Full Name
Matt O'Grady
Job Title
President of the Americas
Company Name
dunnhumby
Speaker Bio
Matthew O’Grady joined dunnhumby in December 2022 as the President for the Americas. He is works out of New York but is often traveling to meet with retail and CPG clients.
Prior to dunnhumby, Mr. O’Grady was an Executive Media Consultant at 12th Street Measurement where he consulted on media and advertising measurement.
Mr. O’Grady spent 11 years at Nielsen Media in c-suite positions including:
• Global Commercial President of International Media at Nielsen Holdings plc (NYSE: NLSN) (“Nielsen”), an information, data and market measurement firm, from February 2019 to December 2020.
• Chief Executive Officer of Nielsen Catalina Solutions, a purchase-based ad targeting and ROAS measurement firm, from January 2016 to January 2019.
• Executive Vice President & Managing Director of Local Media for Nielsen from 2012 to 2015,
• Executive Vice President, Audience Measurement from 2009 to 2012.
Prior to that, Mr. O’Grady served as President of Claritas, LLC, a data-driven marketing company, from 2007 to 2009, where he also served as Executive Vice President, Sales & Client Service from 2000 to 2007.
Mr. O’Grady’s prior professional experience also includes, among other positions, serving as Group Vice President, Product Management & Client Service at National Decision Systems Inc., an analytics provider, and Regional Sales Vice President of Equifax Inc. (NYSE:EFX), a multinational consumer credit reporting agency.
Mr. O’Grady has served on several boards including Quotient Technology, Beatgrid Media B.V., an AdTech measurement company, and NEXT-Boatworks, LLC, a coastal rowing craft company.
Mr. O’Grady previously served on the boards of directors of Nielsen Atmosphere, a research agency part of the Nielsen network (from January 2019 to December 2020), Nielsen IBOPE México S.A. de C.V., a business to business service subsidiary of Nielsen (from January 2019 to November 2020), Media Behaviour Institute LLC, a company engaged in developing tools, services and projects to understand and measure multimedia (from 2011 to 2014), Scarborough Research, a market research subsidiary of Nielsen (from 2011 to 2013), and The Direct Marketing Association (n/k/a Data & Marketing Association), a trade association for marketers (from 2008 to 2012).
Mr. O’Grady earned his B.S. in Environmental Science from the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Mr. O’Grady is an avid swimmer and cyclist and enjoys time reading and traveling.
Prior to dunnhumby, Mr. O’Grady was an Executive Media Consultant at 12th Street Measurement where he consulted on media and advertising measurement.
Mr. O’Grady spent 11 years at Nielsen Media in c-suite positions including:
• Global Commercial President of International Media at Nielsen Holdings plc (NYSE: NLSN) (“Nielsen”), an information, data and market measurement firm, from February 2019 to December 2020.
• Chief Executive Officer of Nielsen Catalina Solutions, a purchase-based ad targeting and ROAS measurement firm, from January 2016 to January 2019.
• Executive Vice President & Managing Director of Local Media for Nielsen from 2012 to 2015,
• Executive Vice President, Audience Measurement from 2009 to 2012.
Prior to that, Mr. O’Grady served as President of Claritas, LLC, a data-driven marketing company, from 2007 to 2009, where he also served as Executive Vice President, Sales & Client Service from 2000 to 2007.
Mr. O’Grady’s prior professional experience also includes, among other positions, serving as Group Vice President, Product Management & Client Service at National Decision Systems Inc., an analytics provider, and Regional Sales Vice President of Equifax Inc. (NYSE:EFX), a multinational consumer credit reporting agency.
Mr. O’Grady has served on several boards including Quotient Technology, Beatgrid Media B.V., an AdTech measurement company, and NEXT-Boatworks, LLC, a coastal rowing craft company.
Mr. O’Grady previously served on the boards of directors of Nielsen Atmosphere, a research agency part of the Nielsen network (from January 2019 to December 2020), Nielsen IBOPE México S.A. de C.V., a business to business service subsidiary of Nielsen (from January 2019 to November 2020), Media Behaviour Institute LLC, a company engaged in developing tools, services and projects to understand and measure multimedia (from 2011 to 2014), Scarborough Research, a market research subsidiary of Nielsen (from 2011 to 2013), and The Direct Marketing Association (n/k/a Data & Marketing Association), a trade association for marketers (from 2008 to 2012).
Mr. O’Grady earned his B.S. in Environmental Science from the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Mr. O’Grady is an avid swimmer and cyclist and enjoys time reading and traveling.
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