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Yanna-Torry Aspraki
Deliverability Specialist & CBDO, Email Consul

Sitting on the executive team at the intersection of Product, Growth, and Sales, YT helps drive the company forward in a market in desperate need of accessible and reliable deliverability tools, while representing EmailConsul in places email & deliverability have never been before.

Scott Burdsall
Engagement Director, FCB Health

Scott Burdsall is an Engagement Director at FCB Health. Prior to FCB, Scott worked at Trendline Interactive as a Vice President of Strategy and Strategic Practice Lead, leading initiatives for clients such as adidas, Pfizer, Atlassian, AARP, US Air Force, Banfield Pet Hospital, Under Armour, American Diabetes Association, Cars.com, and others. He is a consultant specializing in outbound messaging and CRM best practices.

Scott graduated from The University of Iowa and lives just outside of Chicago, Illinois with his wife and two children.

Alison Cross
Vice President Marketing Communications, Ontario SPCA

Specializes in not for profit marketing and communications, social media, and crisis management.

Over 15 years of marketing and communications leadership.

Justin Frechette
Manager, Email Deliverability & Compliance, iContact

Experienced Email Deliverability Analyst with a demonstrated history of working in the anti-abuse/anti-spam and email compliance industry.

Co-Chair of Senders’ Committee for M3AAWG. Skilled in email marketing best practices.

Alison Gootee
Compliance and Deliverability Enablement Principal, Braze

Alison Gootee is a Deliverability and Compliance Enablement Principal at Braze–a customer engagement platform that powers relevant, personalized customer experiences in real-time. With over 7 years of experience at various ESPs, Alison knows exactly what it takes to avoid the spam folder and get mail into the inbox. Alison’s favorite color is rainbow, and her favorite food is all of them.

Steven Harroun
Chief Compliance and Enforcement Officer (CCCE), CRTC

Steven was appointed Chief Compliance and Enforcement Officer (CCCE) for the CRTC in 2016. He is responsible for enforcing the Unsolicited Telecommunications Rules, Canada’s Anti-Spam Law as well as the Voter Contact Registry. As a CCCE, Steven’s leadership approach is to promote compliance with relevant laws and regulations through education and, where necessary, to encourage and enforce their application through traditional or innovative approaches.

Phil Hill
Associate Manager, Retention Marketing, Door Dash

Phil is a seasoned email marketer with experience spanning across industries. Most recently, he’s helped scale a start up from early stages to a publicly traded, 1.5 billion dollar company – growing the footprint of their email program from one country to ten. Phil is passionate about innovative email strategy and has an healthy obsession with program organization and process efficiency.

Amit Kothari
CEO, Tallyfy

Amit is obsessed with making workflows really easy for teams – through software that’s amazing and simple. He’s the co-founder and CEO of Tallyfy – a cloud platform that automates tasks between co-workers and clients. He’s spent a decade on the practical side of process improvement, with deep experience in tech and Computer Science. He’s originally British and lives in St. Louis, MO.

Derek Lackey, CIPM
Managing Director, Newport Thomson

Derek is Managing Director of Newport Thomson, a data protection & privacy Trusted Advisory firm based in Toronto. Offering CASL, PIPEDA, GDPR, ePrivacy and CCPA/CPRA full compliance services or review programs, Derek and his team can bring a client into compliance quickly and with the least amount of change to their systems. Derek is also the Chairman of the Response Marketing Association.

With more than 30 years of marketing and advertising experience, he is focussed on data protection & privacy and its effect on the brand. The author of CASL Compliance: A Marketer’s Guide to Email Marketing to Canadians, he looks to simplify the implementation of new data management practices within organizations such that they comply with global laws while taking good care of their prospects and customers. Derek believes making compliance practical makes compliance feasible.

He is very active in the privacy community chairing the Guidance Committee, Canadian Advisory Council – GDPR, co-chair, IAPP Toronto Chapter – 2020/2021, committee member on ISO 31700 – Privacy by Design for Consumer Products, the CEN CENELEC JTC 13 on Cybersecurity and Data Protection and the new Standard Council of Canada’s initiative – Data Governance Standardization Collaborative (DGSC) as well as being a Committee member of the CIO Strategy Council’s Privacy – Part 1: Qualification and proficiency of privacy and access control professionals initiative.

Educated in Marketing at University of Toronto, Derek applies creativity to his business strategy while placing a strong emphasis on results. At one point in time, seven of the nine brands handled by his ad agency were #1 in their categories in Canada. Clients have included Air Canada Vacations AGFA Film, Arthur Andersen & Co., Canon, Pioneer Electronics, Koss, The Salvation Army (Thrift Stores).

 

Lauren Meyer
Chief Marketing Officer, SocketLabs

Lauren brings 16+ years of experience in the email industry to her role as Chief Marketing Officer for SocketLabs. Throughout her career, Lauren has helped small and large-scale senders get the most out of their email marketing programs, working with various ESPs and email technologies. Having focused mainly on the areas of deliverability, anti-abuse and compliance, Lauren is a vocal advocate for having a proactive, data-driven approach to email best practices and deliverability monitoring as a means to optimizing email performance and the recipient experience.

