Advisors

Mediabrands Velociter
CEO/Managing Director

Tim Hanlon is CEO/Managing Director of Mediabrands Velociter. Velociter is an innovation-centric partnership and strategic investment arm of Mediabrands – the corporate media agency division of New York-based marketing services agency giant Interpublic Group. Hanlon is chiefly responsible for driving paradigm-changing advances in marketing, media and consumer communications for Mediabrands’ main operating entities – Universal McCann, Initiative. Magna, and Mediabrands Ventures – through proprietary partnership with today’s most forward-leaning entrepreneurs, incubators and investors.

Previously Hanlon was Executive Vice President/Managing Director of VivaKi Ventures, the strategic partnership and investment arm of VivaKi – the digital services hub of marketing services agency holding company Publicis Groupe, S.A. – comprising Starcom MediaVest Group, Zenith Optimedia Group, Digitas, and Denuo. He was chiefly responsible for the solicitation, negotiation and oversight of the unit's strategic partnership and investment activity – focused exclusively on paradigm-changing “new media” platforms and technologies. His role was an outgrowth of his previous work as head of ventures activity for both Denuo and Publicis Groupe Media, and includes formal advisory and directorial positions with over three dozen early-stage companies.

Prior to founding the Denuo Ventures and PGM Ventures practices, Hanlon was Senior Vice President/Director, Emerging Contacts for Starcom MediaVest Group. He was chiefly responsible for all US client activity and agency initiatives in the field of emerging media technologies, including the firm's ground-breaking TV 2.0 Practice, centered around evolutionary television platforms such as interactive/enhanced television, on-demand video, digital video recording, interactive program guide navigation, addressable advertising, and digital broadcasting/datacasting.

Hanlon has over 20 years of traditional and interactive agency media experience including roles as Vice President/Director, Strategy & Business Development for the Digital Marketing Group of Chicago-based marketing services agency Frankel, and Director of Interactive Media at Creative Alliance in Louisville, KY. He also served as the Advertising Media Manager for the in-house agency of credit card issuer MBNA America in Wilmington, DE, USA.

Hanlon also has wide-ranging journalism experience, including production and writing stints at CBS News, Sports Illustrated and the Voice of America.

Among numerous advertising and television industry activities, Hanlon was Chairman of the American Association of Advertising Agencies (AAAA) Advanced Television Committee from 2001-05, a founding member of the Steering Committee of the Innovation in Digital Advertising (IDiA) Consortium, and a founding member of the National Academy of Media Arts & Sciences (NAMAS). In 2004, he was an inaugural recipient of Interactive Television Today's Leadership in Interactive Television Award, and has been named as one of MEDIA Magazine’s “100 People to Know.” His insights into the future of media and advertising are regularly seen in major electronic, print and trade press outlets.

Hanlon holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, and a BA from Georgetown University.

Razorfish
Chairman

Clark Kokich has been a leader in the interactive marketing space since joining Avenue A in the summer of 1999. Under his leadership, the company has grown to become one of the largest interactive marketing and technology agencies in the world. Today, Razorfish employs over 2,000 professionals in 20 offices in eight countries, focusing exclusively on digital marketing and serving such world-class brands as Dell, Levi’s, Nike, Mattel, Microsoft, Ford, Best Buy, Disney, AT&T, Mercedes-Benz, J.C. Penney and Visa.

Clark initially served as president of Avenue A in Seattle, followed by a stint as president of Avenue A I Razorfish West after the two companies merged in the summer of 2004. In the fall of 2005 he was given the responsibility for all of Avenue A I Razorfish worldwide and since then has been focused on the company’s twin objectives of building an international network of offices, as well as making significant investments in emerging digital media, including internet video, VOD, IPTV, mobile, viral, podcasting and adver-gaming.

Before he joined Avenue A | Razorfish, Clark was president and CEO of Calla Bay, a manufacturer and retailer of women’s swimwear. Prior to that, he served as head of sales and marketing for a division of McCaw Cellular Communications. Clark began his career in the agency business, where he was executive vice president and general manager of Cole & Weber in Seattle.

Kokich holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Oregon.

Warburg Pincus
Executive in Residence

Henry Lawson is an Executive in Residence at Warburg Pincus in London and Chairman of Cogniti, a provider of corporate performance management tools for major enterprises. Henry also serves on the advisory board of Covario, a leading interactive marketing analytics company and GroundTruth, the leading provider of media audience measurement.

From 1998-2009 he was president of Donovan Data Systems worldwide, the leading worldwide provider of IT systems, hosting and services to the marketing communications industry, and chief operating officer for Europe, where he managed the company’s operations in Europe and, in conjunction with the chairman and chief financial officer, the running of the company worldwide.

Henry joined Donovan Data Systems in 1995 as European chief executive and was promoted to president in 1998. In this role, he helped manage the transformation of the firm’s U.S. business in the late 1990s. He led the team that conceived BrandOcean, a web application used by over 3,000 agency personnel worldwide. Henry joined DDS from Interep, the largest radio sales company in the U.S., where he was chairman and a member of the executive council. Before this he worked as a consultant for Monitor Company in London, Milan, Boston and Toronto.

Henry graduated from Trinity Hall, Cambridge with a master’s degree in engineering and continued his studies at Harvard Business School, where he gained an M.B.A. with High Distinction as a Baker Scholar.

Lee Technology Consulting
Chief Executive Officer

Ike is CEO of Lee Technology Consulting, which specializes in providing strategic management consulting, and mergers and acquisitions advisory services to industry leaders as well as startup companies. In the past 25 years, Ike has spearheaded efforts advising joint venture and alliance partnerships worth several billion dollars between North America and Asia, as well as driving over $1B in M&A activities in the US and abroad.

Ike is also an Ignition Partners venture partner. Ike works on Ignition's investments in developing their Asia-Pacific businesses.

Since coming to the U.S. in 1980 (after completing his education and working for the LG group in Korea for 3 years), Ike has built a formidable record of success as an angel investor, venture capitalist and mentor to startup management teams.

Ike oversees a business incubation center located at the Stanford Research Park in Palo Alto, California. Under Ike's tutelage, innovative ideas are shepherded from incubation to functioning businesses. One project, NetScreen (NSCN), went public in December 2001 and was named IPO of the Year by Goldman Sachs. Subsequently, the company was acquired by Juniper Networks for $4 billion.

Since the early 1980's Ike has been instrumental in bridging the capital divide between high-tech businesses in the Asia Pacific region with those in North America. He has advised key industry and government leaders in Asia on emerging global technology trends, strategic business developments and the Venture Capital industry. Ike has earned numerous awards; in 1998 he was named Businessman of the Year by the Korean American Chamber of Commerce in Silicon Valley, and more recently he was nominated to be a Business Ambassador for the State of Washington.