Michael serves as President of Atlantic Media and coordinates strategy, operations and growth initiatives across the company. Previously, Michael served as COO, CFO and SVP of Business Development and joined the company as Director of Digital Business Development and Analytics in early 2011 to build a corporate center of excellence focused on using digital analytics, partnerships, and emerging technologies as levers for financial and audience growth. Prior to his career in media, Michael spent 10 years as a management consultant with expertise in corporate growth and operations. He graduated from the University of Virginia with a B.A. in economics and has an MBA from the university’s Darden School of Business.

Pam Wasserstein has been the CEO of New York Media since May 2016, leading the premium content company on an ambitious expansion in several areas, including video, branded content, live events, and e- commerce, while growing audience and revenue at core brands New York Magazine, nymag.com, Vulture, The Cut, Daily Intelligencer, Grub Street, and The Strategist. During her time as CEO, New York has received six National Magazine Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, and been named Magazine of the Year by both Adweek and Ad Age; Wasserstein received a 2018 Spirit of ABNY Award recognizing distinguished service to New York City, and was named to Crain’s New York’s 40 Under 40 class of 2017.  She has spoken at SXSW and the American Magazine Media Conference, and on Time’s Up panels at the Tribeca Film Festival and Digitas NewFront, among other venues. Before becoming CEO, Wasserstein served as co-chair and head of strategy.

Prior to joining New York Media, Wasserstein worked at Tribeca Enterprises, most recently as vice-president, corporate development, spearheading new business initiatives. Before that she worked at Apollo Global Management, the private equity firm, where she evaluated potential investments and managed existing portfolio companies. She also worked for several years as a corporate lawyer at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz LLP.  She is the chair of the board at Spaceworks, a nonprofit cultural community development organization, and a board member of the Charles H. Revson Foundation. A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, she lives in Manhattan with her husband and two children.

As Co-Publisher, Debby Krenek is responsible for the strategic direction and development at Newsday and amNewYork with a particular emphasis on content and products on all platforms digital, mobile and print. She also has responsibility for content collaboration and digital development with News 12 including website and mobile products.

She also directs the legal department, IT and marketing and community outreach and works closely with her co-publisher on advertising sales.

Debby has been with Newsday since 2001 and has a staff of around 450 people across the various properties she manages. She was Editor of Newsday from Dec. 2009 to Nov. 2011.

Before coming to Newsday, Debby was the Editor-in-Chief at the New York Daily News and directed the Abner Louima coverage that won a Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1998.

She was also Chief Creative Officer at Petplace.com, the editorial partner with Pets.com and AOL pets.

Debby attended Texas A&M University, where she received a B.A. in journalism and marketing.

Jon Slade is the chief commercial officer for the Financial Times, based in London. In this role, Slade oversees the FT’s consumer subscriptions business, global advertising sales and operations, newspaper operations and the FT Specialist division. He is the FT’s first CCO, and he was appointed to the FT Group executive board in December 2014.

Slade chairs the management board of Alpha Grid and is a board member of Longitude, both recent FT acquisitions. He is also a board observer and advisor at Blendle, the dutch-based news aggregator.

During his time at the FT, Slade has overseen the successful shift in subscription strategy from the metered model to trials, contributing to the FT reaching its long-time goal of one million paying readers. He has led the development of new advertising products for FT.com and led the FT’s strategy for interaction with third party platforms. Notably, he pioneered the FT’s widely reported initiative to establish a time-based currency for digital advertising, CPH (Cost per Hour).

Under Slade’s stewardship the FT has won a number of media awards including International Media Company of the Year at both the 2018 and 2019 British Media Awards, Best Publisher Innovation at the 2018 Digital Trading Awards, and named to AdExchanger’s list of Top 10 Programmatic Publishers Of 2018.

