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At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based President operating in the News space. If you think a President is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Peter Rice
President of 21st Century Fox
Peter Rice is President of 21st Century Fox (21CF) and Chairman and CEO of Fox Networks Group (FNG). In this role, in addition to working with 21CF leadership on key strategic initiatives, Mr. Rice oversees Fox Broadcasting Company, FOX Sports, FX Networks, National Geographic, 20th Century Fox Television and FNG Latin America, Europe and Asia. Outside of these roles, Mr. Rice is Chairman of the Board of National Geographic Partners and serves on the board of directors for Hulu, the National Cable & Telecommunications Association and Southern California Public Radio. He also sits on the Motion Picture & Television Fund’s Board of Governors. FNG is home to boundary-breaking, record-setting shows like Empire, The Americans, The Simpsons, Fargo, American Horror Story, This is Us, Modern Family and Mars. FOX Sports broadcast the 2017 Super Bowl and is home to the World Series, the Daytona 500, the 2018 World Cup and more than 6,000 other professional sporting events every year. In 2017, FNG programming earned 113 Primetime Emmy nominations, an all-time high. In 2016, FX set a new record for basic cable with 18 Emmy awards and FOX won the most Emmys of any broadcast network. Prior to his current role, Mr. Rice served for two years as Chairman, Entertainment, for FNG. He also served as Chairman, Entertainment for Fox Broadcasting Company, propelling FOX to three seasons as the number one network and helping extend its streak to eight seasons as the top-rated broadcaster. Before transitioning to Fox’s television business, Mr. Rice served as President, Fox Searchlight Pictures. During his tenure, Fox Searchlight generated 51 Academy Award and 42 Golden Globe Award nominations, including a record 12 nominations and eight wins at the 81st Annual Academy Awards for “Slumdog Millionaire.” Other films released under his leadership include “Juno,” “Napoleon Dynamite,” “Little Miss Sunshine,” “The Last King of Scotland,” and “Sideways.” Prior to leading Fox Searchlight, Mr. Rice was Executive Vice President, Production for Twentieth Century Fox, where he worked with director Baz Luhrmann in the development and production of Oscar Best Picture nominee “Moulin Rouge” and “William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet.” He also served as the supervising creative executive on “X-Men,” the film that began the global movie franchise that has since grossed more than $4.3 billion at the worldwide box office. Mr. Rice began his career in the marketing department at Twentieth Century Fox in 1989 after graduating from the University of Nottingham.
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About 21st Century Fox: 21st Century Fox is an American mass media corporation primarily dealing in the film and television industries.
Adam Hansmann
President & Co-Founder of The Athletic
Adam Hansmann is the co-founder and COO of The Athletic.
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About The Athletic: The Athletic is an online media company that specializes in online news publishing for the sports industry.
Atish Doshi
President, Founder of The Black Sheep
Atish started the company at, and graduated from, The University of Illinois. He now tries to tell people what to do and sometimes it works. Go-to karaoke song: “Regulate,” by Warren G and Nate Dogg.
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About The Black Sheep: We’re a college newspaper that’s actually about college! We post drinking games, college recipes and more!
William Nutting
Vice President of Ogden Newspapers
William O. Nutting is Vice President at Ogden Newspapers. He is Member of the Board of Directors at Associated Press.
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About Ogden Newspapers: Ogden Newspapers, Inc., is a diversified media corporation that publishes 40 daily newspapers, several magazines, weekly newspapers.
Jennifer Perri
Vice President, Univision Creator Network of Univision Communications
Jennifer Perri is Vice President of the Univision Creator Network. For the last two years, Jen has lead the charge in cross platform integration of influencers and brands within Univision. She’s been with UCN since 2015 and helped build an in-house multi-channel network that is now the No. 1 Hispanic focused MCN on YouTube in less than two years. Under Jen’s leadership, UCN has attracted and signed over 200 young and diverse digital talent and has fostered a real sense of community. UCN creators have been integrated across digital, linear and live events, and have expanded Univision’s content offering and have helped us to connect with Hispanic millennials. Prior to her role at Univision, Jen held strategy and development positions at Seventeen (Hearst and Awesomeness TV), Collective Digital Studios (now Studio 71) and co-founded BigFrame. Jen also was a producer and production manager on Current TV, which won the first Emmy award for Best Interactive Television Series at the Primetime Emmy Awards. She is a graduate of the University of San Francisco in Communication studies.
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About Univision Communications: Univision Communications is a media company that provides media-related services.
Vishwanath Ramarao
Vice President of Engineering of AOL
Vish is CTO and Co-Founder of Impermium. Before joining Impermium, Vish led engineering for Yahoo! Mail anti-spam, security, and data mining, and was involved in protecting every major component of the Yahoo! network from spam, fraud, misuse.
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About AOL: AOL Lifestream is a web-based application that enables users to keep track of all their comments on social networking sites.
Kjerstin Beatty
Senior Vice President, Multi-Platform Media Strategy of NBCUniversal
erstin Beatty joined NBC as Vice President of Media for the Entertainment division in October of 2012. In this role, she is responsible for paid media efforts that support promotion for all NBC programming. Prior to joining the network, Kjerstin was VP of Media for Showtime, where she played a key role in the launch of some of its most successful series, including “Homeland, “Weeds” and “Dexter.” Before her tenure at Showtime, Kjerstin worked on multiple accounts at the Manhattan offices of ad agencies Mediaedge and Mediavest. Kjerstin holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Penn.
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About NBCUniversal, NBCUniversal: NBCUniversal is an American multinational media conglomerate that is a subsidiary division of Comcast.
Patricia Suh
Vice President, Corporate & Transactions of NBCUniversal
Patricia oversees legal activities at Comcast Ventures for new portfolio investments, advising business personnel on structuring transactions, drafting and negotiating investment agreements and coordinating legal due diligence efforts. She also advises Comcast Ventures personnel on matters relating to existing portfolio companies and works with the management of portfolio companies on legal issues. Patricia has worked in various legal roles at NBCUniversal since 2001, and also currently serves as Vice President, Corporate Transactions of NBCUniversal, responsible for acquisitions, divestitures, investments, joint ventures and other corporate transactions. Patricia also supervises the emerging technology lawyers that are part of the NBCUniversal corporate legal team. Prior to joining NBCUniversal, Patricia was an associate at Proskauer Rose LLP, where her practice included venture capital and other private equity transactions. Patricia graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a B.S. in Economics from The Wharton School and received her J.D. from Fordham University School of Law.
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About NBCUniversal: NBCUniversal is an American multinational media conglomerate that is a subsidiary division of Comcast.
Brian Norris
Senior Vice President, Audience Studio Sales, Ad Sales of NBCUniversal
Brian Norris is Senior Vice President, sales team responsible for NBCUnive advertising capabilities. Norris brings experience driving television revenue joining NBCUniversal, Brian served as advertising sales for DISH and Sling establishment of DISH Media Sales’ f held sales roles at Viacom and Lifeti udience Studio Sales, NBCUniversal and leads the sal’s suite of industry-leading, advanced almost 20 years of management and leadership in linear, addressable and digital media. Before Vice President of DISH Media Sales overseeing . Brian joined DISH in 2008 to assist in the agship office in New York. Earlier in his career he e Entertainment Services.
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About NBCUniversal: NBCUniversal is an American multinational media conglomerate that is a subsidiary division of Comcast.
Vince Klaseus
President of Brand Development of NBCUniversal
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About NBCUniversal: NBCUniversal is an American multinational media conglomerate that is a subsidiary division of Comcast.
Paul Telegdy
President, Alternative and Reality Group of NBCUniversal
Paul Telegdy was promoted to the newly created position of President, Alternative and Reality Group, NBC Entertainment in June 2016. Previously, Telegdy was promoted to President, Alternative and Late Night Programming, NBC Entertainment, in 2011. Telegdy oversees NBC’s unscripted series and specials programming, including such major franchises as “The Voice,” “America’s Got Talent,” “American Ninja Warrior,” the “Golden Globe Awards,” “The New Celebrity Apprentice,” “The Wall,” “Little Big Shots,” “Hollywood Game Night,” “Running Wild with Bear Grylls,” “Better Late Than Never” and “The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.” He also oversees the global philanthropic event “Red Nose Day.” Upcoming series include the recently announced “World of Dance,” executive produced by Jennifer Lopez, who sits on the judges panel with NE-YO and Derek Hough, with Jenna Dewan Tatum serving as host and mentor; “Common Sense,” executive produced by Stephen Lambert; and singing competition series “The Stream.” Before arriving at NBC and Universal Television Studios, Telegdy served as Executive Vice President, Sales, Content and Production, BBC Worldwide America from March 2008 until December 2008 while based in Los Angeles. At the BBC, he increased the business market value by 100-fold. He also drove new business models and development across the company, negotiated major distribution and production deals, and nurtured new relationships with platforms for BBC content and intellectual property. Earlier, Telegdy was Senior Vice President, BBC Productions Los Angeles, and BBC Worldwide America. During this time, he developed “Dancing with the Stars,” which has become one of the industry’s perennial top series hits. Telegdy graduated with honors from the University of London with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Korean and Japanese.
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About NBCUniversal: NBCUniversal is an American multinational media conglomerate that is a subsidiary division of Comcast.
Steven Swartz
President & CEO of Hearst Communications
Steven R. Swartz became president and chief executive officer of Hearst Corporation on June 1, 2013. Before his promotion to CEO, Swartz, a member of the Board of Directors of Hearst Corporation and a trustee of The Hearst Family Trust, was president and chief operating officer of the Corporation. He was president of Hearst Newspapers, the operating group responsible for Hearst’s newspapers, local digital marketing services businesses and directories, from 2009 to 2011, and executive vice president of the Group from 2001 to 2008. Hearst Newspapers, with more than 4,700 employees across the nation, publishes 15 dailies and 36 weeklies in cities including Houston, San Francisco, San Antonio and Albany. It also operates digital marketing services and directories businesses under the LocalEdge brand. Before joining Hearst in 2001, Swartz was president and chief executive of SmartMoney, the magazine, website and custom publishing business launched by Hearst and News Corp.’s Dow Jones unit. Prior to becoming CEO in 1995, he had been the magazine’s founding editor since 1991. Under his leadership, SmartMoney magazine won two National Magazine Awards and was Advertising Age’s Magazine of the Year. Swartz began his journalism career as a reporter with The Wall Street Journal in 1984 after graduating from Harvard. He served as an editor on the Journal’s Page One staff from 1989 to 1991. Swartz is a member of the ESPN board of directors and is a director of the Associated Press. He is also a member of the board of visitors of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, a member of the board of directors of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and chairman of the Lincoln Center Corporate Fund.