Clea Moore
Principal Product Manager, Yahoo

Clea recently joined the Yahoo Mail team as a Principal Product Manager, bringing her 11+ years of experience on the sending side of email to her role. She is responsible for the development of products and features that support senders and improve the consumer experience in Yahoo Mail. Prior to Yahoo, Clea guided major brands with their email deliverability strategy at Oracle, Sparkpost and Return Path (now Validity).

Varun Srinivas
Director Of Email Deliverability and Compliance, Maropost

With more than a decade of experience in email marketing with focus on deliverability and ISP relations, Varun has extensive knowledge and deep understanding of email standards and best practices. Varun works with brands to understand and remain in compliance with anti-spam legislation and mailbox providers sending policies. Over the years, Varun has worked with leading Email Service Providers (ESPs) including Yesmail, Inbox Marketer (now Shift Paradigm), and TC Media. During my tenure with these organizations, I was responsible for overseeing billions of commercial and transactional email deliveries for several of the world’s largest marketers and agencies.

Bob Sybydlo
Sr. Director, Marketing Technology & Transformation, ENVERTAdigital

Bob Sybydlo is a Digital Marketing Technology and Strategist with over 15 years of experience working with companies of all shapes and sizes to identify, achitect, and delivering solutions to optimize efficiencies, and driving industry-leading metrics and market penetration.

As a consultant, Bob has worked to help businesses define their business objectives, match them with the right custom SaaS strategies, mapping and implementing technology solutions, and to leverage best practices and industry trends to drive effectiveness and KPIs. 

Bob has been cited as a Deliverability expert by various publications – including VentureBeat, Forbes, DMNews, 1&1, MobileMarketer, etc.. – and has spoken publicly on topics such as email design and execution methodologies, maximizing deliverability and target effectiveness, accessibility and best practices on journeys and user engagement.

Aki Temiseva
Chief Marketing & Development Officer, Children Believe

Born in Finland, raised in Zambia, and engaged as a C-level senior executive across four continents, Aki Temiseva is a global citizen who believes that the world is becoming a better place. And he’s making that happen for children in need at home and abroad—one marketing initiative at a time.

A visionary leader with over 20 years of experience building businesses and non-profits, Aki thrives in organizations that, like him, dare to dream big and disrupt the status quo for a reason: to create tangible solutions that measurably improve people’s lives.

Currently, Aki serves as Chief Marketing and Development Officer for Children Believe where he leads domestic fundraising, marketing, communications and public relations. Since joining in 2019, he has revitalized the organization, spearheading the successful rebrand of Christian Children’s Fund—a 60-year household brand—to Children Believe, a cutting-edge leader in children’s education worldwide.

Aki holds an MSc in international marketing from Finland’s Aalto University. Tri-lingual in Finnish, Swedish and English, he has lived in Africa, Asia, Scandinavia, the U.K. and the U.S.A. prior to making a home with his family in Toronto, where he enjoys an evening at the opera or a good game of hockey.

Matthew Vernhout
Founder Canadian Email Summit, VP Deliverability, Netcore Cloud

Matthew Vernhout (@emailkarma) is Netcore’s Vice President Deliverability (Americas region). Apart from being a digital marketing and privacy advocate, he is also the chairperson of the ANA’s Email Experience Council. He also holds the role of a Director-at-Large with the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email (CAUCE.org). Additionally, Matthew is the Communications Chair with the AuthIndicators Working Group (BIMIGroup.org), founder of the Canadian Email Summit (emailsummit.ca), and co-founder of GradeMyEmail.co.

Apart from these many roles, Matthew is a trusted industry expert, recognized as the 2019 EEC thought-leader of the year and is a Certified International Privacy Professional (Canada) (CIPP/C).

Matthew speaks frequently at email marketing and technology conferences around the globe, and maintains his celebrated blog, EmailKarma.net.

Naiomi West
Product Marketing Manager – Parcel, Customer.io

Naomi is an Email Marketer with over six years of experience working in the B2B SaaS space, including roles at Braze, Later, and Bill.com. She additionally consults with small and medium-sized businesses to implement best practices, personalize their email programs, and drive engagement. She is passionate about leveraging automations to scale relationship building and has created emailcharacters.com, a chrome extension that previews subject line length to determine if it will cut on on various devices.

Brian Westnedge
Sr. Director, Americas Channels, Red Sift

Brian leads Americas Channels for Red Sift, which provides a fully automated DMARC and BIMI implementation and enforcement solution called OnDMARC, bringing easy, accessible, and trusted messaging to all sized organizations. He has worked in the DMARC space since its inception, has over 15 years of experience in deliverability, security and authentication, and can be found on Twitter @bwestnedge commenting on email, security and other topics.

Jing Zhao
Senior Manager Performance Marketing, Pet Valu

Jing Zhao is the Senior Manager of Performance Marketing at Pet Valu, the market leader in pet specialty retail. She leads the brand’s media and investment strategy with the focus on driving omnichannel growth and acquisition.

In the CRM world, Jing and her team are focused on bringing personal, memorable, and connected moments that devoted pet lover experience in-store to their online touchpoints

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