The New Rules of Streaming

David Gandler is co-founder and CEO of Fubo (NYSE: FUBO), whose global mission is to aggregate the best in TV, including premium sports, news and entertainment content, through a single app. Fubo operates in the U.S., Canada and Spain. In France, the company operates Molotov by Fubo, one of the country’s most popular streaming services. 

Under David’s leadership, Fubo is redefining the traditional TV model through its proprietary tech and data platform, as well as a dynamic user experience, all optimized for live TV and sports. Fubo was the first virtual MVPD to launch 4K HDR streams, user-configured multiviewing and personalized game alerts for consumers.

Fubo listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in October 2020, just five years after its founding. Fubo has ranked among The Americas’ Fastest-Growing Companies by the Financial Times (2025) and Forbes’ Next Billion Dollar Startups (2019). 

Prior to founding Fubo in 2015, David had a prolific advertising career with more than fifteen years of video sales in local broadcast and cable TV within both the general and Hispanic market, including at Scripps Networks Interactive, Time Warner Cable Media Sales and NBCUniversal’s Telemundo Media.

Beyond Fubo, David is a prominent figure in global sports and media. Through Gandler Sports Group (GSG), David is the majority owner and board member of soccer team Leyton Orient F.C. (EFL League One), and is a former co-owner of Paris FC. He also serves on the board of directors of Newsmax Inc., Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship (BKFC) and is a member of the esteemed Paley Media Council.

David has been named among Sports Business Journal’s Power Players: Sports Streaming (2025), Goldman Sachs’ 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs (2019) and Variety’s Dealmakers (2020, 2019). 

Dennis Mathew serves as Chairman and CEO of Optimum, a leading provider of broadband, mobile, video, news, and advertising services, delivering connectivity to approximately 4.5 million residential and business customers across twenty-one states. Under his leadership, Optimum is transforming how people connect—fueled by innovation, a customer-first mindset, and operational excellence.

In addition to its telecommunications business, Dennis also oversees Optimum Media, the company’s advanced advertising and data business, and News 12, its network of hyper-local news channels serving communities across the tri-state area.

An industry veteran, Dennis spent seventeen years at Comcast in senior corporate and operational leadership roles, overseeing some of the company’s largest regions. He led transformative growth efforts across residential and commercial services, with a strong focus on customer experience, team engagement, and financial performance. 

Earlier in his career, Dennis held roles in technology risk advisory at PricewaterhouseCoopers and Andersen/Protiviti.

Beyond his professional work, Dennis is a passionate philanthropist and entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and chairman of Bloom India, a nonprofit committed to expanding access to quality education, and the founder of ConnectEd, an initiative focused on providing digital learning tools to underserved students in India. For over a decade, he has also supported organizations dedicated to combating human trafficking.

Dennis currently serves on the boards of C-SPAN, The Paley Center for Media, and the Partnership for New York City. He earned a Bachelor of Science from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. 

Jenny Rooney is an award-winning innovator, curator and connector among the world’s leading CMOs and beyond. She’s built a professional reputation as a trusted, unbiased thought leader, trend-tracker and visionary. Having served as a business journalist for more than twenty-five years covering the advertising, marketing and brand industry and exclusively executive-level marketing decision-makers, she has a deep understanding of the dynamics of marketing and the marketing industry and its leadership. Jenny has conceived of and successfully launched multiple initiatives, platforms, series and events for CMOs, other C-suite executives, and the broader advertising and marketing community. Through interviews with hundreds of marketing leaders, participation and membership in the marketing industry’s foremost alliances, summits and organizations, and collaboration with premier business schools nationwide, she’s cultivated an extensive and valuable network of relationships with the most influential global chief marketers, business leaders, educators and futurists.

Currently Chief Brand and Community Officer at ADWEEK, she’s tasked with articulating and leading the vision, purpose and value of the ADWEEK brand, as well as bringing a community-first lens to everything ADWEEK does, creating new initiatives, resources and experiential offerings to better connect with and serve marketing decision-makers and the overall marketing ecosystem.

Jenny previously served as Managing Director and Cofounder of CMO House at Black Glass, an IPG marketing consultancy, advising CMOs and providing them with needed resources and access to excel. Prior to that, she spent ten years at Forbes as Communities Director, Assistant Managing Editor and Editor and Chair of the CMO Network, where she managed content and events critical to executive-level marketing decision-makers, particularly the annual Forbes CMO Summit; interviewed hundreds of CEOs and CMOs as part of her ongoing Forbes CMO Video Interview Series; led the World’s Most Influential CMOs list; developed the Forbes CMO University Alumni Series; conceived of and launched Forbes CMO Next, an annual list of 50 game-changing CMOs; and oversaw development of the Forbes 30 Under 30 in Marketing and Advertising list. As Editorial Communities Director, Jenny created and launched the Forbes CxO practice, spotlighting C-suite executive collaboration. She served as co-host of Wharton Business Radio’s monthly “CMO Spotlight” show on SiriusXM for seven years. She also consults with universities and is a recipient of the Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Award.