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About Hearst Communications: Hearst is large private diversified media, information, and services company with more than 360 businesses
Barin Nahvi Rovzar
Senior Vice President & Head of M&A of Hearst Communications
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About Hearst Communications: Hearst is large private diversified media, information, and services company with more than 360 businesses
Melanie Colton
Vice President, Product & Technology of Hearst Communications
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About Hearst Communications: Hearst is large private diversified media, information, and services company with more than 360 businesses
Todd Haskell
Senior Vice President and Chief Revenue Officer, Hearst Magazines Digital Media of Hearst Communications
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About Hearst Communications: Hearst is large private diversified media, information, and services company with more than 360 businesses
Alan Murray
President and CEO of Fortune Magazine
Alan Murray is Chief Content Officer of Time Inc. In this role, Alan oversees Time Inc.’s editorial policies and standards and is responsible for its commitment to quality journalism and storytelling. He is focused on harnessing the collective power and scale of all Time Inc.’s brands to produce and distribute content on every platform. Alan also serves as Editor in Chief of Fortune, a position he has held since August 2014. Alan’s diverse background includes serving as President of the Pew Research Center, hosting an eponymous show on CNBC, and spending more than two decades at the Wall Street Journal, where he served stints overseeing digital operations and the Journal’s Washington bureau. At Pew, Alan oversaw the rapid expansion of the center’s digital footprint, with website traffic doubling and social media referrals tripling during his time there. He also led the center into an exploration of new data methodologies in its research and an expansion of its global work. At the Wall Street Journal, Alan served as Deputy Managing Editor and Executive Editor, Online, from 2007 to 2012, with editorial responsibility for the Journal’s websites, mobile products, television, video, books and conferences. He also spent a decade as the Journal’s Washington Bureau Chief, from 1993 to 2002, during which the bureau won three Pulitzer Prizes. Between his stints at the Journal, Alan served as CNBC’s Washington Bureau Chief from 2002 to 2005, co-hosting, Capital Report with Alan Murray and Gloria Borger. At various times, he wrote the Journal’s weekly Business and Political Capital columns and won numerous awards for his writing on economics and international issues. Alan is the author of four books: The Wall Street Journal Guide to Management, Revolt in the Boardroom, The Wealth of Choices and Showdown at Gucci Gulch, coauthored with Jeffrey Birnbaum. He is a member of the Gridiron Club, the New York Economics Club and the Council on Foreign Relations, and he serves on the Governing Council of the Miller Center for Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. Alan began his journalism career as the business and economics editor of the Chattanooga Times. He also worked at the Congressional Quarterly in Washington and at the Nihon Keizai Shimbun in Tokyo on a Luce Fellowship. He received a bachelor’s degree in English literature as a Morehead Scholar at the University of North Carolina and earned a master’s degree in economics at the London School of Economics. In 2005, Alan completed the Stanford Executive Program.
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About Fortune Magazine, Time Inc.: Fortune Magazine is an American business magazine that distinguishes itself with long, in-depth feature articles.
Dunia Shive
President & CEO of Belo
Dunia Shive was elected to the Dr Pepper Snapple Group board of directors in November 2014 and sits on the Corporate Governance & Nominating Committee. Ms. Shive serves as senior vice president of Gannett Co. Inc. She previously served as president and CEO of Belo Corp. from 2008 to 2013, when it was acquired by Gannett. She joined Belo in 1993 and served in various leadership positions prior to becoming president and CEO. Ms. Shive has served as a director of Trinity Industries, Inc. since March 2014. She also serves as a member of the Associated Press board of directors, where she is the chair of the audit committee, and as a trustee of the Belo Foundation. She holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in accounting from Texas Tech University and in 2008 was recognized by the university as a Distinguished Alumna.
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About Belo: From its beginnings as a Texas newspaper company in 1842 through the explosive growth of the past 20 years, Belo has prospered because of
Steven Bertoni
Vice President & Senior Editor of Forbes
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Moira Forbes
President & Publisher, ForbesWoman of Forbes
Moira Forbes is the Executive Vice President of Forbes Media where she is responsible for programming and branding Forbes events worldwide and driving new business initiatives across the company’s diverse media platforms. She is also the President and Publisher of ForbesWoman, a multi-media platform dedicated to successful women in business and leadership. She is currently the host of Success with Moira Forbes, a video series on the Forbes Video Network featuring candid, one-on-one interviews with today’s top leaders. Moira also regularly contributes to Forbes’ diverse global media platforms around the day’s most relevant leadership trends. Launched by Forbes Media in 2008, ForbesWoman includes a robust website, known as “Women@Forbes,” a global digital community and a variety of content-rich live forums and events. Across these diverse media, content examines the unique experiences of professionally successful women, affirms their ambitions and achievements, and sets the agenda for purposeful discourse on the topics that matter most to them. Moira joined Forbes Media in 2001 in its London office, overseeing research and marketing for the Forbes’ European edition, in addition to developing business opportunities on behalf of all the company divisions. She came to the New York office and was named Associate Publisher of Forbes’ dedicated lifestyle magazine, ForbesLife, in February of 2004, and President and Publisher, ForbesWoman, in 2008. In 2010, Moira founded the Forbes Executive Women’s Board, an organization dedicated to harnessing the collective power of women in business to drive sustainable change. In 2013, Moira hosted the first Forbes Women’s Summit in New York City. This annual gathering brings together 250 of the world’s female leaders to discuss and solve the world’s most intractable issues. Moira also is a contributor to Forbes’ list of the 100 World’s Most Powerful Women. Moira graduated cum laude with a BA in Art History from Princeton University, and is a graduate of the Harvard Business School program for Leadership Development. She is a mother of two young sons and lives in New York City.
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Andrew Weinstein
Vice President of Content Acquisition and Strategy of Scribd
Andrew Weinstein is the Vice President of Content Acquisition and Strategy at Scribd.
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Candice O’Denver
Founder and President of Balanced View
Candice O’Denver is an innovator in the practical application of philosophy as a means to benefit all. She is the inventor and founder of Balanced View, a standardized education in the nature of mind used throughout the world. Balanced View’s unique methodology applies algorithms to reach the consistent result of the beneficial empowerment of mind, speech, body, qualities and activities. Comprehensive order becomes spontaneously obvious through recognizing intelligence as inexhaustibly open in a vast space that is not restricted by the body. When Candice O’Denver was 7, a Bermuda neighbor read her “Awareness Nakedly Seeing” from the Oxford University translation of “The Tibetan Book of the Dead.” The clear perspective of mind as an inexhaustible open intelligence was newly invigorated in within her upon hearing this important text. It gave Candice O’Denver the courage to continue in her firmly held belief that everything is beneficial by nature. Candice found no distinction between Tibetan timeless awareness and the Christian God that was so important to her family. She learned that each culture has its own system for bringing out the best in people, and that each system is a perfect fit for that particular culture. Candice O’Denver felt a strong urgency to bring unity to the people of the world through a standardized means of bringing out the best in people which is Balanced View In Bermuda, European Catholic pageantry and British royals were blended with celebratory Caribbean Christianity and early steel drum music — the roots of reggae, rapped out on large discarded oil cans. Every night, the sound filled the air from nightfall to 2am, becoming the vibration of the Caribbean countries and their people, including Candice. Although the 50s occured after World War II, Jewish people were not permitted entry to the country or its lodging through a variety of devious means. Candice O’Denver’s parents gave refuge to visitors and immigrants who were not allowed in Bermuda, giving all 6 of their children a rich background in international community and friendship. Candice O’Denver studied in a Yale mathematics program for gifted children. At the age of 18, she attended a UCLA international program for young philosophers where she focused on the pragmatic application of philosophy to be of immediate, permanent benefit. Bypassing undergraduate school, Candice was accepted into and completed graduate school, studying both critical theory and fine arts with a variety of professors at California College of the Arts, Stanford, and UC Berkeley. Early in childhood, Candice O’Denver was introduced to computer science and the use of original algorithms to reach consistent results. In the seminal years of computer history, her father began the high level design of the first international computer network for food distribution. He later led the team that developed and implemented this system when technological innovations matched his aspirations. Inspired by her father’s drawings of bar codes and stories about a future of food distribution to everyone in the world based on the bar code, reducibility became Candice O’Denver’s innate way of problem-solving. Candice O’Denver is particularly interested in utilizing the philosophy and mathematics of computer science as the basis for a revolution in social science, particularly philosophy of mind, which always has been left to vague levels of abstraction with no result of permanent benefit. Candice applies precise levels of organization and explanation used in computer science to arrive at specific results in the philosophy of mind. Advancing theories of information, reducibility, organization, and explanation, Candice has developed a comparative analysis and then a comprehensive map of all known systems of education in the nature of mind and in human nature. Candice O’Denver is very involved in the Massive Vibe Project. The lyrics that we’re putting out there in the Massive Vibe project are very special lyrics and will the very core of people. We want these lyrics always to be very, very special direct communications of open intelligence. Nature’s vast, open intelligence speaking to everyone everywhere so that everyone everywhere is very simply, yet radically, developing a universal revolutionary language that has never existed before between beings of all kinds.
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About Balanced View: A global grassroots movement empowering people to use their innate power for the benefit of all.
Deborah Brewster
Senior Vice President (Strategy); and Head of Initiatives of News Corp
Deborah Brewster is Senior Vice President (Strategy), and Head of Initiatives at News Corp, which includes developing News Corp’s businesses as well as building and acquiring new digital businesses. Before this, she was Deputy Managing Editor at The Wall Street Journal.
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About News Corp: News Corp is a media and information services company that creates and distributes engaging content and other products and services.
Jarl Mohn
President Emeritus of NPR
Jarl Mohn is the President and Chief Executive Officer at NPR, one of the country’s most iconic news and cultural content organizations. In this capacity, Jarl oversees NPR’s strategy to continue NPR’s mission to create a more informed public by working in partnership with Member stations across the country. Today NPR content reaches: 32 million people who visit npr.org every month, 26 million people who listen to NPR programming every week, and listeners who download NPR podcasts 72 million times each month. Jarl’s deep media experience has spanned all media platforms as well as rapid changes in audience trends. Jarl spent almost 20 years in radio, many as a disc jockey at stations including WNBC in New York. In addition to his on-air work in radio, Jarl served as a programmer, general manager, and owner of a group of radio stations. Jarl created E! Entertainment Television and served as its President and Chief Executive Officer for almost a decade. Jarl is the former Executive Vice President and General Manager of MTV and VH1 where he architected the strategy of long-form programming at the heart of the network today and diversified the networks’ audiences by developing innovative programming around alternative music formats. Jarl was also founding President and Chief Executive Officer at Liberty Digital, a public company that invested in cable networks, the Internet and online businesses. Prior to joining NPR in July of 2014, Jarl served the as a Member of the Board of Trustees at Southern California Public Radio (SCPR) for more than a decade, including two years as Chairman of the Board of Trustees. Jarl also spent over 12 years on the board of The Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism, including six years as its Chairman of the Board of Directors. Jarl has also been a Corporate Director and Advisor to a number of media companies, making direct early stage angel and seed investments in digital media/technology ventures. Since 2008 he has served as a Member of the Board of Directors at Scripps Networks Interactive. Jarl and his wife Pamela created The Mohn Family Foundation in 2000. Jarl attended Temple University, where he studied Mathematics and Philosophy.
