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THE ADVISORY BOARD The Quinnipiac University School of Communications has established an advisory board to provide guidance to the faculty, staff and administration regarding major developments in the media world. The board will also build important, substantive and long-lasting bridges to leading companies in the communication fields broadly defined. Board members are chief executives and other senior leaders of major media companies engaged in the worlds of local and national media in broadcasting, digital and print media, film, pure-play digital media, design, advertising and public relations. Each board member has access to Quinnipiac School of Communications students and faculty for other projects as mutually agreed upon by the company and the department chair and the dean. Beginning in February, the advisory board will convene twice a year (one meeting per semester) via video conference to share how the board members’ companies are currently dedicating resources to address future audience and revenue challenges. This process will help the school ensure that the curriculum remains extremely relevant to the industries involved in media and communications. In addition, the faculty and staff can use these interactions to inform the advisory board about new course offerings, resources and capabilities the school is providing for Quinnipiac students. Current students from a variety of disciplines will be encouraged to display their work to the board, which offers the students further exposure to world-class leaders in the media field. This also provides an opportunity for senior-level leaders to learn about the skill sets, talents and interests of the talented students currently enrolled at the school.

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CONFIRMED ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS

First Last Company Title Josh Golden Ad Age President & Publisher Ann Blinkhorn Blinkhorn LLC Media Executive Recruiter John Lansing Broadcasting Board of Governors Director & CEO Mike Fernandez Burson-Marsteller U.S. CEO Steven Walsh comScore, Inc. Executive Vice President, Local Markets Monica Ray Condé Nast Executive Vice President, Consumer Marketing Andy Cunningham Cunningham Collective Founder & President Anna Sedgley Dow Jones Chief operating officer & Chief financial officer Lynn Hanessian Edelman Chief Strategist Adam Deutsch ESPN Vice President, Global Digital Product Operations Salah Zalatimo Forbes Head of Product & Tech Emily Barr Graham Media Group President & CEO Brent Magid Magid President & CEO Dina Pradel MediaSilo Vice President, Marketing

Felix Sanchez National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts Chairman & Co-founder

Altaf Rupani NBCUniversal Media, LLC SVP, Head of Digital and Emerging Technologies at NBCUniversal

John Burbank Nielsen President, Corporate Development & Strategic Initiatives Melissa Menta Peanuts Worldwide LLC Senior Vice President, Marketing and Communications Trevor Kaufman Piano CEO Joe Fiveash Raycom Media Executive Vice President, Digital Media & Strategy Erin Waters RealClear Media Group President Steven Waldman Report for America Co-founder & President Dave Morgan Simulmedia CEO & Founder Rick Stamberger Smart Brief President & CEO Seth Geiger SmithGeiger President & Co-founder Charles Smith Social Starts Venture Partner Bill Davis Southern California Public Radio President & CEO Maury McIntyre Television Academy President & COO Sameer Deen Univision Senior Vice President, Digital

Brett Pulley Weber Shandwick Executive Vice President and Managing Director, Corporate Content and Media Strategy

Ian Ferreira WideOrbit Executive Vice President

Staff: Mark Contreras Quinnipiac University Dean, School of Communications

Lila Carney Quinnipiac University Assistant Director for Advising and Student Development

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Josh Golden was named publisher & president of Ad Age in June 2016. His appointment marks the first time in the 87-year old publication’s history that the leader’s role was selected from outside the industry to drive the brand’s vision and growth. In September of 2017, he relaunched the brand (originally Advertising Age) to reignite the marketing, agency and creativity icon with a bold new look and strategic focus on widening the aperture of coverage on every platform.

Prior to joining Ad Age, Golden served as vice president, global digital marketing at Xerox. There he led a global team with responsibilities including the website, social platforms, eCommerce, content publishing and film production. Golden was a key partner in relaunching the company’s marketing efforts as well as reimagining Xerox’s multichannel digital expression creating an award-winning, content-driven digital experience.

Before Xerox, his 15-year agency-side career highlights include serving in key leadership positions in large agencies such as chief digital officer at Grey NY, managing director, digital at Euro RSCG and interactive strategist at Y&R NY. In these roles, Golden was responsible for being the key digital evangelist to inspire critical formative change that enabled each agency to capitalize on crucial growth opportunities and ever-changing best practices. He also served as the group director, digital marketing at NBC Universal where he led the marketing transition of the entire NBCU network and cable digital experiences from being promotionally focused to substantial revenue generating properties.

Golden’s early history is in the film and television space where he worked for the prosecution on the largest trials of the last century including both O.J. Simpson and Menendez brothers. There, he was solely responsible for concept development and production of hundreds of video and photo assets that were used in the courtroom.

He received his MBA from New York University and his B.S. in Communications from Ithaca College. He lives in Westchester with his wife and two children.

Josh Golden Publisher & President, Ad Age

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Ann Blinkhorn specializes in building leadership teams for businesses at the intersection of media and technology.

Blinkhorn founded Blinkhorn, LLC in 2009 following seven years as a leading executive recruiter at Spencer Stuart. She has reshaped senior leadership teams for established media companies transforming their businesses, and has also recruited talent to earlier stage digital companies working to rapidly grow their brands and franchises. Blinkhorn has led CEO and other senior-level engagements for a diverse range of clients including Comcast, Discovery Communications, Microsoft, Dow Jones, MTV Networks, PBS and Huffington Post, among others. She has also worked closely with financial sponsors including top private equity and venture capital firms to recruit talent to portfolio companies.

Blinkhorn’s background includes over 20 years of traditional and digital media operating experience combined with executive search experience. She began her media career at The New York Times Company, where she served as publisher of the first foreign-language edition of The New York Times, a joint venture in Russia with The Moscow News. She also served as president of the North American division of the International Herald Tribune, a Times affiliate. Prior to transitioning to executive search in 2002, Blinkhorn was part of the founding management team of zUniversity.com, where she launched and ran an online recruitment business.

Beyond her business activities, Blinkhorn has a strong interest in politics and public policy. She recently served as a consultant to the White House Office of Presidential Personnel in assessing talent for the Obama-Biden administration.

Blinkhorn earned an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and an A.B. degree from Smith College. She serves on the advisory boards of WFUV Radio (NYC public radio affiliate) and ProPublica, and previously served on the board of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University.

Ann Blinkhorn Media Executive Recruiter & Founder, Blinkhorn, L.L.C.

