Welcome to
Microsoft Advertising
Spring Summit

Kya Sainsbury-Carter leads the Microsoft Advertising Sales & Marketing team, serving advertisers and publishers with an omnichannel, multiformat, global advertising offering. With employees around the globe, the team empowers monetization for Microsoft, key partners and the open web. This scale has helped propel advertising across Microsoft to more than $18 billion in annual gross revenue. 

Kya has been with Microsoft for more than 17 years, all in the advertising business. She has held leadership roles across Sales, Strategy, Operations and Partner Management, as well as across all channels and customer segments. She has built her brand on bridging from strategy to execution, synthesizing the complex into the actionable, high impact collaboration and servant leadership.

Tim Frank is Corporate Vice President of Microsoft AI, leading product monetization for Microsoft’s AI portfolio, including Copilot, Bing, Edge, and MSN, as well as gaming and networking. His teams focus on building closed-loop business models that make AI innovation commercially durable and beneficial for users, developers, and partners alike.
 

Prior to Microsoft, Tim spent more than a decade at Google, where he led the development of industry-first AI products including Performance Max, Optiscore, and generative assistance tools that collectively drive more than $75B in annual revenue. With over 20 years of experience spanning AI, engineering, and global product strategy, Tim is passionate about connecting technology innovation to sustainable business impact.

Dr. Rukmini Iyer runs Microsoft Advertising’s engineering organization, managing a multi billion-dollar marketplace globally. Her team develops AI-driven product features, machine learning & auction algorithms, and very large-scale distributed infrastructure for a global advertising ecosystem. 

She actively supports the Microsoft AI community and is on the Technical Advisory Board for Microsoft Research (India). She is also on the Microsoft Bay Area Board of Directors, focused on the growth & development of the Microsoft Silicon Valley community.

Jacob Andreou is dedicated to advancing Microsoft AI’s Copilot product and driving growth across consumer AI properties. In his role, Jacob oversees the Product Management, Design, and Growth functions for Copilot, ensuring seamless integration across diverse surfaces and spearheading the evolution of Microsoft’s consumer AI offerings.

Before joining Microsoft, Jacob served as a General Partner at Greylock for two years, where he supported founders building the next generation of AI-focused consumer companies. Jacob’s career at Snap spanned over eight years, where he led Product, Design, and Growth playing a pivotal role in scaling Snapchat’s user base from 80 million to over 360 million daily active users and revenue to over $4.5 Billion.

Jacob holds a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Computing from Queen’s University.

Jordi Ribas, Ph.D., is President of Search & AI at Microsoft, leading the product, engineering and growth teams for Bing worldwide including experiences, maps, platform and search grounding. Dr. Ribas also oversees the Microsoft AI team in China which contributes across the Microsoft AI portfolio (Bing, Edge, MSN and Copilot). 

Dr. Ribas and his team were responsible for the launch of Bing Chat, Copilot and Copilot Pro which were foundational for the new Gen AI era of Copilots at Microsoft. Dr. Ribas's team continues to contribute advanced search grounding (RAG), Responsible AI, and other search technologies to Copilot, and their innovations are being leveraged across the company in products and services in Azure, Office and Windows.

Julia Beizer has spent her career at the intersection of news and technology. As content businesses underwent significant transformation over the last two decades, Julia has pioneered innovative new user experiences and unlocked new revenue opportunities across subscriptions, advertising and licensing. For the last three years, she has served as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Digital Officer at Bloomberg Media, building a $100M+ subscription business through new product experiences and content expansion. She was named to the ADWEEK 50 in 2025.

Prior to Bloomberg, Julia was head of product, design and engineering for HuffPost, spent a decade at The Washington Post in both product and news, and served as an adjunct professor at Columbia Journalism School teaching a class on news product.

She lives in Brooklyn, NY, with her husband, two kids and an oversized husky mix.

Jonathan Stringfield (he/him/his) leads Global Revenue & Business Planning. Previously, he was VP, Global Business Research & Marketing at Activision Blizzard where he led the global team responsible for creating impactful in-game advertising experiences, supplying studio teams with evidence-based insights to drive innovation, delivering industry-leading research and measurement solutions while driving best-in-class marketing activations. 

Prior to this Jonathan was Director, Marketing Insights and Analytics at Twitter, an early member of Facebook’s measurement solutions research team, and he began his career leading demographic research for Nielsen’s TV and media research services. 

Nikhil Kolar is Vice President at Microsoft AI, driving Microsoft’s strategy to empower publishers build sustainable and durable futures in the human and agentic web. He leads initiatives that empower global publishers to thrive in an AI-first world through innovative monetization models, strategic partnerships, and cutting-edge marketplace solutions. His team focuses on building scalable infrastructure for content and commerce across emerging agentic surfaces, ensuring publishers can operate efficiently and sustainably in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.

Previously, Nikhil held senior leadership roles at Microsoft in product and engineering for MSN and Bing, where he delivered transformative growth, and at Amazon, where he scaled global video shopping experiences. His career also includes leadership at Oracle and Marchex, and consulting at Strategy&.

Recognized for his ability to combine technical depth with strategic vision, Nikhil is a trusted leader in AI-driven monetization, publisher engagement, and digital ecosystem transformation.

Kelton Lynn is Vice President of Consumer Ad Platforms at Microsoft AI, where he leads product, engineering, and UX teams building scalable monetization and inventory solutions across consumer and enterprise surfaces. 

Previously, Kelton held senior product leadership roles at Google & YouTube, WeWork, Segment, and Twitter, driving large-scale platforms across advertising, APIs, SaaS, and growth. He brings deep experience translating complex systems into durable business impact.

Pallavi Naresh is Vice President of Advertiser Experience at Microsoft AI, where she leads the Advertiser Platform team responsible for the strategy and execution of core advertiser-facing products across Microsoft Advertising. 

Her team builds AI-powered solutions spanning campaign creation, insights, automation, and creative experiences to help businesses grow at scale. Previously at Google, Pallavi led major Ads and Commerce innovations, including Generative AI creative tools and experimentation platforms.

Jen Spies is a Partner in Product Management for Commerce at Microsoft, where she leads product strategy and platform development for AI‑powered commerce across Microsoft Copilot and Microsoft consumer products. Jen focuses on building scalable, trusted commerce capabilities that connect businesses with customers through intelligent, integrated agentic commerce solutions.

As a Partner at The Future Hunters, a globally renowned futurist consultancy, Erica makes the future approachable and relevant. With over two decades of experience, Erica is expert at deciphering global trends, helping cross industry leaders navigate the future with clarity and purpose. Erica’s talent for transforming complexity into clear, tangible insights has made her a trusted partner to clients around the world. She empowers leaders to make bold, confident decisions in a rapidly changing world by equipping them with the tools to recognize patterns and master uncertainty. 

As a sought-after keynote speaker, Erica delivers dynamic presentations that cut through the noise to uncover actionable insights. She sparks fresh thinking, inspires new opportunities, and equips audiences with pragmatic strategies to future-proof themselves and their businesses. She has spoken at TEDx and keynoted over 300 conferences around the world, including in Europe, Latin America, and Asia. 

Author of AI + The New Human Frontier: Reimagining the Future of Time, Trust + Truth (Wiley, 2024), Erica offers a visionary exploration of how the exponential rise of AI not only represents a fundamental paradigm shift, but will redefine the human experience, enhancing ingenuity and imagination. Her work has been spotlighted in Wired, NPR, Bloomberg, and CBS This Morning. Recognized as one of the world’s 50 Top Female Futurists in 2020, Erica continues to galvanize audiences to embrace change, act decisively and shape what’s next.