Work with a company accustomed to reinvention

MAP Digital was born when the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York fell on September 11, 2001. Like so many other firms, our predecessor company was permanently disabled, prompting our founder, Mary Ann Pierce, to quickly reimagine the business. Over two decades, she worked steadily with our clients to co-create a new business model, bringing the “cloud” and onsite managed IT services to investment banking, pharmaceutical, technology, and CEO-level conferences. Pivoting from in-person to virtual and multichannel events was hardly a challenge during the pandemic, compared to where we’ve been and the platform, process, and people we’ve developed along the way. New York is still our home and resilience is in our DNA.

Meet the team behind MAP Digital

Work alongside over 100 experienced digital event professionals, including our leadership.

James Bowra

Director Of Operations and Senior Producer

James started working at MAP Digital in December of 2015 as a webcast engineer for MAP Digital’s onsite conferences. Currently, as Director of Operations and Senior Producer, he builds budgets and resources technical talent and equipment for each event. James also looks after the infrastructure of MAP Digital’s office and production studio at 56 Ludlow Street, a storefront on the Lower East Side of New York City.

Steven Bunin

Content Management and Speaker Support Administrator

Since joining the MAP Digital team in 2019, Steven has enjoyed sharpening his left and right brain skills as a content manager. His responsibilities include communicating with clients, obtaining speaker presentation content and approval, and contributing internally to the development of MAP Digital’s MetaMeetings software platform. When we return to onsite conferences, Steven will help manage the Speaker Ready Office. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Business from Seton Hall University and a master’s degree in Education from the City College of the City University of New York.

Korey Caron

Producer and Rehearsals Manager

Korey started with MAP Digital in January 2020, working onsite as a webcast engineer. She began working full time in August 2020 as Client Rehearsals Department Head and Assistant Producer for Virtual Events, working with our clients and internal team to develop processes that help ensure presenters are prepared and confident ahead of their virtual sessions.

Korey is also a theater director, which enhances her ability to prepare speakers to present in a virtual only environment.

Dan Cooper

Lead Editor

Dan has a background in freelance videography and video editing for music videos, documentaries, and corporate content. He joined the MAP Digital team in January of 2021 to support the company’s largest annual conference. He found that he enjoys MAP Digital's collaborative process and team spirit that drive innovation and consistent, better outcomes. Dan is now responsible for managing the team of editors who transform the live video and audio captured during events into on-demand content for distribution through our MetaMeetings platform.

Sophie Déziel

Product Manager

Sophie first joined MAP Digital as an intern in 2017. In 2020, she rejoined the company on the marketing and sales team, and her role has since changed to Product Manager. As Product Manager, Sophie looks to improve MAP Digital’s MetaMeetings platform from a user approach. She works across technical development teams and coordinates with external stakeholders and clients for end-to-end delivery of new platform features. Sophie manages the new product pipeline by gathering and prioritizing customer needs and then manages new features from concept, through planning, to development, launch, and post-launch support.

In 2020, Sophie co-curated WATCH Media’s roundtable featuring a consortium of impact investors, government officials, and business executives to highlight post-COVID-19 opportunities for Gen-Z that fostered a sustainable and equitable future. Sophie has also produced some of MAP Digital’s recent pro bono events including the 2020-2021 Global Summit of Women virtual events, co-created WATCH Media and co-leads MAP Digital’s DEI Committee.

Wil Farr

Technical Director of Event Production

Wil is a Technical Director at MAP Digital, managing all technical requirements of running webcast conferences. Wil coordinates with Room Technicians, who broadcast/encode the Video and Audio of presentations and liaison with them pre, post and after show to ensure excellent quality throughout the live and on-demand webcast process. He has worked in the Live Event Production world since 2007 and continues to look for streamlined solutions to complex problems within the field. He graduated from Purchase College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Studio Production and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Studio Composition.

Ed Hoopman

Content Manager and Speaker Support Services

Ed has been with MAP Digital since 2012 working with the Speaker Support Services team. He has had many roles including Onsite Testing Lead, Network/Webcast/Build Engineer, Room Producer and Content Manager. He is also a professional actor and voiceover artist. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan and the University of Colorado, respectively.

Christina Kolb

Senior Product Manager

Christina joined MAP Digital in 2015 as a content and speaker support manager. She later became senior product manager for the MetaMeetings platform. Her responsibilities include assessing changes and feature requests for the platform with internal and external stakeholders and working closely with the software programming team to deliver product updates on time and within budget.

Peter Mace

Junior Full Stack Developer

Peter is a full stack developer at MAP Digital, Inc. He enjoys the wide variety of responsibilities relating to programming planning and development, AWS infrastructure management; and systems troubleshooting in this role. He works with our product managers and director of programming to develop and deliver solutions on our MetaMeetings platform for our enterprise clients. Peter also collaborates with our Chief Technology Officer on planned infrastructure changes and monitors our real-time deployment of our MetaMeetings platform for our clients’ events.

Terence McCabe

Producer

Terence joined MAP Digital in 2014 as a webcast engineer. He moved to New York City in September 2019 and began working with the MAP team in other roles before becoming a full-time producer in March 2020. He supervises conference production from the initial planning stages through to execution, drawing on his extensive video production, project management, and client relations experience gained from a 20-year career spanning multiple business sectors.

