NYIAX, Inc. announced significant changes to its leadership and board of directors, reaffirming its commitment to strategic growth and innovation. Stepping into the role of CEO in January, Ms. Teri Gallo is now a newly appointed board Director. Teresa Gallo was appointed the Company?s Chief Executive Officer on January 19, 2024.

In 2023 Ms. Gallo founded Assemblage Digital, a boutique advisory firm focused on digital marketing, commercial strategies, and revenue development for technology companies. From May 2020 to May 2023, Ms. Gallo served as Executive Vice President and General Manager at Kinneso, a technology driven marketing and advertising agency and affiliate of Interpublic Group of Companies, Inc. (?IPG?), in New York, New York. Ms. Gallo led Kinneso?s global marketplace team and was responsible for organization design, strategy, operations, revenue delivery, partnerships and market expansion of its business.

From December 2018 to May 2020, Ms. Gallo served as Chief Digital Officer for Orion, a subsidiary of IPG, where she oversaw Orion?s worldwide digital business and designed the roll-out and implementation of Orion?s programmatic advertising platform for publisher and advertiser utilization. From October 2013 to July 2018, Ms. Gallo served as Senior Vice President at OpenX, a programmatic advertising platform for publishers, advertisers, and agencies. Ms. Gallo was responsible for OpenX?s global corporate business development for publishers and advertisers.

Prior to joining Open X, Ms. Gallo was a founding executive at Cadreon, IPG?s first global programmatic agency and she spent over a decade at AOL in leadership roles. Ms. Gallo currently serves on the board of directors of the Rutgers University Center for Innovation Education, where she participated in framing the direction and growth of the Rutgers?s Innovation Center and its Professional Science master?s degree in data. Ms. Gallo brings three decades of leadership in advertising and technology and has been instrumental in driving organizational transformation.

Joining Ms. Gallo on the board are three new independent directors. Each distinguished professional is recognized for their extensive contributions in the finance, technology, and global business arenas. Mr. Bruce Cooperman, currently serving as Managing Partner at Nereus Advisors, LLC, joins NYIAX as a Director.

Bruce Cooperman is currently serving as Managing Partner at Nereus Advisors, LLC, a management and operational consulting services company, and has served in this role since January 2014. He founded Nereus Advisors in 2014 to provide financial and operational advisory services to businesses across two primary domains ? financial technology and B2B business software services.

Using his experience in management, corporate governance, capital raising and strategic investing, Mr. Cooperman provides insight and support to both management and investors. His clients are companies in the early or mid-stages of development that want to take advantage of opportunities for company-building and process development. Mr. Cooperman previously served as the Chief Financial Officer of Clearpool Group (?Clearpool?), an electronic trading software provider and independent agency broker dealer, where he was responsible for the finance, treasury, tax, legal, human resources and other administrative functions.

Mr. Cooperman helped Clearpool grow and scale through strategic and operational development, directed several equity and debt capital raises, and was integral in the sale of Clearpool to BMO Financial Group in April 2020. From November 2011 to January 2014, Mr. Cooperman was the Chief Financial Officer of AppNexus, Inc., a Delaware company, where he guided AppNexus through a rapid growth stage in its development and maturation. From February 1999 to November 2011, Mr. Cooperman was Chief Financial Officer of International Securities Exchange, Inc. (?ISE?), a Delaware company, where he directed ISE?s initial public offering in 2005 and facilitated the sale of the company to Deutsche Borse AG in April 2007.

From May 1997 to February 1999, Mr. Cooperman was Senior Vice President at the Board of Trade of the City of New York. From May 1993 to May 1997, Mr. Cooperman was Director of Finance and Information Technology at Fischer, Francis, Trees & Watts, Inc., an investment advisory services company, where he directed the global operations of the finance and technology divisions. From May 1984 to May 1993, Mr. Cooperman was Vice President in the Finance Division of Credit Suisse.

Mr. Cooperman has served on the boards of not-for-profit and private companies and has been management liaison to audit and compensation committees. He is well versed in best practices of corporate governance, risk management and compliance. Mr. Cooperman is a graduate of the Ohio State University, where he received a B.S. degree in Accounting and Computer Science in December 1980.

He lives in Ashville, North Carolina, with his family.