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Women in Affiliate Marketing 2026: 45 Leaders of Networks, iGaming Programs and Media Buying Teams, Graded by Proof

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The companies behind 3 of the biggest stages in affiliate marketing, Affiliate Summit, ICE and SiGMA, are run by women. Lisa Hannant has been CEO of Clarion Events, the owner of Affiliate Summit and ICE, since October 2022. Emily Micallef runs SiGMA Group, which says it brings 92,000 delegates to 8 summits. In Asia, Rosalind Wade founded Winna Media, the organiser of the Asian Gaming Congress.

Now look at who stands on those stages. On the SiGMA World Rome 2026 speaker roster, women were 108 of the 500 speakers whose gender I could identify, and 34 of the 214 billed as CEO, founder, president or managing director. On the 2026 Affiliate World rosters, every speaker whose bio says how much he personally spent on ads is a man.

The women are in the industry, and some run very large pieces of it. LTK, co-founded by Amber Venz Box, reports $6 billion a year in retail sales through creators' links. ShopMy, co-founded by Tiffany Lopinsky, raised money at a $1.5 billion valuation in 2025. Anna Gidirim runs Admitad, Andra Ionescu runs the CPA network MaxWeb, and Karolina Moscicka is COO of an iGaming paid media agency that says it handles $150M+ of ad spend a year.

Most lists of women in affiliate marketing stop at a few famous founders and a holiday round of interviews where the women give first names only. This one goes wider: 45 women from affiliate and CPA networks, iGaming programs, trackers, agencies and media buying teams, in 6 regions. Each carries a proof label, the number behind her when there is one, and the date of the latest source that shows her in the role. Where we have a public profile, you'll see her photo.

The statistics are the ones I could trace to a primary source, plus 3 we produced ourselves: a count of 846 speakers at 6 affiliate and iGaming conferences in 2026, a check of which speakers put a dollar figure in their bios, and the gender data from the annual reports of 6 listed affiliate companies.

Women in affiliate marketing: the statistics that have a source

Nobody publishes a census of affiliate marketers or media buyers by gender. What exists comes from the gambling industry, where a large share of affiliates work, from the annual reports of listed affiliates and from conference rosters.

Source

Scope and sample

What it found

All-in Diversity Project, All-Index 2022/23

Gambling operators and suppliers

Male to female ratio widened to about 65:35; the authors link it to sports betting

All-Index 2024/25

99,974 employees, 2024 data

Women 42.81% of staff (39.04% a year earlier); 31% of executives (28%); 34% of non-executive directors (36%)

Annual reports of 6 listed affiliates, 2025

Better Collective, Catena Media, Gentoo Media, Raketech, Gambling.com Group, Acroud

Women 32-49% of staff where disclosed; no women in Gentoo's C-level, Better Collective's executive management or Catena Media's board

Affiliate Summit, own events

ASEURO20 and ASE21

ASEURO20 line-up announced as 100% women; ASE21 reported 50% women speakers; 50/50 pledge from 2021

aliencpa count, 2026

846 speakers on 6 official rosters

Women 46-54% at Affiliate Summit, 22% at SiGMA World Rome, 19-26% at Affiliate World

The All-Index is the widest survey of the neighbourhood. Its 2022/23 edition reported the ratio of men to women "widening further to around 65:35" and blamed the rise of sports betting. The 2024/25 edition, built on 99,974 employees, found women back at 42.81% of staff and 31% of executives, up from 28%. These are operators and suppliers, not affiliates, so treat them as the neighbourhood, not the house.

Page 7 of the All-Index 2024/25 report by the All-in Diversity Project, titled Women at the Top: 43% of the industry are women versus 57% male; last year's All-Index indicated the number of women in the industry had dropped from 50% to just below 40%, and this year the split remains close to 60:40, 57% men and 43% women; female executives rose by almost 3% and non-executives dropped by 2%; bar charts show women at executive level 28% in 2023 and 31% in 2024, and at non-executive level 36% in 2023 and 34% in 2024.

The house: what listed affiliate companies disclose

The closest thing to hard data on affiliates themselves sits in the annual reports of listed affiliate groups, which have to describe their workforce and boards. I read the 2025 reports of 6 of them.

Company, report date

Staff

Women in staff

Women at the top

Board

Gentoo Media, April 28, 2026

340 full-time

49%

C-level 0%; directors 36%, heads 35%, managers 47%

Not given in %

Better Collective, February 25, 2026

1,391

32% (448)

Executive management 0% (3 people); top management 2 of 14

29% (43% in 2024); 40% target "has not been met"

Catena Media, March 24, 2026

120 full-time

33%

43% of executive and senior management

0%

Raketech, April 10, 2026

92 on average

Not disclosed

CRO Jenny Sorsa, VP Consumer Products Denise Lyrén

3 of 6, chaired by Kathryn Moore Baker

Gambling.com Group, March 19, 2026 (20-F)

599

Not disclosed

CEO, COO and CFO are men; 1 woman among 4 executive officers (SVP People)

1 of 7 (Susan Ball)

Acroud, June 4, 2026

72 on average

32% (41% in 2024)

Not given

Not given

Gentoo Media puts the pattern in one sentence: a workforce of 340 with "a near-equal gender split of 49% Female and 51% Male," while "C-level executives are 0% Female and 100% Male." The share of women falls up the ladder: 45-47% among team leads and managers, 35-36% among heads and directors, 0 at the C-level. Better Collective, the largest of the 6 with 1,391 people, has 32% women in staff and none in its 3-person executive management. Catena Media is the exception in management, with 43% women in executive and senior management, and has no women on its board.

Page 17 of Gentoo Media's Annual Report 2025, section 3.6 Social and diversity: as of December 31, 2025, its global workforce of 340 full-time employees across 47 nationalities maintained a near-equal gender split of 49% female and 51% male; while it targets a 50/50 gender balance within management layers, C-level executives are 0% female and 100% male; tiles show C-level 0% female, directors 36% female, heads 35% female, managers 47% female, team leads 45% female, and 47 nationalities.