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About NPR: NPR is a multimedia news organization and radio program producer that delivers national and international news broadcasts.
Christopher Turpin
Chief Of Staff to the President & CEO of NPR
Christopher Turpin is NPR’s Vice President of News Programming and Operations. He oversees all news programs, newscasts, news operations, collaborative coverage, innovation in news storytelling and training, ensuring NPR’s continued excellence across a range of journalistic skills. Turpin was previously the Executive Producer of All Things Considered, NPR’s afternoon newsmagazine. On a daily basis he guided the show’s editorial direction and managed the show’s 26 production staff members. Arriving at NPR in January 2000, Turpin spent two years as All Things Considered’s Supervising Senior Producer, responsible for the day-to-day running of the show. During his time at NPR, Turpin has contributed to All Things Considered’s coverage of breaking news events such as the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the Iraq War and Hurricane Katrina. Along with these major stories, Turpin was part of the All Things Considered production team in Chengdu, China, covering the terrible earthquake in 2008. A native of England, Turpin entered the broadcasting world in the United States in 1990 where he held a variety of editorial positions at Monitor Radio in Boston, MA. Over the span of eight years, he moved from production assistant to ultimately running the morning and evening newsmagazine programs. In 1998, Turpin became a senior manager and member of the executive committee at Internews, a non-profit organization that fosters independent media around the globe, especially in countries emerging from conflict. In this position, Turpin spent much of his time working on projects in the Balkans, Central Asia, Indonesia and Africa. As a producer, Turpin has contributed to many reports and series that were awarded with the industry’s top honors including a 2003 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award for NPR News coverage of September 11, 2001, attacks; a 2005 duPont Award for Radio Diaries’ “Mandela: An Audio History” and a 2009 duPont Award for coverage on All Things Considered of the 2008 earthquake in Sichuan Province in China. Coverage of the earthquake in China also earned a 2008 George Foster Peabody Award for Turpin and the rest of the NPR staff following this story. Turpin earned a Bachelor of Arts in American Studies from the University of Sussex in England. He first grew to love the United States during a year-long study abroad at the University of California in Santa Cruz. He earned a Postgraduate Certificate in Education from Oxford University and a Master of Arts in English from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts.
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About NPR: NPR is a multimedia news organization and radio program producer that delivers national and international news broadcasts.
Keith Woods
Vice President, Newsroom Training & Diversity of NPR
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About NPR: NPR is a multimedia news organization and radio program producer that delivers national and international news broadcasts.
Michael F. Beach
Vice President, Distribution of NPR
Michael F. Beach is the Vice President of Distribution at NPR. In this role, Beach oversees the Public Radio Satellite System® (PRSS), the backbone of all public radio distribution. Each year, the PRSS distributes more than 450,000 hours annually of news, music, and specialized audience programming to more than 1,600 public radio stations throughout the United States. He is responsible for all activities associated with the planning, operation and management of this system-critical division. Prior to coming to NPR, Beach worked for Intelsat, S.A., a major commercial satellite operator, which he joined in 2006. He also served as assistant general manager and chief technology officer for Nebraska Educational Telecommunications (NET), the state-wide PBS and NPR broadcast network, from 1998 to 2006. Prior to that, he served in multiple technical and security roles for NSN Network Services of Avon, Colo., which is now a service of Clear Channel Communications. As a lieutenant in the Navy, he served as a communications officer on the USS Duluth. Beach, who is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP), earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mass Communications/Media Studies from the University of Utah and is a candidate for a Master of Science degree in Project Management at George Washington University.
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About NPR: NPR is a multimedia news organization and radio program producer that delivers national and international news broadcasts.
Michael F. Beach
Vice President, Distribution of NPR
Michael F. Beach is the Vice President of Distribution at NPR. In this role, Beach oversees the Public Radio Satellite System® (PRSS), the backbone of all public radio distribution. Each year, the PRSS distributes more than 450,000 hours annually of news, music, and specialized audience programming to more than 1,600 public radio stations throughout the United States. He is responsible for all activities associated with the planning, operation and management of this system-critical division. Prior to coming to NPR, Beach worked for Intelsat, S.A., a major commercial satellite operator, which he joined in 2006. He also served as assistant general manager and chief technology officer for Nebraska Educational Telecommunications (NET), the state-wide PBS and NPR broadcast network, from 1998 to 2006. Prior to that, he served in multiple technical and security roles for NSN Network Services of Avon, Colo., which is now a service of Clear Channel Communications. As a lieutenant in the Navy, he served as a communications officer on the USS Duluth. Beach, who is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP), earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mass Communications/Media Studies from the University of Utah and is a candidate for a Master of Science degree in Project Management at George Washington University.
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About NPR: NPR is a multimedia news organization and radio program producer that delivers national and international news broadcasts.
Edwin A. Finn Jr.
Editor & President – Barron’s of Dow Jones
Ed Finn is the editor and president of Barron’s, the Dow Jones business and financial weekly. He joined Dow Jones as a national copyreader for The Wall Street Journal in 1980, then moved to the foreign desk as editor, then to the Dallas bureau as a banking and finance reporter. Finn left to join Forbes as a senior editor, covering international business and finance, and later became an assistant managing editor. From 1990 to 1992, he was the editor of American Banker, a daily trade newspaper. Finn re-joined Dow Jones in 1993 as the managing editor of Barron’s and was named editor of the magazine in 1995. He assumed additional responsibilities as the president of Barron’s in 1998. Finn earned a Bachelor’s degree in English and political science from Tufts University and a Master’s degree in international banking and finance from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.
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Deepna Devkar
Vice President, Data Science & Engineering of CNN
Deepna Devkar is the Vice President, Data Science & Engineering at CNN, WarnerMedia.
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Sam Feist
Senior Vice President, Washington Bureau Chief of CNN
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Mike Toppo
Vice President/Senior Editorial Director of CNN
Michael Toppo is the vice president and senior editorial director for CNN Digital, managing the video programming strategy for all of CNN’s digital platforms. Toppo has been directly involved in audience growth strategies and the integration of analytics into the daily programming process. From 2011-2013, video starts grew 40% and CNN continues to be an industry leader for video traffic. Toppo launched CNN’s first video team focused on digital-native content for enterprise storytelling and sponsorship integration. Under his leadership, the team has created franchises for multiple verticals including music, comedy, politics, innovation, health and culture. He was also instrumental in creating the network’s first digital war room which brings together teams from edit, research, business intelligence and social to use real time data to optimize site performance and leverage trending content. In 2012, his enterprise video team won multiple honors including the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award for “Slavery’s Last Stronghold”an investigation that exposed the issues of slavery in Mauritania, the last country in the world to outlaw the practice. He has also led CNN’s cross-platform TV Integration group focused on digital strategies for CNN’s premier programs including The Lead with Jake Tapper, Erin Burnett OutFront, New Day, Morgan Spurlock/Inside Man and Anthony Bourdain/Parts Unknown. Prior to managing video strategy, Toppo led CNN Digital’s home page, feature sections, news production, photos and interactive teams. In 2011, his teams launched the CNN Photos blog dedicated to telling powerful and inspiring stories through photography. To date, CNN Photos has generated over 800 million page views. Prior to joining CNN Digital in 2006, Toppo was the Senior Executive Producer for CNN’s domestic television network and managed all of its weekday programs. He also developed the format for its flagship dayside program, Newsroom. Toppo came to CNN in 1996 to produce its daily news program, TalkBack Live. The program was the first of its kind on a national level to use interactive technologies including chat rooms, instant messaging and video conferencing. As the Executive Producer, he was responsible for guiding the overall direction and development of the program. He is also a member of CNN’s Diversity Council focusing on the network’s business strategy. Toppo earned a bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism from Buffalo State College.
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Amy Bernstein
Editor, HBR; Vice President and Executive Editorial Director, of Harvard Business Review
Amy Bernstein is the editor of Harvard Business Review, where she oversees the magazine and its team of editors. Before joining HBR in 2011, she was Vice President, Global Thought Leadership, at ManpowerGroup, the global employment-services company. There she led the organization’s thought leadership program, focusing on emerging trends in the world of work. She also launched MyPath, the industry’s first career-management website for professionals.
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Paul Buccieri
President of A+E Networks
Paul Buccieri is president and chairman of A+E Networks Group. He joined A+E Networks as president of A&E and HISTORY in 2015 and became president of A+E Studios and A+E Networks Portfolio Group in 2016. Buccieri is responsible for the company’s brand portfolio, which includes the A&E®, Lifetime®, The HISTORY® Channel, LMN™, FYI™, and Vice TV networks. Buccieri holds extensive experience in both scripted and non-scripted programming across a wide range of genres. He is a leader in worldwide production, distribution, and syndication, as well as implementing innovative business models. Collaborating with top executives and producers, Paul has extensive experience turning ideas into hit TV shows, including American Pickers, Curse of Oak Island, Forged in Fire, Vikings, 60 Days In, and others. Additionally, Buccieri serves as director of the board for the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and holds committee and board positions for organizations including the Lincoln Center Leadership Committee, the Lincoln Center Media and Entertainment Council, NCTA, The Paley Center for Media, and the NAACP Industry Board of Advisors. Previously, Buccieri held executive leadership roles at ITV Studios U.S. Group and ITV Studios Global Entertainment, Fox Twentieth Television, and Endemol USA. Buccieri enjoys training for triathlons, and competed in the 2017 IRONMAN World Championship in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, to raise funds for the American Cancer Society. He has also facilitated food drives for communities in Connecticut in partnership with Feeding America and Caleb and Calder Sloan’s Awesome Foundation.
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Abhay Jain
Vice President, Strategy and Business Development of A+E Networks
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David Granville-Smith
Executive Vice President And Chief Financial Officer of A+E Networks
David “Digger” Granville-Smith is the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of A+E Networks. Granville-Smith joined A+E Networks as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in July 2014. In December 2016, he was named to his current position. Granville-Smith leads all key financial functions across A+E Networks, including A&E®, History®, Lifetime®, LMN®, FYI™, H2®, Crime & Investigation Network®, History en Español™, Military HISTORY®, LRW®, A+E Studios™, A&E Indie Films®, A+E Networks International®, A+E Networks Digital® and A+E Networks Consumer Products™. In addition, Granville-Smith oversees the Production, Operations, Engineering and Information Technology departments and is responsible for the Corporate Development, Strategy, Investments and Ventures Group. He provides strategic and operational leadership across all of the divisions of the company, including the Brand Portfolio Group, Ad Sales, Distribution, Digital and International, in order to drive the company’s overall growth and value creation. Granville-Smith serves on the boards of A+E Networks Latin America and VICELAND. Prior to joining A+E Networks, Granville-Smith worked at J.P. Morgan and Bear Stearns, which was acquired by J.P. Morgan, for 23 years. Prior to that, he worked at Smith Barney in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group. At J.P. Morgan, he was a Managing Director and Head of the Media Group in the Investment Banking Division. Throughout his career in banking, Granville-Smith worked on a number of significant strategic and financing transactions for diversified media, cable network, cable distribution and telecommunications companies. Granville-Smith is a trustee of the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, New York. He also serves on the President’s Advisory Council for the College of Brown University. Granville-Smith received an A.B. degree from Brown University. He resides in Manhattan with his wife and two children.
