Board Members

June 7, 2011

Larry Hackett
President
Managing Editor, People

Larry Hackett was named managing editor of People on January 4, 2006, overseeing all editorial operations for the weekly magazine.  He previously served as the magazine’s deputy managing editor.

With more than 43 million readers each week, People is widely regarded as the world’s most popular and successful magazine.  With Hackett at the helm, People and People.com were both nominated for National Magazine Awards in 2008.  Capell’s Circulation Report placed People #1 on its annual “Best Performers in Circulation” list in January 2008. In October 2007, People was ranked #5 on Adweek’s “Brand Leaders” list.  People was on both Ad Age’s “A-List” and Adweek’s inagural “Brand Blazers” list in 2006.  People ranked #1 on Adweek’s annual “Hot List” 2006 and Capell’s Circulation Report placed People #1 on its annual “Best Performers in Circulation” list in January 2006. People was named Advertising Age’s 2005 “Magazine of the Year” and also took the #2 spot on Mediaweek’s annual “Hit List” of industry leaders that year.

Hackett leads the editorial team based in New York City, as well as a network of reporters across the globe.  As deputy managing editor he strengthened the magazine’s celebrity and hard news reporting, helped develop the first editions of People’s Hollywood Daily, and served as the magazine’s primary spokesperson.  Hackett played an integral role in growing the weekly’s circulation vitality and retail momentum. 

Hackett came to People in 1998 as a senior editor. In 2001 he was named an assistant managing editor, overseeing the magazine’s entertainment coverage, and he was promoted to the post of executive editor in August 2003. 

Prior to joining People, Hackett worked for more than eight years at the New York Daily News as a national reporter, entertainment reporter and features editor. He began his career in New Jersey at the Morristown Daily Record and subsequently the Newark Star-Ledger. 

A graduate of Boston University, Hackett currently lives with his wife and two children in Brooklyn.

Peggy Northrop
Vice President
International Editor-at-Large, Reader's Digest

Peggy Northrop was named editor-in-chief of Reader’s Digest, the largest-paid circulation magazine in the U.S. with 38 million readers, in November 2007.  Previously, Northrop served as editor-in-chief of More magazine and had a distinguished career in senior editorial positions at leading magazines, including Glamour, Vogue, Real Simple, Redbook and Health.

Under Northrop’s editorial leadership, Reader’s Digest was nominated for an American Society of Magazine Editor’s prestigious “Ellie” award for General Excellence in its circulation category.

During her tenure with More, the magazine earned many of the magazine industry’s most coveted honors.  It was named Advertising Age’s 2008 Magazine of the Year and nominated for a National Magazine Award for General Excellence.  The title was named to the Adweek “Hot List” in 2006 and 2007, Advertising Age’s 2007 and 2005 “A List” of Top 10 magazines.

Prior to More, Northrop was editor-in-chief of Rodale’s Organic Style. She began her career in newspapers, including the San Francisco Examiner.

Northrop has been recognized with numerous awards for her work and service to the community.  In 2006, The National Breast Cancer Coalition awarded her its inaugural “Women Who Get It Right” award.  In 2003, MIN named her to its “21 Most Intriguing People” list.

She has been a regular contributor to The Today Show, the CBS Early Show and PBS’s To the Contrary, as well as the XM radio show MoreTime.  She serves on the Board of Directors of the American Society of Magazine Editors, and is active with the international humanitarian organization, CARE.

Northrop has a B.A. degree from the University of California, Berkeley.  She lives in Brooklyn, N.Y. with her husband and daughter.

Lucy Danziger
Secretary
Editor-in-Chief, Self

Lucy Danziger has been editor-in-chief of SELF magazine for seven years, during which time she has helped grow the well-being and lifestyle title to a total readership of 6.5 million. UnderDanziger’s direction, Self.com regularly receives 8 million page views per month.
 
In 2007, Danziger oversaw a team of SELF editors to create the book 15 Minutes to Your Best Self, published by Gotham Books, a Penguin imprint. Her first independent book project, The Nine Rooms of Happiness co-authored by Dr. Catherine Birndorf, will be published in 2010 by the Voice imprint of Disney’s Hyperion publishing.
 