Prior to his current role, Slade served as the FT’s B2C managing director, and before that, was the commercial director for global digital advertising and insight, where he spearheaded the overall strategic direction for the FT’s digital advertising business. In this role he also established the FT’s first Global Commercial Academy to drive learning and development for the advertising team.
Slade joined the FT in 2002 as technology client manager working with European technology and telecoms clients. In 2007, he built the FT’s strategic sales team – a global creative cross-platform advertising team.

He has been a board member of the IAB in London, an active participant with DCN in New York, a founding member of the Google Digital News Initiative, was selected for the Walpole Power List in 2019, and is a spokesperson for the FT on digital media strategies.

Catherine Levene is President and Chief Digital Officer of Meredith’s National Media Group, overseeing the company’s digital content and products, strategy, sales and operations. Meredith reaches more than 190 million American consumers every month, including nearly 95 percent of U.S. millennial women. Levene joined Meredith in 2019 as Chief Strategy Officer.

An accomplished digital media leader, innovator and entrepreneur with over 20 years’ experience building and scaling online companies. Levene has held CEO, COO and executive management roles in a variety of successful companies.  She has been on both sides of M&A transactions and has sat on numerous private
company boards.

Prior to joining Meredith, Levene co-founded Artspace Marketplace, a Phaidon Global Company, and served as its Chief Executive Officer.  Previously, she was Chief Operating Officer of DailyCandy, Inc. and spent over seven years at The New York Times Company as an executive in its Digital Media division. She also held strategy and business development positions at Showtime and early internet start-up Firefly.

Levene serves on the boards of directors of Business.com and on the executive committee of Digital Content Next. She has held similar roles at Rent the Runway and TheFind, and is an acting advisory board member of theSkimm.

Levene received a BA in history from the University of Pennsylvania and concurrently a BS in economics from the Wharton School of Business. She earned her MBA from Harvard Business School.

Jason is an award-winning digital executive, general manager, and product leader with co-management responsibility for Consumer Reports’ subscription model that has 6 million members and drives 90% of the organization’s revenue. In his role, he oversees product, user experience, engineering, strategic partnerships, project management, digital analytics, and overall strategy for all the company’s digital properties.

Over his career, he has a proven track record of launching new businesses, growing audiences, piloting business transformation, overseeing multimillion dollar P&L’s, and creating innovative B2C & B2B products for some of the world’s leading companies and organizations, such as Reuters, Time Warner, Columbia University, News Corporation, and PBS.

Jason was inducted into Folio’s Digital Hall of Fame for outstanding career-long contributions to digital media in 2019, and has won more than a dozen major industry awards. He is also an experienced entrepreneur, advisor, board member, speaker, judge, teacher, and panelist.

Jason earned his B.A. in political science from McGill University (Honors), a M.A. in political science from Simon Fraser University, and holds multiple business certificates.

Erica Carter is the CEO of Livingly Media, a digital-native portfolio of six brands which inspire, entertain, and celebrate women at all life stages. Among Livingly’s brands are shelter site Lonny, parenting site Mabel+Moxie, entertainment site Zimbio, and flagship women’s lifestyle site Livingly. Prior to her promotion to CEO in April 2017, Erica served as Livingly’s General Manager, and originally joined the company in 2013 as its first Head of Finance. During her tenure, she has overseen the company’s sale to Paris-based women’s lifestyle company aufeminin SA, creation and launch of two new media brands, and expansion into video and affiliate commerce businesses.

Erica has extensive finance and operational experience with consumer-oriented digital companies. Her prior work experience includes management roles at One Kings Lane and Williams-Sonoma, Inc., after beginning her career in the assurance and advisory practices of Ernst & Young LLP. She graduated with honors from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. After growing up with icy Philadelphia winters, she now lives in San Carlos, CA with her husband and two children.

Sean Mario is the Senior Vice President for Digital Revenue and Business Development at WebMD Health, the leading healthcare content provider network that services healthcare professionals, patients, and health-conscious consumers globally.

