Ben Putland

Ben Putland is MD at QDOT, the first independent ad tech business delivering smarter campaign management tools for digital OOH. Ben is responsible for driving product development and client roll-outs of the company’s award-winning OpenLoop and PlayTrack platforms. Based in New York, Ben oversees software development and manages account teams in the UK, U.S., and LATAM. During his time at QDOT and partner company Grand Visual, the digital OOH creative production company, Ben has delivered many standout DOOH campaigns for clients such as Google, Amazon, Pepsi, Disney, and Microsoft that have won industry awards including Cannes Lions, D&AD and SXSW Interactive. During his career Ben accrued more than 18 years’ experience delivering digital media innovation and has built and led project teams in the UK, Holland, and Japan, for the likes of Proximity, Wieden+Kennedy and Dentsu. Ben is an active member of the OAAAs Innovation Lab, and a regular speaker at industry events including SXSW, DSE and the ICX Summit.