Grow Your Career - Industry Leaders
Grow your professional network and learn from industry leaders. Many more to come!
Emem Adjah
Head of Yield - Monetization Strategy at Spotify
Emem Adjah is an advisor, aspiring author, and techy who aspires to change the world, while traveling it. Currently she leads yield monetization strategy globally at Spotify, and is responsible for driving revenue of emerging sales channels through optimization strategies and ad product development. Before Spotify, she acquired ten years of experience in the tech industry working for Twitter, Snap, Bloomberg, and AOL.
Tatiana Kuzmowycz
Global Creative Director at ClassPass
Tatiana Kuzmowycz is a creative director, strategist and writer. Currently with ClassPass, the world’s leading fitness network, she leads a multi-disciplinary creative team tasked with developing everything from micro-product copy to full-scale advertising campaigns. She’s big on strategic storytelling — using narratives to drive business impact and human connection. It’s no surprise then that she started her career as a copywriter, working with Viacom, MTV Networks, Cyndi Lauper's True Colors Fund, Women’s Campaign Fund and The Museum of Arts and Design, among others.
Allison Nye
VP Ops at Birchbox
Allison Nye currently leads Ops at Birchbox, a New York City-based online monthly subscription service that sends its subscribers a box of four to five selected samples of makeup, or other beauty related products. From starting her career at Anthropologie and discovering her passion for working at stores, to developing Birchbox’s first retail strategy - Allison has continuously pushed herself to navigate in a world of uncertainty and ambiguity.
Nikki Bogopolskaya
Brand Partnerships at TikTok
Nikki Bogopolskaya leads technology and finance partnerships at TikTok. Previously, she was the VP of Partnerships at Social Studies, a boutique influencer marketing agency; the co-founder of Area 25, a new line of acupuncture studios in NYC bringing modern Chinese wellness to the people; and an integral part of the business team at tech companies including Foursquare, Evite, Match.com and HowAboutWe. She's a registered yoga teacher passionate about the whitespace between IRL and URL connections, building on a mission to scale self-improvement. She currently consults for early-stage companies in the wellness, CPG, and fitness space; and manages the social media handles for her Australian Shepherd puppy, @SirFrankieDiamond.
Talent Leads
Priya Patel
Talent Acquisition at Google
Priya Patel works in Talent Acquisition at Google, focused on hiring for Google and YouTube's Marketing Organizations. After college, Priya knew she wanted a career in which she would be able to help and inspire others and she found that in recruiting. She is passionate about helping to build teams that drive diversity and inclusivity.
Amanda Mulay
Director of Talent at Lerer Hippeau
Amanda Mulay is Lerer Hippeau's Director of Talent. She joined from Andreessen Horowitz, where she focused on recruiting talent for technical roles for startups in stealth through later-stage companies. She previously worked in talent operations at First Round Capital and Twilio. Amanda is a graduate of the University of San Francisco, where she majored in communications.