Sean oversees WebMD’s digital revenue delivery organization that includes sales operations, client delivery, and revenue recognition for all direct sales to the pharma, provider, and CPG business segments. Sean’s organization is also responsible for programmatic revenue, yield, and partnerships, along with all ad monetization product, technology, and data initiatives that support delivery and privacy-safe reach of patient and HCP audiences throughout the WebMD and Medscape supply chain.

Prior to this role, Sean served in a number of technology and operational capacities at WebMD since 2006. He was responsible for technology management of the Medscape publishing, registration, and site product roadmaps, as well as technology delivery for all advertising technology needs to support the entire business. He also was responsible for business process optimization of all offer to cash workflows, accountable for designing and executing operating models, automation, and technology partnerships that directly decreased time to market and established data-driven operations.

Previously, Sean was Manager at Accenture dedicated to the media & entertainment practice, servicing clients in the Northeast through strategic, management, and technology projects. Sean also worked at a few technology start-ups in the DC area after graduating from college before joining Accenture in New York.

Sean is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in International Relations. He lives in Allendale, NJ with his wife and three children.

M. Scott Havens is the Global Head of Digital for Bloomberg Media, Bloomberg L.P.’s global multi-platform media organization that comprises web, mobile, television, digital video, radio, print magazines and live events platforms.

Scott oversees Bloomberg’s global consumer digital initiatives, including digital product, user experience, partnerships, and overall digital strategy for the company’s websites, mobile apps, over-the-top platforms, and distributed content partnerships.

Prior to joining Bloomberg L.P. in November 2015, Scott was SVP, Digital at Time Inc., where he managed operations and drove the strategic development of digital products within the news, business, sports, and entertainment verticals, including People, Time, Sports Illustrated, Fortune,Entertainment Weekly and other titles. During his tenure, he oversaw U.S. traffic growth of almost 50%, while digital revenue eclipsed 50% (2014-2015) and the significant rebuilding of the digital teams, strategies, and desktop and mobile platforms across key Time flagship brands.

Previously, Scott was President of The Atlantic, overseeing all aspects of Atlantic Media’s flagship brand and playing a key role in the successful digital transformation of the 158 year old magazine into a profitable, global, multi-platform media company, including strategy and operational roles in the digital launches of The Atlantic Wire, CityLab, and Quartz.

He served as Executive Director, Condé Nast Business Media and a founder of innovative business site Portfolio.com. His team was responsible for business development, online marketing and analytics, and digital strategy. Scott formerly managed the business development team at Yahoo! Finance, where managed and negotiated business partnerships, in addition to playing a key role in strategic planning and business operations.

Scott is a graduate of Hamilton College with a BA in Economics and he received an MBA in finance from NYU’s Stern School of Business. He lives in New Canaan, CT with his wife and three children.

A 20-year veteran of the digital media industry, Jason Kint spent the past seven years leading the evolution of CBS Sports into a multi-platform brand offering premier broadcast, online and mobile sports content as SVP and General Manager of CBS Interactive’s Sports Division. During Jason’s tenure, CBSSports.com strengthened its leadership position in Fantasy Sports and the live streaming of major sports events by breaking industry records for audience, revenue and profit. Jason is recognized for leading the strategy to stream more than 22,000 live video events each year including March Madness Live, the largest live sporting event on the Internet, live online coverage of the Masters Tournament, live streaming of SEC college football and basketball, and Super Bowl XLVII, which set online viewership and social media records.

Jason has significant experience with growing diversified digital businesses including advertising, B2B and premium product revenues inside of newspaper, magazine, radio and TV companies. Prior to CBS, Jason served from 1996-2007 in various executive roles launching and leading the websites for Sporting News and all of Times Mirror Magazines’ flagship websites under the ownership of Times Mirror, Paul Allen and later Condé Nast. Jason has a deep passion for journalism and evolving venerable brands into their multi-platform digital future.

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