On Wednesday, April 17, 2025, Astronomic hosted a fireside chat with Austin Distel, former CMO at Jasper. Austin helped Jasper grow to 100,000+ customers and has built a thriving user community of 80,000+ members and leveraged digital advertising, performance marketing, and product-led growth.

This event was sponsored by GrowthChannel. Growth Channel helps advertisers manage, measure, and optimize omnichannel media with a focus on performance and transparency.

Invited guests were hig-caliber marketing executives:

• Cady Mcnerney — Director of Digital Marketing at Grunt Style
• Darren Drewitz — Founder at Flat Five Marketing
• Pamela Wagner — Founder at Hustle Less Live More
• Heather Holmes — Founder and Head of Strategy & Content at Breathing Disco
• Orad Eldar — Vice President, Media at Moburst
• Matej Hrus — Marketing Director at Kreativ Gang
• Madelaine Robinson — Group Director, Media and Analytics at Duncan Channon
• Victor Franco — Director and Founder at Franco Studios
• Angela Arnold — Principal & CEO at Arnold Marketing Consultants
• Nick Larsen — Head of Sales at Fluix
• Austin Zitting — Director of Growth at Novo
• Michael Carrillo — Growth Marketing Manager at OpenTrack
• Tyler Durman — CEO and Fractional Head of Growth Marketing at Ignition Growth Consulting
• Lance Demonteiro — Vice President, Digital Media at Horizon Next
• Marco Hernandez Daly — Chief Marketing Officer at Bullseye Agency
• Ron Browning — Founder and CEO at Intellibright
• Nick Politi — Director Of Strategic Partnerships at Kettle & Fire
• Krista Vestman — Associate Director Paid Media at Rainmaker Ad Ventures
• Deb Johnson  — Founder at D Business Boutique
• Via Bialkowski — Director of Marketing at Form.io
• Danielle Ryan — Founder at RVLT
• Felix Jaimes — Founder at Forty4 Design
• Courtney Kehl — CEO and Founder at Expert Marketing Advisors
• Amelia Hiller — Co-founder at Hiller Media Group
• Anne Ward — Co-founder and CEO at CircleClick
• Vlad Alexander —  Founder at Ads4Scale
• Umair Suleman — Founder at Useryze
• Kemal Whyte — Founder at Rebel Edge Marketing