In addition to founding Brindle and Associates, a media and leadership consulting firm, Shelley is a Global Ambassador for Vital Voices, serving as a mentor for emerging women leaders around the world, is a founding member of Plum Alley Investments, a member of the Committee of 200 (C200), W.O.M.E.N. in America, and a regular participant at Fortune’s annual Most Powerful Women Summit. She is a Board member for Philo, a next generation streaming television solution named by Fast Company as one of the “World’s Most Innovative Companies 2014,” and also serves on the tri-state regional Board of Playworks, the Westfield Day Care Center, and previously served on the President’s Working Group on Culture at the University of Virginia. Shelley is also a volunteer and committee member for Home For Good Dog Rescue.

Shelley holds a BA in Rhetoric and Communications Studies/History from the University of Virginia.  She lives in Westfield, New Jersey with her husband Kip, their three children and any number of foster dogs waiting for a good home.

At NowThis, Exarhos oversees content distributed on all platforms and brand strategy, and reports to Co-Founder and Chairman Kenneth Lerer. At LHV, Tina advises the Fund on marketing strategies and consults with LHV’s portfolio on their go-to-market branding and marketing strategies.

Founded in late 2012 by Kenneth Lerer and Eric Hippeau, NowThis is the number one video news publisher across the social web (according to Tubular Labs) and currently has more than 1.6 billion video views a month across all its social channels with more than 8 billion monthly impressions.

NowThis is the leader of the Distributed Media Model – producing and distributing video natively to social feeds and platforms where it is consumed. NowThis produces platform appropriate content, providing audiences timely and relevant news in a format that is visually conducive to the social platform.

Having worked in the Television Talent department for over 20 years, Gates has been instrumental in both growing the agency’s television talent operations, as well as developing and packaging successful network and cable series.  Since moving to New York, she has helped the agency build its operations from four to more than 100 employees.

Among a long list of clients, she represents such talented actors as Samantha Bee, Lake Bell, Jason Biggs, Liv Tyler, Susan Sarandon, Zosia Mamet, Sarah Paulson, Tim Daly, Paul Giamatti, Michael J. Fox, Patrick Dempsey, Anna Friel, Elizabeth Hurley, Brooke Shields, Kenan Thompson, Wilmer Valderrama, David Tennant and Natalie Dormer.

Gates is active in the UTA Foundation and with her alma mater Barnard College/Columbia University. She is married and has a 12-year-old daughter.

Before assuming her current leadership role at New Form in 2014, Grace served as head of creative development for YouTubeSpace LA, a studio dedicated to YouTube content creators and collaboration. While at YouTube, Grace was the driving force behind the concept, build out and development of the company’s YouTube Space initiative, establishing studios in London, Tokyo, Los Angeles and New York.

Prior to joining YouTube, she was vice president of production and programming at Next New Networks, which was acquired by YouTube in 2011. In this capacity, she oversaw the production of original series and spearheaded projects with emerging online talent. Grace has also created several notable web series as an independent producer, including the critically acclaimed The Burg and Vuguru’s mockumentary, The All for Nots.

Grace attended McGill University and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Earlier in her career, Grego held leadership positions at The Hollywood Reporter and TelevisionWeek and was a staff reporter covering TV at Variety. She has provided perspective about TV and media on CNBC, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News Channel, NPR, ABC News, Yah? oo, “Access Hollywood” and “The Insider” and was a special correspondent for “Extra.” She’s a frequent moderator of Q&As and panels on TV, media and entertainment, as well as women-in- business topics. Twitter: @melissagrego LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/melissagrego

Prior to joining Discovery in this capacity, Howard served as a strategic virtual reality advisor for several digital-focused companies, including Discovery. Previously, Howard served as General Manager of Video at The New York Times, where she was responsible for developing and growing the company’s video content across platforms, overseeing content strategy, branding, marketing and distribution, and leading the launch of Times Video, which received an Emmy nomination for Modern Love and an Emmy win for A Short History of the High-rise. She also led the launch of New York Times VR and oversaw the launch of the company’s first VR film, Walking New York, created in partnership with Chris Milk. Howard also previously served as Head of Development at AOL/Huffington Post Media Group, where she oversaw the production, development and launch of original scripted and non-scripted series, and as VP Production, Fox Digital Studios at 20th Century Fox, where she created original programming, branded entertainment and various integrated marketing initiatives.

Howard has a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from University of Vermont. She is based in Discovery’s Los Angeles office.

