Channel Factory is a global technology and data platform that maximizes both performance efficiency and contextual suitability, delivering contextual performance for advertisers on YouTube.
The global Channel Factory team represents a deep bench of industry expertise cherry-picked from the innovation-driven worlds of digital advertising, publishing, media and technology.
In 2011, visionary founder and CEO of the company, Tony Chen opted to discontinue his studies at Rice University in order to focus his energy on creating Channel Factory. Channel Factory has since been named a Cynopsis award-winning technology innovator and one of the fastest growing companies by Inc. Magazine. Featured in the Forbes 30 Under 30, Tony is also an avid angel investor who has contributed to the successes of FabFitFun, a lifestyle subscription service, and Outreach.io, a sales technology company named by Forbes in their Next Billion Dollar Startups list in 2018.
Jed is a seasoned digital advertising executive who spearheads Channel Factory’s global strategic and commercial expansion programs. A proven leader and innovative strategic thinker, Jed joined Channel Factory after a successful career at the Washington Post where he oversaw a tripling of digital advertising revenue, helping to drive the company back into the black. In 2017, Jed was named one of Adweek’s 50 most indispensable executives across marketing, media and technology.
A digital technology industry veteran, Jenny oversees Channel Factory’s broad portfolio of brand and agency accounts. She is a media strategy success guru that achieves client satisfaction across a wide variety of verticals and regions. Prior to joining Channel Factory, Jenny was busy refining her skills at major, award-winning agencies such as OMD, GroupM, and Horizon Media.
Lauren oversees a powerful team that builds, creates, and executes marketing strategy, experiences, events, and sales efforts. Previously, Lauren worked with several leading digital companies, including Teads, Criteo, The Daily Mail, AOL, and Citibank where she became fluent in the skills essential for any brand asserting itself in the digital landscape.
Mattias Spetz brings with him over a decade of experience across the video-on-demand, digital video and broadcast TV ecosystem. Channel Factory’s constant innovation in the fields of ad software and managed service delivery are expertly served by Mattias’s legacy of managing European operations for Smartclip, a proprietary, custom video advertising distribution technology developer, and his revenue-driving charge at TV4, a Swedish media and broadcast TV company.
With 20+ years of experience in the digital industry, Paco Panconcelli has held major commercial roles across a range of leading companies including Managing Director Quantcast Germany, Vice President Sales IDG Germany and Director Product Management AOL Germany.
Having previously held senior sales and business development positions at S4M, Motorsport.com, and ESPN, Jean Haller brings two decades of experience as managing director of Channel Factory’s operations in France.
Robert Bjork is a seasoned digital media executive, with over 12 years of experience across digital video and broadcast TV advertising. With previous positions at TV4 and Smartclip, Robert brings his extensive skillset to the EMEA team where he’s responsible for building local teams in Norway, Finland and Denmark.
Roxy brings with her a wealth of experience from across the entire digital, programmatic video and AdTech space. She’s responsible for overseeing all brand and agency relationships and ensures our clients receive Channel Factory’s hallmark support, attention and ROI-driving service.
Eren has over 15 years of experience working in the financial sector, beginning in mergers & acquisitions at Lazard Freres, and moving on to hedge funds and fintech startup Seek Capital before joining Channel Factory where he focuses on building out the company’s investments and financial strategy.
Nicole McKeith has over 18 years of advertising revenue growth experience, working in Brand Partnerships for Snap, Inc. and previously at Yahoo as Head of Industry, Programmatic Sales and Strategy, Nicole deeply understands the demands that brands and agencies have for high quality digital campaigns in a quickly changing technology and content market.
Steven is an accomplished account and client relationship building expert, with over a decade of experience across the digital video media landscape at Mindshare, Tremor Video, Innovid and Yahoo before he joined Channel Factory where he oversees West coast revenue expansion and growth.
For over 15 years, George has directed ad operations for agencies and publishers, streamlining operational and optimization processes, driving contextual performance and ensuring maximum ROI for major global advertisers
Bryan brings a wealth of experience from the digital and TV advertising landscape to ensure our proprietary ViewIQ technology delivers cutting edge, intuitive and sophisticated end-to-end solutions.
Sara is a digital media strategy and operations veteran who brings with her over 10 years of experience including working at GroupM (Mindshare) and Zenith (Moxie). Sara heads up media planning strategy and execution for major global brand campaigns across all industry sectors, with deep specialties in the YouTube ecosystem.
Michael oversees key client relationships on the USA East Coast, working closely with account managers to ensure clients and their campaigns receive the full weight of Channel Factory’s strategic expertise. He joined the company at its inception from Mindshare where he ran point on the agency’s paid search initiatives.
Andrew leads our technological and product build out, leveraging more than a decade of experience building and leading large technical and operations teams and developing scalable desktop, app-based, and API solutions.
Beverly Hills, CA, USA (Headquarters)
San Francisco, USA
Chicago, USA
Detroit, USA
New York, USA
Central, Hong Kong
London, England
Stockholm, Sweden
Paris, France
Munich, Germany
Milan, Italy
Oslo, Norway
Helsinki, Finland
Kiev, Ukraine
Madrid, Spain
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Prague, Czech Republic
Warsaw, Poland
Singapore
Sydney, Australia
Copenhagen, Denmark
Channel Factory strives to nurture the very best in digital video advertising talent. Alongside our company values, we offer:
If you’re interested in building a career with us, please check out the currently open positions listed below.
