Our Team

Michael Komasinski

Chief Executive Officer

Michael Komasinski is the Chief Executive Officer at Criteo. He brings over 20 years of AdTech expertise and a proven track record of driving accelerated growth, AI-driven innovation and scale. Throughout his career, he has gained significant data-driven technology expertise and vast retail media experience.

Michael previously served as CEO of the Americas, President of Global Data & Technology, and member of the Group Executive Management team at dentsu, one of the largest global advertising holding companies. He joined dentsu through its acquisition of Merkle in 2016 and led both the EMEA and Americas regions before becoming Global CEO of Merkle in 2021. He previously served in leadership positions at Razorfish, Schawk Retail Marketing, The Nielsen Company and A.T. Kearney.

Michael is a board member of the Ad Council and serves on the client advisory boards of Meta and Microsoft. Michael holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering and Philosophy from Vanderbilt University and an MBA degree from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business.

Sarah Glickman

Chief Financial Officer

Sarah Glickman is Criteo’s Chief Financial Officer. She has over 30 years of global finance and transformation experience. Most recently, Sarah was at XPO Logistics as their Acting Chief Financial Officer for 20 months and Senior Vice President, Corporate Finance and Transformation. Prior to XPO Logistics, Sarah held operational Chief Financial Officer roles at Novartis and Honeywell International as well as executive roles in shared services and operations, internal audit, transformation and controllership at Honeywell International and Bristol-Myers Squibb. Sarah started her career at PricewaterhouseCoopers. She is a U.S. CPA and a U.K. Fellow Chartered Accountant with a degree in economics from the University of York, England. Sarah has extensive global experience in strategic decision making, driving operational excellence and strong financial performance and leading transformative change, including M&A. She is passionate about fostering a culture of collaboration, inclusiveness and equality.

Ryan Damon

Chief Legal and Transformation Officer

Ryan Damon is Criteo’s Chief Legal and Transformation Officer. In addition to overseeing the company’s legal, compliance and public affairs organization, he’s responsible for driving transformation initiatives that support Criteo’s Commerce Media Platform vision and execution roadmap, including Criteo’s trading infrastructure and custom capabilities.

Prior to joining Criteo, Ryan was with Riverbed Technology for 11 years, where he spent his last three years as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, leading legal and corporate development and Riverbed’s take-private with Thoma Bravo. He’s held senior legal roles at Charles Schwab and was an attorney with the law firm of Gunderson Dettmer in Silicon Valley, representing start-up technology companies and venture capital investors. He started his career as a software programmer with Edison International.

Ryan received a B.A. in Geography with a Specialization in Computing from the University of California at Los Angeles and a J.D. from the University of California, Hastings.

Brian Gleason

Chief Revenue Officer and President, Retail Media

Brian Gleason is Chief Revenue Officer and President, Retail Media at Criteo. He leads Criteo’s global commercial organization and oversees the product, R&D and sales strategy for Criteo’s retail media product to further fortify the company’s leadership in commerce media. His deep understanding of the media marketplace and ability to enhance value for clients has led to a career of driving power growth for companies.

Prior to joining Criteo, Brian was Global Chief Commercial Officer of GroupM in which he led a portfolio of specialty businesses focused on developing innovative solutions to make media work better for advertisers. He also held roles of Global CEO of Performance Media Group, Global CEO of GroupM’s [m]PLATFORM, Global CEO of Xaxis and U.S. CEO of Xaxis. Brian joined GroupM in 2013 by way of the digital publishing industry, where he was the Group Chief Revenue Officer for IDG TechNetwork and IDG Consumer & SMB.

Todd Parsons

Chief Product Officer

Todd Parsons joined Criteo as Chief Product Officer in August 2020. He is responsible for product strategy and new product innovation to diversify and transform Criteo's platform offerings.

For over a decade Todd has built marketing solutions at the intersection of consumer identity and data. Prior to Criteo, his team established OpenX as the first people-based programmatic marketplace. As CPO of SocialCode, Todd developed products to activate and measure first-party audiences across Facebook, Amazon, YouTube and other platforms. Earlier, Todd led Acxiom's Marketing Services business and founded two venture-backed startups; Aditive, acquired by Acxiom in 2014, and BuzzLogic, the first SaaS for social media measurement and analytics.

Diarmuid Gill

Chief Technology Officer

Diarmuid Gill is our Chief Technology Officer, having joined Criteo in 2014. He is in charge of managing Criteo’s R&D teams in Europe and the US, delivering on their mission of providing high performance AI powered advertising at scale. Hailing from Cavan in Ireland, he has an honours degree in Electronic Engineering (1994) and a First-class honours MBA (2014), both from Dublin City University. Previously he worked for General Electric, IONA Software, ICL Fujitsu and AOL.

Brendan McCarthy

Chief Marketing Officer

Brendan McCarthy is Chief Marketing Officer at Criteo. He joined the company in 2020, bringing nearly 20 years of Fortune 500 strategic marketing and communications experience. Brendan leads a global team that’s dedicated to supporting revenue growth and fortifying Criteo’s commerce media leadership with breakthrough creative and campaigns.

Previously, Brendan was Head of Communications and Product Marketing for Nielsen Global Media, where he spent five years helping to transform the company’s reputation from a legacy television ratings provider to a leading-edge data and technology company. Before Nielsen, he led several high-profile assignments for large corporate and technology clients during his tenure at global public relations agency, Edelman, and supported a range of political and public interest campaigns at marketing agencies in both Washington, D.C. and New York.

He earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Florida and holds a master’s degree in Global Affairs from New York University. A lifelong surfer and advocate for ocean conservation, Brendan also serves as a member of Surfrider Foundation's New York Leadership Council.

Manuela Montagnana

Chief People Officer

Manuela Montagnana is Criteo’s Chief People Officer. She brings more than 20 years of experience as a people executive, leading global teams in the manufacturing, service, and technology industries. Manuela has a proven track record of accelerating performance through human capital management in a transformation context in both highly matrixed organizations and those undergoing hyper growth.

Most recently, she served as Vice President, Head of Human Resources for Product and Engineering at Compass, where she built and led her Human Resources team in the US and India while serving as the business partner to the Chief Technology and Chief Product Officers. While at Compass, Manuela led major transformational projects including the opening of a new development center in India and the talent integration of two tech startups following their acquisition. 

Manuela grew up in Germany and attended the University of Paris X and Strasbourg studying Law, later completing her Master's in Business Administration at IAE - Écoles Universitaires de Management in Strasbourg, France.

Connor McGogney

Chief Business Development Officer

Connor McGogney is Criteo’s Chief Business Development Officer. In his role, Connor is responsible for the company’s business and strategic development, overseeing mergers and acquisitions and exploring strategic partnerships to advance Criteo’s global market position. Since joining Criteo in 2018, he has helped transform the company from a pioneer and leader in retargeting to a global commerce media company.

Prior to joining Criteo, Connor was Vice President, Global M&A and Corporate Development at Nielsen. Before that, he was Vice President, Investment Banking at Credit Suisse where he worked on a range of M&A and financing transactions for Media and Technology companies. Earlier in his career, Connor was a consultant advising Fortune 1000 companies on corporate strategy. 

Connor received a B.S. in Information Sciences and Technology from the Pennsylvania State University and a M.B.A. with a focus on Corporate Finance from New York University.