Affiliate Takeover 2025 Speakers

Marisha Lakhiani is the Chief Growth Officer at Mindvalley, where she spearheaded revenue growth from $30M to $170M. A marketing innovator, Marisha pioneered strategies that increased customer lifetime value by 700% and reduced acquisition costs by 30%. She expertly manages multi-million dollar product launches and has doubled market share in 18 months. Marisha's expertise spans performance marketing, AI integration, and subscription models in the digital education space. Her data-driven approach combines the art and science of marketing to deliver cutting-edge solutions for scalable growth. A dynamic speaker, Marisha shares insights on driving exponential growth in today's rapidly evolving digital landscape.

Ezra Firestone has been recognized by Shopify and Entrepreneur Magazine as a leading ecommerce expert and a refreshing voice in the entrepreneurial community. He has founded multiple 7- and 8-figure brands (generating over $200 million in the past 5 years), and shares his personal and professional insights through Smart Marketer and Zipify Apps. An outspoken proponent of “people over profit,” he leads a team of 180 employees while traveling the world educating business owners on how to build brands with integrity and purpose. Most recently Ezra partnered with Shopify to create their premier course on Facebook advertising.

Alex Micol, Founder of Affiliate Takeover, is a defining figure in performance marketing. He’s driven growth for global brands including Mindvalley, Gundry MD, and Dr. Marty — generating over $95 million in affiliate commissions. Through Affiliate Takeover, he’s setting a new standard for affiliates, built on integrity and scale.

Nick Shackelford has spent the last 10 years immersed in the performance marketing world. After working with legacy brands Pepsico and Apple, he quickly found his groove going direct consumer with viral products like Fidget Spinners and Magnetic Eyelashes. Now, having worked with over 248 D2C brands specifically focused in paid media and creative on Facebook, Instagram, Snap, and Pinterest. This has provided Nick has an interesting perspective on how brands truly scale in modern times with or without VC / PE backing.

Nick is a partner in konstantkreative.com, structured.agency, geekoutevents.io, and wearelucyd.com and www.drinkbrez.com as well as an angel and advisor to motionapp.com, northbeam.io, triplewhale.com, marketerhire.com, and a few other marketing-related businesses.

As the Founder of Systematiq.ai, he’s operationalized common AI tools for businesses and marketing teams. By injecting AI into workflows, he's amplified productivity & impact, streamlined finances, and revolutionized client experience and communication.

Rory is the former Head of Client Acquisition at Tetra. He helped 100+ clients increase their production from email & sms marketing to the tune of $100M+ in sales.

Kian is one of the world’s leading product development and sourcing experts who has personally sourced over 2,500 products for some of the leading brands, retailers and licenses such as the NBA, Olympics, United Nations plus much more.Kian has personally visited more than 500 factories and developed products for Amazon and Shopify store owners which have surpassed over 1 million units sold on a single product.Kian has also educated thousands of people through his YouTube channel (Sourcing with Kian) as well as being an instructor for Foundr on Product Development and Supply Chain.

Alex Fedotoff has been in e-commerce for 8 years and generated over $200 million in e-commerce sales, mostly in the health and beauty niche.His core expertise is in building high-performing teams and scaling eCommerce businesses using paid traffic and direct response funnels using AI.

After dropping out of college in Germany at 20 years old, Marco tried everything from freelance copywriting to dropshipping. Then in 2023 he founded Instant Scaling and started running affiliate offers full time. In his first 12 months, he generated $7 million in commissions for a single offer. Now based in Dubai, Marco and his team scale campaigns across health, fashion, and lead gen verticals - proving that with the right creatives, rapid growth is possible for anyone in affiliate marketing.

James Van Elswyk is all things marketing. He eats, sleeps and breathes clicks, CPMs, CTR and conversion rates.James is the founder of multiple companies all of which are built on digital marketing,He has owns an affiliate marketing company, copywriting agency, native ad agency, a DTC skincare brand and a Telehealth Platform as well as Geekout Events.

Managing over $150M in yearly revenue, Maor "The Wolf" Benaim continues to redefine the boundaries of performance marketing. This entrepreneur and full-stack media buyer possesses a unique hybrid skillset, turning cutting-edge strategies and technological hacks into tangible results. Join Maor as he shares actionable insights from his journey.

I help the best mobile performance advertisers globally reach up to 2.5 billion App users monthly across 400.000 different Apps.With my team at Kayzen - the largest app focused performance DSP - I have been pioneering App2Web performance campaigns since 2019, working with advertisers across leadgen, click2call, D2C eCommerce and more verticals.Before starting Kayzen, I co-founded Applift, a large App install adnetwork which was acquired by publicly listed MGI Group in 2019.

Van is an International Expert in the Performance Marketing Space. Van has built multiple 6-8 figure businesses and exited 2 of them. Most Notably Van Helped scale Diesel Power Gear, featured on Discovery channels hit TV show “Diesel Brothers”, from $4M to $30M in Revenue in 2020.Van is an international speaker at marketing events all over the world since 2018, where he trains thousands on cutting edge advertising techniques moving forward. In 2019 Van was awarded the “snapchat star of the year” award for his work on their platform.Currently Van is involved in multiple direct to consumer brands. He is the founder and CEO of both Tuff Ring and GOAT Media, and sits on numerous boards for his expertise in online marketing.

Nadim is a native ads veteran, working closely with all large native ad networks to bring affiliate, brand, and arbitrage spend to new heights globally. From growing a multi-million-dollar native ads agency, to cracking $100M annually on native ads in over 30 countries – Nadim has worked on a sizable chunk of the largest native ad accounts across search arbitrage, lead generation, and D2C.

Timoté, with 3M+ followers, leads the world's largest TikTok content-producing agency, driving tens of millions in GMV for brands just starting out to house-hold names like Gymshark, Olaplex, and Converse.

Katharina is a veteran in digital advertising and marketing with over 8 years of experience driving high-performing campaigns for top brands, affiliates, arbitragers, and agencies.She has a proven track record of helping advertisers scale their ad spend to 4-5 figures daily and now leads the international Sales for the Outbrain Direct Response team, operating at the intersection of strategy, media buying and growth.

Arsalan Khan is the Founder & CEO of AKM, a performance growth partner that scales, grows, and invests in the DTC brands he loves. With roots in the agency world, Arsalan has helped scale some of the most well-known eCommerce brands from 7 to 9 figures, across Meta, Google, and email. Over time, the natural progression led to taking equity positions and acquiring ownership in the brands he helped grow. He is also the co-founder of Marbl and Grummies, and actively invests in emerging consumer brands through his eCom portfolio.

Kamilla is an experienced strategic leader with nearly 8 years driving Voluum’s growth across global markets. As former Head of Marketing, she led impactful omnichannel campaigns that elevated brand visibility and fuelled lead generation worldwide. Now serving as Managing Director, Kamiila builds high-value partnerships with affiliates, ad platforms, and key industry players to drive revenue and expand Voluum’s market reach.