Jill Moshman

Content Management and Speaker Support Administrator

Jill joined the MAP Digital team as a room producer in November 2020 before transitioning to her role with the Content Management and Speaker Support team in February 2021. Jill provides content management for conference websites and communicates with presenting companies in advance of the conferences. When we return to onsite conferences, Jill will help manage the onsite Speaker Ready Office. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Middlebury College and a Master of Arts degree from Bath Spa University.

Taranjyot Singh Multani

Director of Programming

Taran joined MAP Digital in 2015 as a full-stack developer for the MetaMeetings platform. He works with the Product Manager who coordinates the code change requests from MAP Digital’s clients, content management, producers, and account managers. He also supervises MAP Digital’s other programmers. Taran ensures that the MetaMeetings platform scales efficiently while producing thousands of hours of live webcasts for our clients’ global audiences. Taran graduated from Pace University with a master’s degree in Computer Science.

Mary Ann Pierce

Founder and CEO

Mary Ann Pierce is founder and CEO of MAP Digital. She is a Webcast pioneer and for over 20 years she has produced cloud-enabled events on MAP Digital’s proprietary MetaMeetings platform, the only integrated enterprise event SaaS platform. Mary Ann and the MAP Digital team are enabling the Event 3.0 era by transforming conferences into content marketing engines with MAP Digital's Content-as-a-service automation. Repurposed event content from their MetaMeetings platform fuels the campfires of event communities and amplifies the event’s thought leadership, brand via video snippets distributed over social media and media channels to build audience and sponsorship revenue.

For 20 years the MAP Digital team has deployed the MetaMeetings® platform to run the entire digital infrastructure for global investment banking, pharmaceutical, Marcom and CEO Council conferences. MAP Digital helps their clients transform their conferences into strategic business channels. At MAP Digital giving back is fundamental. We use our MetaMeetings platform for Social Good working with the Global Summit of Women, the Equality Moonshot, and Capital as a Force for Good, a community of financial service CEOs funding sustainability. She is the Global Ambassador of the AwakenHub, the first all-Ireland accelerator for women, which will soon be expanding within the Irish Diaspora.

Mary Ann Pierce studied film and communications at Temple University before working in direct marketing, corporate communications, film, theater, and arts management. She has served on the board of Digital Irish, advised the MIT Enterprise Forum NYC and Silicon Republic’s Inspirefest in Dublin, and taught digital event design at New York University. She is the Global Ambassador of the Awaken Hub, the first female founder accelerator spanning all Ireland and expanding within the Irish Diaspora.

Pierce has presented at many events, including the annual meetings of IMEX, PCMA, MPI, and Global Summit of Women. MAP Digital has embraced empowering Women and Girls in STEM as their Corporate Social Responsibility. In 2017, Meetings & Conventions magazine listed her among the Top 25 Women in the Meetings Industry, and in 2020, Meetings Today magazine named her a Trendsetter.

Meghan Swift

COO and Executive Producer

Meghan Swift received a BFA in Theatre Production and Management with a secondary focus on marketing and public relations from Emerson College before joining MAP Digital 16 years ago.

As Chief Operations Officer, she oversees the operations department and is responsible for achieving the business goals of the company. Swift also serves as the account manager for MAP Digital’s financial services clients and sits on the board of directors of The Miracle League North Bay (San Francisco), combining her love of baseball and passion for kids of all abilities to feel valued and included.

Aubrey Tostige

QA Engineer & Front End Designer

Aubrey joined the MAP Digital team in 2020 as a webcast contractor to support the hundreds of virtual events that we produced on our MetaMeetings Platform. Aubrey has since joined the MAP Digital team full-time as our lead Quality Assurance Engineer and supports the programming team as a Front End Designer. As QA Engineer, Aubrey tests new features and identifies any issues before they are deployed to our MetaMeetings Platform. Aubrey is also a critical member of our Site Reliability team and ensures MetaMeetings Platform performance for our in-person and online events.

Bex White

Content Manager & Speaker Support Services

Bex began working for MAP Digital in 2014 and focuses on Speaker Support, Content Management, & Speaker Ready Training. She has also been a Room Producer, Webcast Engineer, and done software QA. She loves the way creative thinking, teamwork, & thoughtful logistics come together to create great events.

Bex is a professional actor and singer-songwriter. She holds a BA in Comparative Literature from Brown University.

BobbiAnn Zacarelli

Compliance Administrator and Project Manager

BobbiAnn joined MAP Digital in 2014. Over the years, she has produced many of MAP Digital's live and virtual conferences.

However, over the years she's worn many other hats. She supervised the set up MAP Digital's office and production studio at 56 Ludlow Street in New York. She assisted in the implementation of the HR, payroll systems and built our technical talent recruitment and training platform. She is on the Design and Product Management team for the MetaMeetings platform, ensuring that the functionality enhances event production. She documented our Webcast Services on Amazon Web Service.

BobbiAnn is MAP Digital's Compliance Administrator. Her deep knowledge of MAP Digital services and our MetaMeetings platform is a huge asset as she keeps MAP Digital current with compliance.

In recruiting for our team, MAP Digital is committed to attracting and retaining a diverse staff, and welcomes unique experiences, perspectives and identities, especially from groups traditionally underrepresented in this industry.

Learn More about Mary Ann Pierce, Founder and CEO, MAP Digital, Inc.