Under Danziger’s editorship, SELF received its first National Magazine Award from the American Society of Magazine Editors, in the Personal Service Category for the 2006 Breast Cancer Handbook. SELF received a total of 7 nominations in 6 years including the Personal Service Online category in 2007, for the SELF Challenge at Self.com, the Public Interest category in 2004, for “Pharmacy Fakes,” a consumer investigation that inspired a “60 Minutes” story, and the Essay category for 2003’s “I Gave up my Breasts to Save my Life” and 2002’s “The Big Fat Problem,” an article on the obesity epidemic in the United States.
 
Danziger currently serves as Treasurer on the board of the American Society of Magazine Editors. The American Legacy Foundation honored Danziger with their 2007 Leadership in Media award for her outstanding work in raising awareness about the effects of smoking, and informing and educating millions of women about the importance of preserving their health and well-being.
 
Before joining SELF, Danziger was the founding editor of Women’s Sports & Fitness, which launched in October 1997.  Women’s Sports & Fitness was nominated for a National Magazine Award in the Special Interest Category in 1998, the magazine’s only year of eligibility. The magazine ceased publication in 2000 with a circulation of 650,000. 
 
Danziger has worked for The New York Times, Allure and 7 Days, and written for The New York Times, Vogue, Outside, Condé Nast Traveler, Skiing and Allure. As a well-being lifestyle expert, she is a regular guest on television shows including Today and Good Morning America.
 
Danziger graduated from Harvard in 1982. She lives in Manhattan with her husband and two children.

Rosemary Ellis
Treasurer
Editor-in-Chief, Good Housekeeping

Rosemary Ellis was appointed editor-in-chief of Good Housekeeping in July 2006.

Prior to joining Hearst, Ellis was senior vice president and editorial director of Prevention magazine. At Prevention since 2003, she played an integral role in turning the magazine around, garnering a National Magazine Award nomination from the American Society of Magazine Editors for “General Excellence” in 2006 and landing the publication on the prestigious Advertising Age “A-List” in 2005. She also directed the re-launch of the magazine’s Web site, Prevention.com, which produced a 123 percent jump in traffic in 2005.

At Good Housekeeping, Ellis oversees all content for the magazine, which reaches 25 million readers each month; Good Housekeeping’s highly-trafficked Web site (www.goodhousekeeping.com); and the venerable Good Housekeeping Research Institute, which opened a state-of-the-art new, 17,000 square-foot facility in summer 2006. The Good Housekeeping Research Institute, founded in 1900, is the consumer product testing facility that evaluates products appearing in the magazine’s articles and advertisements. The Good Housekeeping Seal, established in 1909, is a highly recognized statement of the magazine’s renowned Consumers’ Policy, which, states that if a product bearing the Seal proves to be defective within two years of purchase, Good Housekeeping will replace the product or refund the purchase price. Thousands of products are covered by the Good Housekeeping Seal.

Previously, Ellis served as a consultant to Real Simple and the AOL Web Properties division. Prior to that, she was founding web site director and executive editor of Expedia Travels. She also was executive editor of Time Inc. Interactive and Time Inc. New Media, where she oversaw a group of 14 Web sites, with 22 million weekly page views.

Earlier in her career, Ellis held senior editorial positions at Working Woman, Self and Travel & Leisure magazines.

Chris Anderson
Editor-in-Chief, Wired

Chris Anderson is editor-in-chief of Wired magazine, a position he took in 2001. During his tenure, the magazine has been nominated for nine National Magazine Award nominations and has won the prestigious top prize for general excellence three times (2005, 2007 and 2009). At the end of 2009, AdWeek honored this consistent record of success by naming Wired “Magazine of the Decade”. 

Anderson is the author of The New York Times best- sellers, The Long Tail and FREE: The Future of a Radical Price. He is also one of the founders of Booktour.com, a free online service that connects authors on tour with potential audiences. In April 2007, Anderson was named to the "Time 100," the news magazine's annual list of the most influential people in the world.
 
