Joe Strolz, President and Managing Partner, Curate Mobile Ltd

In multiple leadership roles with some of the world’s most innovative technology brands (Snapchat, Microsoft, AOL/Verizon), Joe’s multinational experience spans people/culture leadership, P&L management, business transformation, and market expansion. This work has been recognized through County-of-the-Year wins at Microsoft and AOL/Verizon, and by Great Places to Work as the #2 Best Workplace in Canada as measured by people engagement.

Over more than 20 years, Joe’s experience has included the worlds of platforms (digital pure-play, publishing, broadcasting), marketing, and consulting.  This broad experience has afforded Joe unique insight into the business challenges of marketers, platforms, agencies, publishers, and broadcasters, as they confront the changing expectations of consumers and audiences in a digital world.

At Snap, Joe led a team that scaled the business from “hard-to-buy/hard-to-measure” into a credible performance and audience platform delivering competitive third-party verified brand-lift and return-on-advertising-spend for hundreds of advertisers across thousands of campaigns.

While Head of Americas for AOL, Joe led the regional expansion of the business across Canada and Latin America.  Prior to this regional leadership role, Joe led the Canadian business of AOL as well as the complex global integration of Microsoft’s advertising business into AOL, resulting in the successful unification of people, process, platforms, and tools across 9 countries, including the US.

Before joining AOL, Joe led Microsoft’s advertising business in Canada, held progressively senior leadership roles at some of Canada’s largest media and technology companies, and served a two-year term as Chair of IAB Canada’s Board of Directors.  Joe remains a Board Member with IAB Canada, is a Director on the Board of Media City, and is a mentor in a variety of programs.

Joe holds an MBA in Strategic Management from the Sauder School of Business at UBC.