2026 Marketing Innovation Conference

Ramsey McGrory
President, Prisma at Mediaocean

Ramsey McGrory is the President of Prisma at Mediaocean, the modern system of record for omni-channel advertising. Ramsey is responsible for all aspects of the Prisma and Protected businesses. In his ten years at Mediaocean, the company has grown 4x with ~$600M in revenue.

Throughout his career, Ramsey has stage dived into chaotic industries and companies. In his advertising career, Ramsey has worked across startups to major corporations. Ramsey started at DoubleClick in the late ’90s selling media and technology, and subsequently led Sales at Right Media from 2004-2007. In this role, he co-created Dynamic Pricing (dCPM) in 2004, and launched the first successful programmatic ad exchange. In July 2007, Yahoo! acquired Right Media for $850M. From 2007-2011, Ramsey was deeply involved in developing the programmatic market and led Yahoo! ad platforms and US data partnerships. From 2011-2013, Ramsey was CEO at AddThis, a social tools and data company and President at Scout, a leading men’s sports publisher.

Ramsey is an active investor and advisor to data and technology start ups, and a speaker and writer on programmatic and television advertising, and innovation. Prior to his work in advertising, Ramsey worked in politics and banking. He also served in the US Army in Germany and the Persian Gulf War. He holds a BA in Economics from the University of the South, and a Master’s from Georgia Tech.

Andre Oosthuizen
Chief Marketing Officer, Pirelli

Andre is a global automotive marketing leader with more than 20 years of experience building premium and performance brands across four continents. Most recently, he led brand strategy, product launches, and integrated marketing across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, contributing to record regional growth and profitability. Previously, Andre served as Vice President of Marketing at Porsche Cars North America and held senior leadership roles with Jaguar Land Rover, Porsche Middle East & Africa, Ford Motor Company, and Volvo Cars.

Ian Coke
Director of Quality, Pirelli

With more than 40 years of experience in the tire industry, Ian leads product development for Pirelli’s North American market, driving performance, safety, and innovation. He began his career with Pirelli in 1985, holding roles across quality, product design, and compound development, including assignments in Milan and extensive work throughout South America. After relocating to North America in 2014, Ian has led major ultra-high-performance and all-season tire programs, including original equipment fitments for premium and electric vehicles, and has played a key role in advancing innovative technologies while expanding Pirelli’s North American portfolio and regional manufacturing capabilities.

Moira Vetter
Founder and CEO, Modo Modo Agency

Moira Vetter is the Founder & CEO of Modo Modo Agency, a 6-time Inc. 5000 company, a 2025 Women President’s Organization Top 50 Fastest Growing businesses, and a 2025 Chief Marketer Agency of the Year. Over three decades, Moira has fostered brand leadership and growth in hundreds of corporations from Fortune 10 Global Brands to hypergrowth mid-market companies. An author, former Forbes contributor, mentor, and speaker, she received the 2023 American Marketing Association Atlanta Lifetime Achievement Award and the 2022 NAWBO Woman Business Owner of the Year. She is committed beyond business, serving on the executive boards of AMA Atlanta, KSU Coles College, GSU Marketing Roundtable, the Campbell-Stone Retirement, and was named a 2023 and 2025 Leader in Corporate Citizenship. She is committed to youth and education working closely with Georgia Tech, KSU, GSU, Miami Ad School, and Emory University.

Mariette De Meillon
Vice President, Business Analytics and Data Engineering, Equifax

Mariette De Meillon leads the Business Analytics, Data Engineering, and AI functions within USIS. With over 15 years of experience in the financial industry, Mariette has built her career on partnering with financial institutions to enable data-driven decision-making through advanced insights and analytics. Her expertise spans Business Intelligence, Big Data, and Data Science, which she leverages to develop scalable solutions for both internal and external use. She is currently overseeing several key innovation workstreams, including a project focused on modernizing marketing outreach using AI on Google Cloud.

Chris Atwood
Senior Vice President of Marketing, Equifax

Chris Atwood is a seasoned marketing leader with extensive experience in driving growth and brand positioning within the enterprise technology sector. His background spans both high-growth startups and established global corporations, giving him a versatile perspective on market entry, scaling, and long-term portfolio management.

Currently, he leads Insights and Portfolio Marketing, where he is responsible for synthesizing market intelligence into actionable strategies. In this role, he oversees how products are positioned across diverse market segments, ensuring that the company’s portfolio remains competitive and aligned with evolving customer needs. His expertise lies in bridging the gap between deep data insights and creative marketing execution to deliver measurable business impact.

