She is formerly the Chief Revenue Officer at OpenAP, where she built the company’s revenue practice from the ground up. Previously, she served as Chief Marketing Officer at Tremor Video and has held leadership positions at Entertainment Weekly and MTV, where she began her career in digital advertising.
Introducing the new Chief Commercial Officer at Silicon Valley-based Anoki AI, which offers sales tools for Connected TV.
Earning the new role is Abbey Thomas, considered a video advertising expert with over two decades of industry experience.
“I’m thrilled to join Anoki AI at this transformative moment for the CTV industry,” said Thomas, who joins the company as its has rapidly expanded its premium content partnerships, collaborating with A+E Networks, Warner Bros. Discovery, Filmrise, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Lionsgate, PBS, Bloomberg and other major media companies.
She continued, “What drew me to Anoki AI is their groundbreaking multimodal approach to solving the industry’s most pressing challenges around content discovery for viewers and transparency for advertisers. The company’s ability to deliver hyper-personalized experiences enabled by scene level metadata and without relying on PII represents the future of CTV. I’m excited to do my part to accelerate the adoption of new AI innovation across the streaming ecosystem.”
Anoki AI co-dounder and CEO Raghu Kodige commented, “Her expertise in building strategic partnerships and driving platform adoption will be invaluable as we continue to expand our AI-powered solutions across the global Connected TV landscape.”
