Brad Keywell is a founder and Chief Executive Officer of MediaBank LLC, a market-making and technology firm in the media buying space. He is a founder of Echo Global Logistics LLC, an enterprise transportation management firm headquartered in Chicago with eleven offices across the United States, which provides transportation procurement, management, and optimization services across all modes. He is a founder and Principal of ThePoint LLC, an innovative application that utilizes the web and the dynamics of social networking to allow people to solve problems that they could not solve on their own. Founded in November 2006, ThePoint is creating technology that can change the balance of power in the world. more >>

John Bauschard is responsible for managing operations at MediaBank. John has an extensive background in managing all aspects of software operations including product management, marketing, finance, training and support. He has held leadership roles at Computer Associates and was a founding member of Adaytum USA, an innovator in web-based planning and analytics (now part of IBM). John began his career as a consultant at KPMG. He holds a MBA from the University of Chicago, a BBA cum laude from Loyola University and is a CPA.

As chief financial officer, Nick oversees all financial operations for MediaBank's consolidated operations. Nick was most recently the CFO of InnerWorkings, Inc. (NASDAQ:INWK), a leading global provider of managed print and promotional solutions to corporate clients and among the fastest growing companies in the country. He was instrumental with InnerWorkings' successful IPO in 2006. Previously, he was VP of Finance at Wolverine Trading, one of the largest equity and options firms in the country. Nick was also a Finance Director at Halo Industries (NYSE:HMK), and he started his career at Arthur Andersen. He graduated cum laude from the University of Notre Dame, and is a CPA.

A 23-year advertising veteran, Greg Koerner is responsible for MediaBank’s sales and marketing efforts. In his role, he and his teams interface with the industry’s top marketers and their advertising agencies to identify the ways that MediaBank’s technologies can help to make them more effective and efficient. Prior to MediaBank, in his tenures at Yahoo! and DoubleClick over a decade and a half, Greg’s teams were responsible for advertising sales to marketers and agencies in the central U.S. Greg is a graduate of John Carroll University and is a guest lecturer at several Chicago area university MBA programs.

Don Baker is responsible for overseeing all infrastructure and software quality assurance operations for MediaBank. He has more than 10 years of experience architecting infrastructure solutions for web based and client server applications. Don has a proven record of building teams to manage complex infrastructure 24X7. He believes passionately in following repeatable processes for quality assurance and release management of code, building, configuring, implementing and changing aspects of the infrastructure. He also has extensive experience leading database teams in designing, implementing and tuning scalable database solutions. Don was most recently the SVP of IT Operations for OptionsXpress (OXPS), a publicly traded online brokerage.

Greg Rudin has served in various leadership roles for technology companies, including VP of Strategy for The Point, an Internet start-up; VP of Sales & Marketing for Cleversafe, Inc., an innovative data storage company, VP of Marketing/Business Development at MusicNow (sold to AOL in November 2005), and co-founder/President and General Counsel of ShopAround, Inc. He earned a B.A. in History from U of I, Champaign/Urbana and a J.D. from UC Hastings in San Francisco.

Gordon's primary responsibility is overseeing the new development and enhancements, for all O|X applications. He has over 25 years of experience in developing applications exclusively for the Advertising industry. Gordon was a Vice President and Partner at Datatech Software Corporation prior to its acquisition by Mediabank in 2007 and was the manager of the Direct Response and Client Accounting products. He began working at Datatech Software Corporation in 1989 as an applications programmer for the Network system. During his tenure he worked extensively on the following products; Network, Spot, Print, Production, Client Accounting, as well as being the chief architect of the Direct Response product. Gordon started his career at CJDS, now Harris Corporation, in 1983, where he quickly became an invaluable member of the team and a lead developer for their Production system. Gordon graduated from the State University of New York at Plattsburgh with a B.S. in Computer Science, and a minor in Mathematics and Philosophy.

As Executive Vice President of Professional Services, Drew Kane is singly focused on providing a superior level of service to our clients. His team is responsible for project management and implementation, customer support and educational services. Drew’s prior roles as North American Application Director and VP, Business and Information Technology Solutions for MediaCom/GroupM have provided him with extensive media industry experience and a keen understanding of agency needs. He started his career at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) and has spent the last 18 years in Information Technology and project management positions that have focused on building and implementing technology and business solutions. Drew graduated summa cum laude from New York University with a B.S. in Economics and minor in English.