Terence “Terry” Kawaja, is the Founder and CEO of LUMA Partners, a strategic advisory firm with a singular focus on digital media and marketing. He is a seasoned investment banker with more than 20 years’ experience and has advised on more than $300 billion of transactions, including some of the most pivotal deals in the media and tech industries. Throughout his career, Terry has leveraged his deep industry knowledge to take a strategic approach to deal making rather than chase transactions. The best compliment people say is that he thinks like a principal.

At LUMA, Terry advises both established media and technology companies as well as digital growth companies. He is a recognized expert in the Internet and digital media sectors and is a popular speaker at leading industry conferences. Terry has a straightforward style and is never afraid to tell it like it is. He also likes to keep things light by using humor to aid substantive presentations.

Prior to founding LUMA, Terry was Co-Head of Digital Media at GCA; Global Head of Media M&A at Citigroup and Credit Suisse First Boston; and CFO of Raindance Communications (publicly traded). He received an MBA from the Schulich School of Business of York University, a JD from Osgoode Hall Law School, and a BA in Economics from the University of Western Ontario.

When not negotiating deals or telling jokes, Terry enjoys a variety of activities from skiing to water sports. He lives in New York City with his wife and their two sons.

Brian Andersen is the Co-Founder and Head of Digital Marketing Investment Banking of LUMA Partners, a strategic advisory firm with a singular focus on digital media and marketing. Brian is a seasoned strategy, corporate development, and mergers and acquisitions executive based in the firm’s Silicon Valley office. With a decade on the buy-side of strategic acquisitions, Brian has extensive experience setting strategy, executing acquisitions and successfully integrating acquired companies.

Prior to LUMA, Brian was Vice President, Corporate Development for Omniture, the leading web analytics and web optimization company, responsible for all mergers and acquisition activities (acquired by Adobe for $1.8 billion). Prior to Omniture, Brian was Vice President, Corporate Development at Interwoven, a leader in web content management and document management (acquired by Autonomy for $775 million). Before Interwoven, he was a member of the executive staff at Phoenix Technologies, where he was responsible for corporate development, government affairs and special projects for the CEO. Brian was also formerly with Robertson Stephens, a technology-focused investment bank, in its mergers and acquisitions group.

Brian received a Bachelors of Science degree in mechanical engineering from UC Davis and an MBA from the Anderson School at UCLA. He used to consider himself an athlete, having been a two-time All-Conference defensive end for UC Davis and a member of the ski patrol at Alpine Meadows in Lake Tahoe.

Brian resides in Palo Alto with his wife and three children. These days Brian finds himself coaching or cheering from the sidelines for his two boys and daughter at Palo Alto baseball and water polo games. On occasion, he does escape to the mountains for some skiing or mountain biking, or to the coast for some surfing.

Mark Greenbaum is a Partner and Head of Mergers & Acquisitions of LUMA Partners, a strategic advisory firm with a singular focus on digital media and marketing. Mark is a highly accomplished M&A expert who has spent his entire career providing strategic advice to technology companies. He has been based in Silicon Valley for more than twenty years and is based in LUMA’s Palo Alto office.

Prior to LUMA, Mark spent more than a decade at GCA where he was a Managing Director focused on mergers and acquisition and was also a member of the firm’s Management Committee. At GCA, Mark led a number of the firm’s leading transactions across the digital media, software and mobile ecosystems. Prior to GCA, Mark was a Vice President with Morgan Stanley’s technology M&A group in Menlo Park, California, and was previously a manager with Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneurial Services Group based in Palo Alto, California.

Mark graduated with honors with a BS in Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley where he was a four-year member of the men’s volleyball team. He still considers himself a loyal (if often frustrated) Cal fan. He returned to UC Berkeley’s Walter J. Haas School for his MBA – as apparently he didn’t get it right the first time.

Mark lives in Menlo Park with his wife, two daughters, and one huge dog named Dave. He has been known to occasionally “work” from Tahoe.

Dick Filippini is a Partner of LUMA Partners, a strategic advisory firm with a singular focus on digital media and marketing. At LUMA, Dick heads up the firm’s coverage of the mobile sector, with a particular focus on the app economy. Prior to joining LUMA, Dick was a Managing Director at GCA and Head of Mobile Technology. Before his tenure at GCA, Dick worked in various roles at Optical Capital Group, WR Hambrecht + Co., Volpe, Brown, Whelan & Co., and UBS.

Dick graduated with a BA in Political Economy from the University of California at Berkeley and also received a Masters in Business Administration from UC Berkeley’s Walter A. Haas School of Business. In addition, he has a Diploma in Accounting and Finance from the London School of Economics.

Dick resides in San Francisco. A Chicagoan by birth he is still an avid Cubs fan. “Go Cubs, Go!”

Gayle Meyers is the Head of Strategic Partnerships at LUMA Partners, a leading investment bank and adviser with a singular focus on digital and the creators of the renowned LUMAscape. At LUMA, Gayle leads overall marketing, branding, communications, and partnership strategy. She also frequently serves as a featured keynote speaker at LUMA client events and industry conferences.

Gayle is an accomplished leader in the digital space, working closely with both agencies and enterprise brands, and has more than 20 years' experience in digital media and marketing as CEO, CMO, and CGO. Gayle brings a wealth of knowledge and experience on the tech side of our industry and, most importantly, a view from the eyes of leading industry CMOs. Her passion for marketing and building connections across this fragmented, complex, and dynamic digital ecosystem is a common thread across her past and present endeavors.

Prior to joining LUMA, Gayle was Founder and CEO of Digital Media Review and Industry Index, which provides ratings, review, research, and management consulting services across the advertising technology landscape for CMOs. Before that, she served in a variety of strategy, business development, and leadership roles at Conversant (acquired by ADS), DoubleClick (acquired by Google), AOL (acquired by Verizon), and 24/7 Media (acquired by WPP).

Gayle also sits on the Board of Directors at Tinuity, an award-winning digital marketing agency that has expanded its Board of Directors in support of accelerated growth following the announcement of a partnership with Mountaingate Capital. To further extend Elite's expertise, the company announced the acquisitions of OrionCKB, Email Aptitude, and CPC Strategies which will help bring an integrated performance marketing approach to leading consumer brands across the triopoly of Google, Facebook, and Amazon.

Originally trained as a professional chef, Gayle lives in Old Greenwich, CT where her life now revolves around keeping her children and their even finickier-eating dog and cat properly nourished.