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Sean Cohan
President, International & Digital Media of A+E Networks
Sean Cohan is President, International and Digital Media, A+E Networks. Cohan oversees a global portfolio comprised of A+E Networks’ rapid growth and transformation units and is a member of the A+E executive and senior leadership team. Cohan has been named a Digital All Star by Broadcast & Cable, ranked in the Top Ten of CableFax’s Most Influential Minorities in Cable, and was called one of the Most Influential Blacks in Corporate America by Savoy Magazine. He has also been recognized as CableFax 100, Digital TV Europe’s Euro 50, and both a NAMIC Next Generation Leader and Luminary, and was honored with Broadcasting and Cable’s 2016 Diversity Leadership Award. As head of A+E Networks’ International Division, Cohan oversees the company’s brands, services, and content outside the U.S. He manages staff and teams across 20+ cities. The Division’s activities include branded channels, content sales, production and digital media distribution. A+E Networks operates 77 different branded channels abroad and distributes a 16,000-hour library across more than 200 territories in 42 languages on a range of platforms. Under Cohan’s direction, A+E Networks has completed its global footprint; launched 58 international channels including the global rollouts of Lifetime, A&E, and Crime+Investigation; established new businesses in India, SE Asia, France, German-speaking Europe, Scandinavia, Benelux, Eastern Europe, Turkey, and Russia; and achieved a #1, 2, or 3 ranking in relevant category in virtually every market. Recently, Cohan oversaw the launch of a new business and History and Lifetime to twenty million households in Korea. Cohan also oversaw the rollout of a company’s first free-to-air (FTA) channel, BLAZE, in the UK to over twenty five million households. Cohan has also built a top factual content sales organization, driven significant co-productions and acclaimed local versions of A+E shows. He also launched the largest global made-for-television movie distribution unit and a successful boutique drama distribution effort, with critically and popularly acclaimed events such as Roots, Unreal, Six, and Knightfall. As head of Digital Media, Cohan oversees all strategic, operational, editorial, social and digital distribution both in the United States and around the world. The division’s scope includes content production, apps, websites, social media, and licensing. His team is responsible for managing popular websites History.com and Biography.com which reach over thirty million visitors monthly; robust TV apps for Lifetime, A&E, and History; successful History Vault™ and Lifetime Movie Club™ direct-to-consumer offerings; strategic partnerships with A+E Networks’ SVOD, AVOD, and DTO partners; and digital extensions like the Webby-nominated This Day in History on Amazon Alexa. In 2016, A+E Networks announced the launch of 45th & Dean, a multi-platform video storytelling hub which reports into Cohan. It is focused on creating original, digital-first video content supporting brands, shows, and partners. It has produced two of the top three most viewed shows for Snapchat and FB Watch platforms, dramatic growth in YouTube impressions, and significant social engagement gains. Cohan was formerly Executive Vice President, International; Senior Vice President, International; Vice President, International Business Development & Digital Media; and Director, International Business Development for A+E Networks. Previously, he held positions at Primedia, Morgan Stanley, NBC and A.T. Kearney. Cohan is a member of Boards of BANFF Media Festival (Director), The Opportunity Network (Treasurer), The Parrish Art Museum (Trustee), and 2btube (Director). A graduate of Harvard University, he also holds an MBA from Stanford University. Cohan lives in downtown New York, with his wife Jennifer, and daughter Makenna.
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Mark Garner
Executive Vice President, Content Licensing and Business Development of A+E Networks
Mark Garne serves as executive vice president of content sales, licensing, and business development at A+E Networks.
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Ross Habif
Vice President, Corporate Development & Strategy of A+E Networks
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Amy Baker
Executive Vice President of A+E Networks
Amy Baker and her team are responsible for harnessing the power, influence and audience of A+E Networks’ brands, platforms and talent to help marketers drive awareness, sales, brand loyalty, customer acquisition and retention. Prior to this position, Baker was EVP, Ad Sales for Lifetime, LMN and fyi. She first joined A+E Networks as SVP, Ad Sales for HISTORY in 2005. Prior to A+E Networks, Baker was SVP of Discovery Solutions and Branded Entertainment at Discovery Communications where she provided advertising clients with comprehensive solutions to reach their business objectives across Discovery’s family of assets. Amy holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Maryland and is based in New York City.
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Jason DeMarco
Vice President, Programmatic & Audience Solutions of A+E Networks
Jason DeMarco joined A+E Networks in July 2012 to establish a programmatic monetization strategy. During his tenure, A+E Networks has been a market leader in adopting new technology and creating partnerships that bring the best in content, data and systems to market. Jason continues to focus on automation across all platforms and data enabled monetization.
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Brian Roemmele
President of Multiplex Magazine
Brian Roemmele is the consummate Renaissance man. He is a scientist, researcher, analyst, connector, thinker and doer. More than anything, I’ve found Brian to be an observer of the world, asking questions and following his seemingly infinite curiosity to the root of an astounding variety of issues. Over the long, winding arc of his career, Brian has built and run payments and tech businesses, worked in media, including the promotion of top musicians, and explored a variety of other subjects along the way. One company was on the Inc. 500 list of the fastest growing companies in the U.S. Brian actively shares his findings and observations across fora like Forbes, Huffington Post, Newsweek, Slate, Business Insider, Daily Mail, Inc, Gizmodo, Medium, Quora, Twitter and his own podcast, Around the Coin. Brian is one of the most prolific producers of top quality analytical content I’ve ever encountered. And now he created Multiplex (http://ReadMultiplex.com), a way to stay on top of everything important in technology, payments and just about anything else.
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DJ Reali
Senior Vice President, National Advertising Sales of The Weather Company
As head of industry sales, US and EMEA, for The Weather Company, an IBM Business, D.J. Reali leads the sales team’s efforts for the company as they develop data-driven, media and technology solutions as well as long-term initiatives to drive persistent growth among Weather’s largest accounts. Reali was named to this role for his developmental guidance and success with clients including Procter & Gamble, State Farm, Unilever, Kraft, Kellogg’s, GSK Consumer Healthcare, and Subaru, among others. His role includes helping the team build and manage relationships at the highest levels of Weather’s client and agency partnerships. He is closely involved in the development of the company’s ongoing selling strategy and has played key roles in crafting core sales initiatives, including the the digital NewFront, the cable Upfront, the company’s first ever “AllFront,” and product positioning for the company’s WEATHERfx data and analytics platform, JOURNEYfx platform, and Watson Ads cognitive offering. He previously served as senior vice president, agency partnership and development; senior vice president, multi-platform sales; and vice president and regional manager of Midwest advertising sales. Reali joined Weather in 2000. Reali’s career in media spans over 30 years and includes time on both the agency and media sales sides of the business. Before joining Weather, Reali was an account executive at HGTV. Prior to that, he was partner and group media director for J. Walter Thompson. He began his career as a media planner at Campbell-Mithun Advertising. Reali received a bachelor’s degree in advertising and public relations from the University of North Dakota. He spends his time between the New York and Chicago offices of The Weather Company.
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Jason Tollestrup
Vice President, Programmatic Strategy and Yield of Washington Post
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Jim Spare
President & COO of eko
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Brian Harris Frank
President of eko
Brian has spent the past 20 years innovating in the music industry, both at startups and major labels. As President of Interlude Music, he is helping to move the music industry forward by forging strategic relationships with like-minded top players in the space, from labels and artists to media organizations and festivals. Before joining Interlude, Brian was employee #1 at Beats Music and co-created the streaming service alongside Trent Reznor. His prior experience includes roles at Warner Bros. Records, Interscope Records, Atlantic Records, Ticketmaster and others. Brian holds a BA and and MBA from Columbia University.
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Mark Thompson
President & CEO of The New York Times
Mark Thompson became President and Chief Executive Officer of The New York Times Company on November 12, 2012. He is responsible for leading the company’s strategy, operations and business units. Thompson has been instrumental in accelerating the pace of The Times’s digital transformation. Under his leadership, The Times became the first news organization in the world to pass the one million digital-only subscription mark. The company has also introduced a new era of international growth, launched an industry-leading branded content studio and invested in virtual reality, producing some of the most celebrated work in this emerging medium. Before joining the Times Company, Thompson served as Director-General of the BBC from 2004, where he reshaped the organization to meet the challenge of the digital age, ensuring that it remained a leading innovator with the launch of services such as the BBC iPlayer. He also oversaw a transformation of the BBC itself, driving productivity and efficiency through the introduction of new technologies and bold organizational redesign. Thompson joined the BBC in 1979 as a production trainee. He helped launch “Watchdog” and “Breakfast Time,” was an Output Editor on “Newsnight,” and was appointed Editor of the “Nine O’Clock News” in 1988 and of “Panorama” in 1990. He became Controller (programming and scheduling chief) for the TV network BBC2 and Director of Television for the BBC before leaving the BBC in 2002 to become C.E.O. of Channel 4 Television Corporation in the United Kingdom. In the autumn of 2012, he was a visiting professor of rhetoric and the art of public persuasion at the University of Oxford. His book “Enough Said: What’s Gone Wrong with the Language of Politics?,” which is based on the lectures he gave at Oxford, was published in the U.K. and U.S. in September 2016. Thompson was educated at Stonyhurst College and Merton College, Oxford.
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Jacqueline Loeb
Senior Vice President of Recruiter.com
Jacqueline Loeb is the Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator of Venture Scout.
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Miles Jennings
Founder, COO, President of Recruiter.com
Founder and COO at Recruiter.com.
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Nicole Dingley
Vice President Customer Success of John Wiley & Sons
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Ted Mendelsohn
VIce President, Commercial and Digital Markets of The Associated Press
At The Associated Press Ted is responsible for expanding into the world of interactive media by identifying new markets and revenue opportunities. His key achievements at AP have been: • Structured P&L for introduction and launch of AP Financial News service. • Established pricing and royalty structure for AP content. • Manage relationships with AP Digital’s largest clients, including AOL, Yahoo, MSN, Lexis-Nexis, Dialog and Factiva.
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Joy Jones
Vice President, Products of The Associated Press
Vice President, Products at Associated Press.