The most quoted numbers are the least sourced. Stat roundups say 54% of affiliate marketers are men, 43% are women and "more than 75% of affiliate marketing managers are female." UpPromote credits Authority Hacker, QR Code Tiger credits AffiliateWP, and neither links to a survey. The 54/43 split traces to Affiliate Summit's AffStat 2016 survey of affiliates (54.23% male, 42.97% female, 2.80% undisclosed, with 57.44% of respondents in the US), and a blogger reported AffStat 2013, with 1,600+ affiliates, at 51.2% male and 48.8% female. I couldn't find either report online. For the 75% I found no survey at all, and another roundup cites Zippia's estimate of 42.5% women among US affiliate managers, which points the other way. The 75% stays out of this article.

Women speakers at affiliate conferences in 2026: our count of 846

Conferences are where this industry hands out visibility, so we counted. We pulled the official 2026 speaker rosters of 6 events and classified gender from the pronouns in each official bio, falling back to clearly gendered first names. 28 of 846 speakers stayed "unknown" and are left out of the shares. The SiGMA World Rome roster comes from the organiser's speaker page as archived on November 3, 2026, during the event.

Bar chart titled Women on stage at affiliate and iGaming conferences, 2026, share of speakers who are women among speakers whose gender could be identified, with a dashed 50/50 line. Affiliate Summit, which pledged 50/50 speaker line-ups from 2021: West in Las Vegas 54% (62 of 114), East in New York 46% (37 of 81). SiGMA World, no published speaker pledge: Rome 22% of all speakers (108 of 500) and 16% of speakers billed as CEO, founder, president or managing director (34 of 214). Affiliate World, no published speaker pledge: Europe in Budapest 26% (14 of 54), Americas in Cancun 19% (4 of 21), Global in Dubai 19% (9 of 48). Method: official 2026 rosters, gender from pronouns in the official bio, otherwise a clearly gendered first name; 28 of 846 speakers of unknown gender excluded.

The split follows the pledge, not the industry. In February 2020 Affiliate Summit announced a 100% female line-up for its Europe event and promised that "from 2021, our events will always feature a speaker lineup that is 50/50 male and female." Its 2021 East event reported "50% female speakers and 25% People of Color." In 2026 West landed above 50% and East just under it. Affiliate World, with no pledge I could find, sat at 19-26%, and SiGMA World in Rome at 22%.

Seniority thins the line further. At SiGMA World Rome, women were 22% of all speakers and 16% of speakers with a CEO, founder, president or managing director title: 34 of 214. About half of those 34 work outside affiliate marketing: regulators, lawyers, trade press, crypto and blockchain companies, the head of the Inter-Parliamentary Union. Of the 12 speakers with an affiliate or media buying job title, 3 were women, and both media buying titles on the roster, a senior media buyer at Betwinner and a head of media buying at Maverick Media, belonged to men.

2 other rosters are too small to put on the chart. Affiliate World Asia, which runs in Bangkok on December 9-10, had announced 26 speakers by November 12: 4 women, 20 men and 2 unknown. The next TES Affiliate Conference, in Seville in March 2027, had announced 8, and 2 of them are women, both from the dating and buying side: Lisa Moskotova and Vladislava Adreins. The rosters of TES Prague 2026 are no longer online.

Who puts a dollar figure in the bio

Affiliate World is the conference media buyers go to, so its bios say the most about money. Across the 4 rosters of 2026 (Europe, Americas, the postponed Dubai edition and Asia so far), 81 unique speakers have a bio with pronouns in it: 20 women and 61 men. 29 of the men (48%) cite a dollar figure or an "8-figure" claim. 5 of the women (25%) do.

The difference is in whose money it is. 3 men say what they spent themselves: "He spent over 150M on Facebook ads," "He has spent over $100M on Meta in the past 5 years," and "has spent over 200M in Paid ads." The women's figures belong to clients: Noa Takhel's Krave Media is "behind 7,000+ direct response ads and over $100M in ad spend across 50+ brands," Iveta Makedonska has "powered over $150M in ad spend," Anca Andreica's companies "have generated over $300M annually for clients." No woman's bio on the 2026 rosters says what she spent herself.

The exception is 2 years older. At Affiliate World Asia 2024, Mona Li, Head of Growth at BeesAds, wrote her own bio in the first person: she had spent 6 years on Google Ads, Meta Ads and programmatic, "spending more than 100 million dollars."

How each name is graded

Each profile below carries one of 3 labels for its key number or fact, plus the date of the latest source showing her in the role:

  • Verified: a third-party record backs it: company accounts, a stock exchange filing, an acquisition, an award organiser's results.
  • Reported: an independent outlet published it, usually with the number supplied by the company.
  • Self-reported: it appears only on her own or her company's channels: a site, a release, a Telegram post, a conference bio she supplied.

Self-reported doesn't mean false. It means you can't check it, and you should weigh it the way you weigh a network's own case study.

The map: women at the top of affiliate marketing by region

Region

Women at the top, on the record

Biggest number

Proof

What's missing

US and Canada

Amber Venz Box (LTK), Tiffany Lopinsky (ShopMy), Erin Cigich (Perform[cb]), Stephanie Harris (PartnerCentric), Missy Ward (Affiliate Summit, until 2020)

$1.5B valuation of ShopMy, 2025

Verified

Women affiliate buyers with numbers

UK, EU, Malta and Cyprus

Lisa Hannant (Clarion), Emily Micallef (SiGMA), Clemence Dujardin (MyAffiliates), Kamila Łuksza-Szpyt (Voluum), Karolina Moscicka (BugsyEmpire), Leanne Muleba (Matching Visions), Jenny Sorsa (Raketech), Lisa Moskotova (LoudBids), Andra Ionescu (MaxWeb)

£417.3M revenue of Clarion's group, year to January 2025

Verified

Owners of trackers and ad networks

CIS and Eastern Europe

Anna Gidirim (Admitad), Aleksandra Loginova (Alfaleads), Tamara (Meta CPA), Oksana Reutova (SchrodingersTeam), Karma Ryzhenkova and Anastasiia Voloshyna (PIN-UP Partners), Anastasiia Shcherbyna (Melbet Partners)

