Team

At Central Control, our team is passionate about advertising and media. We are led by ad industry veterans with deep expertise in advertising performance measurement and data science. With decades of combined experience at Google, DoubleClick, Microsoft, Adobe and elsewhere, Central Control’s leaders specializes in technology and services for developing, implementing, and measuring the performance of advertising through randomized controlled trials (RCT) and related causal inference techniques.

Rick Bruner
CEO

Before founding Central Control, Rick ran research and product organizations at Google, DoubleClick, Viacom, Marketing Evolution and elsewhere. He has worked on causal inference problems for decades with leading brands and platforms, including Meta, Dell, Continental Airlines, Charter Communications, Interpublic Group, and Comcast. He is the Vice Chair for the global marketing science forum I-COM and is the founder of the influential Research Wonks community.

John Chandler
Head of Data Science

A PhD statistician, John invented Microsoft’s GRP & Reach Forecaster and pioneered multitouch attribution as Research Director at Microsoft Advertising. He is a Clinical Professor of Marketing at the University of Montana and has helped solve analytical challenges for clients including Tableau, eBay, LinkedIn, General Mills, the Sierra Club, and Kraft, among others. He is an expert in marketing analytics and data science, with extensive experience in geo-experimentation, market mix modeling, and incrementality testing.

Campbell Foster
CCO

Campbell leads operations and GTM for Central Control as co-founder and Chief Commercial Officer, An ad industry veteran, Campbell spearheaded the launch of the Ad Exchange (AdX), which resulted in Google’s $3.1B acquisition of DoubleClick in 2007. He has built and led revenue, marketing and operations teams with Google, Adobe, and Akamai, and with several startups, most recently Synthesis AI. Campbell has served in various leadership roles with the IAB, ARF, NAB, the Streaming Video Alliance, and others.

Board of Advisors

Randall Lewis, Chief Economist, Amazon Ads

Gabriel Hughes, Director of Advanced Analytics & Data Science, Croud

Lynn Tornabene, CMO, Anteriad. Previously, DoubleClick, Google, Apple

Ari Paparo, CEO, Marketecture Media, formerly co-founder of Beeswax. Previously DoubleClick, Google, Nielsen, AppNexus

Ben Tatta, CCO, Operative, formerly 605 Media and Cablevision

Elea McDonnell Feit, Assistant Professor of Marketing, Drexel University