Heather Sautter
Vice President, Brand and Corporate Communications, Atlanta Falcons

Heather Sautter serves as Vice President of Corporate and Marketing Communications for AMB Sports and Entertainment, where she leads enterprise-wide brand communications, crisis communications strategy, and major global event initiatives across the organization’s portfolio, including the Atlanta Falcons, Atlanta United, Mercedes-Benz Stadium, and Atlanta’s NWSL expansion team.

She oversees integrated communications across all business units, ensuring message alignment, enterprise reputation management, and cross-functional coordination with marketing, sponsorship, fan experience, sustainability, and stadium operations. Heather is a senior advisor to executive leadership on high-stakes issues and directs AMBSE’s crisis communications framework, operational readiness, and incident response planning for nationally and globally broadcast events.

Heather also co-chairs marketing and communications for the FIFA World Cup 2026 Atlanta Host Committee, shaping Atlanta’s global narrative, managing multi-agency collaboration, and advancing brand visibility for the region as a premier host city. She leads communications for Mercedes-Benz Stadium’s marquee events and has played a central role in positioning both the stadium and AMBSE as leaders in hosting mega-events including the World Cup, Super Bowl, CFP National Championship, and MLS All-Star.

A Sports Business Journal Game Changers honoree, Heather previously held senior communications roles at Turner Broadcasting and served as Vice President of Public Relations at Career Sports & Entertainment. She holds degrees from Florida State University and Georgia State University.

Laura Lanier
Director, Integrated Marketing and Operations, Atlanta Falcons

Laura Lanier is the Director of Marketing Integration and Operations for the Atlanta Falcons. She recently completed her 8th season with the Atlanta Falcons and 12th season overall with an NFL franchise. In her current role, Laura leads strategic marketing operations and cross-departmental collaboration for integrated marketing initiatives.

Prior to her tenure in Atlanta, Laura held roles in marketing with the Chicago Bears, brand activation with various organizations, and ticket sales with Georgia Tech. She is a graduate of Indiana University and a mother of two young Falcons fans.

Ryan Delgado
Director, Social Media and Influencer Marketing, Atlanta Falcons

Ryan Delgado is the Director, Social Media & Influencers for the Atlanta Falcons. Ryan has been leading the Falcons’ social media group for several years. In his current role, Ryan oversees the social media content team and leads messaging and ideation to push forward the brand on social channels. Along with traditional social media, Ryan also drives influencer and creator relationships and paid social initiatives across the Falcons organization.

In 2025, Ryan was part of the team that took home several awards, such as The Webby Awards “Social, Sports Video”, The Shorty Awards “Vertical Video”, and The Hashtag Sports Awards “Digital Team of the Year”.

Prior to his tenure in Atlanta, Ryan held roles with the Atlanta Hawks, Atlanta Braves, Cleveland Guardians, Major League Baseball, the Tampa Bay Rays, and DICK’s Sporting Goods. Ryan spent six years with the Tampa Bay Rays and led Major League Baseball in social media engagement during the club’s World Series appearance in 2020. Ryan is a graduate of Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston, MA, and was a two-time captain on the school’s baseball team.

Darius Chinoy
Brand Manager, IHG Hotels and Resorts

Darius Chinoy is a proud Double Jacket, earning his undergraduate degree in Business from Georgia Tech before returning to the Scheller College of Business to complete his Evening MBA while working full-time. He currently works in brand management at IHG Hotels & Resorts, where he leads go-to-market and brand strategy initiatives across Holiday Inn and EVEN Hotels, driving revenue growth and leading the U.S. launch of newly acquired Ruby Hotels.

Earlier in his career, Darius worked in brand strategy and brand management at The Coca-Cola Company and later in Management Consulting at KPMG, where he focused on customer experience strategy. Across hospitality, technology, CPG, and consulting, his work sits at the intersection of brand strategy, product marketing, go-to-market strategy, and customer insight focused on customer insight, positioning, and influence to align teams and drive growth.

Lauren Ware
Director, Production Management, NBA

Lauren is a production leader, content strategist, and operations expert with decades of experience spanning once-in-a-generation breaking news stories, large-scale sporting events, live streaming content and social-first brand campaigns with CNN, Fox Sports, and others. She currently works for the NBA as Director of Production Management, working with Broadcasting, Influencer Content and Talent. She is a Georgia native, a proud graduate of Howard University and a long-suffering fan of Atlanta sports franchises.

