LiveRamp Leaders

Scott Howe

Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Howe joined the Company in 2011 as its Chief Executive Officer and President. Prior to joining the Company, he served as corporate vice president of Microsoft Advertising Business Group from 2007–2010. In this role, he managed a multi-billion-dollar business encompassingall emerging businesses related to online advertising, including search, display, ad networks, in-game, mobile, digital cable and a variety of enterprise software applications. Mr. Howe was employed from 1999–2007 as an executive and later as a corporate officer at aQuantive, Inc. where he managed three lines of business, including Avenue A | Razorfish (a leading Seattle-based global consultancy in digital marketing and technology), DRIVE Performance Media (now Microsoft Media Network), and Atlas International (an adserving technology now owned by Facebook). Earlier in his career, he was with The Boston Consulting Group and Kidder, Peabody & Company, Inc. He previously served on the boards of Blue Nile, Inc., a leading online retailer of diamonds and fine jewelry, and the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB). He is a magna cum laude graduate of Princeton University, where he earned a degree in economics, and he holds an MBA from Harvard University.

Lauren Dillard

Interim CFO. SVP, Finance and Investor Relations

Lauren Dillard is the Senior Vice President of Finance and Investor Relations at LiveRamp, where she leads all aspects of the company’s finance and investor relations. Prior to LiveRamp, Lauren spent five years at Acxiom, and two years at Addo Communications, where she helped develop and execute investor relations strategies for private and public companies in the TMT space. Before Addo, she worked in Corporate Finance at Silver Spring Networks and completed her CPA at Ernst & Young. Lauren holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Accounting from Santa Clara University.

Vihan Sharma

EVP of Global Revenue

Vihan Sharma is the Executive Vice President of Global Revenue at LiveRamp. Before this role, he served as Senior Vice President of Safe Haven and Managing Director Europe. Vihan oversees all global commercial functions and is responsible for LiveRamp’s growth and operations in Europe. He was formerly Vice President of Product at Acxiom and was responsible for all aspects of Acxiom’s data and product strategy outside of the US. Prior to joining Acxiom, he held several strategic leadership positions across a number of start-ups in Europe.

Mohsin Hussain

EVP Engineering & CTO

Jessica Shapiro

Chief Marketing Officer

Jessica Shapiro is Chief Marketing Officer at LiveRamp. Jessica oversees all functions of marketing globally. Jessica has extensive marketing expertise and has held leadership roles at some of the most iconic business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) brands, including Microsoft, Starbucks and SAP. She is known for building enduring customer-centric brands, driving growth-focused marketing, delivering innovative customer and partner experiences, and building high-performing teams. Prior to LiveRamp, she served as vice president of global corporate marketing and vice president of demand generation and field marketing at Icertis. Jessica holds a BA from Brown University and an MBA from the Michael G Foster School of Business.

Jerry Jones

EVP, Chief Ethics and Legal Officer

David Eisenberg

Chief Strategy Officer

Travis Clinger

SVP, Activations and Addressability

As the Senior Vice President of Activations and Addressability at LiveRamp, Travis Clinger leads LiveRamp’s Addressability team and Activation partnerships. This entails spearheading the company’s global digital advertising ecosystem strategy: driving strategic initiatives, advancing global partnerships, and overseeing the business development and go-to-market strategies for key addressability products and initiatives along with activation partnerships spanning martech, commerce, customer service, and beyond.

Travis is a co-founder and Board Member of the Advertising ID Consortium, advocating for people-based identifiers to be transacted across the open Internet. He also serves as a Board Member of the IAB Tech Lab. Prior to joining LiveRamp, Travis was a director at Epic Systems, responsible for implementing systems that manage sensitive healthcare information. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Rollins College.

Matt Karasick

Chief Product Officer

Matt Karasick is Head of Product at LiveRamp (NYSE: RAMP), the leading data collaboration partner, where he leads product strategy and development to drive innovation and growth. Amidst massive disruption across the digital marketing ecosystem, Matt’s mission is to empower brands to achieve insights and outcomes through safe data collaboration.