Previously, Anderson was at The Economist, where he served as U.S. business editor, Asia business editor and technology editor. Anderson's media career began at the two premier science journals, Nature and Science, where he served in several editorial capacities. Anderson holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from George Washington University and studied Quantum Mechanics and Science Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley.

Amy DuBois Barnett
Editor-in-Chief, Ebony
 
Amy DuBois Barnet, editor-in-chief of Ebony magazine, is an award-winning media executive, writer and brand architect. She is the author of an NAACP Image Award-nominated advice book for black women, Get Yours! How To Have Everything You Ever Dreamed Of And More (Doubleday/Broadway Books, 2007).  Most recently, she was the deputy editor-in-chief of Harper’s Bazaar. Prior to Harper’s Bazaar, Barnett was the managing editor of Teen People, entering history books as the first African-American woman in the country to head a major mainstream consumer magazine.

With Barnett’s critically acclaimed redesign, Teen People grew to lead the teen category in audience (14 million). Barnett’s editorial mix resonated with readers, bringing Teen People reader satisfaction scores to their highest levels since its launch. Her groundbreaking redesign of TeenPeople.com made it the first website to incorporate video into its regular content, and led to a 26% increase in unique visitors and a 63% increase in page views. She also implemented the brand’s first mobile initiative.

Prior to Teen People, Barnett served as editor-in-chief of Honey magazine for nearly three years where she oversaw a major redesign of the magazine that, subsequently, doubled its rate base from 200,000 to 400,000.  She also launched Honeymag.com and integrated the brand’s online and print content.  Before Honey, Barnett was with Essence, heading up the magazine’s largest department and top-editing major features. She was also a founding editor of the first comprehensive luxury style website, FashionPlanet.com, and its sister magazine, Fashion Almanac.

Barnett has appeared weekly as an on-air correspondent for CNN’s 90 Second Pop on American Morning and has been featured on numerous national television shows including The Today Show, Good Morning America, The Early Show, Paula Zahn and on various programs on VH1, MTV and BET. Barnett was also a regular on-air contributor to NPR’s News and Notes program.

A Brown University graduate, Barnett also has an M.F.A. degree in Creative Writing from Columbia University. She is a published author whose fiction has appeared in various journals and anthologies. Barnett is vice-chair of the editorial board of the Brown Alumni Monthly magazine and a board member of Girls Inc. of New York.

Through her activism and volunteer work, Barnett received the Beacon Award from the National Coalition of 100 Black Women, a non-profit organization that recognizes the achievements of socially conscious female leaders. Barnett has received the Trailblazer Award from the New York Association of Black Journalists, an Aldo award for fashion journalism from the Fashion Association, and a Hurston/Wright award for creative writing.

She currently lives in Chicago, IL with her husband and son.

James Bennet
Editor-in-Chief, The Atlantic

James Bennet is The Atlantic’s fourteenth editor-in-chief. He began his tenure in 2006.

Before joining The Atlantic staff, Bennet was the Jerusalem bureau chief for The New York Times. During his three years in Israel, his coverage of the Middle East conflict was widely acclaimed for its balance and sensitivity. His much-lauded long-form writing for The New York Times Magazine was responsible for catching the eye of Atlantic Media chairman David Bradley during his year-long search for a new editor. Upon accepting the position, Bennet told a Times reporter that he saw the Atlantic job as “a chance to help, encourage and preserve the practice of serious, long-form journalism.”

Bennet is a graduate of Yale University who began his journalism career at The Washington Monthly. Prior to his work in Jerusalem, he served as the Times’ White House correspondent and was preparing to join its Beijing bureau when he was offered the Atlantic editorship.

Dana Cowin
Senior Vice President and Editor in Chief, FOOD & WINE

Dana Cowin, FOOD & WINE’s editor in chief since 1995, has been covering the world of food, wine, style and design for more than 25 years. Cowin oversees the FOOD & WINE brand, including a monthly magazine with a circulation of 925,000; digital products including the website foodandwine.com, mobile applications and iPad editions; and a books division, which publishes Best of the Best Cookbook Recipes, the FOOD & WINE Wine Guide, FOOD & WINE Cocktails and several other titles. She also serves as editorial advisor to FOOD & WINE China, the publication's first international edition.