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John F. Lansing joined the BBG in September 2015 after nine years as president of Scripps Networks, where he is credited with guiding the company to become a leading developer of unique content across various media platforms including television, digital, mobile and publishing. As president of Scripps Networks, Lansing was responsible for strategic and operational oversight of the $2.5 billion division of Scripps Networks Interactive, including the company’s portfolio of six cable networks—Food Network, HGTV, Travel Channel, DIY, Cooking Channel and Great American Country—and the $100 million Scripps Networks Digital division. Prior to joining Scripps Networks in 2004, Lansing was senior vice president for television in the broadcasting division of the E.W. Scripps Company, managing the company’s portfolio of 10 network affiliated television stations.

Earlier, he held various senior management positions at Scripps-owned affiliates, including WEWS TV in Cleveland, Ohio and WXYZ TV in Detroit, Michigan. Most recently, Lansing was President and Chief Executive Officer of Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing (CTAM), a marketing association comprised of 90 of the top U.S. and Canadian cable companies and television programmers. There, Lansing oversaw the development of business strategies and marketing initiatives that position cable television companies for continued growth as they compete with emerging digital content platforms. Lansing also brings a deep understanding of journalism from roles as an award-winning photojournalist and field producer, assignment manager, managing editor, and news director at several television stations earlier in his career.

Lansing is currently a member of the Bellarmine University Board of Trustees and was named to the Bellarmine Gallery of Distinguished Graduates in 2010. He serves on the National Advisory Board of the Bellarmine University’s Institute for Media, Culture & Ethics; National Council for Media and Public Affairs of George Washington University School of Media & Public Affairs; and, until recently, the Poynter Institute for Media Studies Foundation, one of the nation’s top schools for professional journalists. Lansing began his career at age 17 as a news photographer at WPSDTV in Paducah, Kentucky.

John F. Lansing CEO & Director, Broadcasting Board of Governors

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Mike Fernandez is U.S. CEO of Burson-Marsteller. Previously, he served as chief communications officer for five large U.S.-based corporations across diverse industries.

During his recent six-year tenure leading global corporate affairs at Cargill, the world’s largest privately held company, Fernandez was responsible for communications, brand and marketing services, government relations and corporate social responsibility. He served as chief communications officer for Fortune 200 companies: State Farm Insurance, ConAgra Foods, Cigna and US West and held various global marketing and communications roles at Kodak. As the 23-year old press secretary to U.S. Senator Ernest “Fritz” Hollings, Fernandez became the youngest U.S. Senate Press Secretary ever and only the second Latino to serve in such a role. When he became CCO at US West in 1996, he was only the second Latino to lead the communications function for a Fortune 500 company.

Fernandez has been listed on PRWeek’s Power List of the top 50 PR professionals in the U.S. and the Holmes Report’s Influence 100 list of the top 100 PR professionals in the world. He serves on numerous boards and advisory councils, including the: U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Arthur W. Page Society, Latino Donor Collaborative, Emma Bowen Foundation, Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota and the communications schools at the University of Florida and the College of Charleston.

Fernandez and his teams have won numerous public relations and marketing awards. Fernandez was inducted into the PRWeek Hall of Fame in 2015 and received the Institute for Public Relations’ Alexander Hamilton Medal, the Hispanic Public Relations Association’s first Pioneer Award, the PRSA Foundation’s Paladin Award and the Plank Center’s Milestones in Mentoring Award. In 2014 his Cargill team won PRWeek’s Global Program of the Year Award, and in 2015 Fortune magazine listed Cargill among 50 companies that are making a positive impact on the world.

One of Fernandez’s greatest personal accomplishments has been to serve as a mentor to those he works with. He is especially proud that over a dozen of his previous mentees have become Chief Communications Officers or Chief Marketing Officers at major companies.

Fernandez graduated with a B.A. in Government and M.S. in Accounting from Georgetown University.

Mike Fernandez U.S, CEO, Burson-Marsteller

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Steve Walsh brings more than 25 years of proven strategic sales and sales management experience to his role as executive vice president of local markets at comScore. A recognized sales and client relationship leader in the multi-screen audience research industry, Walsh has held key sales leadership positions at research industry startups and current standard-bearers before joining comScore (then called Rentrak) in 2009. In his professional lives prior to comScore, he played a critical role in significantly shaping and expanding revenue, client base and strategic positioning for companies such as Integrated Media Measurement, Inc. (IMMI), Experian Research Services, IAG Research, Kantar Media Intelligence and Nielsen Media Research, and was instrumental in growing IAG from an eight-employee startup in 2001 into a 250-employee syndicated advertising effectiveness measurement company by 2006, eventually leading to the acquisition of IAG by Nielsen Media Research in 2008 for $225 million.

At comScore, Walsh leads a sales and account management team that has built a client roster serving over 680 client television stations and 150 local and regional agencies in over 185 markets since comScore Local launched in 2010. Today, Walsh and his team are laser-focused on creating the new model for a dynamic, cross-platform local measurement currency based on massive scale and superior methodology, to the benefit of the local broadcasters, agencies and marketers we all serve.

Walsh holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Telecommunications Management from Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and, in addition to being a member of the Television Bureau of Advertising (TvB) and the Advertising Research Foundation (ARF), has been a featured guest lecturer at Syracuse University, New York University, Arizona State University, the University of Florida and the University of Connecticut.

He lives in Connecticut with his wife, and he bursts with pride over his three grown children who don’t contact him often enough.

Steve Walsh Executive Vice President, Local Markets comScore

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Monica Ray is executive vice president, consumer marketing at Condé Nast, charged with overseeing all consumer revenue and marketing activities for Condé Nast’s portfolio of media brands, including Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, and Vogue. With a deep background in direct-to-consumer marketing, Ray has been a change agent for Condé Nast’s consumer marketing discipline, using data, segmentation and creative messaging to cause digital channel subscription volumes to double in three years. In addition, Ray led a business transformation for The New Yorker, building it into a highly successful consumer product with a paid digital content subscription model, leading to a more than two-fold increase in consumer revenue since her arrival. Prior to joining Condé Nast in September 2010, Ray led Time Inc.’s paid content strategy as senior vice president, corporate digital development. Before assuming that position, she served as vice president and general manager for Entertainment Weekly and EW.com, where she managed the brand's print and digital businesses. Ray joined Time Inc. in 1992 and held a number of other senior positions within the company—among them senior vice president and general manager of Time Inc.'s digital group, and vice president, consumer marketing overseeing all subscription, newsstand, and consumer research activities for Sports Illustrated, People, and Time.

Ray is a board member of the DMA (Data and Marketing Association), the AAM (Alliance of Audited Media), and of Next Issue Media (Texture), the digital content venture formed by Condé Nast, Hearst, Meredith, Rogers Media, and Time Inc. She is a former board member of MPA – The Association of Magazine Media.

