Doug is the CEO of CivicScience Advertising, a company founded to leverage the scaled, responsibly sourced, highly actionable dataset of CivicScience in advertising. Powering next-gen audience solutions in a rapidly evolving, privacy-first open internet, the new company provides value to users, brand marketers and content creators in a permissioned and regulatory compliant fashion without dependence on third party cookies. Prior to starting this new venture, Doug launched the programmatic business of Media.net and built it to a top ad platform as SVP & GM. He has spent over twenty years in media spanning various leadership, strategy and partnership roles for platform technology and branded content-driven enterprises at various stages from start-up to corporate. Doug has earned an MBA from NYU’s Stern School of Business and lives in Laurel Hollow, NY with his wife and two children.