"7-figure monthly revenue" of Reutova's buying team, 2022

Self-reported

Surnames and full P&Ls of buyers

India

Swati Bhargava (CashKaro, EarnKaro), Parul Bhargava (vCommission)

₹600 crore revenue of CashKaro in FY26

Reported

Independent data on network size

Asia-Pacific

Do Kim Dung (Ecomobi), Mona Li (BeesAds), Rosalind Wade (Winna Media)

1M+ creators at Ecomobi

Self-reported

Anyone outside Vietnam and China with numbers

Latin America

Nathalia Cavalieri (Hotmart, VP)

Hotmart: $10B+ in content sales

Self-reported

A woman founder or CEO of a network

Middle East and Africa

None found

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Checked: Arabclicks, ArabyAds and Boostiny, DCMnetwork, Admitad MENA, Expertnaire

Infographic titled Who is visible at the top, by region, with 8 cards: US and Canada (Amber Venz Box of LTK, Tiffany Lopinsky of ShopMy, Erin Cigich of Perform[cb], Stephanie Harris of PartnerCentric; $1.5B valuation of ShopMy in October 2025, verified); UK, EU, Malta, Cyprus (Lisa Hannant of Clarion Events, Emily Micallef of SiGMA Group, Clemence Dujardin of MyAffiliates, Kamila Łuksza-Szpyt of Voluum, Karolina Moscicka of BugsyEmpire; £417.3M revenue of Clarion's group in the year to January 2025, verified); CIS and Eastern Europe (Anna Gidirim of Admitad, Aleksandra Loginova of Alfaleads Network, Oksana Reutova of SchrodingersTeam, Karma Ryzhenkova of PIN-UP Partners; 7-figure monthly revenue of a buying team in 2022, self-reported); India (Swati Bhargava of CashKaro and EarnKaro, Parul Bhargava of vCommission; ₹600 crore CashKaro revenue in FY26, reported); Asia-Pacific (Do Kim Dung of Ecomobi, Mona Li of BeesAds, Rosalind Wade of Winna Media; 1M+ creators at Ecomobi, self-reported); Latin America (Nathalia Cavalieri of Hotmart; 0 founders or CEOs of affiliate networks found); a grey Middle East and Africa card marked None found; and a dark card explaining the verified, reported and self-reported labels and noting that only 1 woman who buys traffic on the record says in her bio what she spent herself.

The women who run the stages

Lisa Hannant, Clarion Events: the owner of Affiliate Summit and ICE

CEO, Clarion Events, UK · Proof: verified (company accounts) · Role confirmed: accounts signed May 2025

Lisa Hannant

Chief Executive Officer

Clarion Events. CEO of the London-based events company behind Affiliate Summit and, through its WorldGaming division, ICE Barcelona and iGB.

Profile

Hannant joined Clarion in 2008, joined its board as group managing director in 2013 and became CEO on October 1, 2022. The company's footprint in this industry is direct: "Affiliate Summit Corporation is a subsidiary of Clarion Events Limited," and ICE, the biggest iGaming trade show, is run by WorldGaming, formerly Clarion Gaming. The accounts of Comet Bidco, Clarion's group, show revenue of £417.3 million for the year to January 31, 2025 and "over 2,000" employees. No woman in this article runs a bigger business by revenue that I could verify, and Affiliate Summit, the event with the 50/50 pledge, sits inside it.

Emily Micallef, SiGMA Group: 92,000 delegates a year, by the company's count

CEO, SiGMA Group, Malta · Proof: self-reported · Role confirmed: SiGMA announcement, 2026

Emily Micallef

Chief Executive Officer

SiGMA Group. CEO since October 2023 of the Malta-based iGaming media and events company behind the SiGMA World Tour.

Profile

SiGMA describes itself as a company with 450+ employees and offices in Malta, Limassol, Manila, São Paulo, Yerevan and Belgrade that hosts "over 3,150 exhibitors and 92,000 industry delegates across 8 summits." SiGMA World Rome, where women were 22% of speakers, is its flagship. Its own 2026 hiring announcement quotes "SiGMA Group CEO, Emily Micallef." The company publishes no revenue.

Rosalind Wade, Winna Media: the Asian Gaming Congress

Founder and CEO, Winna Media · Proof: self-reported · Role confirmed: company site, November 2026

Rosalind Wade

Founder & CEO

Winna Media, organiser of the Asian Gaming Congress and the HOT100 executive retreat; has run gaming industry events across Asia for more than 20 years. Speaker at Asian Gaming Congress 2027 (Manila, March 10-12): opening and welcome remarks.

Profile

Wade has spent almost 30 years in business events and 15 in gaming, running conferences in Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, the Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand, Cambodia and Australia, by her company's account. Winna Media organises the Asian Gaming Congress, next held in Manila on March 10-12, 2027, and the HOT100 executive retreat.

Missy Ward, Affiliate Summit: a $400 start and the 50/50 pledge

Co-founder, Affiliate Summit; co-CEO until July 2020, US · Proof: verified (2017 acquisition) · Role: past

Ward came to affiliate marketing in 1999, when an owner of the start-up she worked for asked her to copy Amazon's Associates program: she built the tracking, created the program and recruited the affiliates. In 2003 she and Shawn Collins founded Affiliate Summit "on a $400 investment," in her words, and Clarion Events acquired it in 2017. She stayed co-CEO until July 2020, then founded her own company, Skrillgrrrl. The 100% female Europe line-up and the 50/50 pledge came out in February 2020, on her watch.

Affiliate Summit blog post of February 10, 2020, archived copy: Affiliate Summit Makes Bold Move Towards Equality With 100% Female Speaker Line-up. Affiliate Summit Europe made the decision to make its ASEURO20 line-up 100% female, a move that drew some criticism, and from 2021 its events will always feature a speaker lineup that is 50/50 male and female; the company reports an uplift in female submissions for speaker slots year on year.