Ray is a graduate of Smith College, with degrees in economics and French literature, and received her MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Monica Ray Executive Vice President, Consumer Marketing, Condé Nast

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As an entrepreneur at the forefront of marketing, branding, positioning and communicating “The Next Big Thing,” Andy Cunningham has played a key role in the launch of a number of new categories including video games; personal computers; desktop publishing; digital imaging; RISC microprocessors; software as a service; very light jets; and clean tech investing. She is an expert in creating and executing marketing, branding and communication strategies that accelerate growth, increase shareholder value and advance corporate reputation. Her first book, Get to Aha!: Discover Your Positioning DNA and Dominate Your Competition, was published by McGraw-Hill Education in October 2017. Cunningham came to Silicon Valley in 1983 to work for Regis McKenna and help Steve Jobs launch the Macintosh. When Steve left Apple to form NeXT and acquire Pixar, he chose Cunningham’s public relations agency, Cunningham Communication, to represent him. She continued to work with Steve for several years and has developed marketing, branding and communication strategies for game-changing technologies and companies ever since. Cunningham is the founder and president of Cunningham Collective, a marketing, brand and communication strategy firm dedicated to bringing innovation to market. The 5-year old firm has worked with many companies in various markets including telecommunications, search, energy efficiency, media and publishing, finance, mobile apps, display technology, healthcare, big data and semiconductors. Cunningham is also the host of the popular podcast Marketing Over Ice (http://www.moi.fm/). Cunningham serves on the following corporate boards: Specialized Bicycle Components, Inc. (bicycles and gear); and RhythmOne plc (programmatic ad platform). Cunningham also advises the following companies: Virta Health, AirPR, Traackr, MixR and Wellomics. In addition, Cunningham sits on the boards of the following institutions and non-profit organizations: The Aspen Institute; Menlo College; Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications; and ZERO1: The Art & Technology Network, an organization she founded in 2000 with the mission to shape the future at the intersection of art and technology. Past board positions include YPO, WPO, CEO, the Peninsula Open Space Trust and the Computer History Museum. She is an Aspen Institute Henry Crown Fellow and holds memberships in WPO, CEO, TED and Women Corporate Directors. Cunningham graduated from Northwestern University and lives in Sausalito, California with her husband Rand Siegfried.

Andy Cunningham President & Founder, Cunningham Collective

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Anna Sedgley is the chief operating officer of Dow Jones, a role she assumed in January 2017. She was previously chief financial officer and held the dual roles of COO and CFO until November 2017.

As chief operating officer, Sedgley leads the Dow Jones Operations Group and oversees the Print Products and Services unit, legal and risk management services as well as technology, facilities and security. Sedgley continues her oversight of the company’s financial performance via the chief financial officer.

Sedgley joined Dow Jones in October 2009 as vice president, finance, after 10 years at BSkyB, now known as Sky, which is part of 21st Century Fox. At Sky, she provided financial support for a number of business functions including marketing, circulation, supply chain and technology.

Sedgley began her career as a trainee chartered accountant at PricewaterhouseCoopers in London. After qualification, she spent two years working in finance at Debenhams PLC, a leading U.K. department store.

She is a graduate of the University of Adelaide, Australia.

Anna Sedgley Chief Operating Officer, Dow Jones

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Lynn Hanessian is the chief strategist for Edelman. In her position, she brings together industry, content, and media expertise to craft campaigns to achieve the business objectives of her clients. Her focus is on health and science engagement initiatives reaching a wide range of audiences.

Hanessian has a deep background in health, medical and science strategic positioning, and communication working with health systems, pharmaceutical and device companies, health technology companies, medical societies and patient advocacy groups. Hanessian has led regional, national and global teams providing support to pharmaceutical and medical products at all stages of the product life cycle. She has also been actively involved in marketing, communications, advocacy relations, professional society engagement, corporate positioning programs and crisis communications efforts. Hanessian has worked on a wide range of therapeutic areas including infectious diseases, CNS, allergic diseases, oncology and metabolic diseases.

Hanessian’s background includes expertise in corporate and foundation relations, medical associations, philanthropy, fund raising, and children’s issues. Prior to Edelman, she held positions at the American Academy of Pediatrics where she built strategic corporate alliances, cultivated and solicited major grants, and developed a wide range of programs for healthcare provider and consumer audiences.

She has a long history of volunteer leadership involvement with the patient advocacy community. Hanessian is currently a member of the President’s Council of the Cancer Support Community, a board member of the Center for Healthcare Innovation, and past board chair for the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America.

She earned an AB in economics from the University of Chicago.

Lynn Hanessian Chief Strategist, Edelman

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Adam Deutsch is vice president, global digital product operations at ESPN. In his role, he leads the rollout of international digital properties, including editions of the ESPN app and ESPN.com, ESPNcricinfo and ESPN international streaming platforms. He also oversees product operations for third-party digital global business partnerships, including ticketing, e-commerce, sponsored links and Accuweather.

Deutsch was the architect behind the ESPN “Editions Platform” that allowed ESPN to deliver digital products and services around the world in a unified, consistent way. In the last 18 months, ESPN has debuted 11 editions in both English and Spanish, and with more markets and languages to come as the company expands its global efforts. Deutsch was elevated to this position in March 2017.

Previously, Deutsch held the role as senior director, global digital media, where he served as general manager for ESPN’s international digital businesses, leading growth initiatives with an emphasis outside the U.S. including Latin America, Europe, Middle East and Africa, Southeast Asia and India.

Deutsch initially joined the Walt Disney Company in 1996 as a promotions manager at the ESPN Club at Walt Disney World. Since then, he has cultivated his career within the company, working his way over to Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Online, first as a manager of online marketing, and then as a manager of CRM & personalization marketing. Deutsch was then promoted to director of online marketing & product management, where he led the development on online marketing campaigns and websites, including Disneyworld.com. In 2008, he made the jump to ESPN as a senior director of digital media marketing, where he oversaw the marketing campaign development from strategy to media planning to analysis in support of ESPN.com business priorities. After leaving the company for a senior director role of brand marketing at NBC Universal, Deutsch returned to ESPN in 2012.

In 2015, Deutsch was named one of the winners of the Cablefax Digital Hot List Awards, an honor that recognizes innovative executives driving progress in social media, digital distribution, app development, web content, technology strategy, TV Everywhere/authentication and other cutting-edge multiplatform projects.

A native of Columbia, MD, Deutsch graduated from Rollins College with a Master of Business Administration with honors. He received his undergraduate degree from Adelphi University with a Bachelor of Arts in Communications.

