Mike Bregman has been appointed chief data officer of Havas Media Group (HMG) North America. Based in New York, Bregman will serve on HMG’s North American executive leadership team.
Bregman joins HMG after other recent leadership appointments across North America with Meghan Grant, recently named chief strategy officer, and Amy Ginsberg, as the chief investment officer.
Peter Mears, Global CEO, said of Bregman, “He has spent his career building AI-driven, consumer platforms from the ground-up, across a multitude of categories and industries. His experience will further strengthen our data integration across the Mx System, delivering on our brand promise of creating more meaningful media experiences for consumers.”
Bregman joins Havas with 20 years of experience leading data and analytics teams. His career has focused on building proprietary AI-driven personalization and next best experience engines, bespoke consumer-360 and attribution modeling platforms, and various real-time cross-channel reporting, planning and media optimization systems.
Bregman remarked, “The Havas Media Group Data team is well positioned to evolve and scale to meet the ever-growing needs of our clients. HMG’s proprietary media optimization, attribution, reporting and audience planning tools are actively delivering real, meaningful value. I look forward to enhancing our specialization in advanced analytics, providing powerful insights to fuel growth for our clients and sharpening our meaningful media brand promise.”
Prior to joining Havas Media Group, Bregman was with Accenture as global managing director leading customer, marketing, and sales analytics within Accenture’s Applied Intelligence unit. In his role, he was responsible for evolving the unit’s offerings and innovative go-to-market strategy across 20 regions, and developing a community of over 1,000+ data scientists. Prior to Accenture, Bregman also held senior roles at Dentsu, MediaCom, SymphonyIRI, Kantar Retail, and uSell.com.
Full Lineup Set For AFI Fest; Official Selections Span 44 Countries, Include 9 Best International Feature Oscar Submissions
The American Film Institute (AFI) has unveiled the full lineup for this year’s AFI Fest, taking place in Los Angeles from October 23-27. Rounding out the slate of already announced titles are such highlights as September 5 directed by Tim Fehlbaum, All We Imagine As Light directed by Payal Kapadia, The Luckiest Man in America directed by Samir Oliveros (AFI Class of 2019), Zurawski v. Texas from executive producers Hillary Clinton, Chelsea Clinton and Jennifer Lawrence and directors Maisie Crow and Abbie Perrault, and Oh, Canada directed by Paul Schrader (AFI Class of 1969). A total of 158 films are set to screen at the 38th edition of AFI Fest.
Of the official selections, 48% are directed by women and non-binary filmmakers and 26% are directed by BIPOC filmmakers.
Additional festival highlights include documentaries Architecton directed by Victor Kossakovsky; Cheech & Chong’s Last Movie directed by David Bushell; Devo directed by Chris Smith about the legendary new wave provocateurs; Gaucho Gaucho directed by Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw; Group Therapy directed by Neil Berkeley with Emmy® winner Neil Patrick Harris and Tig Notaro; No Other Land directed by a Palestinian-Israeli team comprised of Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor and Hamdan Ballal; Pavements directed by Alex Ross Perry; and Separated directed by Errol Morris. Notable narrative titles include Black Dog (Gou Zen) directed by Guan Hu; Bonjour Tristesse directed by Durga Chew-Bose with Academy Award® nominee Chloë Sevigny; Caught By The Tides directed by Jia Zhangke; Hard Truths directed by Mike Leigh with... Read More