First NAB Digital Event – Build a Common Language for TV and Digital
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Lorne Brown
Last week, I was in Las Vegas, chairing the first ever NAB Digital event. More than 80 people came from the leading television media companies to discuss the convergence of TV and digital media. The theme that permeated nearly every conversation was the increasing role of data, and the urgent need for standards as TV companies move into a more addressable, fragmented digital market. Data is part of the conversation in TV Up Fronts now, and providing advertisers with a competitive product was on everyone’s mind.
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Lorne Brown
CEO
Lorne Brown is CEO at Operative, delivering the world’s leading business management solutions for media companies. Lorne is focused on providing media companies with profitable advertising capabilities that scale across TV, digital, and more. Lorne was the founder and CEO of Operative, Inc., a digital advertising management company, which was acquired by SintecMedia, a TV ad and content management company, at the end of 2016. SintecMedia rebranded to Operative in 2018. Lorne's expertise in providing premium media companies with innovative, flexible business management solutions has helped in to grow the combined company from an outsourced ad ops provider to a global enterprise with products that traffic over $40 billion in digital advertising.
Previously, Lorne worked as Vice President of Sales and Operations at several financial services and technology companies, including BCJ Systems and Royal Blue Technologies, where he oversaw implementations and client partnerships for a web-based trading system. He took the workflow automation knowledge he gained from the finance world and brought it into digital media, creating the first real ad business management platform that spans the process from quote to cash.
Lorne has a degree in Finance and Management Information Systems from the State University of New York at Albany. You can find him on Twitter – @LorneBrown.