Adam Deutsch Vice President, Global Digital Product Operations, ESPN

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Salah Zalatimo heads the product & tech group at Forbes Media. He joined the company in 2015 through the acquisition of his mobile startup, Camerama. He has since led an organizational transformation to enable end-to-end product management and continuous deployment. His team recently rebuilt Forbes.com article pages to be the fastest among major publishers. Zalatimo is a leader in the New York tech community, working closely with the Department of Education and other industry associations on the proliferation of tech in media. He is an undefeated amateur boxer and serves as a board member for the HaymakersForHope.org. Zalatimo has a BA and MBA from Columbia University. He was a founding member of the digital music group at Bertelsmann in 2003. He then joined the media practice at McKinsey & Company. Over his career, he has worked for or with 8 of the world’s top 10 media companies. He currently lives with his wife, Tala, and son, Sina Akram, in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.

Salah Zalatimo Head of Product & Tech, Forbes

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Emily L. Barr is the president and chief executive officer of Graham Media Group, the television broadcasting division of Graham Holdings Company. She has held this position since July 2012.

Barr oversees seven local television stations - each in a top-70 market, representing nearly 7% coverage in the U.S. All stations are recognized as news leaders on air, on the go and on line: KPRC-Houston (NBC); WDIV-Detroit (NBC); KSAT-San Antonio (ABC); WKMG-Orlando (CBS); a duopoly in Jacksonville: WJXT (Fully Local) and WCWJ (CW); and WSLS-Roanoke (NBC). GMG also owns Social News Desk, a leading provider of social media management tools designed to connect newsrooms with their users.

Under Barr 's leadership, Graham Media Group was awarded "2016 Station Group of the Year" by Broadcasting and Cable Magazine.

Prior to joining Graham Media Group, Barr served as the president and general manager of ABC 7 Chicago (WLS-TV), the ABC-owned station in Chicago, IL. She held this position from April 1997 until July 2012. Under her leadership and throughout her tenure, ABC 7 strengthened its dominance in the market and remained the top-rated/most watched station in Chicago. In 2009, Barr helped create The LIVE WELL NETWORK, an innovative digital broadcast, online and wireless network focusing on home, health and lifestyle programming.

Previously, Barr served as the president and general manager of WTVD-TV, the ABC-owned station in Raleigh-Durham, NC, which she joined in October 1994. In July 1988, Barr joined WMAR-TV in Baltimore, MD, as the director of broadcast operations & programming. She was promoted to assistant general manager in May 1993.

Earlier in her career, Barr was the director of creative services (1987-88) and advertising and promotion manager (1985-87) at KHOU-TV in Houston, TX. She also worked as a writer and producer for WJLA-TV in Washington, DC, which she joined in January 1983. Barr began her career in broadcasting in 1980 as a news editor at KSTP-TV in St. Paul, MN.

Emily L. Barr President & CEO, Graham Media Group

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Barr serves on the boards of the Associated Press and the Television Bureau of Advertising. In addition, she is the 1st Vice Chair for Television for the National Association of Broadcasters and is the Immediate Past Chair of the ABC Board of Governors. She has served twice as chairman of the board for the Illinois Broadcasters Association. In addition, Barr is actively involved in the Chicago community serving on the boards of the Chicago Network and the Chicago Academy for the Arts.

Honored for her civic involvement, Barr was inducted into the 2016 Silver Circle of the Chicago/Midwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. She was awarded the 2014 Vincent T. Wasilewski Broadcaster of the Year by the Illinois Broadcasters Association and received the 2010 Westbury Leadership Award from the American Red Cross of Greater Chicago for her involvement in a citywide media effort to raise funds for the Haitian earthquake relief effort. That year, Barr received an Honorary Doctorate from Robert Morris University in recognition of her community service. Other recognition includes the 2007 National Museum of Mexican Art's Corporate Service Award; the 2007 Business Professional of the Year by the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce; the 2006 Spirit Award from the Chicago Urban League; the 2006 Communications Award from the Niagara Foundation, which promotes diversity, tolerance and global fellowship; the 2004 Luminary Award from the Girl Scouts of Chicago, recognizing her community involvement and visionary leadership; and the 1998 Dante Award from the Joint Civic Committee of Italian Americans.

A native of Haverhill, MA, Barr is a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy and holds a BA in Film Studies from Carleton College in Northfield, MN. In 1986, she earned an MBA from George Washington University in Washington, DC. Barr is married to Scott M. Kane and has two daughters. They live in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago.

Emily L. Barr (cont’d)

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Brent Magid is president and chief executive officer of Magid.

Prior to being named CEO, Magid served in several roles with Magid including president, North American Television; senior vice president, mergers and acquisitions; and president, international based in London. After graduating from Princeton University and the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, Magid was an associate in the media and entertainment corporate finance group at Chase Manhattan Bank.

Brent serves on the boards of Lee Enterprises and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

Brent lives in Minneapolis with his wife, Mitzi and has two sons, Harrison and Parker.

Brent Magid President & CEO, Magid

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Dina Pradel is a startup executive with expertise in brand marketing, product strategy, and lead generation for SaaS and internet companies. She is currently the vice president of marketing for MediaSilo and Wiredrive, which came together earlier this year to form the largest provider of video collaboration software to the post-production space; clients include a who’s who of leading media and entertainment companies and advertising agencies.

In the past, Pradel has grown small startups such as StyleFeeder, FirstGiving and Y2M:Youth Media and Marketing Network and orchestrated their acquisitions by companies including Time, Inc., Frontstream Payments, and Viacom.

She holds a bachelors and masters in journalism from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Dina Pradel Vice President of Marketing, MediaSilo and Wiredrive

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Felix Sanchez is a principal with Terra Strategies LLC, a government affairs and public relations firm in Washington, D.C. Sanchez is also the co-founder and pro bono chairman of the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts (NHFA), which he co-founded in 1997 with actors Jimmy Smits, Sonia Braga Esai Morales and Merel Julia. The non-profit foundation has become a leader in promoting Latinos in the media, entertainment and telecommunications industries.

For the last several years, Sanchez, as NHFA Chairman, led the fight to desegregate the Kennedy Center Honors, which resulted in major administrative and personnel changes at the Kennedy Center, which yielded the following Latino honorees in 2013, Carlos Santana and Martina Arroyo; in 2015, Rita Moreno; and in 2017, Gloria Estefan. Sanchez’s efforts, on behalf of NHFA, led to the induction of 22 new Latino members into the Association of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (Oscars).