With over 20 years of experience in enterprise tech leadership, Matt has a proven track record of driving digital transformation and refining data strategies and visionary concepts into successful, user-centric products. Before joining LiveRamp, Matt was the Chief Product Officer at Habu, the global innovator of data clean room software, acquired by LiveRamp in 2024. Prior to Habu, Matt held key leadership roles for numerous companies including Indeed, Akamai, Trilogy, and DoubleClick. Matt is based in Seattle.

Stephanie Boman

Chief People Officer

As Chief People Officer at LiveRamp, Stephanie Boman oversees all functions of people and culture globally. She is known for building people-first cultures, driving organizational change, and fostering high levels of employee engagement. 

Prior to LiveRamp, Stephanie served as Vice President of Global Business Partners and People Operations at Flex, the second largest electronics manufacturer in the world. She also spent over a decade at Motorola, where she held various roles within the Human Resources team, including international assignments in the UK and Japan.  Stephanie holds a Bachelor of Science from Vanderbilt University and an MBA from the University of Chicago. She is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Amy Lee Stewart

SVP, General Counsel and Global Chief Data Ethics Officer

David Reckert

SVP General Counsel & Chief Data Ethics Officer

David Reckert is the Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Chief Data Ethics Officer at LiveRamp, overseeing the company’s global Legal and Data Ethics teams. Since 2011, David has worked at the intersection of ad tech and privacy law, guiding organizations through rapidly evolving legal and technological landscapes. He has extensive experience as in-house lead counsel, providing strategic counsel for all aspects of product development, privacy, regulatory matters, and litigation.

David holds a B.S. in Business Management from Louisiana State University and a J.D. from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He has been a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US) since 2015.

Before joining LiveRamp in 2019, David served as privacy and compliance counsel in the marketing data, ad tech, and financial services industries.

Daniella Harkins

SVP, Commercial Strategy and Excellence

John L. Battelle

Director

Mr. Battelle is an entrepreneur, journalist, professor and author who has founded or co-founded various online, conference, magazine and other media businesses. He is the co-founder and serves as CEO of Recount Media Inc., a NY-based media platform, and as chair of the board of directors of Sovrn Holdings, Inc., a programmatic advertising and publisher platform that connects publishers with monetization solutions. He also serves as a director of MMA Global. Previously, he was the founder/executive chair and CEO of NewCo Platform, Inc., a disruptive conference and media platform. From 2019 – 2022 he was an Adjunct Professor and Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University. In 2005, Mr. Battelle founded the Internet media company Federated Media Publishing, where he served as chairman and CEO until its sale to LIN Media in 2014.

Mr. Battelle founded and served as executive producer of the Web 2 Summit and maintains Searchblog, an ongoing daily site which covers the intersection of media, technology and culture. From 2001-2004 he occupied the Bloomberg chair in Business Journalism for the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the founder and served from 1997-2001 as chairman and CEO of Standard Media International (SMI) and as publisher of The Industry Standard and TheStandard.com. Prior to that, he was a co-founding editor of Wired magazine and Wired Ventures. Mr. Battelle previously served on the board of directors of the Internet Advertising Bureau and was a founding board member of the Online Publishers Association. In 2005, he authored The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture (Penguin/Portfolio), an international bestseller published in more than 25 languages. He is considered to be an expert in the field of media and technology, and has appeared on national and international news channels such as CBS, BBC, CNN, PBS, Discovery and CNBC. Honors and awards include: “Global Leader for Tomorrow” and “Young Global Leader” by the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland; a finalist in the 2000 “Entrepreneur of the Year” competition by Ernst & Young; “Innovator — One of Ten Best Marketers in the Business” by Advertising Age; and one of the “Most Important People on The Web” by PCWorld. Mr. Battelle holds a bachelor’s degree in anthropology and a master’s degree in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley.