Affiliate and CPA networks

Anna Gidirim, Admitad: from junior retargeting manager to CEO

CEO, Admitad · Proof: self-reported · Role confirmed: September 2026

Anna Gidirim

CEO

Admitad. CEO since July 2023; joined the network in 2014 as a junior retargeting manager and headed the Admitad Partner Network from 2021.

Profile

Gidirim joined Admitad in 2014 as a junior retargeting manager and became a region manager in 2019. In April 2021 she took over the whole Admitad Partner Network, covering Europe, North America, LatAm, MENA, APAC and the CIS. On July 3, 2023 the company named her CEO. Admitad's posts from September 2026 still sign her as CEO, and in April 2026 she accepted AliExpress's Affiliate of the Year award for the company. She is the clearest case in this article of a woman who climbed one network's ladder from the bottom rung to the top.

Andra Ionescu, MaxWeb: a CPA network run by women for years

CEO, MaxWeb · Proof: self-reported · Role confirmed: July 2026

Andra Ionescu

CEO · MaxWeb Inc

Speaker at Affiliate World Europe 2026.

Profile

MaxWeb is an affiliate network that works with product owners and affiliates. Ionescu's Affiliate World Europe 2026 bio says she "grew within the business from affiliate management into operations leadership" and "helped scale affiliate programs to tens of millions in sales." She isn't the first woman at the top there. Anna Gita spoke at Affiliate World Asia 2019 and Affiliate World Global: Dubai as MaxWeb's CEO, with a Dubai bio saying she had built "an 8-figure business in just under 5 years, without any experience in the affiliate marketing world," and that "MaxWeb helps product owners and affiliates generate more than $100M in profits every year." When one CEO handed over to the other isn't public.

Anna Gita

Former CEO · MaxWeb Inc

MaxWeb, the CPA network she led as CEO. Speaker at Affiliate World Asia 2019 and Affiliate World Global: Dubai.

Profile

Erin Cigich, Perform[cb]: a CEO through 2 private equity sales

CEO, Perform[cb], US · Proof: self-reported · Role confirmed: company site, November 2026

Erin Cigich

CEO

Perform[cb], the performance marketplace and outsourced affiliate program agency in Sarasota, Florida. Speaker at Affiliate World Asia 2018 and Affiliate World Europe 2022.

Profile

Perform[cb] runs a performance marketplace and an outsourced affiliate program agency from Sarasota, Florida. Its leadership page lists Cigich as CEO. Her Affiliate World bio, used at the Asia 2018 and Europe 2022 editions, calls her a 15-year industry veteran and says that under her leadership the company went through "two successful sale processes to leading private equity" firms. No revenue is public.

Parul Bhargava, vCommission: 100,000 affiliates, by the company's count

Co-founder and CEO, vCommission, India · Proof: self-reported · Role confirmed: Affiliate World Asia 2024

Parul Bhargava

Co-Founder and CEO

vCommission, the Indian CPA network that says it works with 100K+ affiliates. Speaker at Affiliate World Asia 2024.

Profile

vCommission, a CPA network that is now a 100% subsidiary of a joint venture with Japan's Adways, says it has "100K+ Affiliates." Her Affiliate World Asia 2024 bio adds a team: "CEO to a team of 100+ around the world." The last independent figure I found is older: Inc42 quoted her in 2016 with "more than 17,500 worldwide publishers." The gap between the 2 numbers is 10 years and a company's own counting.

Aleksandra Loginova, Alfaleads Network: a CEO from sales

CEO, Alfaleads Network · Proof: self-reported · Role confirmed: June 2026

Aleksandra Loginova

CEO · Alfaleads Network

Alfaleads Network. CEO since June 2026; 17 years in commercial roles, 14 of them in leadership, by the company's announcement.

Profile

Alfaleads introduced Loginova as the new CEO of its network in June 2026, citing "17 years in commercial structures, 14 of them in leadership positions," a business coach certification and talks at industry conferences. She came from sales, not from buying, and the announcement carried no network figures.

Tamara and Anna, Meta CPA: a nutra network with women at both ends

CEO and owner of Meta CPA, a nutra CPA network; first names only · Proof: self-reported · Role confirmed: November 2025

The network's official Telegram has introduced Tamara as CEO since November 2023, and in November 2025 it listed "Tamara — CEO / Anna — Owner." The channel describes Meta CPA as an international nutra network with "more than 60 GEOs and 5,000+ offers." Official pages give no surnames, so neither do I.

Lisa Moskotova, LoudBids: dating traffic since 2003

Co-founder, Private Social AG (LoudBids, FlirtRevenue) · Proof: self-reported · Role confirmed: TES Seville 2027 roster, November 2026

Moskotova's TES bio traces a whole career in dating traffic: she started in 2003 at World Dating Partners, "the first ever white label dating platform on the market," co-founded the white label platform Dating Factory in 2008 and sold it in 2016. Her team then built FlirtRevenue and LoudBids, an ad exchange for dating traffic that works mostly with email, member area and push. She "oversees product and development for all the projects, as well as overall company operations." The sale price of Dating Factory isn't public.

Do Kim Dung, Ecomobi: Southeast Asia's creator affiliate network

Co-founder and Chief Revenue Officer, Ecomobi, Vietnam · Proof: self-reported · Role confirmed: company site, 2025-2026

Do Kim Dung

Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer

Ecomobi, the creator affiliate network in Vietnam, the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia.

Profile

Ecomobi connects brands with creators across Vietnam, the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia. Its June 2025 release claims "1M+ creators and 2.5M monthly orders"; its own About page gives 150,000+ creators for 2021. She accepted Lazada's Affiliate of the Year 2024 award for the company. She is the only woman I found at founder level in a Southeast Asian affiliate network.

iGaming: affiliate programs, networks and the listed affiliates

Karma Ryzhenkova and Anastasiia Voloshyna, PIN-UP Partners: the ladder and the buyer

Head of PIN-UP Partners (2023); Sales Team Lead (2024) · Proof: self-reported · Role confirmed: Affiliate World Asia 2023 and Dubai 2024

Karma Ryzhenkova

Head of PIN-UP Partners (2023) · Pin-Up Partners

PIN-UP Partners. Joined in 2019 as a junior affiliate manager and became head of the affiliate program. Speaker at Affiliate World Asia 2023.