In November 2016, Sanchez launched PitchNY, with Governor Andrew Cuomo’s Office of Motion Pictures and Television and NBCUniversal for undergraduate students throughout New York State. Sanchez also developed Quórum Call a content pitch program--made possible through a community grant from the D.C. Mayor’s Office of Latino Affairs--established for NHFA’s graduate students principally at NYU, Columbia, Harvard, Yale, Northwestern, USC, UCLA and UT Austin. In the Fall of 2018, undergraduate students from Quinnipiac University will be eligible to apply for NHFA’s programs. Sanchez also led the advocacy and strategy to convince NBC’s Saturday Night Live to hire Melissa Villaseñor, the first Latina cast member ever in the show’s 41-year history.

In 2013, Sanchez’s work was honored by the National Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP), with the 2013 Advocacy Award. In 2016, the Government of Mexico presented Sanchez with the Ohtlí Award, its highest national honor presented to Mexican American and Latino philanthropy leaders. Sanchez serves on the American Jewish Committee’s (AJC) Latino Jewish Leadership Council; the Kennedy Center Latino Advisory Board, the El Rey Network’s Diversity Council (Robert Rodriguez’s cable network owned by Univision); the Creative Thread Foundation and Storytelling Unbound. Sanchez also advises the Congressional Multicultural Media Caucus; and the Congressional Caucus for Advancement of Studio, Talent (CAST) and Film Diversity on diversity and inclusion issues in the entertainment industry. Sanchez is a CNN contributor.

Sanchez is a former legislative assistant to then-U.S. Sen. Lloyd M. Bentsen, Jr.; former director of congressional relations for the

Felix Sanchez Co-founder and Chairman, National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts

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American Gas Association and former vice president for government relations for the American Methanol Institute. Sanchez received his law degree from the University of Houston Law Center and his M.A. and B.A. degrees from the University of Texas at Austin. Sanchez has two children, Isabella Sanchez, a senior at Boston University and Philippe Sanchez, a 2nd-year cadet at the U.S. Military Academy (West Point).

Altaf Rupani serves as the senior vice president and head of digital & emerging technologies at NBCUniversal. As a member of the executive leadership team Rupani is responsible for strategy and technology related to NBCUniversal’s digital and emerging media platforms as well as overseeing the technology execution of NBCUniversal’s external digital partnerships.

Prior to this role, Rupani served as the chief technology officer of the NBC News Group, which includes brands such as NBC News, MSNBC, and CNBC across all platforms. Rupani holds a BS in computer science from University of Mumbai and participated in the Executive Management Program from Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Altaf Rupani Senior Vice President & Head of Digital & Emerging Technologies, NBCUniversal

Felix Sanchez (cont’d)

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John Burbank oversees global strategic innovation at Nielsen. In this role, Burbank develops strategies, products and partnerships that help Nielsen’s clients harness the power of digital technology and consumer data. Since joining Nielsen in 2008, Burbank has led the development of Nielsen’s digital media and e-commerce measurement strategy and is responsible for the company’s data partnerships with companies such as Facebook, Alibaba and Tencent. Additionally, Burbank has responsibility for Nielsen Innovate, an Israeli technology investment fund and incubator focused on consumer marketing data and analytics.

A recognized industry leader in digital marketing, Burbank was previously chief executive officer of Nielsen’s Online division, where he led the company’s global digital measurement business. Earlier, he served as chief marketing officer for AOL and as vice president of marketing at AT&T/Cingular, where among other achievements, he helped lead the industry’s first mobile video programming with content from media leaders like HBO, CBS, Fox and the NCAA. Burbank spent 10 years in finance and brand management at Procter & Gamble and pioneered the company’s digital marketing and e-commerce activities.

He received his BA and MBA degrees from the University of Chicago.

John Burbank President, Corporate Development & Strategic Initiatives Nielsen

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Melissa Menta is a seasoned publicity and marketing executive with over 25 years of experience in the entertainment field.

A savvy marketer, Menta currently serves as the senior vice president of marketing & communications at Peanuts Worldwide, a subsidiary of DHX Media. In this role, she oversees major global marketing initiatives, a robust consumer communications program, and a highly engaged social media audience for the timeless property Peanuts by Charles Schulz. Adweek and The Washington Post have both recognized Peanuts marketing for its relevance in the pop-culture zeitgeist. Recent highlights include a partnership with Rock the Vote in 2016 and collaborating with the PR team at 20th Century Fox on the release of the feature film The Peanuts Movie. Throughout her career, Menta has worked on such iconic brands and characters as the Muppets, the dotcom breakout mascot The Pets.com Sock Puppet, and Scott Adam's Dilbert. Menta received her Bachelor of Arts from Middlebury College, and a Masters in Performing Arts Administration from NYU.

Melissa Menta Senior Vice President of Marketing & Communications, Peanuts Worldwide

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Trevor Kaufman is the CEO of Piano, a global software company that provides content monetization tools to digital publishers. Piano’s suite of SaaS tools includes analytics, subscription commerce, and experience management. The company serves thousands of sites, including many of the world’s top media businesses such as The Economist, Gatehouse, Condé Nast, Bloomberg, Bonnier, AOL, and NBC Universal. Piano was formed in 2015 as the result of a merger between Tinypass, where Kaufman had been CEO, and Piano Media, a larger European competitor.

Kaufman came to Tinypass in 2012 after serving as CEO of Possible, a 1,300-person global digital network he created within WPP, with clients including P&G, Google, Target, Starwood, and Bank of America. Possible resulted from the merger of several WPP agencies, including Schematic, a digital agency that Kaufman founded in 1999 and sold to WPP in 2007.

Prior to Possible, he served as co-president of Kaufman Patricof Enterprises (KPE) a pioneering digital agency co-founded in 1996 as a subsidiary of Grey Advertising. Kaufman’s reputation is as an innovative and creative leader, and the teams he has brought together have won countless awards for their ground-breaking media and technology work, including Webbys, Emmys, and Cannes Lions, as well as top lists in OMMA, AdWeek, Newsweek, and other publications.

Trevor Kaufman CEO, Piano

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Joe Fiveash is executive vice president, digital media and strategy for Raycom Media. In that role, he looks for ways to build digital usage and revenue from the web, mobile and OTT audiences for content produced by Raycom’s 60+ TV stations. In addition, he is responsible for developing new digital revenue from internal startups (like The Southern Weekend, a multiplatform video service about having fun in the South), and acquisitions (like PureCars, a leading provider of digital marketing services for car dealers). He has a deep digital media background, including EVP/GM of Weather Channel Interactive, with overall responsibility for the Web, mobile and interactive television platforms; President of Vertical Acuity, a venture-backed content marketing platform that was sold to Outbrain; and SVP Ecommerce for CafePress Services.

