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Bruce Buchanan

CEO

Bruce Buchanan is the co-founder, CEO and Chairperson of Rokt.

Prior to Rokt, Bruce held the role of Group CEO, Jetstar. Jetstar is the leading low fares airline in Asia with international and domestic operations in 16 countries across Asia-Pacific. During his time at Jetstar, Bruce was responsible for growing the team to more than 7000+, with revenue in excess of $3 billion. Bruce was instrumental in Jetstar’s Australian and global success, writing the original business case through to designing the world’s first long-haul low cost model, Jetstar international. He was also the chief architect of Jetstar’s APAC pan-Asian strategy, building a successful business across Australia, New Zealand, China, Singapore, Vietnam and Japan.

The seed idea for Rokt grew from Bruce’s time working as CEO for Jetstar. Bruce identified that taking a consumer on a purchase journey with a personally relevant checkout experience presented a significant opportunity being underserved by the technology community, and so he set about building the solution. Prior to joining Jetstar, Bruce worked for The Boston Consulting Group for five years where he was regarded as one of the global leaders in their consumer practice area.

Bruce has a Civil Engineering Degree from The University of New South Wales, and a Master of Business Administration from The Australian Graduate School of Management and the Anderson School at UCLA.

Bruce currently lives in Brooklyn, NY with his wife and children and their border collie dog, Izzy.

As SVP, Customer Success, Holly leads and executes the strategy for Rokt’s global account management teams.

Holly started her career at Rokt as a Commercial Director, based in the Los Angeles office. The incredible growth of the business has brought Holly, along with her husband, Adam, and their black lab, Layla, to the Big Apple. Holly subsequently led the account team for Rokt’s global Ticketing clients before moving into her current role.

Prior to joining Rokt, Holly spent her career in the fast-paced startup world of early-stage tech businesses in Los Angeles. Don’t let the American accent fool you, Holly was actually born in Sydney and has dual Australian-American citizenship. She holds degrees from the Marshall School of Business and Dornsife College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences at the University of Southern California.

Stuart FitzRoy

Chief Product Officer

As the company’s Chief Product & Engineering Officer, Stuart directs all product and engineering-related activities at Rokt in collaboration with strategic partners. He joined Rokt in 2015.

He came to Rokt from The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) where he was a Principal in the firm’s Sydney office. While there, Stuart worked with clients on technology projects across a range of sectors including travel and tourism, infrastructure and mining. He has expertise in digital technology, commercial strategy, distribution, sourcing and procurement.

In the middle of his tenure at BCG Stuart left to join Jetstar, the low fares airline serving the Asia-Pacific region. He was responsible for distribution and product management of the airline’s technology platform for booking, payment and check-in. He returned to BCG after helping to grow the Jetstar Group from concept to $1 billion in revenue.

Stuart holds an MBA from INSEAD and a Bachelor of Commerce in Economics & Finance as well as a Bachelor in Chemical Engineering from the University of Sydney.

Vladi Kuschnerov

Chief Operations Officer

As Chief Operations Officer, Vladi Kuschnerov leads analytics, corporate development, legal, and operations at Rokt. As acting CFO, he currently also leads Rokt’s finance department.

Prior to joining Rokt, he was Vice President, Corporate Development & Sales Operations for Amobee, a global marketing technology company. Vladi is also the founder and managing director of VK&Co – Strategy Consulting, where he led corporate development and strategy consulting initiatives for ad tech and digital media companies. He previously held management level positions at Adconion Media Group.

Vladi holds an MBA from the Technical University of Munich in Business Administration and Electrical Engineering. In his spare time, he loves playing guitar. Vladi also has a passion for making his own hot sauce and pasta, and hanging out with his dog, Barry, a Boston Terrier.

Bryan Seastead

SVP, B2B & GM

As SVP of B2B, Bryan leads the strategy & execution for Rokt’s B2B business. Bryan also serves as the general manager for the Boston Office, Rokt’s North-American R&D technology hub.

Bryan joined the Rokt team through the acquisition of OfferLogic, a tech-enabled B2B marketplace business that he co-founded and served as CEO. Bryan has been working in the B2B space for over 20 years and has built several multi-million-dollar businesses inside various companies, including Vistaprint and Intuit. Bryan holds a marketing and communications degree from Castleton University in VT. When he’s not working, you’ll find him with his family – on the lake in the summer and in the mountains during the winter.

Elizabeth Buchanan

Chief Commercial Officer

As Chief Commercial Officer, Elizabeth Buchanan leads the strategy and execution for Rokt’s marketing, people, and new business departments. Elizabeth was one of the founding team alongside her husband Bruce (CEO) when Rokt was formed in 2012.

