About - Zignal Labs

Executives

The leadership team at Zignal Labs is composed of industry veterans from the fields of media, public relations, marketing and technology.

Adam Beaugh

President

Adam’s creativity, technological knowledge and sound intuitive thinking are the driving force behind Zignal Labs product offering. As a leading web developer and social/digital media strategist, he has led many high profile technology campaigns from the ground up. Beaugh’s career has spanned transforming the website for the Governor of Texas to serving as the Director of Digital Communications for Jackson Family Wines.

Josh Ginsberg

CEO

Josh Ginsberg has utilized his extensive political, PR, and public affairs experience to expand Zignal to help customers instantly see conversations and stories taking place across all media. Ginsberg is a veteran of three presidential campaigns, including President George W. Bush and Governor Mitt Romney as well as a longtime political adviser to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, serving as his deputy political director on the 2006 re-election campaign.

Chris Krook

CFO

Chris serves as Zignal’s CFO, managing the financial strategy of the company along with the accounting, legal, facilities and IT functions. During his 20+ years as a CFO, Chris has grown the internal operations for several successful enterprise software and venture-backed SaaS companies such as GuideSpark, InQuira, Comergent, Connectify and NetGravity. Chris began his career as a CPA after graduating from the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Bill Kiriakis

CRO

Bill leads field operations at Zignal Labs to ensure our prospective customers, clients and partners receive maximum value out of our products and services. Bill has held leadership sales roles over the past 18 years focused on digital marketing, analytics and business intelligence at high growth companies such as Adobe, Omniture, Coremetrics and AgilOne.

Jamie Lee

VP of People and Culture

Jamie leads Zignal Lab’s people team. She is responsible for both the strategic and operational initiatives around culture, recruitment, and people engagement. Prior to Zignal, Jamie served as the Head of People, USA for Cathay Pacific Airways. She also built and led HR teams for Giant Creative Strategy (now Evoke Giant) and Perfect World Entertainment.

Jon Dodson

VP of Engineering

Jon brings more than 15 years of experience in engineering leadership. Prior to joining Zignal Labs, he managed technical strategy and execution for Set Media (Epsilon/ADS), using machine learning and classification to contextually target video advertising. Jon started his career in PDX after graduating from Reed College with a degree in physics.

Jennifer Granston

Head of Strategy & Insights

As Zignal’s Head of Strategy & Insights, Jennifer turns data into actionable intelligence to help brands make more informed decisions. Jen has more than 20 years of industry experience, including holding several senior executive positions at WE Communications, most recently Global COO and President Insight Analytics. Jennifer’s experience includes leading client accounts, driving agency rebranding and directing global marketing efforts.

Megan Wilcock

Senior Director, Customer Success

Meg leads Zignal Labs’ Customer Success team, bringing our ‘Customer First’ philosophy to life. Prior to Zignal, Meg worked in the Digital Marketing space, spanning agency and technology companies across Customer Success and Business Development functions.

Board and Advisors

We are honored to have some of the sharpest minds and industry leaders as part of Zignal Labs' Board and Advisors.

Tammy Haddad

Tammy is a media innovator whose clients include some of the top media companies in the world. She is best known as the creator and executive producer of CNN’s Larry King Live.

Mitch Cohen

Prior to being a Zignal Labs Board Member, Mitch was a Managing Director of Hellman & Friedman, where he sourced and oversaw portfolio investments, as well as lead the firm’s fundraising and client relations.

Michael Buckley

Michael is the Vice President of Global Business Communications at Facebook, where he runs international, monetization, corporate, internal and policy communications.

Jim Hornthal

Jim is the co-founder and Chairman of Zignal Labs, Triporati, LaunchPad Central and M34 Capital. He sits on several boards including KIND Snacks, Revinate and Via.com.

Andy Ballard

Andy Ballard, Zignal Labs Vice Chairman, is the founder and managing partner of Figtree Partners, an investment firm focused on digital media; he is also the CEO and co-founder of Quad Analytix.

Sir Timothy Berners-Lee

Tim is an English computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. Among his many accomplishments, Tim founded the World Wide Web Consortium and is a Director of the World Wide Web Foundation.

Steve Schmidt

Steve is a strategic counselor to business leaders and major corporations across the U.S. and global economy. Recognized as one of the top public affairs and political strategists in the country.

Christopher Clouser

Christopher serves as Chairman of the Board and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the International Tennis Hall of Fame & Museum. He has held senior officer positions with Bell Atlantic and Sprint, among others.

Ben Coffey Clark

Ben is a partner at Bully Pulpit Interactive where he is responsible for client services and new business. Over the past decade he has worked as a political operative, consultant and journalist.

Jeff Eller

As chairman of Public Strategies, some of Jeff’s successes have included orchestrating the media, lobbying and communications strategies for several leading corporations in high-profile crisis situations.

Marc Heyneker

Marc is co-founder of Revinate, online reputation and social media management solutions for hospitality. He oversees global sales, account management, business development and channels.

John Kao

John is chairman of the Institute for Large Scale Innovation. He has advised numerous nations and regions on innovation strategy and execution, including Finland, Singapore, the City of San Francisco.

Terry Nelson

Terry achieves high levels of success in both strategic and tactical areas of political campaigns and has played a senior role in the last four elections.

Chris Lehane

Christopher is a partner in the California-based company Fabiani & Lehane and provides strategic advice and tactical execution to corporate, entertainment, political and professional sports clients.

Greg Strimple

Greg offers a unique combination of expertise in public opinion and consumer behavior, advertising, and an extensive knowledge of regulated industries, political process and public policymaking.

Jay Ashton

Jay is co-founder and of Revinate, he leading social media solution for the hospitality industry. Previously, Jay was President of Five Star Alliance and helped grow the company into a major player in the luxury hotel market.

Lenny Stein

Lenny currently serves as the SVP, General Counsel and Secretary at Splunk. Prior to joining, Lenny served in various executive positions including President and Chief Legal Officer at Jackson Family Enterprises, Inc.