ZETA Chief ExecutiveWhat David A. Steinberg says in public, and what their own SEC filings show they own.
Co-Founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer · Zeta Global Holdings Corp.
Co-founded Zeta in 2007 with former Apple CEO John Sculley and has run it ever since, through a $10 IPO in June 2021 and the pivot from a marketing-database business into what the company now calls an intelligent AI infrastructure platform. He holds all 23,638,426 shares of Class B stock, which carry ten votes each and give him roughly 51% of the voting power, so Zeta is a controlled company. Previously founded InPhonic and was chairman and CEO of Sterling Cellular; he also chairs CAIVIS Investment Company, Kica Investments and On Demand Pharmaceuticals.
Steinberg owns 10.3% of Zeta Global Holdings Corp., worth $772.9M at the last close.
Nobody has researched this person's career yet, so founder and track record are left out of the score and of the total above.
Score = stake band (35) + founder (15) + tenure (10) + track record (15) + 12-month direction (−10…15) + filing discipline (10). An axis we have not researched is left out of the score and of the total it is shown over. Every input links to a filing or to our own research; the bands are ours.
Dots mark the months the activity below moved the line. Hover one for that month's net move, how many movements it folds and the largest.
| Security | Held via | Shares |
|---|---|---|
| Class B Common Stock | ACI Investment Partners,LLC | 30,364,665 |
| Class B Common Stock | ACI Investment Partners XXVII, LLC | 9,842,337 |
| Class B Common Stock | ACI Investment Partners, LLC | 6,435,636 |
| Class B Common Stock | IAC Investment Company IX, LLC | 4,285,215 |
| Class B Common Stock | Botticelli SPV LLC | 2,300,000 |
| Class B Common Stock | Family Trusts | 453,409 |
| Class A Common Stock | ACI Investment Partners, LLC | 395,707 |
| Class B Common Stock | Family Trust | 392,797 |
| Class B Common Stock | Charitable Annuity Trust | 199,153 |
| Class B Common Stock | CAIVIS Acquisition Corp. II | 75,000 |
| Class A Common Stock | Direct | 67,327 |
| Class B Common Stock | Spouse | 47,676 |
| Class A Common Stock | Family Trusts | 512 |
| Reported as of 2026-08-13 | 54,859,434 | |
The 13G/A cover page counts the 24.5M shares the person can vote today. The Forms 4 add 30.4M more — typically an award that has not vested, which the person disclaims until it does. Never add them together.
| Date | Type | What happened | Shares | Price | Value | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 2026 filing: Gift, Gift · Class B Common Stock | Gift | Gift · Class B Common Stock | −261,735 | — | — | Through IAC Investment Company IX, LLC |
| Aug 13, 2026 filing: Gift, Gift · Class B Common Stock | Gift | Gift · Class B Common Stock | +261,735 | — | — | Through ACI Investment Partners XXVII, LLC |
| May 6, 2026 filing: Gift, Gift · Class A Common Stock | Gift | Gift · Class A Common Stock | −1,251,609 | — | — | Through ACI Investment Partners, LLC |
| May 6, 2026 filing: Gift, Gift · Class A Common Stock | Gift | Gift · Class A Common Stock | −768 | — | — | Through Family Trusts |
| May 6, 2026 filing: Gift, Gift · Class A Common Stock | Gift | Gift · Class A Common Stock | −13,176 | — | — | Through Spouse |
| May 6, 2026 filing: Gift, Gift · Class A Common Stock | Gift | Gift · Class A Common Stock | −285 | — | — | |
| Dec 12, 2025 filing: Gift, Gift · Class A Common Stock | Gift | Gift · Class A Common Stock | −683,367 | — | — | Through ACI Investment Partners, LLC |
| Dec 12, 2025 filing: Gift, Gift · Class A Common Stock | Gift | Gift · Class A Common Stock | −13,212 | — | — | Through Spouse |
| Dec 11, 2025 filing: Gift, Gift · Class A Common Stock | Gift | Gift · Class A Common Stock | −2,304 | — | — | Through ACI Investment Partners, LLC |
| Dec 11, 2025 filing: Gift, Gift · Class A Common Stock | Gift | Gift · Class A Common Stock | +1,280 | — | — | Through Family Trusts |
| Company | Role | Reported | Beneficial | % of class |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZETA Zeta Global Holdings Corp. This page | Chief Executive Officer | 55M 2026-08-13 |
24M | 10.3% |
| ZETA: 30,377,952 shares on the Section 16 filings are excluded from the SCHEDULE 13G/A figure — read the cover page for why. | ||||
| INPC INPHONIC INC | Chairman of the Board and CEO | 6,269,178 2007-02-27 |
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Reported is every lot on the person's own Forms 3, 4 and 5 — direct and through trusts. Beneficial is the figure stated on the latest Schedule 13D/G cover page, which can exclude shares the person disclaims and include options exercisable within 60 days, so the two are never added together.
58 filings under CIK 0001308562 · captured 2026-09-05 · All filings on EDGAR ↗
7 recorded appearances
Three days after the Q2 print, Steinberg argues the Palantir relationship is worth more than the market has priced, and puts advertising inside ChatGPT and a new business-intelligence product alongside it. The framing is that marketing is the first application of Zeta's data, not the whole business.
Watch or read: Zeta CEO: The Palantir Opportunity Is MUCH Bigger Than Expected, Aug 7, 2026 →The morning-after read on the June quarter: 44% revenue growth, the first GAAP-profitable second quarter, and the raise to $1.82bn for the full year. He does not separate how much of the growth is organic, which is the number the guidance itself splits out at 24-25%.
Watch or read: Zeta Global CEO David Steinberg on What Investors Should Take Away from Q2 Earnings, Aug 5, 2026 →Says the Palantir partnership will re-architect Zeta's data onto Foundry and take the company beyond marketing into business intelligence, describing marketing as 'just the first application' of 535 million consented profiles. Cites 50% Q1 revenue growth and 120% net retention.
Watch or read: David Steinberg, Zeta Global CEO: A Fortt Knox Update, Jul 1, 2026 →Makes the case that Athena replaces the marketing dashboard rather than sitting on top of it - the buyer asks a question instead of reading a chart. It is the clearest statement of why Zeta thinks an agent layer changes what enterprises will pay for.
Watch or read: The End of the Dashboard Era: What Zeta Global's David Steinberg Revealed About Agentic Marketing, Apr 7, 2026 →The launch interview for Athena, Zeta's agent model, on the day it shipped.
Watch or read: Zeta Global CEO talks launch of AI agent, Mar 25, 2026 →The longest recent sit-down: why Zeta moved to AI in 2017, how the consumer data cloud was assembled, and a direct answer on the 'software apocalypse' narrative weighing on SaaS multiples. Also lays out the connected-TV push and the path past $2bn of revenue.
Watch or read: Zeta Global CEO David Steinberg on AI Marketing, Connected TV Advertising and Zeta's Path to $2B+ Revenue, Mar 9, 2026 →A retail-investor conversation on how brands scale with identity and personalisation, recorded two days before the Marigold Enterprise deal closed.
Watch or read: Inside Zeta Global: Exclusive Interview with CEO David Steinberg, Nov 22, 2025 →