Bethany Rasio
Senior Director of Marketing, Experian

Bethany Rasio is Senior Director of Marketing at Experian, where she leads growth marketing strategy for fraud and identity solutions. She specializes B2B demand generation through analytical storytelling and brand transformation. Bethany has pioneered campaigns that leverage proprietary data and advanced segmentation to deliver measurable impact, including 71X ROAS and 350% increase in marketing influenced revenue. A passionate advocate for innovation, she has trained global sales teams on Al enablement and consultative storytelling, helping organizations translate complex technology into business outcomes. Bethany joined Experian through the acqusition of NeurolD, a fintech startup, where she served a formative role in defining the company's impact and value for prospective buyers. From boutique firms to public sector organizations and start-ups to enterprise fintechs, Bethany is focused on adapting best practices to help businesses of all kinds grow and strengthen their impact.

Melody Lee
Chief Marketing Officer, Mercedes-Benz USA

Melody Lee is Chief Marketing Officer, Mercedes-Benz USA. In this role, she oversees brand positioning and marketing strategy and execution with an aim to ensure long-term growth and profitability for the Mercedes-Benz brand in the United States.

Previously, Melody was Senior Vice President, Global Brand & Product Marketing for the Herman Miller and Knoll brands at MillerKnoll. In that role, she was responsible for ensuring a cohesive brand-led strategy across the two marquee design brands’ products, channels, messages and audiences.

Prior to joining MillerKnoll, Melody was Global COO and Principal, Americas for Camron, a global design communications agency, where she led the agency’s New York and Los Angeles offices.

She was, previous to Camron, the vice president for brand development at Shiseido, a 140-year old global prestige beauty company. In that position, she led critical strategic initiatives across a comprehensive remit of brand strategy, product development, marketing and retail planning for one of Shiseido’s multinational prestige brands.

Prior to Shiseido, Melody spent six years with Cadillac. There, as head of brand marketing for the iconic luxury car brand, Melody oversaw brand strategy, global planning, partnerships and experiences and marketing innovation. She also led BOOK by Cadillac, the brand’s vehicle subscription business, as a discrete business unit, with commercial responsibility for operations and logistics, financial management, product development, branding and marketing, PR and business development and corporate sales.

Before joining Cadillac, Melody was executive vice president at global PR agency Hill+Knowlton Strategies from 2006 to 2012, where she led high-stakes communications campaigns for Fortune 500 corporations.

Melody lives with her husband and two boys in Atlanta. She attended Georgia Institute of Technology, receiving her B.S. and M.S. in International Affairs.

Jeannine Haas
Chief Marketing Officer, Gulfstream

Jeannine Haas was appointed chief marketing officer for Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. in August 2016 where she leads the company’s worldwide strategic marketing function and is a member of the executive leadership team. As Gulfstream’s brand steward, she is responsible for developing, managing and leading worldwide marketing orts, including brand management, advertising, events, media relations, public affairs, community investment, insights and analytics and direct marketing across print, digital and social.

Haas brought more than 25 years of marketing experience to Gulfstream. Before joining the organization, she served as the CMO for Avis Budget Group, where she led the company’s strategic marketing function, including worldwide brand management, e-commerce, customer relationship management, advertising, digital, social and loyalty. Prior to joining Avis Budget Group, Haas spent 12 years at American Express Co. in several senior marketing positions across product management, acquisition, loyalty and customer marketing. She began her career at Ford Motor Co. in marketing and sales.

Haas has been named to Forbes’ 50 Most Influential CMOs, Brand Innovators Top 50 Women in Marketing and AWNY’s Working Mothers of the Year lists. Since 2023, she has served as a member of the Board of Trustees of Savannah Country Day School. In 2025, Haas was appointed to the board of directors for the Corporate Angel Network. She earned a Bachelor of Science in business administration from the State University of New York at Oswego and Master of Business Administration from The Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Maria Elisa Botero
Chief Marketing Officer, Nutresa 

Maria Elisa Botero is the Chief Marketing Officer at Grupo Nutresa, where she manages a portfolio of 99 brands, 39 of them market leaders, across 18 countries. With over 15 years of experience in marketing, media, and technology, she specializes in unifying business units to deliver cohesive brand strategies in the  CPG sector. 
Her expertise is anchored by more than a decade of leading digital marketing and product initiatives at X, Meta, and TikTok. This background allows her to bridge the gap between traditional brand management and modern product ecosystems, converting platform-native insights into scalable digital transformations. By integrating consumer analytics with emerging tech, Maria focuses on driving long-term value and shaping the future of brand engagement.