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Robert Gelick
Senior Vice President & General Manager, Digital Platforms of CBS Interactive
Rob Gelick is the Executive Vice President and General Manager of CBS Entertainment Digital. In this role, he oversees CBS All Access, CBS’ digital subscription video on-demand and live streaming service, the CBS apps, and CBS.com, as well as the CBS Television Distribution Digital businesses. This includes the product, technology and overall consumer experience across multiple platforms – the web, mobile, connected devices, social, video and gaming. In addition, Gelick’s team leads the development and production of original digital content to support the CBS Television Network’s slate of shows. This includes managing and producing original editorial and video for over 40 shows’ branded pages on CBS.com as well as social accounts. Gelick also leads the development of digital strategies to launch and grow the digital presence of CBS’s new shows as well as special events like the GRAMMYs and ACM Awards. Previously, Gelick was the SVP and GM of Digital Platforms for CBS Entertainment Digital and held the position of SVP and GM of CBS Mobile, where he led up all aspects of the CBS Mobile business across more than a dozen CBS Interactive properties including CBS.com, CBSSports.com, CBSNews.com, CNET, GameSpot, and TV.com; as well as mobile development for The CW and CBS Paramount Television. He also managed licensing of CBS brands on mobile platforms, and oversaw all mobile-related video, advertising, games, alerts and interactive TV initiatives. Gelick joined CBS Interactive in 2008 as Vice President of CBS Mobile, overseeing operations and new business development. Prior to CBS, Gelick was one of the founding executives at Helio where he envisioned, developed and managed an award-winning portfolio of mobile social networking and media services including the industry’s first MySpace mobile service, the first complete YouTube Mobile offering. Before Helio, Gelick spent eight years at Motorola. There, he was instrumental in the company’s strategic alliance with Apple to bring iTunes to Motorola’s next generation mobile devices.
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Noah Stanley
Vice President & GM of CBS Interactive
Noah is the vice president and GM of CBS Interactive. He leads multiple businesses for CBSSports.com including ad and subscription driven divisions in 247Sports.com, Scout.com and SportsLine.com. Noah has strong professional skills in navigating start-up to large scale media sites, social media, subscription and ad driven businesses, mobile applications, management, and sports marketing.
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Jarred Wilichinsky
Senior Vice President Video Monetization and Operations of CBS Interactive
Jarred Wilichinsky is a senior vice president at CBS Interactive where he focuses on Global Video Monetization and Operations. As an SVP, Jarred is responsible for maximizing the monetization of video advertising inventory across CBS Interactive and ensuring the best possible user experience. Jarred works closely with sales and distribution leadership to drive forward sales strategy and optimize inventory, pricing and campaign execution. Since 2006 Jarred has focused on video ad strategy and execution across CBS Interactive. Jarred Holds a degree i business administration from the University of Florida.
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Anthony G. Ambrosio
Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer and Chief Human Resources Officer of CBS Corporation
Anthony Ambrosio serves as Senior Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer and Chief Human Resources Officer for CBS Corporation. In this role, he manages all Human Resources functions for the company; directs administrative areas, including real estate, facilities management, security and other corporate services; and oversees labor relations functions. Ambrosio joined CBS in March 1985 in Recruitment and Placement, and held increasingly senior Human Resources positions in Compensation, Policy, HRIS and Benefits functions. Prior to the merger of CBS Corporation with Viacom in May 2000, he served as Vice President, Human Resources, CBS Corporation. After the merger, Ambrosio was named Senior Vice President of Human Resources and Administration for CBS, Infinity Broadcasting and Viacom Outdoor.
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Donna Osiri
Vice President of Strategic Sourcing of CBS Corporation
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Jo Ann Ross
President, Sales of CBS Corporation
Jo Ann Ross was named President, Sales, CBS Television Network in October 2002. As the Network’s chief sales executive, she is responsible for all sales for CBS Entertainment, Sports, Daytime, News and Late Night. Ross was previously Executive Vice President of Sales for CBS since September 1998. As the unit’s second-highest-ranking executive, she had oversight of all sales for CBS’s primetime schedule. Ross played a major role in creating new ways to sell network programming, including reality, scripted, news and late night genres. Perhaps most notably, the creativity behind the sales execution of SURVIVOR has become the industry model for selling reality television. Ross joined CBS in 1992 as Vice President of Olympic Sales, in charge of network sales for the Lillehammer Winter Olympics in 1994 and the Nagano Winter Olympics in 1998. During this time, Ross also had a hand in sports marketing and special events, as well as primetime and late night sales. Prior to joining CBS, Ross was with the ABC Network for three years, where she sold daytime before being named a Prime Account Executive. Before that, Ross worked at the media buying firm Bozell, starting as an assistant buyer and working her way up to Senior Vice President, where she ran the network buying department. Ross was inducted into the DTC Hall of Fame in 2015 as well as Broadcasting & Cable’s Hall of Fame in 2013. In 2003, she was named as one of The Hollywood Reporter’s “100 Most Powerful Women in Entertainment” and has remained on the annual list since. Additionally Ross was named the Women in Sports and Entertainment Woman of the Year in 2005, and in September 2002 was named one of Advertising Age’s “Media Mavens,” an annual compilation of the industry’s top media stars. A cancer survivor, Ross has been a longtime supporter of MSKCC’s annual Cycle for Survival and The American Cancer Society’s City of Hope charitable event.
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Leslie Moonves
Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer of CBS Corporation
Leslie Moonves is President and Chief Executive Officer of CBS Corporation, one of the world’s leading media enterprises. In this role, he oversees all operations of the Company, including the CBS Television Network, The CW (a joint venture between CBS Corporation and Warner Bros. Entertainment), CBS Television Studios, CBS Global Distribution Group (CBS Studios International and CBS Television Distribution), CBS Consumer Products, CBS Home Entertainment, CBS Films, CBS Interactive, Showtime Networks, CBS Sports Network, Pop (a joint venture between CBS Corporation and Lionsgate), Smithsonian Networks, Simon & Schuster, CBS Television Stations, CBS Radio and CBS EcoMedia. Moonves came to CBS in 1995 as President of Entertainment, after serving as president of Warner Bros. Television, where his team developed hit shows like Friends and ER. Once at CBS, Moonves and his team took the Network from last to first place in the ratings, launching hit shows like Everybody Loves Raymond, Survivor, and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Moonves was promoted to President and CEO of CBS Television in 1998 and became Chairman in 2003. He was later named Co-President and Co-Chief Operating Officer of Viacom and Chairman of CBS in 2004, overseeing domestic and international broadcast television operations as well as its radio division and outdoor advertising operations. In 2006, when Viacom split its businesses into two publicly traded companies, Moonves was named President and CEO of the newly formed CBS Corporation, which has since been one of the best-performing companies in media. Under Moonves’ direction, the CBS Television Network has been #1 in viewers for 12 of the last 13 years, and currently has television’s #1 drama, NCIS; television’s #1 comedy, The Big Bang Theory; television’s #1 news program, 60 Minutes; as well as time period-leading shows on virtually every night of the week. At the same time, the Company’s premium cable service, Showtime Networks, has generated millions of new subscribers on the heels of its successful owned series, such as Ray Donovan, House of Lies, Dexter and The Affair, as well as the critically acclaimed, Emmy- and Golden-Globe-Award-winning series Homeland. The Company’s push to sell its shows around the world has made international distribution sales a significant revenue source, with CBS content licensed to more than 200 markets in more than 30 languages across multiple media platforms. That emphasis on exploiting content has also enabled CBS to strike lucrative, multiyear deals with the industry’s biggest online distributors, including Netflix and Amazon. CBS’s other divisions have also been robust under Moonves’ leadership, including interactive media. The Company’s acquisition of CNET, Inc. in 2008 helped make CBS Interactive the premier online content network for information and entertainment, with more than 280 million people from around the world visiting its websites each month. In publishing, Simon & Schuster routinely releases hundreds of New York Times bestsellers every year, including dozens that make it to #1, and is the publishing home of some of the world’s most recognized and prize-winning authors. Simon & Schuster is also a leader in digital publishing, with titles available across all major platforms and formats. In local broadcasting, CBS-owned TV stations are among the most-watched in the country, and CBS Radio is home to the most-listened-to radio stations in the U.S. By distinguishing CBS as a producer and seller of world-class content across all mediums, Moonves has helped CBS Corporation grow in value, revenue and market share while identifying and developing key new revenue streams for future growth.
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Rich Jaroslovsky
Vice-President for Content and Chief Journalist of SmartNews
Rich joined SmartNews in 2014, and is responsible for its relationships with U.S. publishers and content providers. Prior to joining the company, he wrote a widely read column on personal technology for Bloomberg News, and has appeared frequently on Bloomberg TV, NBC and National Public Radio, among others. Rich was the first Managing Editor of WSJ.com, and founded and was first president of the Online News Association, the preeminent professional organization for digital journalists. He also was an award-winning reporter, columnist and editor for The Wall Street Journal, where he was the White House correspondent and National Political Editor.
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John Cimperman
Executive Vice President of Match Marketing Group
John Cimperman is a Executive Vice President at Match Marketing Group.
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Todd McCormack
Senior Corporate Vice President of IMG Worldwide
Todd is a Senior Corporate Vice President at IMG Media, the media arm of IMG – the world’s premier sports and entertainment marketing company and the largest independent producer and distributor of sports programming in the world. Todd led IMG’s initial foray into New Media in 1995, serving as the Chief Executive Officer of TWI Interactive, an independently financed IMG company that exclusively managed IMG’s new media rights from 1999 through 2003. TWI Interactive was re-integrated into IMG as a wholly owned business prior to the sale of IMG to Forstmann Little in 2003. From the creation of signature web sites to advanced media applications for wireless and broadband operators, IMG Media pioneered many industry firsts during the decade of Todd’s leadership. He personally led the development and execution of interactive media initiatives for The All England Club (Wimbledon), the Royal & Ancient Golf Club (The Open Golf Championship), Tiger Woods and many of the company’s other 60+ clients around the world Prior to overseeing IMG’s entrée into the digital media business, Todd launched and directed IMG’s Corporate Consulting business and established many of the Company’s non-sports activities, most notably the development of the Company’s relationship with The Nobel Foundation. Todd also served on the IMG’s Board of Directors from 2003-06. Although the McCormack family sold its controlling interest in IMG to Forstmann, Little in 2004, He continues to spearhead special projects and support the company’s digital media business. Todd received his BA from Duke University and a Masters in Education from Shady Hill School/Lesley College. He also serves as a founding board member of Partners In Health, a global charity committed to providing healthcare to people in impoverished settings.
