Collective Audience Appoints AdTech Veteran, Gerald Garcia, as CFO

NEW CITY, NY / ACCESSWIRE / November 7, 2024 / Collective Audience, Inc. (OTCQB:CAUD), a leading innovator of audience-based performance advertising and media for the open web, has appointed Gerald (Gerry) Garcia as chief financial officer.

Garcia succeeds Christopher Andrews, who has transitioned from CFO and his position as COO to serve on the company's Advisor Collective board, a strategic advisory community focused on advancing the transformation of the AdTech, MarTech and digital media industry.

Garcia brings to Collective Audience more than 20 years of executive experience in the media and AdTech industries. He has led the finance teams for top agencies that include WPP, Publicis, and Havas, as well as for several start-ups and acquisitions.

He previously served as CFO of Channel Factory, a global technology and data platform that maximizes performance efficiency and contextual suitability. He earlier managed the U.S. finance team at Media IQ Digital North America, a programmatic media partner for marketers and agencies.

Highly experienced in leading growth companies and serving public companies at Big 4 accounting firms, Garcia brings to Collective Audience a successful track record in building organizations, developing corporate culture, and establishing processes and structures that drives topline growth and bottom-line expansion.

"As a consultant to Collective Audience, Gerry has already been serving as an outstanding member of our finance team and has demonstrated that he embodies the valuable aspects of our culture and core values," stated Collective Audience CEO, Peter Bordes. "His extensive global finance experience in digital advertising has been instrumental in the integration of our recent acquisitions and especially in helping establish a collective roadmap and financial model that supports rapid growth and profitability."

"Gerry's appointment also represents another important step in our corporate development roadmap," continued Bordes, "which includes integrating and optimizing our global teams, technology, products and brands in preparation for organic and acquisitive growth in 2025."

Garcia commented: "I am excited to step into this role at such a pivotal stage in the company's growth and development, particularly after its two major transformative acquisitions and the formation of key strategic partnerships. I see the addition of the DSL Digital team and their Copycraft AI technology having a multiplier effect on our growth trajectory and market expansion-especially in combination with our recently acquiredBeOp, with its technology now powering our global AudienceCloud infrastructure for advertising on the open web."

Garcia earned his Bachelor of Science degree from Queens College and MBA in Finance and Accounting from Fordham University.

The company plans to eventually appoint a new chief operating officer from within or from the management of a potential future acquisition.

"We would like to thank Chris for his tremendous contributions over the past year as we transitioned through our de-SPAC and completed key acquisitions," added Bordes. "We're looking forward to his continued contributions as a valued member of our Advisor Collective and helping us take Collective Audience to the next level."

About Collective Audience
Collective Audience provides an innovative audience-based performance advertising and media platform for brands, agencies and publishers. The company has introduced a new open, interconnected, data driven, digital advertising and media ecosystem for the open web that eliminates many inefficiencies in the digital ad buyer and seller process for brands, agencies and publishers. It delivers long sought-after visibility, complementary technology, and unique audience data that drives focus on performance, brand reach, traffic and transactions.

For the AdTech providers and media buyers who come onto Collective Audience's platform, they will be able to leverage audience data as a new asset class, powered by AI as an intelligence layer to guide decision making.

To learn more, visit collectiveaudience.co.

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Collective Audience, Inc.
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