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Westport, Ct

Founded TCG, a firm that specializes in operations, due diligence, and marketing consulting. Clients are a mix of traditional and new in the consumer, education and business markets. Services include interim sales and marketing management, operational and organizational reviews, business and marketing planning, creative and promotional plans, new product development and fundraising. Clients have included multimedia companies, private investors, internet start-ups, in-store, digital, out of home, and software companies such as:Press Point, Inc. New York, N.Y. 1998-2000--Co-Founder, President/CEO/COOLaunched and ran the first company to digitally distribute the most prestigious publications from around the world. Raised $25 million in private equity funding; secured content rights from more than forty publishers in twelve languages from around the world; successfully negotiated strategic partnerships with e-book publishers and Xerox, IBM and on-demand print sites worldwide and built a strong management team and global staff of 70.

Hartford, Ct

As part of the senior leadership team of this nonprofit public media organization, was responsible for all local and Connecticut statewide content teams and production including news, documentaries, sports, radio, television, social media and web programming. Lead the effort to reorganize and integrate legacy media and create new platforms such as www.wnpr.org and other creative initiatives and outcomes across multiple platforms.

Hartford, Ct

Started up and lead the 501c3 nonprofit Connecticut News Project, Inc. whose mission is to increase the level of civic engagement among state's residents. The Mirror is an award winning, independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization created to reinvigorate coverage of Connecticut's state government, public policy and politics. Operating and executive director duties included board relations, fundraising from foundations, individual donors and sponsors plus administration, HR, marketing, financial and technology. Diversified and grew the annual budget/funding from $500,000 to $1 million plus in two years.

Ct/Ny/Pa

An advisor to Plum since its inception in 1999 joined the $30 million venture capital firm as a partner in February 2001. Responsibilities included managing day to day operations of the fund, conducting deal due diligence, making investment decisions and managing internet portfolio companies. Activities included working with Plum investors, media companies, funds, recruitment firms, bankers, lawyers and senior media executives and board directors. In addition to holding board seats, intimate knowledge of each company and helping to build operating plans and budgets as well as developing client and partner relationships were key duties. Being “hands on” also assumed actively working at growing earned revenue as well as raising investment capital.

New York, N.Y.

Bottom line responsibility for $55 million division of The New York Times Company. Started the original interactive division of The New York Times. ISG included 150 editorial and business staff with offices in New York, Los Angeles and Paris and more than 2,500 customers and partners worldwide. Business units included NYT Business Information Services which re-purposed material via on-line services; The New York Times Syndicate which sold articles, photos and graphics to more than 2,000 media outlets around the world; The New York Times News Service, the world’s largest supplemental news service; NYT Custom Publishing, a start-up company that produced magazines for clients under contract; NYT New Media, creator of @Times, NYT Digital Photo Archives and other electronic products.

New York, N.Y.

As a Masthead Executive and Chief Marketing Officer managing a staff of 100, ran the newspaper’s $50 million marketing budget, strategic planning, production planning, research, promotion, marketing services, new business, new product development and advertising campaigns. • Led the marketing efforts for the newspaper’s major strategic initiatives including new media, national edition, the metro plan, new sections and section re-design, color and advertising-circulation pricing models, etc.• Produced both the consumer and trade advertising creative and media plans across all channels for New York and National market campaigns.• Created new print and digital media products including digital photo archives and programming partnerships with Time Warner’s NY News 1.

Responsible for more than $300 million in annual advertising sales and a staff of 100 sales people in New York and across the US. Advertising categories included travel, airlines, hotels, financial services, retail and commercial banks, entertainment, media, technology, telecommunications, automotive, package goods, pharma, insurance and healthcare.

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