Before joining ABC News, Jarvis was co-host of “CBS This Morning: Saturday,” and Business and Economics correspondent for CBS News. Prior to CBS News, Jarvis spent 3 years at CNBC reporting on market news from the New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ and the New York Mercantile Exchange. She also contributed regularly to NBC News including the “Today Show” and “Nightly News”.

Jarvis began her journalism career writing for Crain’s Chicago Business and Business 2.0. She has also worked in investment banking and foreign currency trading.

A graduate of the University of Chicago, Jarvis holds a degree in Economics and Constitutional Law. A recipient of the University of Chicago Dean’s Grant, she studied European banking and financial markets and the formation of the European Union at the Université Sciences Po in Paris, France.

Jarvis has received national recognition for her work with Colin Powell to empower children and improve communities and was named a “National Point of Light,” receiving accolades from Presidents Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush.

Before AP, Ms. Jones worked at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young where she was an executive with the Telecom Media Networks consulting practice. She earned an MBA at Stanford University and a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and applied sciences from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Prior to joining BRaVe, Jen was the EVP and US General Manager of Beamly, the social marketing platform for television which successfully sold to COTY Brands in October 2015. Beamly recruited Jen from NBCU where she was SVP, Digital at NBCU’s Oxygen network. During her tenure, she raised Oxygen Media’s digital profile to be recognized as a leader in innovation within the entertainment landscape.

Prior to Vessel, she spent five years at YouTube, most recently as the Head of Unscripted where she oversaw unscripted development, programming and production involving top creators for YouTube Originals. Additionally, she led the YouTube Content Accelerator, global content investments and investment strategy at YouTube. Ivana began her time at YouTube as the Pop Culture lead for Original Programming where she oversaw the launch of over 25 YouTube original channels such as WIGS, Awesomeness TV, The Nerdist, SourceFed, Young Hollywood and more.

Ivana holds a bachelor’s degree in science with a concentration in finance from the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia.

Melton was previously the senior vice president of entertainment marketing and branding for TBS, TNT and Turner Classic Movies (TCM). In this role, she was responsible for the brand strategy and creative development of marketing in support of the networks’ brands and programming. She was also responsible for all digital/social strategy and initiatives for the networks.

Since joining TBS in 2004, Melton supervised high profile, innovative and socially driven marketing campaigns, including award-winning work for the launch of TBS’s late-night series CONAN.  She championed and led the initiative to bring Conan to ComicCon in July 2015 for his first-ever week of live shows from that fan-centric event.  She led the strategy and development of the TBS social media re-branding initiative, which resulted in dramatic growth for the brand against all key social metrics.  She has also overseen extraordinary campaigns for TBS’s original comedy series Cougar Town, Family Guy, American Dad, and Conan, secured the TBS position as the leading network for 18-34 and 18-49 audiences. She has also led campaigns for The Big Bang Theory on TBS, which has ranked as basic cable’s #1 off-net sitcom for four consecutive years. Among Melton’s first achievements for the network was marketing the hugely successful Sex and the City launch, a key component in the network’s re-branding campaign as a comedy network.

In 2006, Melton’s duties expanded to include TNT. She has since led award-winning marketing initiatives for some of the biggest hits on cable, including The Last Ship, Legends, The Closer, Rizzoli & Isles, Falling Skies, Major Crimes and Dallas. She led the innovative Dallas campaign with a focus on social media, including the award-winning JR Ewing Facebook initiative.  She led her team in the marketing for TNT’s summer lineup, which included the blockbuster hit The Last Ship, the compelling crime drama Murder in the First and the thriller from Howard Gordon, Legends.  Melton recently won a Gold PromaxBDA Award for the viral “Don’t Kill Sean Bean” social media campaign for the launch of Legends.  Additionally, Melton led the brand strategy refresh for TNT with a new focus on thrilling drama and a new tagline:  TNT. Boom.

Melton began overseeing TCM marketing in 2007. In that time, she led the development of a life-style marketing brand strategy leveraging the passion brand status of TCM.  This resulted in the expansion of the brand to include an annual film festival franchise, the TCM Classic Film Cruise, retailer partnerships with Bloomingdales and a robust digital streaming site.  She has also overseen the marketing for the network’s high-profile documentary series Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood and the U.S. television debut of the 15-part series The Story of Film: An Odyssey. She also oversaw the marketing for TCM specials, like the Night at the Movies collection of genre documentaries; major programming initiatives, like 31 Days of OscarÒ and Summer Under the Stars.

