CORPORATE HERITAGE AWARD

NBCUniversal
www.nbcuniversal.com

NBCUniversal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production, and marketing of entertainment, news and information to a global audience. NBCUniversal owns and operates a valuable portfolio of news and entertainment television networks, a premier motion picture company, significant television production operations, a leading television stations group, world-renowned theme parks, and a suite of leading Internet-based businesses. NBCUniversal is a subsidiary of Comcast Corporation.

CORPORATE DISRUPTOR AWARD

LiveIntent
www.liveintent.com

Founded in 2009, LiveIntent helps Brands connect with people across the digital ecosystem, ensuring that the data flows back to Brands, not away from them. LiveIntent combines the best of advertising technology with the world's most powerful and trusted marketing channel: Email. By pairing this technology with our global team of customer-centric email experts and data scientists, LiveIntent helps the Brands they partner with create new revenue streams, drive net-new sales, and increase their understanding of their audiences.

FINANCIAL INNOVATOR AWARD

Michael Loeb
President and CEO
Loeb.nyc

Michael Loeb is a serial entrepreneur and the founder & CEO of Loeb.nyc.

After starting his career at Time Inc., Michael co-founded the Synapse Group with then partner, Jay Walker. Under Michael's direction, Synapse grew to become the largest seller of consumer magazine subscriptions worldwide, with its patented credit card-based Continuous Service model. Michael and Jay went on to incubate Priceline.com at Synapse, leveraging a shared team of operations and capital.

When Synapse Group was sold to Time Warner for $800mm in 2006, Michael formed Loeb Enterprises with partner, Rich Vogel to ideate and develop new business concepts. The largest of those ventures was ScriptRelief, a first of its kind pharmacy discount provider that has a membership in excess of 12 million Americas which saves patients billions on their prescriptions. ScriptRelief was recently sold to United Healthcare for an undisclosed amount.

As of 2019, self-funded Loeb Enterprises, rebranded to Loeb.nyc, is building and managing a portfolio of over 20 curated companies, most of which are domiciled at Loeb headquarters in Manhattan and half of which are executions of Loeb concepts. Under Michael's leadership, Loeb.nyc has established a new model for startups. By pairing exceptional strategic and executional talent with passionate founders, and CEOs plus capital. Loeb.nyc significantly derisks startup launches of the 20 companies, Loeb expects enough bonafide unicorns to populate a small corral.

EDUCATION AWARD

NYU Stern School of Business
www.stern.nyu.edu

The Marketing Department programs and initiatives at the Stern School of Business, New York University includes the Entertainment, Media and Technology Program, the NYU Stern CBS Media Analytics Initiative, and the newly launched Stern Fashion Lab.

Ranked as one of the top five departments in the world based on research productivity, our department boasts of over 100 publications in the last three years, about two-thirds of which are in top-tier scholarly journals.

Stern Marketing's faculty consists of 29 full time professors, 4 affiliated faculty, and 50+ adjuncts hailing from all corners of the globe; our countries of origin include Australia, Belgium, China, India, Japan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, and more. In addition, ten of our full-time professors are female-identified and tenure-track (five are Full Professors and four are in the Quantitative Marketing area).

The wide variety of our faculty's substantive, theoretical and methodological research interests run the gamut from traditional perception, memory, attitudes, and context effects to judgement and decision-making, econometrics, machine learning, text mining, stochastic modeling, neuroscience, empirical industrial organization economics, and social networks. Faculty engage in cross-disciplinary research using a mix of experiments and secondary data, blurring boundaries between traditional consumer behavior and quantitative marketing research.