FIPP Insider New York

Nina Wagner is Group Vice President, Publishing & Operations, of Alive Publishing Group (APG) and Canada Wide Media. Joining APG in 2011, Nina oversees all areas of Operations, including Content, Design, Digital, and Production. She’s managed the successful execution of multiple strategic transformations, including post-acquisition operational integrations with the delicious living, CNHR, and Live Naturally brands.

Yulia P. Boyle is a seasoned global media executive with a career spanning major corporations like Disney, 21st Century Fox, National Geographic, and Macmillan. She has extensive expertise in creating innovative, long-term partnerships among leading global media entities, such as NatGeo, Nikkei, and Penguin Random House. Yulia is the founder of YPB Global, a boutique strategy firm advising media, ed tech, and telecom businesses on market expansion, partnerships, and content acquisition.

With 16 years at National Geographic, she transformed its global partnership strategy into a thriving, inclusive business. Yulia serves on the Supervisory Board of Silknet Telecommunications, focusing on corporate governance and social responsibility. She is also the first female Chair of FIPP, a global media association, where she champions innovation and diversity. Boyle holds a master’s in public management from Indiana University and a bachelor’s from the Linguistics University in Yerevan, Armenia.

Kati Murto represents UPM, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of graphic paper, as Vice President, Marketing, Sustainability, and Communications. Kati is board member at FIPP and has a genuine passion for reading. She loves magazines of all kinds and is a keen promoter of printed communication with strong background in advertising and marketing. For the past three years, Kati has worked to promote the value of paper as a sustainable medium for trust, impact, learning, and inspiration. In her current position, she promotes sustainability as one key element in ensuring the future of print in an ever-evolving digital world. 

Christopher Berardelli is President of Media Horizons. Chris has spent much of his career in the paper, print and digital media businesses at Media Horizons, Lindenmeyr Central, LSC Communications, and RR Donnelley. He is a sales executive at heart with a proven record of new business development and portfolio growth. Combining sales with his financial background, he has created measurable results for clients of all sizes.

Chris earned his BS from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Michael Smith is the co-founder and technical lead at Darwin CX. He has a proven track record in architecting and implementing, and customer-centric solutions within successful, ROI-driven, business models. He is experienced in cloud-first application architecture, team leadership, and digital marketing, and is dedicated to optimizing the customer experience. Michael has founded and sold two successful start-ups and worked with an array of clients, including Hockey Canada, the Coaching Association of Canada, Zoomer Media Limited, and the Canadian Tire Corp.

Alastair is a former Managing Director at Haymarket and Future PLC running some of the UK’s best known consumer media brands including Autocar, Stuff, FourFourTwo, How It Works and What Hi-Fi? amongst others. His 20 years in media have seen him focus on Digital Brand Development, Content, Audience and Commercial Growth as well as International Business Development and Partnerships, Digital Subscriptions, E-Commerce and Affiliate revenues. 

Having launched FIPP Consulting in 2023, and in June 2024, Alastair became FIPP CEO.

Dr. Jon Roberts is Chief Innovation Officer and has been with People Inc. since 2013. He previously held roles as President, Health & Finance where he oversaw strategy for Verywell, Health, Parents, Investopedia and The Balance. He also held various senior leadership roles including Head of Data Science, where he derived insights from more than 20 years of Internet data across thousands of topics. Prior to joining People Inc., Jon spent 10 years as a theoretical physicist focused on making dark matter predictions for the hadron collider at CERN, and cosmic ray predictions for the AMS detector on the International Space Station. He also worked on the Pierre Auger telescope in Argentina.
Dr. Roberts received his Ph.D. at the University of Southampton and his M.A. from the University of Oxford.

Annelies Jansen, Chief Business Officer at ProRata.ai is a perceptive and dynamic leader, skilled in building businesses, capturing profits and expanding into new markets. ​

Starting her digital career in Media she developed teams and strategy that digitised both the Times of London and The Telegraph to become profitable leaders in online whilst expanding their footprint. She launched Europe’s first streaming service at ITV. Followed by founding a leading digital Media company, SUP with a successful exit. She was CEO at Find my past where she grew the business through consolidation and M&A (6 transactions).

Annelies served on the Board and audit committee of TMG a multi-channel media company, (AEX-listed public company), NBTC, The marketing agency for The Netherlands (private/ public partnership), Trader Media East, Multi-channel classifieds business operating in 10 countries ($526M LSE-listed public company) and Sofi Health as Chairman (independent fiduciary corporate board). She currently serves on the board of NAF (Non Profit) 

Paul Gerbino is the President and Founder of Creative Licensing International. He is an expert in digital, content strategy, licensing, product development, advertising, and copyright protections. His expertise is noted with an exemplary track record of transforming low-performing projects into highly profitable revenue streams. Evident in creating and launching innovative digital media products and advertising programs for B2B, B2C, STM, and academic publishers. Paul is passionate about helping publishers improve their performance, productivity, and profitability in the evolving digital landscape.