Managing Director for Yahoo! Mobile in Asia. Prior to joining Yahoo!, he had been working in the mobile advertising industry for more than four years. He was the co-founder of Actionality, Inc., a mobile advertising company, which was acquired by Yahoo! in May 2007. Kunze also successfully co-founded three software companies, and worked in the publishing and television business in Europe for many years.

Toby Ross, Head of Strategic Alliances, Fairfax Digital

Toby Ross is the Head of Strategic Alliances at Fairfax Digital, one of the largest publisher networks in the Asia-Pacific region. In this role, Ross is responsible for Fairfax’s performance and data strategies, monetisation of international inventory and managing external partnerships across these products.
Prior to joining Fairfax, Ross led the demand side business in APAC for the Rubicon Project, a leading publisher focused yield optimisation platform. In this role, he developed and grew relationships with leading ad networks, rep firms and publishers in the region.

Ben Grace, Director, Accuen ANZ

Grace began his career in the solar power industry where he ran multichannel online acquisition campaigns from a base in Singapore and Hong Kong for a number of years. What the Datsun is to the Ferrari was the company’s hodgepodge of ‘real time’ technologies to the trading desk of today, however it revealed the immense power of the idea. Grace returned to Australia a few years ago to set up a trading desk for Accuen and, luckily, OMD not only shared the same vision but had the trust to give him the freedom and resources to make the desk the best one they could imagine up.