Fiveash graduated from Princeton University, and has a JD/MBA from the University of Virginia.

Erin Waters is President of RealClear Media Group (RCP) and oversees all business and editorial functions across the company, including RealClearPolitics and 14 additional platforms.

RCP is ranked in the top 5 for Washington insiders and under Waters' leadership, peak election readership grew by over 50% and revenue increased by over 25%.

Prior to joining RCP, Waters served as publisher of Governing, a media organization focused on state and local information. During her tenure, Governing received industry recognition, including Jesse H. Neal Award, ASBPE Magazine of the Year and FOLIO Eddie, and achieved revenue growth across the business platform.

Waters was previously at Atlantic Media and Congressional Quarterly.

Joe Fiveash Executive Vice President, Digital Media & Strategy, Raycom Media

Erin Waters President, RealClear Media Group

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Steven Waldman is an entrepreneur, journalist and advocate for robust accountability journalism. Most recently, he co-founded Report for America, a new national service program for journalists, and LifePosts.com, a new platform for online memorials and other life milestones.

Waldman spent the first part of his career as a magazine journalist. He was national correspondent for Newsweek, national editor for U.S. News and World Report and editor of the Washington Monthly.

In 1998, he created and ran Beliefnet.com, a vast multifaith religion website. The site won the National Magazine Award for General Excellence Online in 2007 and the Online News Association’s General Excellence Award. Time Magazine named Waldman one of the “innovators” of the new millennia. As CEO, he led Beliefnet to profitability, rapid revenue growth, several rounds of venture capital financing, and a successful sale to News Corp in 2007.

From 2009-2011, he was senior advisor to the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission and lead author of the landmark report, “The Information Needs of Communities: The Changing Media Landscape in a Broadband Age,” which NPR’s “On the Media” called “one of the most comprehensive overviews of the US media ever produced.” After leaving the FCC, he became chair of the Council on Foundations’ Nonprofit Media Working Group, focused on tax law obstacles to nonprofit news.

In January 2016, Waldman launched LifePosts.com, a new platfom “to ensure that every person’s life story can be beautifully told, vividly celebrated and preserved.”

In 2015 he wrote a paper proposing, Report for America, a national service program for journalists, to address the crisis in local news. Recently he teamed up with the GroundTruth Project, Google News Lab and others to launch a pilot version of the program.

He has had regular columns in The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Slate and Beliefnet, and has written for The Washington Post, The Atlantic, The New York Times, Columbia Journalism Review, The New Republic, and National Review. He is also the author of the national bestseller Founding Faith: How Our Founding Fathers Forged A Radical New Approach to Religious Liberty (Random House, 2008) and The Bill (Viking/Penguin), 1995).

Waldman is a graduate of Columbia University and lives in Brooklyn. He has two sons in college and is married to Amy Cunningham, a funeral director and leading green burial advocate.

Steven Waldman President & Co-founder, Report for America

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Dave Morgan is the CEO and founder of Simulmedia. He previously founded and ran both TACODA, Inc., an online advertising company that pioneered behavioral online marketing and was acquired by AOL in 2007 for $275 million, and Real Media, Inc., one of the world’s first ad serving and online ad network companies and a predecessor to 24/7 Real Media (TFSM), which was later sold to WPP for $649 million. After the sale of TACODA, Morgan served as executive vice president, global advertising strategy, at AOL, a Time Warner Company (TWX).

A lawyer by training, Morgan served as general counsel and director of new media ventures at the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association in the early 1990’s.

Morgan is a Political Science graduate of The Pennsylvania State University and holds a J.D. from the Dickinson School of Law. He is the former chairman and ex-officio member of the board of the International Radio and Television Society (IRTS) and currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Advertising Research Foundation. Morgan, his wife Lorea Canales, and their two daughters live in Manhattan.

Rick Stamberger is president and CEO of SmartBrief, which he co-founded with Dan O'Brien and Tom Wheeler. He has spent much of his career at the intersection of business, public policy and the not-for-profit sector. Before his work at SmartBrief, Stamberger was a founding partner of Quest Partners LLC, a management consultancy based in Boston. He also served as executive vice president and a director of a Washington, D.C.-based technology firm owned by nine cable television companies and NBC. Stamberger began his career in Washington with the National Cable Television Association.

Stamberger served as a White House Fellow in 1984-85 in the Office of the Vice President. From 2008 to 2009, he was a member of President-elect Barack Obama's Transition Project, serving as an agency lead for the Executive Office of the President.

Stamberger is chairman of the board of directors of the Van Eck Funds. He is also an independent trustee of the Van Eck Market Vectors ETF Trust. He has been an active board member of numerous nonprofit organizations and was executive producer of "John Gardner, Uncommon American," a documentary for public television that aired in 2001. He is a graduate of Williams College and the Harvard Business School.

Dave Morgan CEO & Founder, Simulmedia

Rick Stamberger President & CEO, SmartBrief

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Dr. Seth Geiger directs the development of strategic research partnerships and oversees research innovation and product engineering. He has consulted with clients across the broadcast, cable, satellite, digital platform, syndicated television, telecom and web industries, including: ABC, AT&T Broadband, CNN, DIRECTV, Discovery, Google, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, NBC, Raycom, Scripps Networks, TiVo, Visa, Warner Bros., among others.

Prior to forming SmithGeiger, Geiger served as vice president of professional and e-Commerce services for BizRate.com, the leading supplier of e-commerce research and intelligence, and the largest B2C shopping marketplace on the web. Geiger set strategy, built research partnerships and oversaw the development of real-time, integrated web based research reporting tools.

Before joining BizRate.com, Geiger worked for Frank N. Magid Associates, where he established the company’s strategic research direction and designed research initiatives in new media and television convergence.

Geiger joined Magid from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he was an assistant professor in the Department of Communication. His academic research is recognized internationally in the fields of media processing, research design and mass media effects.

Geiger holds a Ph.D. and Master's degree in Communication Research from Stanford University and a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology from Cornell University.

Seth Geiger President & Co-founder, SmithGeiger

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Charles C. Smith currently serves as a venture partner for Social Starts, a venture capital fund that invests in start-up social and mobile technology companies. He has a particular interest in content experiences and the changing media landscape.

He is also an active angel investor in early-stage companies assisting the leadership with strategy and operations as they get off the ground. One of the many companies he's helped launch is Etsy which grew from 6 to 75 employees in the 3 years he was there.

Smith entered into the startup world in the mid-90s through RealMedia, an internet advertising company. He was in charge of marketing and sales before launching the company internationally. After, he helped start another ad tech company, Tacoda where he ran sales until taking on more responsibility at his family business, Calkins Media.