Timothy R. Cadogan

Director

Mr. Cadogan is the chief executive officer of GoFundMe, the world’s largest fundraising platform. Prior to assuming this position in March 2020, he was chief executive officer of OpenX Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of digital advertising technology. Mr. Cadogan continues to serve OpenX as its chairman of the board. From 2003–2008 Mr. Cadogan served as senior vice president of Global Advertising Marketplaces at Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) where he oversaw the primary advertising product lines including display, search and video. Previously at Yahoo!, he was vice president of search where he was responsible for both the consumer search and the paid search businesses. Prior to joining Yahoo!, Mr. Cadogan was vice president of search at Overture (formerly GoTo.com), a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group, and a consultant at McKinsey & Company. He holds a BSc degree from The London School of Economics, an MPhil degree in international relations from Oxford University, and an MBA from Stanford University.

Vivian Chow

Director

Ms. Chow served as SVP, Strategic Execution & Operations of DocuSign, Inc (NASDAQ: DOCU), an agreement cloud company, from March 2021 – February 2022. in which role she was responsible for priority projects including the delivery, assessment, solution design, process and workflow optimization. From November 2013 to March 2021, she served as Chief Accounting Officer for DocuSign and was responsible for accounting, sales compensation, internal audit, tax and treasury. Prior to joining DocuSign in 2013, she served for five years as the VP, Worldwide Controller for Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: EA), a leading publisher of video games. Prior to that, she held VP and Corporate Controller positions at Restoration Hardware (NYSE: RH), a home furnishings retailer, and Thermage, Inc., a medical device manufacturer. Previously, she held leadership positions at Fair, Isaac & Company, Inc. (NYSE: FICO), Calypte Biomedical Corporation and Nextel Communications. Ms. Chow started her career at Arthur Andersen & Co., a public accounting partnership, where she served various clients in the audit and financial services consulting practices. Ms. Chow holds a bachelor of science degree in accounting from Lehigh University. She is a certified public accountant (inactive) in the State of California.

Scott E. Howe

Director and LiveRamp CEO

Mr. Howe joined the Company in 2011 as its Chief Executive Officer and President. Prior to joining the Company, he served as corporate vice president of Microsoft Advertising Business Group from 2007–2010. In this role, he managed a multi-billion-dollar business encompassing all emerging businesses related to online advertising, including search, display, ad networks, in-game, mobile, digital cable and a variety of enterprise software applications. Mr. Howe was employed from 1999–2007 as an executive and later as a corporate officer at aQuantive, Inc. where he managed three lines of business, including Avenue A | Razorfish (a leading Seattle-based global consultancy in digital marketing and technology), DRIVE Performance Media (now Microsoft Media Network), and Atlas International (an adserving technology now owned by Facebook). Earlier in his career, he was with The Boston Consulting Group and Kidder, Peabody & Company, Inc. He previously served on the boards of Blue Nile, Inc., a leading online retailer of diamonds and fine jewelry, and the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB). He is a magna cum laude graduate of Princeton University, where he earned a degree in economics, and he holds an MBA from Harvard University.

Clark M. Kokich

Non-Executive Chairman of the Board

Mr. Kokich, the Non-Executive Chairman of the Board, is currently working as a consultant. He served as executive chairman of the board of directors of Marchex, Inc. (NASDAQ: MCHX), a mobile and online advertising company based in Seattle, from 2015–2016 and as chief strategy officer of Marchex from 2013–2015. For the prior 14 years Mr. Kokich was an executive at Razorfish, a leading Seattle-based global consultancy in digital marketing and technology, serving most recently as chairman of the board.

Prior to joining Razorfish, he was CEO of Calla Bay, Inc. and was previously director of sales and marketing for a division of McCaw Cellular Communications. In his early career he spent 12 years in traditional advertising, including the position of executive vice president/managing director for Cole & Weber, a division of Ogilvy & Mather. He is a director of Power Digital Marketing, a full service digital marketing consultancy based in San Diego. He previously served as a director of Childhaven, a Seattle children’s charity, and Rocket Fuel Inc. (NASDAQ: FUEL), an advertising technology company, until its merger in 2017 into Sizmek, a privately held company. Mr. Kokich holds a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Oregon.