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Joseph Chang
Chief Scientific Officer & Executive Vice President of Nu Skin Enterprises
Joseph Y. Chang, also known as Joe, Ph.D., has been the Chief Scientific Officer and Executive Vice President of Product Development at Nu Skin Enterprises, Inc. since February 2006. Chang is the Chief Scientific Officer and Executive Vice President of Product Development at Nu Skin International, Inc. He served as Chief Scientific Officer and President of Pharmanex LLC. He served as the President of Pharmanex division, a natural healthcare division at Nu Skin Enterprises from April 2000 to February 2006. He served as a Senior Pharmaceutical Executive at two major pharmaceutical companies, Wyeth-Ayerst Research and Rhone Poulenc Rorer, where he was involved in researching natural products for arthritis and cancer treatment. He served as Vice President for Clinical affairs and Pharmacology of Pharmanex from 1997 to April 2000. He served as the President and Chief Scientific Officer of Binary Therapeutics Inc. from 1994 to 1997 and at OAS from 1991 to 1994. He served as a Director of Optimer Pharmaceuticals, Inc. from November 1998 to October 24, 2013. He served as Lead Independent Director of Optimer Pharmaceuticals, Inc. from May 2010 to February 2013. Early in his professional career, he was The Arthritis Foundation fellow at The Johns Hopkins University School of Public. He is a member of New York Academy of Sciences, and American Society of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. A prolific author, he has published numerous articles, reviews and books on pharmacological research during his 20 years in the healthcare industry. He serves on the Board of Directors of a major trade association (CHPA) related to consumer health products in U.S. He had co-edited a textbook on inflammation and developed a series of monographs on botanical products as a source of information for consumers and health professionals. He also holds several patents on new drugs. He received a B.S. degree from Portsmouth University and obtained his Ph.D. in pharmacology from the University of London and conducted post-doctoral research at The Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health and Hygiene.
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About Nu Skin Enterprises: Nu Skin Enterprises, Inc. is a global direct selling company with operations in 53 markets worldwide
Matthew Dorny
Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary of Nu Skin Enterprises
Matthew Dorny was appointed vice president and general counsel for Nu Skin in 2003. From 1998 to 2003, Dorny served as the assistant general counsel for Nu Skin Enterprises. Prior to joining Nu Skin Enterprises, Dorny was a securities and business attorney in private practice. Dorny received a bachelor of arts, master of business management and juris doctorate degrees from the University of Utah.
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About Nu Skin Enterprises: Nu Skin Enterprises, Inc. is a global direct selling company with operations in 53 markets worldwide
Brian Timpone
Founder & President of BlockShopper
Brian Timpone, President of BlockShopper, founded the company in May 2006. Formerly a television reporter, Brian is the founding publisher of courthouse legal journals in Southern Illinois, South Texas and Charleston, WV, as well as LegalNewsline.com, a national news service covering state supreme courts and attorneys general. He also serves on the board of directors at Manifest Digital , an interactive web design and development agency based in Chicago. In 2003, he founded Greater Illinois Newsgroup, four community newspaper chain in Central Illinois. It was purchased by the Champaign News-Gazette in 2005. In 2001, Brian founded 1871 Media, a content management software provider for newspapers and associations. Brian is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism. He lives in Lincoln Park with his wife, Patricia, and three children.
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About BlockShopper: BlockShopper is a local news and market data service for current and seeking homeowners, home buyers, and home sellers.
James Goldston
President of ABC News
James Goldston serves as President of ABC News at Disney/ABC International Television, Inc. since January 2014. Mr. Goldston is responsible for all aspects of ABC News’ broadcasts, including “World News with Diane Sawyer,” “Nightline,” “Good Morning America,” “20/20” and “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.
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About ABC News: ABCNews is a breaking news resource for top stories, videos, photos, blogs, special reports, and exclusive celebrity interviews.
Peter Bordes
Vice President, Events & Sales of CoinDesk
Peter Bordes is the Head of Events & Sales at Messari.
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About CoinDesk, Messari, Stetson Real Estate: CoinDesk provides news and analysis on the trends, changes, technologies, companies, and people in the Bitcoin and digital currency world.
Tom Shoop
Executive Vice President & Editor in Chief, Government Executive Media Group of Atlantic Media
Tom Shoop is vice president and editor in chief at Government Executive Media Group, where he oversees both print and online editorial operations. He started as associate editor of Government Executive magazine in 1989; launched the company’s flagship website, GovExec.com, in 1996; and was named editor in chief in 2007.
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About Atlantic Media, Nextgov: Atlantic Media is dedicated to equipping opinion leaders with breakthrough ideas and original insights.
Matthew Lieber
Co-Founder & President of Gimlet Media
Matt Lieber is the co-founder and president of Gimlet Media. In a previous life, Lieber helped launch the public radio programs “The Takeaway” and “Fair Game.” He left radio to get his M.B.A., and worked for several years as a management consultant at The Boston Consulting Group before chucking it all for this. He knows the value of a dollar.
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About Gimlet Media: Gimlet Media is a developer of a digital media network platform that focuses on producing quality narrative podcasts.
Alex Skatell
Founder and President of Independent Journal Review
While in college at Clemson, Alex developed iPhone applications including a top 25 application featured by Gizmodo and in the “What’s Hot” section of the iTunes app store. 4 years after graduating, Alex founded IJReview in a small apartment in Charleston, South Carolina, investing all his savings and weekly paycheck into one goal: reaching a part of America that next generation media companies miss. Today, IJReview is a top 50 website in the country, reaching over 35 million monthly readers and employing more than 50 reporters and writers covering politics and current events across the country. Adding to the business, Alex co-founded IMGE a full service digital agency in 2013. IMGE is based in Alexandria, VA with a team of over 35 working with some of the world’s largest brands and associations. In early 2014, Alex launched Liftbump.com a lifestyle vertical that today reaches over 10 million monthly readers and followed that in 2015 with the launch of Shuffle News — the winner of Mediaposts 2015’s best news application and reached the #1 most downloaded news app on the iTunes app store. Alex has been dubbed a “wunderkind” by the New York Times but his interest in journalism came from a simple lesson learned from watching his father: no one in the Skatell family was allowed to disturb Dad during the evening news. “Click here to view Alex’s post of 2016 Presidential Candidates Reacting to the ABC News / IJReview Debate Partnership.
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About Independent Journal Review, Independent Journal Review: The Independent Journal Review, an American news platform, provides its users with informative content such as political and cultural news.
Michelle Jaconi
Vice President and Executive Editor of Independent Journal Review
Prior to joining the world of #Yolo, Vines and GIFs, Michelle spent six years at CNN, where she founded CNN’s Cross Platform Programming unit, leading political coverage across CNN’s television networks, digital properties and mobile apps. In that role, Jaconi led editorial partnerships with companies such as Tumblr, Facebook and Twitter. Also in her six years at CNN, Michelle launched and led programs in every television day-part, including State of the Union and Inside Politics. She also worked extensively with CNN.com, launching next generation programming, video franchises and co-writing a daily newsletter during the 2012 presidential campaign. Prior to joining CNN, Michelle spent 12 years at NBC’s Meet the Press with Tim Russert, the longest-running television program in the world. She still considers herself a Russert girl and smiles at every opportunity to reminisce about the beloved newsman from Buffalo. Throughout her career, Michelle has earned multiple awards, including the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Media for producing the Meet the Press senate debate series, a Peabody for her help in producing CNN’s coverage of the Arab Spring, and back-to-back Emmy Awards for presidential election nights, at two different networks, CNN and NBC. Michelle has been described in the press as being “ecstatic” about campaign season and that somehow is an understatement. If you ever are in a room with Michelle, there is a good chance she’ll ask you to weigh in on the political debate of the day, which is why she finds herself at home at IJ. Michelle loves learning from everyday Americans and finds great joy in driving her pick up truck, simply because people tend to smile at a girl in a truck. Click here to view my Vine list on Why I Joined IJReview.
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About Independent Journal Review: The Independent Journal Review, an American news platform, provides its users with informative content such as political and cultural news.
Michelle Jaconi
Vice President and Executive Editor of Independent Journal Review
Prior to joining the world of #Yolo, Vines and GIFs, Michelle spent six years at CNN, where she founded CNN’s Cross Platform Programming unit, leading political coverage across CNN’s television networks, digital properties and mobile apps. In that role, Jaconi led editorial partnerships with companies such as Tumblr, Facebook and Twitter. Also in her six years at CNN, Michelle launched and led programs in every television day-part, including State of the Union and Inside Politics. She also worked extensively with CNN.com, launching next generation programming, video franchises and co-writing a daily newsletter during the 2012 presidential campaign. Prior to joining CNN, Michelle spent 12 years at NBC’s Meet the Press with Tim Russert, the longest-running television program in the world. She still considers herself a Russert girl and smiles at every opportunity to reminisce about the beloved newsman from Buffalo. Throughout her career, Michelle has earned multiple awards, including the Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Media for producing the Meet the Press senate debate series, a Peabody for her help in producing CNN’s coverage of the Arab Spring, and back-to-back Emmy Awards for presidential election nights, at two different networks, CNN and NBC. Michelle has been described in the press as being “ecstatic” about campaign season and that somehow is an understatement. If you ever are in a room with Michelle, there is a good chance she’ll ask you to weigh in on the political debate of the day, which is why she finds herself at home at IJ. Michelle loves learning from everyday Americans and finds great joy in driving her pick up truck, simply because people tend to smile at a girl in a truck. Click here to view my Vine list on Why I Joined IJReview.
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About Independent Journal Review: The Independent Journal Review, an American news platform, provides its users with informative content such as political and cultural news.
Geoff Chow
President & COO of The Ringer
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About The Ringer, The Ringer: The Ringer is a digital platform that covers pop culture, technology, and sports.
Mark Ellis
Senior Vice President Corporate Sales of Time Inc.
Mark Ellis serves as Senior Vice President Corporate Sales for Time Inc. His responsibilities include leading integrated, digital and agency sales teams, with the mission of growing revenue by providing multi-brand, cross platform, data driven, holistic and agnostic Time Inc solutions to the largest marketers and advertising agencies in North America. He rejoined Time Inc in September 2014 after a 15-year hiatus, during which time he held a variety of senior level positions. Most recently he was Vice President North American Sales and Global Partnerships at Yahoo, a position Ellis held since March 2011. In that role he led the North American field sales team and focused on building solutions for the top marketers and advertising agencies across North America. Prior to that he was Executive Vice President North American Sales at AOL from February 2004–March 2011, where he managed field sales, mid market sales, account management and the agency development teams. Other prior roles include Senior Vice President Corporate Sales at IMG from 2001-2004 and Senior Vice President Sales at digital sports startup Quokka Sports from 1999-2001. Earlier in his career he held various management positions at Time Inc, including Publisher of Time IncNew Media, Sports Illustrated Custom Publishing Director and Detroit Manager for Sports Illustrated. Ellis earned an undergraduate degree in Marketing from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA from the University of Detroit. He is a Detroit native, based in New York City. He is married, the father of 3 children and serves on a variety of advisory boards and industry organizations.