Profile

Ryzhenkova's Affiliate World Asia 2023 bio is a ladder in one sentence: since joining PIN-UP Partners in 2019 "as a junior affiliate manager, she's rapidly ascended to become the head of PIN-UP Partners, achieving a 30% volume boost last year." Her current role isn't public. Voloshyna, who spoke at Affiliate World Dubai in 2024, came from the buying side: she has "bought traffic from more than 10 traffic sources, tested about 500 gaming brands across all markets," and ran the program's sales department for India, Brazil, Europe and the ex-CIS. At SiGMA World Rome 2026, the program's Head of Affiliates on stage was a man, Tim Gorenkov. PIN-UP Partners belongs to RedCore, formerly PIN-UP Global, whose founder and CEO is also a woman, Marina Ilina.

Anastasiia Voloshyna

Sales Team Lead · Pin-Up Partners

PIN-UP Partners. Former media buyer: bought traffic from 10+ sources and tested about 500 gaming brands; ran sales for India, Brazil, Europe and the ex-CIS. Speaker at Affiliate World Dubai 2024.

Profile

Anastasiia Shcherbyna, Melbet Partners: on 3 stages in 2026

CMO, Melbet Partners and Melbet Affiliates · Proof: self-reported · Role confirmed: SiGMA World Rome, November 2026

Anastasiia Shcherbyna

Chief Marketing Officer

Melbet Partners & Affiliates. Speaker at SBC Affiliate Leaders Summit 2026.

Profile

Shcherbyna is one of the few women from a betting brand's affiliate program on international rosters. In 2026 alone she spoke at 3 events: Affiliate World Europe 2026, the SBC Affiliate Leaders Summit 2026 and SiGMA World Rome 2026, all as CMO. At SiGMA World Rome she was one of 3 women among the 12 speakers with an affiliate or media buying job title. Melbet publishes no program figures.

Leanne Muleba, Matching Visions: 2,500 affiliates

COO, Matching Visions, Malta · Proof: self-reported · Role confirmed: SBC Affiliate Leaders Summit roster, 2026

Leanne Muleba

Chief Operations Officer

Matching Visions. Speaker at SBC Affiliate Leaders Summit 2026.

Profile

Matching Visions is an iGaming affiliate network that says it "houses over 2500 affiliates" and lists brands such as Unibet, Videoslots and Mr Green among its testimonials. Its footer dates the business from 2013. Muleba spoke at the SBC Affiliate Leaders Summit in 2026 as its COO.

Clemence Dujardin, MyAffiliates: the platform with 16% of the market

Group CEO, MyAffiliates, Malta · Proof: reported · Role confirmed: October 2025

Clemence Dujardin

Group Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

MyAffiliates, Malta. Verticals: Betting, Ecommerce, iGaming, Email, PPC, SEO. Traffic: Email, PPC, SEO.

Profile

Dujardin entered iGaming in 2008 supporting a poker company, then ran an operator's affiliate program and managed casino affiliate sites before joining MyAffiliates as general manager in 2012. "Today, I lead the company as Group CEO," she says on the company's site. The platform serves "over 300 clients," and StatsDrone research on a sample of 1,100 affiliate programs found it the most used non-proprietary affiliate software in 2024, with 16% market share.

Erica Anderson, Income Access: close to 20 programs in-house

VP Marketing and Product, Income Access (Paysafe) · Proof: self-reported · Role confirmed: Paysafe site, November 2026

Erica Anderson

VP Marketing and Product

Income Access, Paysafe. Oversees marketing, product and the in-house affiliate management team, which manages close to 20 affiliate programs.

Profile

Her Paysafe bio has her overseeing marketing, product and the in-house affiliate management team at Income Access, which "manages close to 20 affiliate programs including tier-1 iGaming brands" and licenses its affiliate software. It's the operator side of affiliate management, and no program figures are public.

Shakyra Jonsson, Betsson: Affiliate Leader of the Year

Senior Affiliate Operations and Events Manager, Betsson Group, Malta · Proof: verified (award) · Role confirmed: June 2025

The Women in Gaming Diversity Awards named her Affiliate Leader of the Year on June 5, 2025, for "driving growth in traffic, revenue, and conversions." Betsson published no figures with it.

Jenny Sorsa, Raketech: the CRO of a listed affiliate at 32

Chief Revenue Officer, Raketech · Proof: verified (company disclosure) · Role confirmed: annual report, April 2026

Jenny Sorsa

Chief Revenue Officer

Raketech, the Stockholm-listed affiliate. CRO since November 2025; previously at LeoVegas Group, where she worked on BetMGM's European rollout.

Profile

Raketech, a Stockholm-listed affiliate, made Sorsa CRO in November 2025. Born in 1993, she came from LeoVegas Group, where as senior commercial manager in 2024-2025 she drove the go-to-market planning for BetMGM's European rollout. The company's disclosure lists her holdings as 0 shares and 70,000 warrants or options. She took the revenue seat in a hard year: Raketech's revenue from continuing operations fell to €27.0 million in 2025 from €51.3 million.

More names from iGaming and ad networks, with roles confirmed on official rosters and no public numbers: Elaine Gardiner, managing director of the iGaming affiliate agency TAG Media; Gala Grigoreva, CMO of Adsterra; Svetlana Geraskina, CMO of the nutra program Leadbit; Mila Staneva, Head of Partnerships at the tracker RedTrack; Nilu Yusupova, CEO of the growth agency Rezono, which works with media buyers; and Laura Gago, COO of the Spanish iGaming creator network BETANDEAL.

