Paul Jankauskas Named To @DPAAorg Board of Directors

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Paul Jankauskas, chief revenue officer, Verifone Media, a division of Verifone, has been voted onto the Board of Directors of the New York-based Digital Place-Based Advertising Association.

Paul Jankauskas VeriFone“Paul has long been recognized as one of our industry’s most innovative and strategic thinkers,”
says Barry Frey, president & CEO, DPAA.

Francois de Gaspe Beaubien, DPAA board chairman and chairman and chief coaching officer, Zoom Media, says, “I look forward to working alongside Paul on matters of strategy and direction to ensure that the digital place-based advertising industry gets its fair share of video advertising budgets.”

Jankauskas has been a senior executive in the place-based media industry for more than a decade.

He joined Verifone Media in 2014 after serving for two years as senior vice-president, chief sales officer at IZ•ON Media ( He also was president of American Health Network; executive vice-president, 7-Eleven TV; and senior vice-president, sales and marketing, for Captivate Network. He also held senior executive positions at manager, Westwood One/Metro Shadow Traffic and Accuweather/accuweather.com.

Jankauskas joins a DPAA board that also includes Frey; de Gaspe Beaubien; Don Allman, vice chairman, Intersection; Jose Avalos, retail and digital signage worldwide director, Intel; Dirk Huelsermann, head of DOOH solutions, VUKUNET NEC Display Solutions; Marc Kidd, chief executive officer, Captivate Network; Peter Krieger, president and chief operating officer, Adspace Networks; Mike Maas, chief executive officer, AMI Entertainment; Scott Pawloski, vice-president, head of global advertising and sponsorships, GEE Media; and Burr Smith, chairman and CEO, BroadSign.

Founded in 2006, the Digital Place Based Advertising Association (DPAA) represents leading digital placed based networks by promoting their integral role in the ‘video everywhere ecosystem. On behalf of its members, DPAA fosters collaboration between agencies and digital place based networks; provides standards, best practices and industry-wide research; and promotes the effectiveness of digital place based advertising. Digital place based media is defined as networked digital video screens containing programming and advertising, reaching consumers on their daily journeys in places where they dwell. The DPAA is a Video Everywhere Association.


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