Elizabeth has had a distinguished career in the technology, digital and marketing/advertising industries with more than 20 years of experience with major brands including Yahoo!, Uber and WPP.

Elizabeth most recently held the office of President, Global Transformation at OMD, part of Omnicom. As a member of the OMD Global EXCO, Elizabeth shared the responsibility for 11,000+ employees in 100+ markets around the world managing $43b+ of media spend for clients including Apple, PepsiCo, Nissan, Intel and Bacardi. Elizabeth is also a proven entrepreneur having founded The White Agency in Australia, which she built from a startup into the most revered digital agency in the country. Under Elizabeth’s leadership, they were responsible for the full-service digital needs for Australia’s largest clients including Telstra, Coca-Cola South Pacific, and Commonwealth Bank. Elizabeth successfully exited The White Agency when she sold it to STW Group, now WPP, and it continues to thrive today.

In addition to her role at Rokt, Elizabeth currently holds board positions with the NGO Vital Voices Global Partnership and S4 Capital (LON: SFOR).

Elizabeth lives in Brooklyn New York with her husband and four of their five children (one has already flown the nest!).

Lisa Craven

Over the last 20 years, Lisa has enjoyed a breadth of human resources experience across a number of different industries and sectors, working with a wide cross-section of individuals in disparate situations. She migrated to Sydney Australia from her native New York in late 2013, establishing a consulting business and quickly attracting a variety of global businesses, in industries including technology, financial services, franchising, marketing and branding, advertising, digital, retail and small business startups. She has recently held the role of Global Chief People Officer at Sizmek. In her two-year reign as Vice President, Global Human Resources, at Xaxis in New York working across 27 markets, she was recognized as a global top performer for increasing employee engagement and reducing employee turnover by 33 percent in less than a year and was recognized by the CEO for her role in the company achieving the Crain’s 2013 Best Place to Work in NYC award. She has been a lecturer at Macquarie University, Jansen Newman Institute, and Drew University.

Lisa also published a book, Juice It! Blend It! to make it easy for people to eat more vegetables, as health and happiness has a direct influence on our performance at work.

Coupled with her book and yoga teacher training, Lisa continues to study nutrition and health as a passion, strongly believing that fostering a positive working environment is an inside job.

Michael Gordon

Michael was the Group CFO and MD of Group Services for Greenlit Brands Pty Limited (formerly Steinhoff Asia Pacific Group Holdings). Greenlit Brands grew from a turnover of A$250m (Freedom) to a A$2.4 billion vertically integrated retailer based in Australia and New Zealand and included the brands, Freedom, Snooze, Fantastic, Plush, OMF, Best & Less and Harris Scarfe.

Group Services provided Finance, Legal, HR, Property, IT, Taxation, Treasury, and Strategic support to the Retail Brands, Manufacturing, and Logistics Operations in the region. Prior to Steinhoff, Michael spent ten years with PricewaterhouseCoopers in South Africa, the United Kingdom and Australia specializing in the Retail industry with experience in Audit, Taxation M&A and IPO’s.

Michael is a Chartered Accountant and holds a Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Accountancy (Wits University, South Africa) AC. 

Laura Mineo

As Deputy CFO and SVP Strategy, Laura, together with CFO, Michael Gordon, leads Rokt’s finance and corporate development team. 

Laura joined the Rokt team from Goldman Sachs in New York, where she most recently served as Executive Director in the Firmwide Strategy team. She brings with her invaluable experience across strategy, mergers and acquisitions and capital markets across multiple industries and geographies. 

Laura holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Liberal Studies) from the University of Sydney. 

Pascal Ehrsam

SVP, Marketing

As SVP of Marketing, Pascal Ehrsam leads the marketing strategy and all marketing-related activities at Rokt, including brand, performance and product marketing initiatives. Pascal joined Rokt in 2020, after a career of 20 years in New York on both the agency and tech startup sides.

From building brands to telling clearer, more effective stories to prospects, customers, partners, reporters and investors, Pascal has worked with cutting-edge organizations to craft and deploy their marketing strategy, from value proposition and positioning, to go-to-market planning and execution, to brand building and customer growth.

Pascal has experience with global, market-leading brands such as L’Oreal, HSBC, Rolex and Unilever, and high-growth startups like Pager, Homeis, Vervoe or FrenchFounders. He recently served as Chief Marketing Officer at HEROW where he advanced the company’s brand and business in the U.S. and Europe.