Creator commerce and cashback: where the biggest money is

Amber Venz Box, LTK: $6 billion a year in retail sales

Co-founder and president, LTK, US · Proof: self-reported (sales), reported (net worth) · Role confirmed: March 2026

Amber Venz Box

Co-Founder and President

LTK (formerly rewardStyle), the creator commerce platform she co-founded in 2011. LTK says it powers $6B in annual retail sales through creators' links.

Profile

LTK, launched in 2011 as rewardStyle, pays creators commission on the sales their links drive: affiliate marketing dressed as creator commerce. In a March 2026 release LTK says it "powers $6B in annual retail sales," has 8,000 retailers investing in creators and more than 400,000 verified creators, and that its model "has led to nearly $3B invested in creators and helped nearly 400 women become self-made millionaires." LTK raised money at a $2 billion valuation in 2021, after an investment from SoftBank, and Forbes estimated her net worth at $315 million that year. It's the largest affiliate machine built by a woman that I found, and it pays creators, not media buyers.

LTK press release of March 11, 2026 headlined LTK Co-Founder and President, Amber Venz Box, Named to Inc.'s 2026 Female Founders 500 List, with its About LTK section: founded in 2011 by Amber Venz Box and Baxter Box; LTK powers $6B in annual retail sales, supports 60,000 creator-brand collaborations each year, has 8,000 retailers investing in creators, is used by more than 44M monthly users, and has led to nearly $3B invested in creators and helped nearly 400 women become self-made millionaires.

Tiffany Lopinsky, ShopMy: a $1.5 billion challenger

Co-founder and president, ShopMy, US · Proof: verified (funding round) · Role confirmed: May 2026

Tiffany Lopinsky

Co-Founder and President

ShopMy, the creator and affiliate shopping platform she co-founded in 2020. ShopMy raised $70M at a $1.5B valuation in October 2025.

Profile

ShopMy entered LTK's market in 2020, founded by Lopinsky with Harry Rein, its CEO, and Chris Tinsley. In October 2025 it raised $70 million at a $1.5 billion valuation in a round led by Avenir, with Bain Capital Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners and Menlo Ventures. Fortune described it in May 2026 as "the influencer and affiliate platform that is now valued at $1.5 billion" and gave her age as 31. Her view of the creators her platform pays: "The influencer is a retailer, a mini-Saks, a mini-Bloomingdale's." Her personal stake isn't public.

Latham and Watkins news release of October 24, 2025 headlined Latham and Watkins Advises ShopMy in US$70 Million Funding Round at US$1.5 Billion Valuation: ShopMy, the curated commerce infrastructure company, has raised US$70 million in funding at a US$1.5 billion valuation; the unicorn-status round was led by Avenir, with participation from Bain Capital Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners and Menlo Ventures.

Swati Bhargava, CashKaro: ₹600 crore in revenue

Co-founder, CashKaro and EarnKaro, India · Proof: reported · Role confirmed: May 2026

Swati Bhargava

Co-Founder

CashKaro and EarnKaro, the Indian cashback and affiliate link-sharing platforms. CashKaro announced FY26 revenue of ₹600 crore, up 72% year on year.

Profile

CashKaro is a cashback and coupon site, and its app EarnKaro lets anyone share affiliate links for a commission. In May 2026 the company announced FY26 revenue of ₹600 crore, or ₹6 billion, up 72% year on year, with its EBITDA loss cut to ₹17.7 crore, and said it enabled over ₹10,000 crore in sales for partner brands. These are company-announced figures, not filings. It has raised about ₹250 crore from investors including Kalaari Capital. Her summary: "This year, we grew our revenues by 72% while reducing losses by almost half."

Outlook Business report of May 5, 2026, headlined CashKaro Reports 72 Pc Revenue Growth To 600 Crore In FY26: the cashback and coupon platform reported a 72% jump in revenue to 600 crore rupees for 2025-26, its EBITDA losses narrowed by about 40% to 17.7 crore rupees from 29.2 crore, it enabled over 10,000 crore rupees in sales for partner brands, and co-founder Swati Bhargava says revenues grew 72% while losses fell by almost half.

Jennifer Nikkel, Quidco: a student project sold for £101 million

Co-founder, Quidco, UK · Proof: verified (acquisition) · Role: past

Quidco "was co-founded by Paul and Jennifer Nikkel whilst studying at the University of Sheffield in 2005 as a way of saving students money as they shopped online." In 2021 Moneysupermarket.com Group agreed to buy it for £101 million. At the time the cashback site had around 1 million transacting users, 4,500+ merchants, about 100 employees, nearly £60 million in revenue and £7.9 million of EBITDA. How the proceeds were split between the founders isn't public.

Co-founder, Skimlinks, UK; CEO until 2018 · Proof: reported · Role: past

Navarro co-founded Skimlinks in London in 2007, technology that turns publishers' product links into affiliate links. TechCrunch reported $25.5 million raised, over $500 million in e-commerce sales driven by 2013 and nearly $1 billion in e-commerce transactions across 1.5 million publisher domains in 2016. Connexity bought the company in May 2020. Her verdict on the deal: "Every party, including many staff, has made money out of this deal and is very happy."

Nathalia Cavalieri, Hotmart: the highest-ranking woman I found in LatAm

VP, Communication and Customer Experience, Hotmart, Brazil · Proof: self-reported · Role confirmed: August 2025

Nathalia Cavalieri

VP, Communication and Customer Experience

Hotmart, the Brazilian infoproduct and affiliate platform. General manager from 2022, VP of Communication and Customer Experience by August 2025.

Profile

Hotmart is the infoproduct platform where Brazilian affiliates sell courses for commission. It created a General Manager position for Cavalieri in 2022, and she held it at least until April 2024; by August 2025 she was VP of Communication and Customer Experience. The company says it has 250,000+ active producers and over $10 billion in digital content sales. She is not a founder or CEO, and I found no woman who is, at a LatAm affiliate network. The one LatAm event a woman co-founded, Evento CPA, started by Wanda Romero and Al Aviles in 2013, last ran in Cartagena in January 2018.