Brian O’Kelley

Director

Mr. O’Kelley is the CEO of Scope3, a company he co-founded in December 2021 focused on decarbonization in media and advertising through end-to-end emissions measurement across the supply chain. In 2019 Mr. O’Kelley co-founded Waybridge, a supply-chain platform for commodities, and was its CEO until December 2021. Previously he was CEO of AppNexus, a company he co-founded in 2007 which was acquired by AT&T in 2018. From the acquisition date until February 2019 he served as a strategic advisor to assist with the integration of AppNexus into AT&T. Prior to AppNexus, for four years Mr. O’Kelley was Chief Technology Officer of Right Media, a digital advertising exchange acquired by Yahoo in 2007. Mr. O’Kelley serves on the board of Tech:NYC. He has been recognized in Crain’s “40 Under 40,” Adweek 50, and Silicon Alley 100 lists. In 2012 he was named as an “EY Entrepreneur of the Year” in the New York region. O’Kelley holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering degree in computer science from Princeton University.

Omar Tawakol

Director

Mr. Tawakol is a private investor. From 2019 – 2022 he served as vice president in Cisco Systems, Inc.’s (NASDAQ: CSCO) Webex division, most recently as GM of the Product Led Growth business unit. In 2017 he founded and was CEO of Voicea, a company specializing in leveraging conversational artificial intelligence which was acquired by Cisco in 2019. Prior to founding Voicea, Mr. Tawakol was employed by Oracle Corporation (NYSE: ORCL) as senior vice president and general manager of Oracle America Inc.’s Data Cloud division. In 2007, he founded BlueKai, Inc., a leading data management platform for Fortune 100 marketers, and served as its CEO until BlueKai’s acquisition by Oracle in 2014. Prior roles include chief advertising officer and general manager of Medio Systems, Inc. (acquired by Nokia); and CEO of CoRelation (acquired by Audience Science). He currently serves on the advisory board of Decibel, a venture capital firm, and is a former director of PlaceIQ, a data and technology provider of marketing solutions based on location data. Mr. Tawakol holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and two Master of Science degrees from Stanford University, one in Engineering and the other in Computer Science.

Debora B. Tomlin

Director

Ms. Tomlin is a member of the board of directors of Weave Communications, Inc. (NYSE: WEAV), a leading all-in-one customer communications and engagement software platform for small and medium-sized businesses. She also serves as an advisor to Blumberg Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm in the technology sector. She was chief marketing officer and head of global communications of NortonLifeLock Inc. (NASDAQ: NLOK), formerly Symantec (NASDAQ: SYMC) until September 2020. Prior to joining Symantec, Ms. Tomlin served from 2012–2019 as EVP, chief marketing, distribution and customer officer for CSAA Insurance Group (“CSAA”), a major provider of AAA-branded insurance, leading all aspects of marketing, customer experience and data strategies. During her tenure at CSAA, she also led distribution and enterprise strategy. From 2007–2012, Ms. Tomlin held several senior leadership positions, including vice president of marketing, with Capital One Financial Corp. (NYSE: COF), where she headed commercial banking, retail marketing and sponsorships. She led Capital One’s regional marketing effort, leveraging the footprint and deep community roots of the bank’s local markets. Prior to that role, she led the marketing strategy for Capital One’s national small business credit cards. Before joining Capital One, Ms. Tomlin held the roles of senior marketing officer and head of corporate brand for USAA Insurance Company, where she designed and delivered industry-recognized programs in marketing and customer management. Prior to USAA, she held numerous marketing positions, including chief marketing officer at LOMA, an Atlanta-based international organization that provides consulting services for distribution, operational management, and education training for global financial services companies. Ms. Tomlin is a former member of the board of directors of the YMCA of San Francisco and the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Society of Georgia. She is also active in numerous marketing organizations and has been repeatedly honored by the San Francisco Business Times as one of the Bay Area’s Most Influential Women in Business. Ms. Tomlin holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Siena College and a master’s degree in political science from North Carolina State University.