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Lloyd D’Souza is the Global Head of Branded Entertainment and Consumer Revenue Video at Condé Nast Entertainment. CNE is an award-winning next generation studio and distribution network with entertainment content across film, television, premium digital video, social, and AR/VR. 

D’Souza has over 20 years of production and development experience that spans commercial direction and feature film development. In addition, he operated an L.A. based commercial content production studio that managed a roster of talent, contributing to work that garnered three Cannes Lions. Tapping into his broad expertise, D’Souza leads global creative and physical production at CNE to shape the vision for branded entertainment across the Condé Nast portfolio.  His team actively develops originals to grow the content business across all platforms, create innovative opportunities in-market and develop long-term strategies for branded entertainment and partner content.

Since joining Condé Nast in 2018, Lloyd has overseen the growth of branded content and creative content development across all brands in house. He has been integral in the trajectory of GQ Sports and oversaw the strategic development and launch of Mission Studio, a purpose driven content arm focusing on Branded Journalism winning a Clio for its launch program with Vanity Fair.

Prior to CNE, D’Souza was the Executive Producer and Creative Director at Vox Creative at Vox Media where he launched The Explainer Studio for Brands. D’Souza’s understanding of content execution from ideation to distribution informs growth and strategy amongst his teams, delegating leadership and championing outside-the-box creative to deliver success to CNE’s partners.

Guillaume is a seasoned tech entrepreneur with a dynamic career spanning over two decades across Paris, San Francisco, and New York. He co-founded Musiwave, a pioneering digital music platform for mobile that became a European market leader, later acquired by Microsoft in 2008.

In 2011, he launched Scoop.it, a successful content curation platform, which was eventually acquired by Linkfluence, an AI-driven consumer insights company, where Guillaume now serves as CEO, leading their innovative applications of social data and AI technologies like NLP and computer vision.

Under his visionary leadership, Linkfluence has thrived, and following its acquisition by Meltwater in 2021, Guillaume continues to steer the company as its Consumer Insights Center of Excellence while also overseeing Product for the Enterprise Business Unit since late 2022.