Kubient announced the formation of its Board of Directors, which will provide strategic guidance and expertise to enable Kubient to successfully scale as it seeks to become the leading cloud-based infrastructure in the rapidly growing digital advertising industry. This diverse group will help Kubient achieve its goal of bringing much needed marketplace efficiency, transparency and fraud protection to the space. Along with Kubient's CEO Peter Bordes, and founder and Chief Strategy Officer, Paul Roberts, the inaugural appointments include the following individuals: Elisabeth DeMarsemost recently served as President and CEO and chairman of the Board of TheStreet, Inc., where she led efforts to diversify TheStreet from a B2C ad-supported retail stock picking business to a B2B global M&A, data and news businesses. Prior to that, DeMarse was CEO and president of CreditCards.com. Grainne Coen brings to bear expertise honed from operating in multiple industries as a strategic consultant and early stage investor, as well as advising investors regarding potential investment opportunities. Coen is a Founding Partner of Elevation Investment Partners, and spent most of her career in asset management, including 15 years at the multi-billion-dollar investment firm Columbia Partners, L.L.C. Jeannie Mun has a proven record in managing strategy, finance, accounting, HR, and legal functions at fast-growing tech and software companies. Her expertise focuses on streamlining business operations that drive both top line and profitability, alongside capital raising, M&A, investment banking and strategic consulting experience. Toby Smithserved most recently as Founder and Managing Principal of Alexander, Smith & Company, where he developed start-up capital strategies and execution.
Kubient, Inc. is a technology company. The Company provides Audience Marketplace, a cloud-based software platform for real-time trading of digital, programmatic advertising. Its platform enables advertisers and publishers to transact directly with each other on an open, end-to-end real-time bidding platform for programmatic digital advertising. Its advertising inventory on its platform is available in any channel: desktop, mobile, digital out-of-home, and connected devices; and in any format: video, display, audio, and native. Its fully integrated audience platform provides a fraud-minimized, transparent, independent advertising marketplace that facilitates intelligent decision-making, and automated transaction execution for the programmatic advertising industry. Its platform offers a machine learning fraud prevention solution, extremely low latency times and an audience management platform, which provides omni-channel access into all advertising channels, inventory and ad formats.