Erik Requidan and Kerel Cooper started Minority Report Podcast in May of 2018 as a way of highlighting people of color, women and LGBTQ+ communities within business, media, and technology. Since that time we have created one of the largest catalogs of leaders who share insights and experiences gained throughout their personal and professional journeys.
Meet your founders & hosts
Kerel is the Chief Marketing Officer at GumGum, a contextual-first, global digital advertising platform that captures people’s attention without personal data. Kerel leads all marketing activities that help evolve the brand, increasing revenue, awareness, and relevance amongst target audiences. Kerel is also an adjunct professor at Kean University, teaching digital and sports marketing. Cooper is an award-winning executive with 20+ years of digital media experience building Advertising Operations, Account Management, and Marketing teams. Previously, Kerel served as President of Advertising at Group Black and Chief Marketing Officer at LiveIntent. He is the co-founder and co-host of the Minority Report Podcast, highlighting people of color, women & LGBTQ+ leaders within business, media, and technology.
He has been widely recognized for his leadership and innovation. In 2021, Kerel was included in Crain's New York Business Notable Black Leaders and Executives list and was selected as the Adweek Readers’ Choice: Best of Tech Diversity Advocate of the Year award. He also won the Diversity Advocate of the Year Award at the Campaign Tech Awards and the Award of Excellence by the Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts in 2021.
LinkedIn: Kerel Cooper
Twitter: @kerel_cooper
Meet your founders & hosts
Erik is the Founder and CEO of Media Tradecraft, a full service ad management and adtech firm and Principal at Tradecraft Advisory, a programmatic advertising advisory. Erik works directly with Publishers, brands, agencies, dsps, exchanges and ad technologies. He is widely regarded as one of the top programmatic experts in the country. He’s a frequent contributor to publications like Beet.TV, The Drum, AdAge, AdExchanger and Digiday, and collaborates with industry groups and associations like the IAB MIXX, AAF DC and AdExchanger Programmatic IO workshops. Erik is affiliated with and active on many exchange advisory councils. He also serves as a strategic adviser to several top ad tech companies helping them to improve their tech for both buyers and publishers.
LinkedIn: Erik A Requidan
Twitter: @Requidan
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