Pascal holds an MBA in Marketing Strategy and is fluent in English, Spanish, and French, with work experience in all three languages. He’s been a proud Brooklyn resident for the past 14 years, where he currently lives with his wife and two teens. 

Bill Magnuson

Bill Magnuson is the cofounder and CEO of Braze, a customer engagement platform that delivers messaging experiences across push, email, in-app, and more. Bill began his journey in mobile at Google working on App Inventor for Android and is continuously looking for ways to humanize the relationships between brands and customers to create stronger, more sustainable, and valuable relationships utilizing technology.

John Ho

John Ho is the Founder and Chief Industrialist Investor of Janchor Partners, a long-term industrialist investment firm based in Asia since 2009.

He is also currently a Non-Executive Director of Vocus Group Limited, a telecommunications company, listed on the ASX.

In the past, he served as Chairman of Bellamy’s Australia Limited, an organic infant milk formula and baby food company. John also served as Deputy Chairman of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange Listing Committee, an independent body made up of leading market practitioners whose functions are to approve stock exchange listings and provide independent oversight over the operations of the Listing Division.

John studied pure mathematics and finance at The University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia graduating with a University Medal.

Katie May

Katie started her career as a CPA at a big 4 firm and then spent several years in New York working on one of the world’s largest brands. A move to Australia prompted a move into Management Consulting with a top tier firm and strategic assignments at some of the most respected companies in Australia. Eventually transitioning to an executive role at SEEK.com.au as CMO from the early days through IPO. SEEK was just the start of a long career in building start-ups through to successful exits. Katie was the CEO and founder of her own disruptive business, Kidspot, in Australia eventually selling to News Corp in 2011. Katie became CEO at ShippingEasy, a fledgling Sydney based start-up a year later, moved it to Austin, Texas, and built this e-commerce software solution to a $60M ARR company, exiting to Stamps.com in mid-2016, joining their board in 2019. Katie holds a BBA and an MBA from the University of Texas in Austin.

Steve Krenzer

Steve Krenzer has over 30 years of experience in data analytics and e-commerce, providing c-suite operating leadership to some of the largest private and publicly traded platforms on-line, including LowerMyBills.com / Core Digital Media and Groupon. Steve served as Groupon’s Chief Operating Officer from November 2017 to 2020. His role included ultimate oversight of Groupon’s North America and International segments, as well as Global Marketing and Global Operations. Prior to joining Groupon, Steve was the CEO of Core Digital Media, a leading online direct-response advertising company and one of the Internet’s largest display advertising providers. CDM’s flagship web properties included LowerMyBills and ClassesUSA. Prior to CDM, he held a variety of senior executive positions at Experian, ultimately serving as President of Interactive Media. Steve strategically builds teams united by a diverse, inclusive culture of employee engagement to develop scalable, high-performance organizations executing growth strategies. Mr. Krenzer has been a director of Rokt since September 2019 and is a member of the audit committee. He lives with his wife Pam in Southern California.

Phit Lain

Ms. Phit Lian Chong has more than 40 years of experience in leadership positions across various job functions including general management, business development, investment/divestment, mergers, and acquisitions.

In addition to her position on the Rokt board, Phit Lian is also currently an Independent Director of Eu Yan Sang International, Mega Fortris Global, and Corporate Advisor to Temasek International Advisors. She also serves as Chairman of Singapore Science Centre Global and Independent Director of Singapore Polytechnic International. Her previous commercial roles include CEO/Board member of Singapore Mint, Safe Enterprises Group, Avis Car Rental, Pacific Internet, Jetstar Asia Airways, and TigerAirways.

In recognition of her progressive business leadership and contribution to education, Phit Lian’s alma mater, University of Aston in Birmingham, awarded her the Honorary Doctorate of Science in 2018. She also attended Advanced Management Programs at Harvard Business School and Post Experience program at Wharton Business School.

Phit Lian is Singaporean, and married with 2 adult children. For leisure, she loves exploring places and experiencing the destination’s way of life and the impacts of its developments over time.

Tom Cowan

Tom Cowan is a founder of TDM Growth Partners, a global investment firm with offices in Sydney and New York. TDM invests in fast-growing companies run by passionate management teams. Its unique and flexible mandate allows them to invest in public and private companies globally. TDM has a highly focused approach to investing, with a portfolio of no more than 15 investments globally.

Prior to joining TDM, Tom worked for Investec Wentworth in corporate advisory and KPMG Corporate Finance in the mergers and acquisitions area.

Tom is a Non-executive Director of Guzman y Gomez and previously a Non-executive director at Baby Bunting Limited.

Tom holds a first-class Honours degree in Finance and Accounting from the University of Sydney.