Kristin Heitmann is Chief Revenue Officer at Associated press.  Heitmann leads a division comprising AP’s sales, product, marketing and customer operations worldwide. She serves on the AP Management Committee and reports to President and CEO Daisy Veerasingham.

Prior to this role, recently Heitmann served as chief commercial officer for media and marketing solutions at Dow Jones, responsible for driving a turnaround in the company’s advertising business.

Prior to that she led large-scale strategic projects as chief transformation officer and previously oversaw revenue optimization for digital projects as the general manager of WSJ Digital.

Heitmann holds an undergraduate degree from Brown University, a master’s from the University of California-Berkeley, and a Master of Business Administration from New York University.

She fills the role left vacant by Veerasingham, who was promoted to executive vice president and chief operating officer in February and becomes president and CEO on Jan. 1, 2022.