The Middle East and Africa: none found

I checked the leadership pages of Arabclicks, ArabyAds and its Boostiny platform, DCMnetwork, Admitad MENA and Nigeria's Expertnaire and found no woman named in charge: the heads I could identify are men, and some sites name no one. That's an absence of evidence on the pages I could reach, not proof that no women lead there.

Trackers and agencies

Kamila Łuksza-Szpyt, Voluum: the tracker with 6,700 advertisers

Managing Director, Voluum, Poland · Proof: self-reported · Role confirmed: SiGMA World Rome, November 2026

Kamila Łuksza-Szpyt

Managing Director

Voluum. Speaker at SiGMA World 2026: Panel – Beyond Native Advertising: How AI Is Reinventing a Multi-Billion Dollar Industry.

Profile

Voluum is one of the trackers media buyers use most, and its About page quotes Łuksza-Szpyt as "Voluum's Managing Director." The company says 6,700 active advertisers run their ads through it. At SiGMA World Rome 2026 she spoke on a panel about native advertising.

Stephanie Harris, PartnerCentric: from an in-house program to owning the agency

Founder and CEO, PartnerCentric, US · Proof: self-reported · Role confirmed: company site, 2025-2026

Stephanie Harris

Founder and CEO

PartnerCentric, the affiliate and partnership marketing agency. She built Scholastic's first affiliate program and led the 2017 buy-out that created PartnerCentric.

Profile

Harris built Scholastic's first affiliate program, joined Schaaf Consulting as an early employee in 2006, became CEO in 2015 and led the buy-out of the founding partners in 2017, which created PartnerCentric. Its site claims ">$2B" in generated revenue for clients and "$150M+ redirected from partners who weren't earning it." Her advice in an Everflow interview: "You don't need 'permission' to speak - a good idea is a good idea."

Women in media buying: who is on the record

Here's the honest gap. In every region, the women with names and numbers run networks, platforms, agencies and events. The women who work as media buyers are fewer, and their numbers are thinner. These are the ones who put their names and some numbers on an official page.

Oksana Reutova, SchrodingersTeam: "7-figure monthly revenue" with her buyers

Owner, SchrodingersTeam · Proof: self-reported · Role confirmed: Affiliate World Asia 2024

Oksana Reutova

Owner

SchrodingersTeam, Spain. Verticals: Dating, iGaming, Email. Traffic: Email.

Profile

Reutova is the closest thing on Affiliate World rosters to a woman who owns a buying team and says how big it is. Her bio for Affiliate World Global: Dubai introduced "a Ukrainian currently living in Barcelona," an independent affiliate in dating and "an avid media buyer who also works with a quickly growing team." In 2022 the team had grown: "she generates 7-figure monthly revenue with her team of international media buyers," with email acquisition and list building at the core. In 2024 she was billed as Owner of SchrodingersTeam, a "media buyer with 15+ years of experience." The team's own site describes her role as head of marketing and business development, so the title depends on which page you read. Revenue isn't profit, and no spend or margin came with it.

Karolina Moscicka, BugsyEmpire: $150M+ a year in paid media

COO, BugsyEmpire, Cyprus · Proof: self-reported · Role confirmed: company site, November 2026

Karolina Moscicka

COO

BugsyEmpire. Speaker at SBC Affiliate Leaders Summit 2026.

Profile

BugsyEmpire is a paid media and creative agency for real money gaming, social sweepstakes and prediction markets, with certified partnerships across Meta, Snapchat, TikTok and Google. Its site claims 100+ iGaming brands as clients and "$150M+ yearly paid media spend." That's the clients' money run through the agency, not the agency's own risk, but it's the largest buying operation in this article with a woman named in its leadership. Moscicka spoke at the SBC Affiliate Leaders Summit in 2026.

Martina Lehner, Xevio: the only woman billed as a head of media buying

Head of Native Media Buying, Xevio · Proof: self-reported · Role confirmed: Affiliate World Dubai 2026

Martina Lehner

Head of Native Media Buying

Xevio. Speaker at Affiliate World Dubai 2026.

Profile

Lehner's bio says she "leads a team of experienced native media buyers" on Taboola, MediaGo, Outbrain and premium publisher networks, and that she started "hands-on in media buying." She is the only speaker on the 2026 Affiliate World rosters with media buying in her job title, man or woman. Her bio carries no spend figure.

Mona Li, BeesAds: the woman who said what she spent

Head of Growth, BeesAds, China · Proof: self-reported · Role confirmed: Affiliate World Asia 2024

Mona Li

Head of Growth

BeesAds, an RSOC search arbitrage company in China. Speaker at Affiliate World Asia 2024.

Profile

BeesAds works in RSOC, search arbitrage through related search on content pages. Li's bio says she spent 6 years on Google Ads, Meta Ads and programmatic, "spending more than 100 million dollars," and leads a team "adept at mastering critical strategies of content and search arbitrage." It's the only first-person spend claim by a woman I found on any Affiliate World roster from 2024 to 2026.

Cari Hartman, TrustEngage: from search arbitrage to her own agency

Founder and CEO, TrustEngage · Proof: self-reported · Role confirmed: SiGMA World Rome, November 2026

Cari Hartman

Founder & CEO

TrustEngage. Speaker at SiGMA World 2026: Panel – Cracking the Meta Code: Creative, AI & Performance at Scale.

Profile

Hartman's Affiliate World Asia 2024 bio calls her "formerly a hands-on media buyer for Google search arbitrage campaigns" who has "built and scaled 8-figure affiliate and data programs" for insurance, finance, legal and e-commerce companies. She owns the email agency TrustEngage and then did business development for PolicyJar, an affiliate "with over $85M in annual ad spend on Google and Meta." At SiGMA World Rome she was billed as TrustEngage's founder and CEO.

Iveta Makedonska and Noa Takhel: the creative side of the spend

Founder and CEO, MakeItClick; Founder and CEO, Krave Media · Proof: self-reported · Role confirmed: Affiliate World Asia and Europe 2026

Iveta Makedonska

Founder & CEO

MakeItClick. Speaker at SiGMA World 2026: Keynote – From UGC to Creative Systems: The Next Evolution of Paid Growth.

