Husani is a start-up veteran who has spent over twenty years building, creating and developing world-class experiences, online and offline, that bridge the gap between art and science. His agency experience includes Wieden + Kennedy, Cutwater and Droga5 on clients including Disney, Google, Nike, Target and Heineken. On the start-up front, he cofounded cultural newsletter Flavorpill, modern furniture company Atlantico USA, and more recently, GoldBean, a fintech startup focusing on women, millennials, and POC. Named an Adweek Creative 100 in 2020, he was also appointed to the Board of 600 & Rising, and has shared his expertise at The White House, ad;tech, and SXSW, among others. As the Chief Technology Officer at Deutsch New York, Husani works alongside strategy, media and creative departments to spearhead technology efforts for clients such as AB InBev, Reebok and Johnson & Johnson.

Lisa Ryan Howard is a Senior Vice President at The New York Times, responsible for the generation of advertising revenue from The Times’ products across all categories and platforms. She joined the Times in February 2016 and has more than 20 years of strategic media experience, including revenue and sales leadership, digital content strategy, general management and business strategy. Prior to her appointment at the Times, she was Executive Vice President of consumer strategy at WebMD, where she served on the executive team and was responsible for strategic revenue initiatives including video, social and mobile. Before joining WebMD, Howard was Business Lead, Lifestyles at Yahoo, where she was responsible for the company’s portfolio of nine lifestyle content businesses.                                     

Howard has served as an advisory board member to multiple digital startups in the fashion, entertainment and lifestyle space and as an adjunct professor, she has taught digital advertising at New York University’s Stern School of Business. She is a fellow at The University of Georgia School of Journalism and was the recipient of The University of Georgia’s Henry W Grady Mid-Career Achievement Award in 2012. And, Howard was recognized in 2017 among the prestigious “40 Over 40," ten years after being recognized as one of Advertising Age’s “40 Under 40.”