Melton also served on the Promax/BDA board for the past three years. She is also a member of CTAM: Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing and Women in Cable Television (WICT), and is on the Advertising Advisory Board for the University of Georgia, Peabody School of Journalism.  Additionally, Melton served on the Entertainment Advisory board for Viggle,

Melton joined Turner after serving as vice president of marketing for Lifetime Television, where she was responsible for all aspects of consumer, affiliate, ad sales and synergy marketing for Lifetime, Lifetime Movie Network and Lifetime Real Women. During her tenure at Lifetime, she successfully launched two new original series, Wild Card and 1-800-Missing. She also developed the marketing plan for the most successful special in Lifetime’s history, The Golden Girls Reunion.

Before Lifetime, Melton served as vice president of marketing for Oxygen Media, overseeing consumer and affiliate marketing and advertising for the Oxygen network, from its launch in 1999 until October 2002. She developed marketing campaigns for successful launches of original series, acquisitions and movies, including Oprah: After the Show, Xena: Warrior Princess and movies@oxygen. Melton also created and launched marketing events, including the Oxygen Tank Tour, a national grassroots tour traveling to more than 40 markets.

From 1997 to 1999, Melton served as vice president of marketing for Food Network, overseeing all marketing initiatives for the network, including branding and advertising, national consumer promotions, programming stunts, national events and cross-promotional partnerships. Melton’s other positions included serving as vice president of marketing and promotions for Channel One Network in New York (1995-1997) and manager of promotions and communications for Channel One Communications in Knoxville, Tenn. She began her career as marketing development specialist for the Whittle Educational Network, a division of Whittle Communications. Melton holds a bachelor’s degree in English literature from the University of Montevallo in Alabama.

Prior to MOME, Menin served for two years as Commissioner of the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA), the nation’s largest municipal consumer affairs agency. As DCA Commissioner, Menin launched groundbreaking initiatives to protect consumers and was instrumental in launching and leading the Paid Sick Leave Law, the Small Business Relief Package to reduce fines on businesses, and the implementation of the Living Wage Executive Order.

Under Menin’s stewardship, DCA achieved a remarkable turnaround by reducing fines on businesses by one third while increasing consumer restitution by 70 percent. In addition, she launched the City’s first expanded Earned Income Tax initiative, creating an outreach program that resulted in an extraordinary 50 percent increase in New Yorkers using the City’s free tax centers and returning $260 million to low income New Yorkers. Menin also launched innovative legal investigations into not-for profit colleges, debt collectors, and other industries preying on New Yorkers.

For nearly two decades, Menin has been a pioneering leader in support of the City’s economic development. As a small business owner impacted by September 11th, she founded and ran Wall Street Rising, a non-profit devoted to promoting and sustaining businesses in lower Manhattan. Wall Street Rising assisted hundreds of local businesses and organizations identify and apply for government assistance programs which enabled more than 600 of them to stay in business. In 2002, Menin worked with Jane Rosenthal and Robert de Niro when they launched the first Tribeca Film Festival, and through Wall Street Rising, initiated the large scale cultural and economic development projects Art Downtown and Music Downtown, which brought thousands of people to Lower Manhattan and greatly supported the small businesses in the area.

In 2005, Menin was elected to Chairperson for Community Board 1, a position she held for seven years and was widely acknowledged for her help in leading the revitalization of lower Manhattan. During her tenure as Chairperson, she helped build three new public schools, numerous new parks and secured $150 million of public funding to construct the World Trade Center Performing Arts Center. In 2009, she created, hosted and co-produced NBC’s Give & Take, an interview program focused on politics, current events, media and health. In 2013, she ran for Manhattan Borough President.

An accomplished lawyer and community leader, Menin began her career in 1992 as a regulatory attorney at Wiley, Rein & Fielding in Washington D.C., and worked as Senior Regulatory Attorney at Colgate-Palmolive in New York City beginning in 1995.

>Menin has received numerous awards recognizing her leadership, including the National Association of Women Business Owners Community Service Award, the Women’s City Club of New York “City Spirit Award,” the New York League of Conservation Voters “Public Service” award, City and State’s “40 Under 40” award, the Women’s Campaign Fund’s “Rising Star” award, the New York State Senate’s “Women of Distinction” award, and Citizen Union’s “Civic Leadership” award. Menin has served on the boards of the Municipal Art Society, Governor’s Island, the National September 11th Memorial & Museum, the World Trade Center Performing Arts Center, and is currently on the board of Public Service at Harvard College, the Paley Center for Media and NYC & Company.