Smith’s media roots started at a young age. His mother was part owner of Calkins Media which owned and ran newspapers and TV stations for 80 years. From his teenage years, Smith attended board meetings and was on the sidelines for conversations ranging from the news of the day to the operations of the company. His father was the publisher of his hometown paper. He likes to say he has a "dinner table knowledge" of the newspaper business.

Smith grew up in Doylestown, PA, and received a Political Science degree from the University of Richmond. His parents forbid him from joining the family business right out of college so his career began with the Macy's Executive Training Program. He transitioned into the media world with a position with Gannett Newspapers in the circulation department.

Smith, his son, and daughter live in Brooklyn, NY. They love to spend time together cooking, baking and watching sports.

Charles C. Smith Venture Partner, Social Starts

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Bill Davis is the founding president of Southern California Public Radio (SCPR), a California-controlled subsidiary of the American Public Media Group.

He joined SCPR in January 2001, and prior to his appointment was senior vice president for programming at National Public Radio (NPR) in Washington, D.C. where he directed NPR’s programming divisions: news, cultural programming, new media, and satellite. For ten years, he served as general manager of WUNC-FM in Chapel Hill, NC where he directed all aspects of this NPR affiliated station licensed to the University of North Carolina, making it one of the nation’s most-listened-to NPR stations. Prior to joining WUNC, he managed WBFO-FM in Buffalo, NY, and KALX-FM in Berkeley, CA.

Davis earned the AB from Occidental College in Los Angeles, the MJ from the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley, and the MBA from the Kenan-Flagler School of Business at UNC-Chapel Hill. While in journalism school, he produced and edited reports for the statewide news operation at California Public Radio.

Bill Davis President & CEO, Southern California Public Radio

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Maury McIntyre leads the Television Academy as its president and chief operating officer, following a two-decade career as a senior executive and specialist in global brand/digital media marketing and entertainment franchise development. While McIntyre has been president, the Academy has launched online voting and viewing platforms for its annual Emmy competition, begun the rebuild and expansion of its NoHo Arts District campus, and extended member, student and educational outreach. Prior to being named president of the Television Academy, McIntyre served as vice president of digital, overseeing digital initiatives and content development for all Academy activities, including the Primetime Emmy Awards. McIntyre elevated the Academy's digital presence with an award-winning new website and a major content distribution partnership with Yahoo. His focus on social media tripled the Academy's reach in that area, and his expansion of the organization's digital content around the Primetime Emmys helped secure and augment partnerships with companies like Audi, Chase Sapphire, McDonald's, Samsung and Target. Before joining the Television Academy, McIntyre was vice president of Programming and Editorial for Disney Interactive, where he was responsible for site content and development across the entire Disney.com network of sites, including the award-winning sites for such Disney franchise properties as Cars, Toy Story, Mickey Mouse, Winnie the Pooh, Disney Princess and Disney Fairies. Under his direction, the company won multiple Webby Awards in 2011 and 2012 for excellence in website design, content and usability, and realized significant growth in online traffic and engagement. Prior to Disney Interactive, McIntyre held senior-level leadership roles in brand marketing and franchise development at Tokyopop and Twentieth Century Fox. His efforts for Tokyopop launched a new animated series on Cartoon Network and secured partnerships with Hasbro, Radio Shack, and Best Buy. At Twentieth Century Fox, McIntyre oversaw global consumer product and franchise marketing programs for all of Fox's television properties. He was instrumental in the global re-launch of The Simpsons as a major consumer products brand, generating tremendous brand growth with partners such as Kellogg's, Mattel, PepsiCo, and others.

Maury McIntyre President & COO, Television Academy

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Sameer Deen is senior vice president, digital, at Univision. He is responsible for establishing and leading the digital strategy to reach new audiences by enhancing the user experience across UCI’s growing digital and mobile portfolio, expanding digital offerings and maximizing digital-linear TV integration. He reports to Isaac Lee, president of news and digital for UCI and CEO of Fusion.

A seasoned executive with extensive experience in new media development and corporate strategy, Deen was most recently senior vice president of Multiplatform Distribution and Strategy for Scripps Networks Interactive (SNI), where he led digital video distribution efforts. He was also founding president of CityEats and senior vice president of Corporate Development, helping SNI establish its international presence. Earlier in his career he served as director, New Media for NBC Universal and director of Financial and Strategic Planning for NBC Universal Networks.

Deen was recently honored by the National Association for Multi-Ethnicity in Communications with its prestigious Luminary Award and has been recognized by Cablefax in the magazine’s “Most Influential Minorities in Cable” list. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Commerce, with distinction, from McGill University in Montreal.

Sameer Deen Senior Vice President, Digital, Univision

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Brett A. Pulley is an executive vice president, director of corporate content and senior media strategist at Weber Shandwick, one of the world’s leading communications firms. His work includes writing op-eds and speeches for corporate executives, issues and crisis management, developing communications marketing content, and overseeing various other content-related projects.

A veteran journalist, author and educator, he most recently served as dean of the Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communications at Hampton University, a 148-year-old historically black university in southeastern Virginia, with nearly 5,000 students. In that role, he operated a school with 400 student majors and managed a faculty and staff of 25. After assuming the deanship in 2012, Pulley introduced several initiatives to the Scripps Howard School, including a Center for Innovation in Digital Media, a national symposium on diversity in digital media, a business and financial newsroom, an evening television and radio news program produced by students, a new lecture series and new television productions, and a magazine for Scripps Howard alumni. He raised more than $1 million in gifts and grants, enhanced facilities inside the school, and increased freshmen enrollment an average of 10% each year. Under his leadership, an advisory board comprised of global media leaders was established, and student internships and job placements at global media companies more than doubled. In 2014, he guided the Scripps Howard School through a successful reaccreditation conducted by the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications.

Prior to becoming dean at Hampton, Pulley spent three years covering the media and entertainment industries at Bloomberg L.P., the global information services, news and digital media company. His work there appeared regularly on the company's wire service and website, and inside Bloomberg BusinessWeek magazine. He also appeared frequently on Bloomberg Television, providing commentary and insight into media industry news.

Formerly a senior editor at Forbes Magazine, Pulley authored many cover stories for the magazine on topics ranging from the legendary Hollywood studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, to the entertainment giant, The Walt Disney Co. Prior to joining Forbes in 1999, Pulley spent five years at The New York Times, as a national correspondent, and as a local reporter covering politics and economic development. His work at The Times was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Pulley also spent five years as a correspondent at The Wall Street Journal, where he was based in Chicago and New York, covering the airline industry and national urban affairs.

