Stephanie Famolaro

Stephanie is the Senior Director responsible for leading the Business Development team in Australia and New Zealand and spearheading the API/Platform Customisation initiative across Asia Pacific. In her role, Stephanie is instrumental in building key relationships with leading agencies and brands to develop solutions that help solve advertisers’ unique challenges. She joined the company in 2017 as Director of Business Development and API and is now a part of the core leadership team at The Trade Desk in Australia and New Zealand.

Prior to The Trade Desk, she was the Head of Demand at AOL Platforms and was one of the founding employees of the Ad Tech start-up Adap.tv. With over a decade of industry-related experience in publisher, network and ad technology businesses, Stephanie is a regular on the industry speaker circuit on topics ranging from the power of data and identity to the future of marketing, advertising and technology.

An advocate for a more transparent media ecosystem, in 2020, Stephanie was named one of AdNews’ 2020 Emerging Leaders and was the winner of the Champion of Change category in the B&T Women in Media. In 2021, Stephanie won the Women Leading Tech Mentor Award. She is also a member of the Women in Media NSW Committee.