Menin earned her B.A. Magna Cum Laude at Columbia University and her J.D. at Northwestern University School of Law. She lives in Manhattan with her husband and three children.

Prior to her current new role, Miller was general manager of NBA Digital and senior vice president of Turner Sports Strategy/Marketing/Programming, where she oversaw the day-to-day operations for the NBA Digital portfolio, which includes NBA TV, the league’s 24-hour digital television network, NBA.com, WNBA.com, NBA League.com, NBA League Pass; and the league’s broadband and wireless businesses. Miller’s duties as senior vice president of Turner Sports Strategy/Marketing/Promotions included managing relationships with league partners, Turner networks and their digital extensions, as well as the strategic planning and scheduling of on-air sports programming and developing marketing programs for the division’s linear and digital properties. Previously, she was senior vice president of Cartoon Network Enterprises (CNE) and directed Turner’s youth and young adults consumer products and home video business in the United States, including global licensing partnerships and merchandising strategies and retail business development for Cartoon Network and Adult Swim properties.

Miller joined Cartoon Network Enterprises in 2005 and was responsible for building the division’s first global, multi-property, strategic partnership which brought the entire Cartoon Network portfolio of toys to market. She also launched CNE’s first consumer products franchise Ben 10, overseeing the development of the property in all key categories. Under her direction and in addition to managing the licensing of all Cartoon Network and Adult Swim original series, CNE expanded its role in to third-party licensing through strategic partnerships that built on the division’s core competencies.

Before joining Turner, Miller served as senior vice president of brand licensing for HIT Entertainment, responsible for brand strategy and licensing for classic preschool brands including Thomas & Friends™, Barney, The Wiggles™ and Bob the Builder™.

Miller won a national Emmy award in 2015 for her multi-platform series following a group of high school dropouts trying to turn their lives around at the National Guard’s Sunburst Youth Challenge. The series was prominently featured on the “CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley.” Miller has also been honored with a Radio and Television News Directors Association’s Edward R. Murrow Award and two National Association of Black Journalists’ Salute to Excellence awards. She was voted Woman of the Year by the National Sports Foundation, and in 2014, TV Week named Miller as one of the “12 to watch in TV news.” Miller contributed to CBS News’ duPont-Columbia award-winning coverage of the Sandy Hook shooting in 2012.

Miller was part of the team that covered the Royal Wedding of Prince William and the former Kate Middleton in London in 2011. She also provided extensive reports on the George Zimmerman trial; the rape investigation of former International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the Occupy Wall Street movement and was first on the scene for CBS News during the Penn State sex abuse scandal.

She has interviewed global leaders, politicians, artists and celebrities, including President Bill Clinton, Oprah Winfrey, former Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev, Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai, renowned artist Peter Max, Beyonce, John Goodman, Tony Bennett, James Earl Jones, Lenny Kravitz, LL Cool J, Carlos Santana and violinist Yo-Yo Ma.

Miller earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Howard University and studied abroad in Kenya and Tanzania. Miller also holds a master’s degree in urban studies from the University of New Orleans.

Her career in broadcast and print journalism includes work at the Los Angeles Times, the Star Tribune in Minneapolis, WWL-TV in New Orleans, WIS-TV in Columbia, S.C., the Orange County Newschannel and ABC News Nightline in Washington, D.C. Miller also taught journalism and mass communication courses at Dillard University in New Orleans.

In addition to her reporting duties, Miller is a member of the Board of Advisors at Hampton University’s Scripps Howard School of Journalism and the Greater New York Chapter of the Links, Inc. She is a founding member of the Women’s Leadership Initiative for the United Way of New Orleans and has served on the March of Dimes National Communications Advisory Council. Previously, Miller served as vice president of the YWCA of Greater New Orleans and president of both the Black Journalists Association of Southern California and the New Orleans Association of Black Journalists.

Miller has also participated in the Poynter Institute, was a Hitesman Lecturer at Louisiana State University’s Manship School of Mass Communication, a guest panelist for the Annual H. Naylor Fitzhugh Conference at the Harvard Business School and a guest speaker for the National Model UN Program. She has spoken at several colleges including Drew University, Howard University, Wellesley College, Stony Brook University, Southern University at New Orleans and Loyola University.

Miller is married with two children.

From 2011-2013, Molen served as Executive Vice President of Network Sales for Univision Communications Inc., the leading media company serving Hispanic America. In this role, Molen led all advertising sales and marketing operations for Univision Network, TeleFuture Network and Univision Cable Networks, to an unprecedented approximately $2 billion in revenue.

