About: Tim Hanlon is Executive Vice President/Ventures for Denuo, the futures consulting practice of advertising
agency holding company Publicis Groupe, S.A. He is chiefly responsible for the solicitation, negotiation
and oversight of the unit’s strategic partnership and equity investment activity—focused exclusively on
paradigm-changing “new media” platforms and technologies. His current role is an outgrowth of his
previous work as head of Publicis Groupe Media (PGM) Ventures, and includes formal advisory and
directorial positions with over three dozen start-up companies.

Prior to founding the PGM Ventures practice, Hanlon was Senior Vice President/Director, Emerging
Contacts for Starcom MediaVest Group, a global media services network of Publicis Groupe Media and
parent holding company Publicis Groupe, S.A. He was chiefly responsible for all US client activity and
agency initiatives in the field of emerging media technologies, including the firm’s ground-breaking
TV 2.0 Practice, centered around evolutionary television platforms such as interactive/enhanced television,
on-demand video, digital video recording, interactive program guide navigation, addressable advertising,
and digital broadcasting/datacasting.

Hanlon has over 15 years of traditional and interactive agency media experience including roles as Vice
President/Director, Strategy & Business Development for the Digital Marketing Group of Chicago-based
marketing services agency Frankel, and Director of Interactive Media at Creative Alliance in Louisville,
KY. He also served as the Advertising Media Manager for the in-house agency of credit card issuer
MBNA America in Wilmington, DE, USA.

Hanlon also has wide-ranging journalism experience, including production and writing stints at CBS News,
Sports Illustrated and the Voice of America.

Among numerous advertising and television industry activities, Hanlon was Chairman of the American
Association of Advertising Agencies (AAAA) Advanced Television Committee from 2001-05, a founding
member of the Steering Committee of the Innovation in Digital Advertising (IDiA) Consortium, and a
founding member of the National Academy of Media Arts & Sciences (NAMAS). In 2004, he was an
inaugural recipient of Interactive Television Today’s Leadership in Interactive Television Award, and has
been named as one of MEDIA Magazine’s “100 People to Know.” His insights into the future of media and
advertising are regularly seen in major electronic, print and trade press outlets.

Hanlon holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, and a BA from
Georgetown University.