Under her leadership, the award-winning magazine has attracted an audience of more than eight million readers with a passionate, adventurous approach to cooking, wine, entertaining, restaurants and travel. 

Before joining FOOD & WINE, Cowin was managing editor of Mademoiselle, managing editor of HG and an associate editor of Vogue.

Cowin is a member of the board of the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME). She is also an ardent supporter of several nonprofit groups working to bring nutritious food to all Americans in need: She is on the board of directors of City Harvest, a New York City hunger-relief organization, for which she spearheads the annual "Skip Lunch Fight Hunger" campaign, and also on the board of directors of Wholesome Wave Foundation, a charitable organization dedicated to providing access to locally grown, healthy, sustainable foods for all communities. In addition, she supports educational institutions as a member of Brown University's President's Leadership Council and a trustee of the Allen-Stevenson School in Manhattan.

Cowin appears frequently on national television and shares her eating and drinking adventures on Twitter @fwscout and on Facebook. She lives in Manhattan with her husband, Barclay Palmer, a global executive producer at Thomson Reuters, and their two children.

Ariel Foxman
Managing Editor, InStyle

Ariel Foxman was named editor of InStyle in September 2008 at the age of 34. He had been working on the title as Time Inc.'s editor at large, and has been an integral part of the brand's redesign and redevelopment.

Foxman rejoined InStyle after three years at Condé Nast where he was the founder and editor of Cargo, the men's shopping magazine. He launched the magazine at a rate base of 300,000. After 20 issues, it ceased publication with a rate base of 400,000. Prior to that, he spent four years at InStyle where he held various editorial positions, covering celebrity, films and trends.

Foxman began his career in publishing at Crown Publishers, a division of Random House. He paid his magazine dues as an assistant at both Details and The New Yorker, and has written about culture and travel for a number of magazines and newspapers including New York, The New York Times, and Fortune.

In 2004, he was honored by Out's “Out 100,” and in 2009 he made The Advocate’s “Forty Under 40” list. He appeared as himself on an episode of Gossip Girl in 2008.

Foxman graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College with a B.A. in English and American literature and the comparative study of religion. He grew up in Bergenfield, New Jersey where he mastered a Yeshiva education, grades K-12. His father is Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League since 1987. His mother Golda is a retired school teacher.

He and his partner Massimiliano Di Battista currently split their time between Manhattan and Brookhaven, L.I.

Sid Holt
Chief Executive, American Society of Magazine Editors

Sid Holt’s magazine career began in 1984, when he joined Rolling Stone as an assistant editor. Six years later, Holt was named managing editor, the chief editorial position at Rolling Stone. During Holt’s seven years as managing editor, Rolling Stone received four National Magazine Award nominations for General Excellence and won the award in 1998. From 1995, Holt was also editorial director of Us Magazine; in 1996 he was named vice-president of Wenner Media.

From 1998 to 2004, Holt was editor-in-chief and executive vice-president of Adweek Magazines, guiding the editorial direction of Adweek, Brandweek and Mediaweek, the leading newsmagazines and web sites on advertising, marketing and media. Holt was also the chief editor of Editor & Publisher, the Neal Award-winning “bible” of the newspaper industry, and oversaw the launch of Marketing y Medios, the first monthly magazine to cover Hispanic advertising, marketing and media in the United States.

In 2005, Holt was named editorial director of VNU Business Media, where he was the chief strategist and brand steward for 40 business magazines and nearly 200 digital publications, including Adweek, Billboard and The Hollywood Reporter. In 2008, Holt was appointed chief executive of the American Society of Magazine Editors, the principal organization for magazine journalists in the United States, which sponsors the National Magazine Awards in association with the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

The son and grandson of Methodist ministers, Holt grew up in northeast Missouri and suburban Chicago and studied English at Columbia University. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, the umbrella organization for more than 240 New York social-service agencies, and lives with his family in Westchester County.