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About Time Inc.: Time Inc. is a media company publishing over 90 magazines, including Time, Sports Illustrated, Travel + Leisure, Food & Wine, and many more.
Tamara Gruzbarg
Senior Vice President, Data, Analytics and Business Information of Time Inc.
Tamara Gruzbarg is a senior analytics and insights executive with 20 years of experience spanning such diverse industries as Finance, Consulting, Ecommerce, Fashion Retail and Media. She is currently leading Data, Analytics and Consumer Insights area within Time Inc, where her team is focused on harvesting a deep understanding of the consumer from both – subscriber and advertising – stand points. Prior to Time Inc Tamara held leadership positions in consumer analytics for Stuart Weitzman and Gilt Groupe. Tamara is passionate about application of analytics across a wide range of business problems, and excited about the opportunities, presented by the Big Data.
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About ActionIQ, Time Inc.: Time Inc. is a media company publishing over 90 magazines, including Time, Sports Illustrated, Travel + Leisure, Food & Wine, and many more.
Nate Poupko
President, Executive Officer of World Lifestyle
Founder at World Lifestyle
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About Fire Ads Media, World Lifestyle: WorldLifestyle is an online wellness, health, and inspiration content site.
Kellen Giuda
Founder, President & CEO of American Military News
Kellen Giuda is a business executive and the Founder and CEO of American Military News, one of the largest online military news platforms in the world reaching millions of readers every month. AMN’s mission is to inform the general public on the American military, global affairs and culture. Since its founding in 2015, AMN has engaged 54 million readers, and has become the highest, most-rated military news app on Apple and Google’s app stores. As CEO and Founder of KellenProjects, an operations consulting firm, Giuda has served political and private-sector clients since 2010, including serving as National Coalitions Director for former Speaker Newt Gingrich’s 2012 presidential campaign and from 2010-2011, serving as Director of a national public policy campaign consisting of 180 organizations representing seven million people and support from more than 150 legislators. Giuda is a member of Business Executives for National Security (BENS), the Online News Association (ONA) and the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ). Previously, Giuda was an architectural project manager in lower Manhattan, New York City at TRA Studio. As project manager, he helped execute the design and construction of multiple buildings in lower Manhattan. Giuda was also a member of TRA’s design team that placed as a finalist in the Redesigning Grand Army Plaza International Urban Design Competition in New York City. Kellen graduated from the University of Miami School of Architecture with a Bachelor of Architecture.
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About American Military News: American Military News is a military and foreign affairs news outlet.
Bill Wilson
Executive Vice President & CEO of Townsquare Media
Bill Wilson is Executive Vice President and Chief Digital Officer at Townsquare Media, a radio station company. Previously he was the President of MediaGlow at AOL. Prior to this role he was Executive Vice President of Programming at AOL. He is responsible for user experience in all of AOL’s content sites, which include News, Movies, Lifestyle, and Celebrity Gossip. He is also responsible for user experience at a number of blog sites such as Engadget and Joystiq. Wilson was formerly Senior Vice President for Worldwide Marketing at BMG Entertainment, where he managed marketing campaigns for a number of major recording artists. He began working at BMG at Arista Records under the guidance of Clive Davis. Wilson won an Emmy for AOL’s Live 8 Program in 2006, and has been featured in a number of publications as one of the nation’s top young executives.
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About Townsquare Media: Townsquare Media, an entertainment and digital marketing services company, operates digital, radio and live event properties in the U.S.
Scott Schatz
Senior Vice President of Finance, Operations & Technology of Townsquare Media
Mr. Schatz co-founded Townsquare in May 2010 and is a Principal of FiveWire, an entity formed for the purpose of investing in the Company, which he joined in March 2009. Prior to joining FiveWire, Mr. Schatz spent nearly a decade advising companies on valuations, mergers and acquisitions, and capital raises. Most recently he worked in Bear Stearns’ Technology, Media & Telecom Investment Banking Group where he was responsible for the execution of mergers and acquisitions and capital raising transactions for clients such as Freescale, NTELOS, Cablevision, Digitas and Valassis Communications. Prior to joining Bear Stearns, Mr. Schatz worked as an associate at Brown Brothers Harriman in its Mergers and Acquisitions Group where he was primarily responsible for advising owners of closely held firms in various industries, including: health care services, medical technology, telecom services, marketing & information services and other outsourced business services. Mr. Schatz began his career as an analyst at J.P. Morgan in its Technology, Media & Telecom Investment Banking Group. Mr. Schatz received a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.
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About Townsquare Media: Townsquare Media, an entertainment and digital marketing services company, operates digital, radio and live event properties in the U.S.
Michael Josephs
Executive Vice President of Business Development & Mergers of Townsquare Media
Mr. Josephs joined Townsquare in March 2013 and has led the Company’s efforts in pursuit of non-traditional acquisition opportunities. Previously, Mr. Josephs was a Managing Director at MESA Securities, an investment bank solely focused on the media and entertainment industry. While at MESA, he sourced and led advisory and financing opportunities for early and growth stage clients. Prior to MESA, he spent ten years in the investment banking divisions of Credit Suisse and Merrill Lynch executing mergers and acquisitions as well as financing transactions for large cap media and entertainment companies. During his tenure as an investment banker he executed transactions for clients such as Cablevision, Liberty Media, McClatchy, The Thomson Corporation, Univision, Viacom, Vivendi, and YP Holdings. He was named to the Multichannel News 2013 Money All Star list. Mr. Josephs received a BBA, with Distinction, from the University of Michigan Business School.
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About Townsquare Media: Townsquare Media, an entertainment and digital marketing services company, operates digital, radio and live event properties in the U.S.
Claire Yenicay
Executive Vice President of Investor Relations & Corporate Communications of Townsquare Media
Mrs. Yenicay joined Townsquare in June 2011. Prior to her current position, she focused on business development and mergers and acquisitions at Townsquare, assisting the Company in completing transactions totaling more than $500 million in aggregate value. Previously, Mrs. Yenicay was employed at Oak Hill Capital Partners, a private equity company with more than $8 billion of capital commitments. While at Oak Hill, Mrs. Yenicay held the position of Associate in the Business and Financial Services Group, where she advised companies in an array of industries including business process outsourcing, equipment rental and third party logistics services. Prior to joining Oak Hill, Mrs. Yenicay worked in the investment banking division of Merrill Lynch, focused on mergers and acquisitions and capital raising for telecom, media and entertainment companies. Mrs. Yenicay received a B.S. magna cum laude from Georgetown University.
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About Townsquare Media: Townsquare Media, an entertainment and digital marketing services company, operates digital, radio and live event properties in the U.S.
Conan O’Brien
Host of CONAN & President of Team Coco Digital
Conan O’Brien was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, and started his path in comedy when he served twice as the president of The Harvard Lampoon. Conan went on to become a writer and producer on several television shows, including “Saturday Night Live” and “The Simpsons,” until 1993, when NBC tapped him to take over as host of “Late Night.” Since then, he’s won four Emmy Awards, six Writer’s Guild Awards, and the People’s Choice Award for “Favorite Television Host.” Conan has hosted two Emmy Awards, the MTV Movie Awards, and performed at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner for two presidents. In 2010, his live comedy tour was the subject of the documentary “Conan O’Brien Can’t Stop,” and led to a second multi-city stand-up tour in 2018. In 2015, Conan became the longest-working current late-night talk show host in the U. S., celebrating 25 years in 2018. He is currently helming the show “CONAN,” now in its 10th season on TBS. His Emmy award winning “CONAN: Without Borders” series has visited 13 countries and his podcast “Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend” currently has over 135 million downloads since it launched in 2018. Between his production company, Conaco, and leading his digital brand, Team Coco, he’s successfully expanded into branded content, podcasting, mobile gaming, pay TV, and live comedy tours.
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About Team Coco Digital, Turner Broadcasting: Team Coco Digital is an online streaming platform that provides episodes, event information, and video clips related to the Conan talk show.
Bill Crank
President and Chief Executive Office of Dialogic
Bill Crank President & CEO (Board of Directors) at Clearspan Communications
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About Clearspan, Dialogic: Dialogic is a cloud-optimized solutions provider for real-time communications media, applications, and infrastructure providers.
Macy Fecto
Executive Vice President, Human Resources & Administration of Access Intelligence
Macy is Executive Vice President for all functions within Human Resources including benefits, compensation, training and development, recruitment, HR systems, employee relations and policy and procedures, with a specialty in the area of acquisition and integration. Macy also oversees corporate planning and facilities for all offices of Access intelligence.After working briefly for Commerce Clearinghouse as a Graphic Artist, Macy began her career with Miller Freeman in 1984 as a Personnel Assistant. She held various positions within Administration and Human Resources before being appointed Director of Human Resources in April 1995. In 1999, she was named Senior Vice President of Human Resources and joined the Miller Freeman USA board of directors.Macy joined Access Intelligence, LLC in January 2001. She is a former Chairperson of the ABM (American Business Media) HR Committee and in 2007 was named one of FOLIO’s 40 most influential people.
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About Access Intelligence, Access Intelligence: Access Intelligence offers business intelligence and integrated marketing solutions such as magazines, data products and e-media solutions.
Jenn Heinold
Vice President, Events of Access Intelligence
Jenn oversees the tradeshow portfolios within AI’s aerospace, healthcare and energy groups, in addition to managing a centralized operations and logistics team that produces majority of AI’s tradeshows and events. Jenn joined Access Intelligence in 2006 to serve as the lead marketer for the SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition and relies on her marketing background and connection to the tradeshow attendee to drive her business. She has continually produced double-digit revenue growth within her portfolio by identifying market trends and analyzing data to improve performance. Jenn is most passionate about the power of face-to-face marketing and continuously strives to create value for the markets she serves by launching new events in under-served verticals, expanding the scope and content of current events to be relevant to a broader audience base and creating high-quality attendee acquisition strategies. If you want to see Jenn’s eyes light up, talk to her about acquiring events. She’s successfully integrated the OR Manager Conference and Offshore Communications (now OilComm) into AI’s event portfolio and both have doubled in size under her leadership. Before joining AI, she served as Marketing and Communications Manager of GovSec, U.S. Law and Ready! trade shows, produced by National Trade Productions. She is a member of the Society of Satellite Professionals International (SSPI), International Association of Exhibitions and Events (IAEE) and Society of Independent Show Organizers (SISO) and has completed ABM’s Advanced B-to-B Leadership Program. Jenn regularly speaks at tradeshow industry events and has presented at ExpoExpo, SISO Executive Leadership Summit, Shepard Sandbox and ECEF. She earned a B.A. in Journalism from Penn State University and returns to Penn State every year to guest lecture in their Event Management Course.
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About Access Intelligence: Access Intelligence offers business intelligence and integrated marketing solutions such as magazines, data products and e-media solutions.
