About The Room – The Room

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The Room

The Room brings together brand marketers to solve their business, industry & personal challenges.

About Us

The Room, founded in 2017 and operated by Sean Finnegan, Danny Fishman & Josh Messinger, is a highly cultivated, private event series for senior marketing executives that brings together influencers and decision makers from various industries to discuss important challenges and opportunities in marketing and advertising.

Whether over fine dining, at a luxury resort, a custom event created with a notable partner, or in the warm sun in the South of France, The Room creates impactful conversations through unique experiences.

Our events draw marketers from household recognizable brands and are underwritten by the most prominent names in media and technology.

The Team

Partner

Danny Fishman

An authority in the converging media space, Danny is known and respected for his accomplishments in the entertainment, media, advertising & marketing, digital, and technology industries. For the past two decades Fishman has been a highly successful serial entrepreneur, leading multiple companies to exponential revenue growth, category dominance, and financially lucrative exits.

Partner

Josh Messinger

Josh has been bringing together marketers for over 20 years. He has seen multiple companies through acquisitions, held leadership roles as VP, Online, President, and founder at media companies including dmg :: events, iMedia, ad:tech, and VMA Media. He has also led the global online growth for non-marketing properties including, Evanta, Petroleum Show, Gastech, and Adipec.

VP, Operations & Partnerships

Karen Ito

Karen brings more than a decade of knowledge of sales, marketing, operations, and events in the media and advertising industry. She has led growth and profitability at several startups in Silicon Valley and implemented operational efficiencies and marketing strategies at Fortune 500 companies. She has also executed hundreds of global industry events including, CES, Cannes Lions, DMEXCO, GDC, and MWC.

Event Coordinator

Claire Finnegan

Claire Finnegan serves as event support for The Room. She recently graduated from the University of Colorado, Denver with a BA in Psychology and minor in Nonprofit Management. With a passion for people and a love for bringing them together, event planning became an unexpected yet beloved first profession post college.

Mgr, Events & Brand Experience

Emmie Chan

Emmie serves as The Room’s Manager, Brand + Events Experience. Her focus is on helping build the Sponsorship Sales as well as growing the community of Brand & Agency attendees. Through past experiences from being a marketer on the brand side, to different roles in the entertainment industry, she will bring her relationship expertise to frontlines at The Room. BA from Judson University.

Dir, Community Development

Allie Meagher

Dir, Editorial

Aaron Cohen

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Co-Founder, Mentor, Friend

Sean Finnegan

Sean brought a veteran’s perspective to digital media, mobility and social interaction and held global digital leadership roles at major agencies including serving as Chief Executive Officer of Omnicom Media Group’s (OMG) Digital unit and President and Chief Digital Officer at Publicis’ Starcom MediaVest Group (SMG).

More than that, Sean was our friend. We texted nonstop and laughed even more.

We miss you everyday.