Mark Jannot
Editorial Director, Bonnier Technology Group
Editor-in-Chief, Popular Science and Science Illustrated

Mark Jannot was named editor of Popular Science magazine in June 2004 and was promoted to editor-in-chief of both Popular Science and the newly launched Science Illustrated in August 2007. In June 2009, he was named editorial director of the Bonnier Technology Group, which includes Popular Photography, American Photo, and Sound & Vision, in addition to Popular Science and Science Illustrated. He also serves as editor-in-chief of PopSci.com. He joined Popular Science as deputy editor in January 2003.

Popular Science won the 2005 National Magazine Award for Best Magazine Section and the 2004 National Magazine Award for General Excellence (circulation between 1 million and 2 million), and was a finalist in 2009 in General Excellence and in 2004 in Feature Writing. Before coming to Popular Science, Jannot was executive editor of National Geographic Adventure, which he helped launch in April of 1999. During his tenure at NGA, the magazine was a finalist for nine National Magazine Awards, and won four, including General Excellence. Jannot has also been a senior editor and deputy editor at Men's Journal, where he edited the health, fitness, sex, and grooming departments (and where a three-part series he conceived and edited won a Personal Service National Magazine Award).

Prior to landing that job in 1996, he was a freelance magazine writer for nine years, and has written for Outside, Playboy, Runner’s World, Parenting, Men’s Health, Departures, Discover, Chicago, Mirabella, and many other magazines.

He is a member of the Board of Governors of the National Space Society and of the Advisory Board of the Discovery Science Channel, and has a BSJ and an MSJ from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.

He lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan with his wife and two sons. 

Christopher G. Johns
Editor-in-Chief, National Geographic

Chris Johns was named editor-in-chief of National Geographic in January 2005. He is the ninth editor of the magazine since its founding in 1888. Among his recent initiatives is an extensive redesign of the magazine to attract a new generation of readers. His editorial efforts have been recognized with nine National Magazine Awards from the American Society of Magazine Editors in the past five years. In 2010, National Geographic magazine won two inaugural Digital Media Awards, for best photography and best community. In 2009, the magazine won the award for photojournalism. In 2008, it won the top award for general excellence for a magazine with a circulation exceeding 2 million and the awards for photojournalism and reporting. In 2007, the National Magazine Award wins were for general excellence and photography, and in 2006 for online excellence. The magazine’s Web site, ngm.nationalgeographic.com, won a 2008 Webby Award for best magazine Web site. In October 2008 Johns was named editor of the year by Advertising Age magazine.

Born in Medford, Ore., Johns began his career in photojournalism after graduating from Oregon State University with a degree in technical journalism and a minor in agriculture. He worked as a teaching assistant while studying for a master’s in photography at the University of Minnesota. He joined the Topeka Capital-Journal as a staff photographer in 1975 and in 1979 he was named National Newspaper Photographer of the Year. In 1983, after three years on the Seattle Times as picture editor and special projects photographer, he embarked on a freelance career and worked for Life, Time and National Geographic magazines.

Johns became a National Geographic contract photographer in 1985 and joined the magazine staff in 1995. Before taking over as editor in chief, Johns served as senior editor for illustrations and associate editor. As a photographer, he produced more than 20 articles for National Geographic, eight of which were cover stories. His defining images are of Africa and its wildlife. He has taken readers down the Zambezi River, examined the Bushmen's ongoing struggle for cultural survival and provided important documentation of Africa's endangered wildlife. He was named one of the world’s 25 most important photographers by American Photo magazine in 2003.

Johns’ books include “Valley of Life: Africa’s Great Rift” (1991), “Hawaii’s Hidden Treasures” (1993) and “Wild at Heart: Man and Beast in Southern Africa” (2002). He wrote the foreword for “In Focus: National Geographic Greatest Portraits” (2004) and the introduction to the National Geographic book “100 Days in Photographs: Pivotal Events that Changed the World” (October 2007).

Johns lives on a farm in Virginia’s Blue Ridge mountains with his wife, Elizabeth, and their three children.

Sally Lee
Senior Vice President—New York Editorial Director, Meredith Corporation
Editor-in-Chief, Ladies' Home Journal

Sally Lee is a senior vice president at Meredith Corporation and the editor-in-chief of Ladies’ Home Journal. 

