YMS content
curated with
leading experts
Bringing together industry-leading experts and top next-gen voices, Pion’s advisory board helps curate our 2025 agenda. The experts’ first-hand experience supports us in creating relevant, diverse and inspiring content that’ll help shape the future of our industry.

Allie Cohen is an award-winning digital native with a substantial background and proven track record in both for-profit and non-profit sectors. She brings nearly a decade of marketing and social media experience – including successful campaign execution at Universal Music Group for Pearl Jam and other artists – with most of those years specifically devoted to influencer marketing that engages Millennial and Gen Z audiences. Her work extends from the music, entertainment, and sports industries to mission-driven areas like fighting climate change and encouraging civic participation through voter registration and get-out-the-vote campaigns.
Allie is the Founder and CEO of Higher Rung, an influencer marketing agency focused on amplifying women's sports by expanding the breadth and reach beyond the current fan base, including to a younger audience.

Josh Turner is the founder and CEO of Stand4 Socks, the social enterprise reinventing an everyday essential for good. For every pair sold, Stand4 Socks donates a pair of antibacterial socks to someone experiencing homelessness - over 850,000 pairs and counting - while supporting causes from clean water to landmine clearance, all made sustainably in a solar-powered factory. Josh founded the brand in 2015 on a simple idea: if most of us wear socks every day, why can't socks change the world? A champion of social entrepreneurship, and of dyslexia as a creative strength, he speaks regularly on building brands where profit and purpose go hand in hand.

LaTecia Johnson is a leading creative & growth strategist shaping how the world’s top platforms and brands leverage creators to drive cultural impact and commercial growth. Her work driving some of the industry’s most culturally defining programs has garnered attention from Business Insider, Forbes, Wired and over 20B+ global impressions. As founder of INGENIUS, LaTecia is known for architecting strategies that fuel fandom, accelerate virality, and unlock breakthrough storytelling at global scale.

Holly Pound is a builder of brands, communities, and movements that make culture shift, currently at Bumble BFF and previously at Depop. From that, she launched peer—a new student community redefining access to the industry through a value-exchange model between professionals and students. Holly’s passion is creating bold, grassroots ideas that grow into cultural movements, giving the next generation the tools and platforms to break through.

Sally leads the OREO brand at Mondelez International in the US, where her focus lies in accelerating business readiness and leadership for the fast evolving future of marketing. A UK native, internationally she has held a range of marketing roles leading iconic and indispensable global brands like Finish, Cadbury, Halls, OREO and Triscuit. She has received awards for her strategic and marketing contributions, including Advertising week’s Future is Female award, The Grocer 30 under 30, Brand Innovators 40 under 40, and is a proud Alumni of the Marketing Academy scholarship. Based in NYC, in her spare time she runs long distance races and her favorite OREO flavor is mint.


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