Venky leads the vision and strategy to drive momentum and rapidly advance Beam Suntory’s digital agenda. His depth and breadth of experience include 15 years at Diageo, where he held global leadership roles in digital marketing, eCommerce, and digital innovation. He started and scaled business-critical partnerships with the world’s leading digital and eCommerce platforms in his time at the company. He also launched Diageo’s Technology Futures group to incubate and invest in startups shaping the future of online discovery, shopping, and brand experience. After Diageo, he cofounded Intent.ai, a SaaS platform that intuits consumer behavior from mobile networks.

Tyler has been an ad tech pioneer for nearly 20 years. He has built, grown and sold some of the largest global players in the sector. Previously Tyler was founder and CEO of Adconion Media Group alongside Kim Perell as President. They built a global digital media company with a team of 700+ people operating in 12 countries and 22 offices.

Tyler started his career as part of the founding team and seed investor at aQuantive (the holding company of Atlas and Avenue A | Razorfish) a digital marketing agency and ad serving company that became one of the industry’s biggest success stories when it sold to Microsoft for $6 billion. He is the founder and CEO of FastG8 Inc. a Demand Side Platform (DSP) that achieves superior return on ad spend for large brands by integrating all their customer and campaign data onto a single data management platform.