Sally has had a long and successful career in women’s magazines. Before joining Ladies’ Home Journal, she was the editorial director of Parents and served as editor-in-chief at both Fitness and YM. She has also held top editorial positions at Redbook and Woman’s Day.  Sally is a board member of the American Society of Magazine Editors, and in 2009 was inducted into its Editorial Hall of Fame. She has made frequent appearances on the Today show, Live With Regis and Kelly, CNN’s Headline News and Good Morning America. Sally is also the author of two books: The Best Advice I Ever Got and It Worked for Me!

Sally’s commitment extends beyond the pages of magazines. She plays an active role in many charities, especially CARE, a humanitarian organization dedicated to eliminating world poverty by empowering women and girls, and VOSH, Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity. Sally has traveled on five medical missions with VOSH, including trips to Nicaragua and Haiti.

She graduated from Durham University, in England, and received her master’s degree from Clark University, in Worcester, Massachusetts. Sally lives in Westchester, New York with her husband and two daughters.

James B. Meigs
Editor-in-Chief, Popular Mechanics

James B. Meigs was named editor-in-chief of Popular Mechanics in May 2004. Since his arrival, he has deepened the magazine’s century-long commitment to covering the important scientific and technological issues of the day. He has also bolstered the magazine’s mission of helping men achieve hands-on competence in all the technological challenges of their lives, including home, auto, outdoors and electronics.

Under his tenure, PM has devoted extensive coverage to vital issues including national security, environmental concerns and alternative energy. PM was the first major media outlet to fact-check —and decisively debunk— the burgeoning conspiracy theories surrounding 9/11. That investigation ultimately grew into the acclaimed book, Debunking 9/11 Myths, which the magazine published in 2006. Meigs also instituted the annual Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Awards, which highlight achievements in science and technology that promise to change the world for the better. Winners have included space and aviation visionary Burt Rutan and MIT nanotechnology pioneer Angela Belcher.

To help accomplish PM’s diverse mission, Meigs has recruited award winning writers, photographers and illustrators. He has also overseen a total re-launch of the magazine’s content-rich website, popularmechanics.com, to include hands-on videos and a top-rated weekly podcast. The reinvigorated Popular Mechanics brand is showing enormous vitality, enjoying strong increases in web traffic as well as growing newsstand sales.

Prior to joining PM, Meigs had been executive editor of National Geographic Adventure. During his time there, the magazine won three National Magazine Awards. Previously, he served as editor-in-chief, vice president of Premiere from 1996 to 2000, and as a senior editor on the team that launched Entertainment Weekly. From 1987 to 1989 he edited the home technology magazine Video Review. He has also written articles for magazines including Rolling Stone, Outside and Details, as well as a technology column for Popular Mechanics.

Kaitlin Quistgaard
Editor-in-Chief
Yoga Journal

Kaitlin Quistgaard serves as editor in chief of Yoga Journal, the world’s most widely read yoga magazine, with eight international editions. Offering ongoing inspiration to the 16 million Americans who say they practice yoga today, Yoga Journal recently launched video versions of its most popular instructional departments, available to print readers in a special LiveMag section on YogaJournal.com. Prior to Yoga Journal, which she joined in 2003, Quistgaard was a senior editor at Salon.com and at Wired News, as well as a frequent contributor to Wired. She began her journalism career in Argentina, where she worked as a reporter for a local newspaper, an editor at a bilingual magazine, and a regular contributor to Time, the Miami Herald, and the Sunday Times of London.

Gael Towey
Chief Creative and Editorial Director, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia

Gael Towey is chief creative and editorial director for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. She oversees the company’s design and creative teams and is responsible for the editorial operations of Living, Whole Living, Martha Stewart Weddings and Everyday Food magazines which together reach nearly 20 million readers each month. MarthaStewart.com and MSLO’s family of websites have a monthly average of 4.5 million unique visitors and 92 million page views.