Profile

Creative agencies are where women on buying stages most often carry a number. Makedonska is the most-booked woman on Affiliate World stages: 6 rosters in 2025-2026, from Dubai to Bangkok, plus a keynote at SiGMA World Rome. Her bio says MakeItClick has worked with 150+ brands in 20+ markets, produced 50,000+ video ads and "powered over $150M in ad spend." Takhel's Krave Media is "behind 7,000+ direct response ads and over $100M in ad spend across 50+ brands." Both numbers describe clients' budgets.

Noa Takhel

Founder

Krave Media. Speaker at Affiliate World Europe 2026.

Profile

Molly Pittman and Michelle Schroeder-Gardner: the English-speaking exceptions

Co-founder, Train My Traffic Person; founder, Making Sense of Cents, US · Proof: self-reported

Molly Pittman

Co-Founder

Train My Traffic Person. Paid traffic trainer; her podcast bio says she has spent over $14M on Facebook ads.

Profile

Pittman is the best-known woman in paid traffic, and her podcast bio says she "has spent over $14 million on Facebook while maintaining a positive ROI," for brands, info products and SaaS, not affiliate offers. On the publisher side, Michelle Schroeder-Gardner of Making Sense of Cents itemized her income for years: $72,042.74 from affiliate links in October 2018 out of $145,319.74 in total. Then she stopped. In her words, sharing such details "started making me feel unsafe."

Why the buying seat stays anonymous

The visibility problem isn't only about women. Our own Faces catalog, built from public conference and company profiles, lists 3,384 people, and 16 of them publish a media buying job title. 4 of the 16 give their employer as "NDA." 3 are women: Martina Lehner, a head of media buying at an undisclosed company in Russia, and a media buyer in Thailand who also works under "NDA." Buyers of every gender keep their names off the record, and women are simply fewer in a group that's already hidden.

The bios show how much is left out even when a woman takes the stage. Vladislava Adreins, founder of Adreins.com and a speaker at TES Seville 2027, sums up her career in one line: "15 years of media buying and still not bored of it." No spend, no vertical, no team size. That's not modesty unique to women: it's how buyers protect sources, offers and accounts. But when men who buy go on stage, more of them bring a number.

3 routes to the top, and why buying is rarely one of them

Lay the profiles side by side and 3 routes repeat:

  1. The ladder inside one company. Gidirim from junior retargeting manager to CEO at Admitad, Ryzhenkova from junior affiliate manager to head of PIN-UP Partners, Ionescu from affiliate management to CEO at MaxWeb, Dujardin from general manager to Group CEO at MyAffiliates, Hannant from a 2008 hire to CEO of Clarion. Network, program and event jobs have titles to climb, and that's where these women climbed.
  2. The founder from next door. Venz Box started from a fashion blog, Lopinsky with a 2020 start-up that took on LTK, the Nikkels from a student project, Navarro from link technology, Swati Bhargava from a cashback site. They built the infrastructure other affiliates run on, and they hold the biggest numbers in this article.
  3. The accidental inbox. Ward was told to copy Amazon's program in 1999, Moskotova walked into a white label dating platform in 2003, Anna Gita built MaxWeb "without any experience in the affiliate marketing world." Nobody planned an affiliate career, because there wasn't one to plan.

The buying route exists, but it rarely leads to the top. Voloshyna, Lehner, Hartman and Reutova bought traffic, and the first 3 moved into sales, team leadership or an agency. Reutova is the only woman here who still sells herself as a media buyer and a team owner at once. My reading: the buying seat is solitary, paid on results and rewarded for staying quiet. The management seat has a title, a public profile and a stage. The industry promotes women into visibility, and media buying is the one job that punishes visibility.

Checklist: what to do

Questions and answers

How many women work in affiliate marketing?

No census exists. The best proxies: listed affiliate companies report 32-49% women on staff in 2025 (Better Collective 32%, Catena Media 33%, Gentoo Media 49%), and the wider gambling industry reported 42.81% women among 99,974 employees in 2024. AffStat surveys of affiliates put women at 48.8% in 2013 and 42.97% in 2016.

Are there women media buyers in affiliate marketing?

Yes, but few are public. Oksana Reutova of SchrodingersTeam says her team of buyers generates 7-figure monthly revenue, and Mona Li of BeesAds says she has spent more than $100 million on ads. On the 2026 Affiliate World rosters, no woman's bio states what she spent herself, while 3 men's bios do.

What share of affiliate conference speakers are women?

In our count of 846 speakers at 6 events in 2026: 54% at Affiliate Summit West, 46% at Affiliate Summit East, 26% at Affiliate World Europe, 22% at SiGMA World Rome and 19% at Affiliate World Americas and Dubai. At SiGMA World Rome, women were 16% of speakers with CEO or founder titles.

Who are the most influential women in affiliate marketing?

By scale of business: Lisa Hannant (Clarion Events, owner of Affiliate Summit and ICE), Amber Venz Box (LTK), Tiffany Lopinsky (ShopMy), Swati Bhargava (CashKaro), Anna Gidirim (Admitad) and Emily Micallef (SiGMA Group). In CPA networks: Andra Ionescu (MaxWeb) and Erin Cigich (Perform[cb]).

Author’s conclusion

Women run some of the largest businesses in affiliate marketing, and the proof for most of them is decent: dated roles, company accounts, funding rounds, a reporter in between. They even own the stages. The evidence gets thin where this magazine lives: the media buying seat. There the women are fewer, the numbers belong to clients, and the bios that brag about personal spend are men's.

My take: if you're building a team, the talent exists but won't come with a public P&L, so judge it the way you'd judge a man's, on a test budget and your own tracker. And if you're a woman buying traffic with numbers you can show, spend, period, offer type and tracker screenshots, send them to us. The next version of this map should have a buyer in every region, not just a CEO.

Lu Discover, Editor-in-chief

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