Board Member Category: Keynotes 2024

With over 20 years of experience in media and tech, Ryf is a passionate and visionary leader who thrives on finding and converting opportunities across all categories. He is the Managing Director for Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia at Comexposium, one of the world’s largest event organisers, where he oversees the region’s leading marketing, e-commerce and media events.

Ryf has a proven track record of building successful businesses, from launching a digital media start-up that became the largest in Australia, to delivering best-in-class digital and CRM programmes for a global professional service firm, to being recognised as Leader of the Year for Comexposium. He holds an MBA from the University of Otago Business School and has a strong network across the Asia Pacific region. Ryf’s mission is to create impactful and innovative solutions for clients and partners, and to empower and inspire his team to achieve excellence.

Tom Dover leads Microsoft Advertising Parter Sales Team in Japan, Australia, India, Southeast Asia and China (JAPAC). As part of his responsibilities, Dover is charged with deepening strategic partnerships with the region’s largest publishers & broadcasters.

Prior to Xandr being acquired by Microsoft, Tom spent eight years across both buy and sellside of the business, including his role as Director of Video Marketplace Development, APAC; Strategic Account Manager; and leading buy-side efforts in Australia and New Zealand.

Dover is a regular thought leader featured in trade publications and has offered his expertise on OTT and CTV in major industry events, including AVIA, IAB and Future of TV.

Tom Fishburne started drawing cartoons on the backs of business cases as a Harvard Business School student.

From an emailed cartoon to coworkers in 2002, Tom’s Marketoonist series has grown by word of mouth to reach half a million readers a week and his cartoons have been featured by the Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, and The New York Times. His cartoons have twice appeared on billboard ads in Times Square and helped win a Guinness World Record.

Tom is the founder of Marketoonist, a marketing agency focused on the unique medium of cartoons. Since 2010, they’ve developed marketing and internal communication campaigns for more than 200 businesses such as Google, IBM, LinkedIn, and Adobe.

Tom draws (literally and figuratively) from two decades in the marketing trenches in the US and Europe. He was Interim Chief Marketing Officer at HotelTonight, Marketing Vice President at Method Products, and worked in brand management for Nestle and General Mills. Tom developed web sites for interactive agency iXL and started his marketing career selling advertising for the first English-language magazine in Prague.

Tom is the author of “Your Ad Ignored Here: Cartoons from 15 Years of Marketing, Business, and Doodling in Meetings.” He also illustrated 3 business books with Deloitte: “Provoke” (Wall Street Journal Bestseller), “Detonate” (National Bestseller), and “Work
Disrupted.”

Tom was Cartoonist-in-Residence and lecturer for the Stanford GSB course on humor in business and is a repeat lecturer on humor at Harvard Business School. Tom spoke at the TED headquarters in New York on “The Power of Laughing at Ourselves at Work.”

Rajiv leads revenue as Finecast’s Headof Client Development & Engagement.

His role involved the development of clients and all aspects of Finecast marketing and strategic planning, as well as helping advertisers understand, plan, buy and measure addressable audiences on TV.

Rajiv is a seasoned media professional with over a decade of experience having worked with Star Network, Sun Network and Times of India. He comes with an intense understanding of the media landscape and our client’s business and is now focussed on shaping the future of TV.