Sara Badler is responsible for driving advertising revenue growth, fostering strong client relationships, and leading a high-performing sales team including marketing, programmatic, and ad operations at the Guardian US.

She was previously at Morning Brew, where she served as chief commercial officer, and prior to that, as chief revenue officer of enterprise advertising and partnerships at Dotdash Meredith.

Her career also includes serving as head of programmatic revenue and strategy at The New York Times, as well as similar roles at Hearst magazines and Forbes.

Badler is the recipient of industry awards from Women In Media, 2024; AdExchanger Aware, 2024; Media All Stars 2023; Top Media In Women, 2021; and the Cynopsis Award 2019.

She is a member of the Adelaide board of advisors and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in American Studies from Dickinson College in Pennsylvania.

Mark Miller is the EVP of Global & Agency Partnerships at NBCUniversal. In this role, Miller has a dual role overseeing NBCUniversal’s investment teams for IPG/Mediabrands & PMX as well as leading the Global Advertising & Partnerships team. Mark also serves as the Brand Champion for NBCUniversal’s News Group. In this role he is responsible for the monetization strategy across all NBC News Group’s linear and digital brands.

Prior to his current role, Mark was EVP of News Advertising Sales at NBCUniversal and held leadership roles in Advertising Sales for CNBC, NBCUniversal Entertainment Group and NBCUniversal Owned and Operated Stations. Mark joined NBCUniversal in 1996 and is based in New York. Before joining NBCUniversal, Mark was VP of Sales for CNN. He began his career at Ross Roy Advertising in Detroit, and from there went onto Westwood One and ABC Radio Networks.

Mark graduated from the University of Missouri with a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism.

He is a resident of Ridgewood, New Jersey where he resides with his wife Laura and has two sons, Ro and James.

Marcia is the Head of Sales at Yahoo Ads, where she brings deep knowledge and experience in digital advertising and publisher strategy. In this role, she oversees a team of Industry Leads and Sales Directors focused on driving revenue for premium and performance media solutions across Yahoo’s portfolio of brands.

Prior to Yahoo, Marcia served in various Sales and Strategy leadership roles at global media companies including Verizon Media, The Huffington Post and Forbes.

Johanna Mayer-Jones is the Global Chief Advertising Officer for The Washington Post, leading The Post’s positioning as a key partner to clients while maintaining, embracing and empowering its commitment to news.

In her role, Johanna oversees client partnerships, revenue operations, data solutions, audience insights and professional offerings. Before joining The Post in July 2022, she served as the Senior Vice President of Partnerships for The Atlantic, where she led the publisher’s global sales and account management teams.

Johanna’s experience includes eight years at The Wall Street Journal in both Hong Kong and New York, building integrated client solutions through live journalism, custom content and more. Her deep industry knowledge also stems from time at the BBC, Menton and The Financial Times early in her career.

Johanna serves on the Board of Directors for The Ad Council and DCN and she has previously advised the Delta Project nonprofit as well as startups including QuickFrame.

Sheryl Goldstein is the Executive Vice President, Chief Industry Growth Officer at the IAB (Interactive Advertising Bureau). In her role, she oversees engaging the IAB’s 650+ members across all of the IAB’s vast initiatives, activities and thought leadership programs. Under Sheryl’s watch are the Member Engagement, Centers of Excellence, Research and L&D teams. She also spearheads talent development, diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and runs the IAB CRO Council.

Sheryl Goldstein is a “net vet” with over 20 years of driving meaningful revenue growth through consultative selling in the dynamic digital landscape (Yahoo, AOL, About.com). She is adept at building successful teams, developing go-to-market strategies and gaining consensus across key stakeholders. Her background includes a wide variety of digital media platforms and technologies and numerous leadership roles.

In addition to her experience as a sales leader, Sheryl brings years of talent development and training to her role and is committed to making the digital media landscape a great industry for diverse talent to thrive and have a long and exciting career.

Sheryl is a current board member for 212NYC, Makers and was a past Board member of She Runs It. She serves on the Rutgers Business School Advisory Board for Marketing and is helping RBS craft a digital marketing graduate program. In addition, she has served on Boards and Committees for the NY Ad Club, Women in Communications, Inc. and the IAB and is a member of Chief. She is an award-winning sales leader (Yahoo Accelerator Award, AOL Best Media Partner presented by Verizon, AOL Presidents Club, AWNY Crystal Award Winner).

Sheryl is a graduate of Syracuse University Newhouse School and lives in New Jersey with her partner Cindy and dogs Pancho and Camden. On the weekends, you can catch her on the pickleball court or riding around the Jersey Shore on her new electric bike. Her daughter Sarah-Jaana lives in the Boston area with her husband Michael.