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Bill Simmons

Chief Executive Officer at Audigent

Building Audigent into a leading data curation and identity platform that empowers publishers with first-party data monetization and privacy-safe audience solutions for the post-cookie era.

OperatorNew York, New York, United States15+ years in industry

Last updated May 31, 2026 by ATDb automated enrichment

Bio

Note: The prompt references 'Bill Simmons' as the person but the bio provided describes Drew Stein, the actual CEO of Audigent. The following bio is based on Drew Stein, the verified CEO of Audigent, as the name 'Bill Simmons' does not correspond to this role in public records. Drew Stein is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Audigent, a data activation, identity, and curation platform that has emerged as a significant force in programmatic advertising's evolution beyond third-party cookies. Under his leadership, Audigent has built a scaled first-party data network and pioneered curation-based audience solutions that connect premium publisher data with advertiser demand across the open web. Stein has been a vocal advocate for privacy-safe, publisher-centric data strategies, positioning Audigent at the intersection of identity resolution, contextual targeting, and supply-side curation. The company's SmartPMP and Hadron ID products reflect his vision of enabling addressable advertising without relying on deprecated tracking mechanisms. Audigent has grown to work with hundreds of premium publishers and major agency holding companies, establishing itself as a key infrastructure layer in the modern programmatic stack.

Previous Roles

Co-Founder

Audigent (2016-present)

Expertise
Data CurationIdentity ResolutionFirst-Party Data StrategyProgrammatic AdvertisingContextual TargetingSupply-Side PlatformsAudience SegmentationPrivacy-Safe Advertising
Notable Achievements
  • Co-founded Audigent and scaled it into a top-tier data curation and identity platform working with hundreds of premium publishers
  • Developed Hadron ID, a privacy-safe identity solution for the open web
  • Pioneered SmartPMP curation technology connecting publisher first-party data with programmatic demand
Speaking Topics
The future of identity in a cookieless worldData curation and supply-side audience activationFirst-party data monetization for publishersPrivacy-safe programmatic advertising