Prior to joining Univision, Molen served as Senior Vice President, Strategic Partnerships for VH1 Ad Sales and Marketing at MTV Networks, a unit of Viacom. In that role, she led the network’s sales organization into cross-platform solutions and spearheaded strategies to bring advertisers into original programming. In 2010, Molen led VH1’s rebranding to advertisers and audiences, which resulted in one of the most successful upfronts in the network’s history.

Molen also previously served as vice president, National Sales Manager for both VH1 and Spike TV. Molen was a 16-year veteran of Viacom, also holding several positions within UPN and Paramount Domestic Television. Before Viacom, she held account executive positions at E! and Turner Broadcasting’s CNN/Headline News. She has also worked on the advertising agency side in buying roles at McCann Erickson and Grey Advertising.

Laura is a graduate of the S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.

Prior to WGBH, Ms. Nelson was the acting vice president of news & original programming for BET Networks, where she oversaw a range of cross-platform projects, including Battleground 2012, a yearlong politics initiative. She also served as the founding executive producer for NPR’s “Tell Me More” and as a producer for “Nightline” with Ted Koppel and “World News Tonight” at ABC News. Nelson has also served in public affairs and international development roles with the U.S. Department of State, the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition and Africare.

Blessed with nearly 20 years of success, Maria is a serious pay-it-forward give-backer – through teaching, mentoring, writing and public speaking. She’s taught at NYU, NYU Continuing Education and University of the Arts. She regularly contributes her thoughts on entrepreneurship and creativity to the likes of 99U, Fast Company, Entrepreneur and Fortune, as well as professional organizations such as AIGA and PromaxBDA. Together with her studio, Maria donates 300+ hours a year in pro bono work and mentorships.

Define Your Path, her new mentoring platform, helps creatives at all levels to develop careers and companies that accurately express their personalities and goals.

A near-native New Yorker, Maria lives in Brooklyn, but gets out often — with 60 countries on six continents under her belt, and counting.

In 2010, Schwartz also spearheaded the launch of IFC Midnight, a leading U.S. distributor of genre entertainment, including horror, science-fiction, thrillers, erotic art house, action and more, and was one of the key architects behind the launch of Sundance Selects, a leading U.S. distributor of prestige films that focuses on American independents, documentaries and world cinema.  In addition, Schwartz led the development of SundanceNow, an online destination where viewers can rent or buy the best in contemporary and classic independent films from all over world.

In 2006, Schwartz joined IFC Films with more than 20 years experience in sales and marketing.  Prior to joining the division, she served as senior vice president of national accounts and advanced services for AMC Networks National Affiliate Sales, the national distribution division of IFC Films’ parent company AMC Networks Inc.  There, Schwartz played a significant role in pioneering the introduction of IFC In Theaters and developing key strategies that maximized IFC Films’ relationship with filmmakers and MVPDs.  She also managed several national accounts including Comcast corporate for AMC Networks’ TV business units AMC, IFC and WE tv and was responsible for distribution and contract negotiations for all distributors for several of AMC Networks’ VOD services, Previously, Schwartz held various key affiliate distribution positions within the Company.

Schwartz earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Communications from Cabrini College.  She has been named to CableFAX’s Most Powerful Women, Multichannel News/WICT Wonder Woman in 2011 and Woman to Watch in 2010.  Schwartz is an alumna of CTAM University, the Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing’s executive management program at Harvard Business School.  She is a member of the Television Academy, New York Women in Film and Television (NYWIF), Women in Cable Telecommunications (WICT) and has served as board President for The Country Day School of the Sacret Heart, an all girl’s Catholic Private School in Bryn Mawr, PA.

Scott-Young’s business and philanthropic achievements have garnered recognition from a variety of organizations and publications.

When not in the office, Scott-Young enjoys time with her family and serves on the board of The Haitian Roundtable and The GrassROOTS Community Foundation. 

She was also Senior VP of scripted series/miniseries for AMC, where she shepherded the development and production on the Emmy® and Golden Globe® Award-winning drama series “Mad Men,” the Emmy® and Golden Globe® Award-winning drama series “Breaking Bad,” and the Emmy® Award-winning mini-series “Broken Trail.”

Earlier in her career, Wayne excelled in all facets of production as a screenwriter (represented by ICM), director, producer and staff writer. She began her career as part of the Rolling Stone Magazine editorial staff.

Wayne and her family live in New York. She is a graduate of Barnard College, Columbia University.