Brett A. Pulley Executive Vice President, Director of Corporate Content and Senior Media Strategist Weber Shandwick

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Pulley has served as the president and chief executive officer of NewYork.com, an internet company dedicated to tourism and entertainment. In this capacity, he was responsible for a website with over 150,000 visitors and 500,000 page views each month, providing hotel and restaurant reservations, transportation services, tours, and tickets to concerts, Broadway shows and sports events.

He has received numerous journalism awards, including two first place annual prizes from the National Association of Black Journalists. Pulley has appeared frequently as a guest on television programs, providing commentary and insight on media and entertainment industry issues. He has appeared on CNN, CNBC, and MSNBC, and has discussed the finances of celebrities on Entertainment Tonight, Showbiz Tonight, Inside Edition, Access Hollywood, CBS’s “48 Hours,” and NBC’s “Dateline.”

A native of Washington, D.C., Pulley has a bachelor’s degree from Hampton University, and a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University. He is on the board of The Bridge Golf Learning Center in New York, and on the advisory board of Trace USA, a global urban media company. He served for several years as a member of the board of trustees at Hampton University, and is a member of the board of The Andre Gist Memorial Scholarship Foundation. Pulley is the author of “The Billion Dollar BET” (John Wiley & Sons, April 2004), a book that takes an in-depth look at Black Entertainment Television and its founder, Robert L. Johnson. Pulley lives in New Jersey, with his wife, Stacey. They have two daughters, Zoe and Blake.

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As Executive Vice President of Programmatic, Ian Ferreira is charged with building the WideOrbit Ad Marketplace as well as the supporting cloud-based services of the WideOrbit Platform suite. Prior to joining WideOrbit, Ian was Director of Engineering at a Seattle based predictive analytics startup focusing on using distributed machine learning techniques for the financial industry. Spending a decade at Microsoft, Ian owned the Tools and Publishing platform for the new MSN.com and Bing Windows and Windows Phone apps. Prior to that Ian owned building the Windows Ads-in-Apps ad solution for Microsoft Display Advertising business. He led an engineering team focused on ad products for both the web and application platforms. Before this role, Ian served as the chief architect for the Microsoft Ad Exchange (formally AdECN) helping build out the first federated RTB exchange technology, marketplace design and business strategy for scaling to the entire volume of the Microsoft remnant inventory. Prior to focusing on Display, Ian led engineering teams working on Paid Search in Microsoft Bing Ads. His teams worked on products ranging from the redesign of the web user interfaces, the release of the first desktop client, external API frameworks to internal projects focused on developer efficiency and tooling. Ian began his career at Microsoft in 2004, working on building the internal Service Oriented Architecture management platform. Before joining Microsoft, Ian was a Senior Project Engineer with Ogilvy Interactive™ in New York working on top brands’ technology and advertising solutions after transferring from Ogilvy South Africa in 2001. Ian earned a bachelor's degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. He and his wife and 2 children live in Washington.

Ian Ferreira Executive Vice President, WideOrbit

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QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY STAFF

Mark Contreras is an experienced chief executive officer and media executive with 30 years in the media industry. Before being appointed Dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in August 2017, Mark served as chief executive officer of Calkins Media, Inc., a privately held, family-owned company based in Pennsylvania, which operated three ABC local affiliates, five daily newspapers and an extensive digital media operation with approximately 1,000 employees and roughly $100 million in revenues prior to its sale in mid-2017. A pioneer in the local media business, Calkins developed a presence on a variety of streaming device platforms including Roku, Amazon Fire and Apple TV. This OTT presence helped the local media brands extend their brand and also enabled Calkins to serve as an OTT app developer for other leading media companies, foundations and organizations. Prior to Calkins, Contreras managed the newspaper business of the E.W. Scripps Company in Cincinnati, Ohio, a publicly traded (NYSE:SSP), family-controlled company with newspaper and digital operations from South Carolina to Washington state. The newspaper division of Scripps employed 5,500 and generated $400 million in annual revenues. Previously, Contreras was responsible for Pulitzer Inc. Newspapers outside of St. Louis, Missouri, which had locations from Illinois to Hawaii as well as the company’s ownership interest of the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson, Arizona. The company was publicly traded (NYSE:PTZ) but family controlled. In this role, he managed 2,000 employees and one-half of the company’s cash flow. His media career began at Capital Cities/ABC, Inc., owner of the ABC Television Network, multiple local broadcast affiliates, a significant ownership of ESPN and many newspaper operations. Contreras devoted many years to numerous organizations serving the media industry, including the Inland Press Association, the Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers’ Association, the Scripps Howard Foundation, the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts, Cincinnati Public Radio, the American Press Institute (API) and the Newspaper Association of America (NAA). He served as chairman of both API and NAA in the past decade, which required

Mark Contreras Dean, School of Communications, Quinnipiac University

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board leadership on broad industry issues and testimony before federal governmental bodies. He currently serves on the boards of directors of Woodward Communications, Inc., in Dubuque, Iowa, an employee stock ownership company GFR Media, the largest media company serving San Juan, Puerto Rico, and Futuro Media, a leading producer of content focused on immigrant and Latino issues founded by journalist Maria Hinojosa. Contreras received a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Chicago in 1984, an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1988 and completed the Media Management Center program for Advanced Media Executives at Northwestern University in the late 1990s. He is a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute based in Washington, D.C., and Aspen, Colorado.

Lila Carney is the assistant director of advising and student development in the School of Communications and she is the point person for the school's advisory board. In her role, Lila assists students with academic planning and decision-making. She also works closely with students involved in the school's internship program both in the northeast as well as the Los Angeles program.

Lila began working at Quinnipiac University in 2010 as the assistant director of student media where she advised students involved with Quinnipiac’s multiple media groups, including the university newspaper, “The Chronicle;” the university television station, Q30; the university radio station, WQAQ 98.1-FM; The Summit yearbook; Montage, the university literary and art magazine; and the Quinnipiac Bobcats Sports Network.

She has also taught journalism as an adjunct instructor both at Quinnipiac and at SUNY Brockport.

Before coming to Quinnipiac, Lila worked for several years as a reporter and multimedia journalist in central and western New York. Most recently, she worked for the NBC and CBS affiliates in Syracuse, New York.

Carney holds a master’s degree in broadcast journalism from Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, and a bachelor’s degree in communication sciences from the University of Connecticut.

Mark Contreras (cont’d)

Lila Carney Assistant Director of Advising and Student Development in the School of Communications, Quinnipiac University