Heather Farley
Divisional President, Business Information Group,Chief Operating Officer of Access Intelligence
Heather is a senior level operating executive responsible for overseeing the strategic direction and revenue growth objectives across AI’s media/marketing, energy/engineering, aerospace, and healthcare markets. She works closely with her division leaders to identify, acquire and integrate synergistic businesses as well as create strong organic growth through new product launches. Additionally, as a member of Access Intelligence’s Board of Directors, Heather plays an integral role in ensuring that the vision and mission of AI’s core strategic initiatives are successfully executed across all operating units. Heather is a recognized leader in the b2b community and is often tapped for speaking engagements. Most recently, Heather co-chaired the December 2011 Marketing Conference on behalf of the Specialized Industry Publishers Association (SIPA). In her tenure at AI, Heather has worked on more than a dozen acquisitions and countless product launches. Her expertise in both direct marketing and paid content have been instrumental in the company’s dynamic transition from a traditional b2b media provider to an integrated global media company comprised primarily of face-to-face events and online members-based communities. Prior to Access Intelligence, Heather was a senior vice president and group publisher with Phillips Publishing International, where she began her publishing career in 1988.
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About Access Intelligence: Access Intelligence offers business intelligence and integrated marketing solutions such as magazines, data products and e-media solutions.
Dan Hanover
Vice President of Access Intelligence
Dan Hanover runs the largest network of event marketing content in the world, overseeing a print, web and face-to-face content portfolio that includes Event Marketer magazine, The Experiential Marketing Summit, EventTech and The Event Marketing Institute. He also leads the group’s corporate training practice, which produces executive training worldwide for marketing departments at such companies as Mercedes, Cisco, Intel, Microsoft, Coca-Cola Co. and Procter & Gamble. Before joining Access Intelligence in 2011, he built his b-to-b media career working and growing high-performance properties at companies such as Red 7 Media, Penton, Lebhar-Friedman and Nielsen.
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About Access Intelligence: Access Intelligence offers business intelligence and integrated marketing solutions such as magazines, data products and e-media solutions.
Rob Paciorek
Senior Vice-President & Chief Information Officer of Access Intelligence
In addition to overseeing Web Development, Network Operations, and Technical Support, Rob co-chairs the company’s E-Media Core Team. Rob has been with Access Intelligence over 10 years. Rob has a Master’s Degree in Math Education from Ohio State University. He previously served on the Technology Planning Committee for the Town of Rockport, Massachusetts, while serving as the Network Administrator for the Rockport Public School District. Rob also spent 3 years teaching 8th grade mathematics.
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About Access Intelligence: Access Intelligence offers business intelligence and integrated marketing solutions such as magazines, data products and e-media solutions.
Donald Pazour
President & Chief Executive Officer of Access Intelligence
Don has led the strategy and growth of Access Intelligence for over a decade, taking magazine-centric businesses and converting them to an integrated media, web-centric group of market focused product clusters serving the media/marketing, energy/engineering, aerospace, and healthcare markets. His focus has been on providing the best quality information and most effective marketing services to the company’s customers. Don and his team have built the business through countless launches and 18 acquisitions that have been bolted onto and integrated into the Phillips Business Information newsletter and magazine platform that Veronis Suhler Stevenson bought from Tom Phillips in late 2000. In 2010, the integrated, subscription revenue, chemical and energy information business was sold to IHS. Since that time, the company has leveraged its strong balance sheet and robust online market presence in its served markets to create high e-media and event revenue growth. In 2011, AI completed the acquisitions of OR Manager for it’s healthcare division, Red7 Media for the media portion of it’s Communications Group, and Cynopsis for the cable division of it’s Communications Group. Before joining Access Intelligence, Don was at Miller Freeman, a subsidiary of United Business Media, for 23 years and he was named CEO in 1997. His ascendance through the company included management of conferences, magazines, and high-value information businesses. Don launched and grew Miller Freeman’s presence in the high-tech publishing sector, culminating with the acquisition of CMP Media in 1999. Under his leadership, Blenheim USA’s trade shows were acquired by Miller Freeman, which then became the largest trade show producer in the United States. Don is a frequent speaker at events held in conjunction with Folio Magazine; American Business Media, where he is chairman of their government relations committee; Society of Independent Show Organizers, where he is a past chairman, and Specialized Information Publishers Association. He also serves as vice chairman of the Center for Exhibition Industry Research, as well as on the Board of F + W Media, one of the largest independent special interest consumer book, web, and magazine publishers.
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About Access Intelligence, American Business Media, Folio Magazine: Access Intelligence offers business intelligence and integrated marketing solutions such as magazines, data products and e-media solutions.
Oswin Deally
Vice President of Industry 4.0 and IIOT at Capgemini of Capgemini
Oswin Deally – Vice President Connected Product (IOT) Engineering Services for North America Oz Deally is Vice president of the North America Digital Engineering and Manufacturing Services practice for Capgemini. He is responsible for assuring Capgemini’s offers meet client’s needs for adapting in a rapidly changing world of the 4th wave of the industrial revolution and IOT connected products, and driving service delivery and transformation for Capgemini Industrial clients. Previously, Oz ran the Cyber Security Practice where managing risk and compliance to regulation across multiple industries was paramount in offers and delivery capability. This is Oz’s second tour with Capgemini, where previously he was as a Senior Manager for Telecom architecture practice where he worked with domestic and international communication companies for transformation of legacy communications systems and processes to support new broadband and wireless business ventures.
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About Capgemini: Capgemini provides consulting, technology, and digital transformation services.
Bill Lewallen
Executive Vice President, DCX NA COO and Delivery Management of Capgemini
Bill Lewallen is the Executive Vice President, DCX NA COO and Delivery Management at Capgemini.
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About Alliance Global Services, Capgemini: Capgemini provides consulting, technology, and digital transformation services.
Seth Rachlin
Executive Vice President, Chief Innovation Officer, Insurance of Capgemini
Seth Rachlin is currently the Chief Innovation Office for the Property & Casualty Business Unit for Capgemini. In this role, he is responsible for managing all aspects of the firm’s relationships with P&C clients including direct oversight of three significant core system replacement initiatives. He is also active in practice development surrounding Capgemini solutions, which support underwriting and product management transformation and predictive analytics. Seth Rachlin has twenty-five years’ experience building and advising companies in the insurance, technology and business services sectors. He has also advised numerous software, service, and hardware providers in the business application; data management; security, network and data center infrastructure; and information integration spaces.
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About Capgemini: Capgemini provides consulting, technology, and digital transformation services.
Gerry Leitao
Vice President of Managed Services Delivery & Platforms of Capgemini
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About Capgemini, IBM: Capgemini provides consulting, technology, and digital transformation services.
Peter Maloof
Vice President & Director of Capgemini
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About Capgemini: Capgemini provides consulting, technology, and digital transformation services.
Joseph Varet
President & Founder of Media Greenhouse
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About Media Greenhouse: Media Greenhouse cultivates media ventures through incubation, investment, and advisory.
Nicole Vogel
Founder and President of Sagacity Media
Nicole Vogel is an American magazine publisher and author. She is the co-Founder and publisher of Portland Monthly, a regional magazine covering Portland, Oregon. She received the Oregon Entrepreneurs Network Entrepreneurship Award for Individual Achievement, the second woman to receive the honor.
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About Sagacity Media: Sagacity Media manages several media properties, including Portland Monthly and Seattle Metropolitan Bride.
Parker Jones
Vice President, International of Fullscreen
Parker Jones serves as VP of international at Fullscreen.
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About Fullscreen: Fullscreen, a media company, powers the creation and sharing of video content with the connected generation through technology and services.
Geoff Dowd
Vice President of Design of TuneIn
Geoff Dowd is a designer, product developer and creative leader, dedicated to helping teams turn “What if?” ideas into 1.0 hits. He lives at the design intersection of hardware, software and services, believing that the holistic design effort is the toughest, but also the most rewarding. Knowing that the first step is prototyping – prototyping your idea in any way possible – Dowd has spoken and led workshops to hundreds of creative professionals and students, giving them tools to make their ideas happen. Most recently, Dowd served as Head of UX with Project Aura – a Google “bet”. His work there is secret for now. Before his time with Google, Dowd served as Director, Experience Design with Adobe. It is here that he oversaw the creation of Adobe’s Design and Drawing products – from nimble mobile apps that enable digital sampling of colors, shapes and brushes, to recharging Adobe’s flagship desktop products for the next generation of designers – including the new design and prototyping app, Adobe Experience Design CC. It is with Adobe that Dowd first discovered his love for hardware design as he led the conception, development, and launch of Adobe’s first-ever consumer electronic hardware product, Adobe Ink & Slide – real tools for drawing on the iPad.
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About TuneIn: From live sports & local radio to news, music & podcasts, TuneIn is one of the most widely used streaming audio platforms in the world.
Channing Dungey
Executive Vice President of Disney–ABC Television Group
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About Disney–ABC Television Group: Disney–ABC Television Group manages all of Disney and ABC-branded television and internet properties.
Richard Haass
President of The Council on Foreign Relations
Richard Haass is president of the Council on Foreign Relations, a position he has held for more than a decade. The Council on Foreign Relations is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and students, civic and religious leaders, and other interested citizens in order to help them better understand the world and the foreign policy choices facing the United States and other countries. Haass is the author or editor of twelve books on American foreign policy and one book on management. His most recent book is Foreign Policy Begins at Home: The Case for Putting America’s House in Order. Haass was the independent chair of the official multi-party panel established in 2013 to address some of the most divisive political issues affecting Northern Ireland. For his efforts to promote peace and resolution there, he received the 2013 Tipperary International Peace Award. From January 2001 to June 2003, Richard Haass was director of policy planning for the Department of State, where he was a principal adviser to Secretary of State Colin Powell. Confirmed by the U.S. Senate to hold the rank of ambassador, Haass also served as U.S. coordinator for policy toward the future of Afghanistan and U.S. envoy to the Northern Ireland peace process. For his efforts, he received the State Department’s Distinguished Honor Award. Haass has extensive additional government experience. From 1989 to 1993, he was special assistant to President George H.W. Bush and senior director for Near East and South Asian affairs on the staff of the National Security Council. In 1991, Haass was awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal for his contributions to the development and articulation of U.S. policy during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Previously, he served in the Departments of State (1981–85) and Defense (1979–80) and was a legislative aide in the U.S. Senate. Haass also was vice president and director of foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution, the Sol M. Linowitz visiting professor of international studies at Hamilton College, a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a lecturer in public policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and a research associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. A Rhodes scholar, Haass holds a BA from Oberlin College and Master and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Oxford University. He has received honorary degrees from Hamilton College, Franklin & Marshall College, Georgetown University, Oberlin College, Central College, and Miami Dade College. Richard Haass was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1951. He lives in New York City with his wife and two children.
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