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Management Team & Strategic Advisors

Yuri Khidekel
Yuri Khidekel
Founder & CEO
Biography

Yuri Khidekel is the Founder and CEO of ArtsAI. Yuri is serial entrepreneur, with over 20 years of experience, building and growing technology-based start-ups.

A Russian native, Yuri moved to the United States 30 years ago working as a Senior Engineer for Visa. Soon after he founded his first company, Identicator Technology, focusing on fingerprint recognition. This was sold to Identix where Yuri became the CTO.

He then went on to start Cognizance, a security company working on multi-factor identification, which he sold to Bioscrpyt Inc in 2005.

Since founding ArtsAI in 2011, Yuri has helped grow the business into a major innovator in the ad tech space, with the goal of helping publishers send users the right message at the right time and fully automating the process along the way.

Lynn Power
Lynn Power
Advisor
Biography

Lynn has spent almost 30 years in the advertising world and now is a co-founder of a consultancy, The HMS Beagle, focused on helping brands navigate the journey to survival (not a given these days!).

She is spending time these days launching a premium haircare line, MASAMI, inspired by a Japanese ocean botanical. She has been fortunate to work on amazing brands throughout her career including Hershey, Clinique, Campari, Kohler, American Express, J&J, T. Rowe Price and loads of others.

Lynn is passionate about empowering talent and helping organizations embrace change.

Joseph Jaffe
Joseph Jaffe
Advisor
Biography

Joseph Jaffe is a multiple author, serial entrepreneur, consultant, speaker and thought leader on marketing, innovation and change.

Joseph is Admiral at the HMS Beagle, a strategic consultancy that helps its clients navigate the journey to survival... because we’re all in the survival business nowadays! HMSB is Jaffe’s third startup venture, after Evol8tion and Crayon.

He has worked with the likes of Pearson, Nestle, Mondelez International, Keurig Doctor Pepper and many more.

He recently joined West Virginia University’s Reed College of Media as an instructor in the Integrated Marketing Communications graduate program, writing a course on brand evolution strategy.

Norm Page
Norm Page
Advisor
Biography

Norm is the founder of Same Page Capital and a proven successful entrepreneur, investor, and product-driven sales leader with over twenty-five years of media & marketing expertise across a multitude of business practices, engagement models, and advertiser verticals. Norm spent twenty-two of those years creating commercial successes specific to start-ups and emerging technologies in adtech/martech, specifically RTB and programmatic trading platforms, systems, and environments.

His work has yielded (3x) IPO + (7x) Exits and well over $7B in shareholder value.

After 30 years in San Francisco, Norm and his wife moved to the mountains of Bozeman, MT.

Erik Lundberg
Erik Lundberg
Chief Revenue Officer
Biography

Erik Lundberg is ArtsAI’s Chief Revenue Officer, overseeing sales, biz dev, partnerships & marketing. A 25-year industry veteran, Lundberg was a Charter Member of the IAB and MMA.

Lundberg has a proven track record driving rapid business growth for digital media companies. He increased revenue 2400% at Kleiner Perkins funded pogo.com (acquired by EA), and 350% annually at NativeX (acquired by Mobvista).

Lundberg founded the AddRev agency, working with major marketers including American Express & Electronic Arts, co-founded the Pier 50 agency, and worked in interactive television at US West (now CenturyLink). He graduated with a double major from Middlebury College.

Vijay Chattha
Vijay Chattha
Advisor
Biography

Vijay Chattha is the Founder and CEO of VSC, a strategic content and communications firm based in San Francisco and Brooklyn. Vijay has pioneered an aggressive and creative approach to brand building as an investor and marketing partner, with a track record of establishing dominant technology brands across many industries

The firm has represented 375+ brands, encompassing 3 IPOs, 7 unicorns, and 44 startups that have exited such as AdMob, MoPub, Drawbridge, Smaato and others.

VSC has earned industry accolades with 100+ communications awards including the Holmes Report’s Sabre Awards, the Stevie Awards, and a Bulldog Stars of PR Award.

Brian Mikalis
Brian Mikalis
Advisor
Biography

Brian has spent twenty years working in digital media sales, starting at AOL in the late nineties and currently as the SVP of National Sales at Firefly.

Prior to Firefly, he was the SVP of Monetization at Pandora where he launched and ran the Inside Sales team, the Programmatic Sales team, the Direct Response Sales team and the Partnership teams, which collectively generated over $1B in ad revenue.

Brian was an early client of ArtsAI and credits them for generating over $100M in incremental revenue for Pandora. He’s passionate about bringing solutions to publishers to help them innovate, thrive and succeed.

Nick Pahade
Nick Pahade
Advisor
Biography

Nick Pahade is the CEO of CrowdHere Inc. and a General Partner at Same Page Capital. Nick brings nearly two decades of leadership experience across media and digital agencies, e-commerce, and technology platforms focusing on unlocking the power of technology as part of an integrated approach to media.

Previously, Nick was the President and CEO at Initiative North America, responsible for the agency’s U.S. and Canadian operations. Prior to working at Traffiq, Nick was President of TrueAction – part of e-commerce and online tech provider GSI Commerce. His impressive career in digital marketing also saw him co- found Beyond Interactive Inc. which he successfully sold to Grey Global Group/WPP.

Nick is active in the venture capital area serving in both an advisory role and angel investor to a variety of industry start-ups and thrilled to be part of the ArtsAI team.