Empact
Empowering Engaged Digital Communities

Exec

ANDY RUSSELL
ANDY RUSSELL

Andy Russell

Founder & Chairman

Andy is a digital media, ad tech, marketing tech, and data science innovator, as well as a self-taught behavioral economist. He has invested in, incubated, or run over 50 technology companies. Prior to founding Empact, Andy was the Founder & Chairman of Trigger Media, InsideHook, and Fevo. He was also a founding partner alongside Bob Pittman in the private equity firm, Pilot Group. Early in his career, Andy co-founded Moomba, one of New York’s restaurant/lounge “hotspots.” He graduated from Cornell University where he pursued a degree in Abnormal Psychology and holds an MBA from Columbia Business School.

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CHIYOKO OSBORNE
CHIYOKO OSBORNE

Chiyoko Osborne

President & Co-founder

For the past 20 years, Chiyoko’s career has been driven by perfecting the combination of technology and marketing to drive businesses growth. She worked for 6 years at Calvin Klein, managing the original team that launched the first eCommerce site and first social media strategy; in her time there, the company grew from $3B to $6.5B due to online sales and digital strategy. From there, Alexander Wang himself recruited Chiyoko to start his Marketing & eCommerce department and to revamp their entire digital strategy.

Prior to fashion, Chiyoko worked at ad agencies McCann and Havas, helping brands like J&J, Volvo, and GlaxoSmithKline navigate the bridge between online and offline. Her deepest passions are Jivamukti yoga, meditation, holistic health, and working at Empact to create positive, scaleable change in the world with technology.

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