Towey began working at Martha Stewart Living in 1990 as founding art director. She designed the inaugural issue of the magazine, creating the magazine’s distinct and iconic visual style. Over the years, Towey has held numerous positions at MSLO, including a stint as acting editor-in-chief of Living, from January to December 2009.  Most recently, she was the driving force behind “Boundless Beauty,” a special issue of Martha Stewart Living magazine created for the iPad and featuring original and interactive content. It became the number one paid app on the App Store immediately after its launch; it was also recognized by Time magazine as one of the top 10 magazine covers of 2010 and the Society of Publication Designers named it the “Best App of the Year.”  “Boundless Beauty” served as the prototype for the digital issues of Living and Everyday Food, which began publishing monthly in early 2011. Towey has also spearheaded the development of several popular single subject apps, including Martha Makes Cookies, Martha Stewart Cocktails, and Martha Stewart Smoothies apps for the iPad.

Under Towey’s creative direction, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia has won numerous awards, including five prestigious American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) Awards for General Excellence, Design, and Photography. The company’s digital properties have also been honored, most recently with a Webby Award for MarthaStewart.com in 2011. In 2009, Towey was inducted into the MIN Editorial Hall of Fame. She was also part of the Martha Stewart Living publishing team that Adweek magazine named “Executive Team of the Year” in 2006.

Earlier in her career, Towey was the design director for House and Garden magazine, art director for Clarkson N. Potter Publishers, and a designer for Studio Books, Viking Press.

A graduate of Boston University, Towey lives with her husband and two children in Greenwich Village. She currently serves on the Dean’s Advisory Board of the Boston University College of Fine Arts and is working on a book about creating the Martha Stewart brand.

Josh Tyrangiel
Editor, Bloomberg Businessweek

Josh Tyrangiel was appointed editor of Bloomberg Businessweek in November 2009.

Prior to joining Bloomberg Businesweek, Tyrangiel was deputy managing editor of TIME magazine and managing editor of TIME.com. He played a critical role in shaping the magazine's business, technology and political coverage while managing the magazine's staff. He also oversaw publication of the Time 100, the magazine's most profitable annual issue, and the 2009 Michael Jackson memorial issue.

Under Tyrangiel's leadership, TIME.com reached an estimated 1.8 billion page views in 2009, up from 400 million page views in 2006. The Web site was named Best Magazine Web Site by MPA-The Association of Magazine Media for the past two years and was named a finalist for General Excellence Online in the 2009 National Magazine Awards competition.

Tyrangiel joined TIME in 1999, holding various positions including assistant managing editor, national editor, and London correspondent. During his decade-long tenure, he wrote more than a dozen TIME cover stories, including the 2005 "Person of the Year" feature on Bono.

He began his journalistic career at Rolling Stone and Vibe magazines and MTV Networks. As a news producer for MTV, he worked on the Peabody Award-winning "Choose or Lose" pro-democracy campaign that encourages young people to register to vote.

Tyrangiel received a M.A. in American Studies from Yale University and a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania.

Mimi Valdés
President, Mimi Media Inc.
Co-Founder, Kidult.com

Mimi Valdés is an award winning editor-in-chief/editorial director, accomplished entrepreneur and noted speaker. In January 2010, Valdés partnered with Grammy Award-winning producer, Pharrell Williams, to create and launch Kidult.com—a news and entertainment website. As an extension of the Kidult brand, Valdés and Williams launched the Kidult Youth Leadership Conference in June 2010 to provide kidults with the tools and resources needed to be today's next generation of global leaders.

Prior to Kidult.com, Valdés served as editor-in-chief/editorial director of Latina at Latina Media Ventures. the only lifestyle magazine for bicultural Latin women in the United States published in English. While at Latina, Valdés is credited with reducing costs by over 30%, increasing digital revenue by over 35% and markedly raising Latina's visibility with readers, advertisers, celebrities and investors.

Prior to her tenure at Latina, Valdés established a progressive career at Vibe/Spin Ventures that spanned over thirteen years. She began her career as an editorial assistant at Vibe in 1993. She was promoted to assistant editor in 1995, style editor in 1997 and in 1998 she was tapped to help launch Blaze, a hip-hop music and culture publication with 450,000 circulation and 3 million readership. Within two short years at Blaze she was promoted twice: first as managing editor, next as editor-in-chief. Then, in 2000 she was named to the executive editor post at Vibe and in 2003 became editor-in-chief.

Valdés holds a B.A. in Journalism from New York University. She currently serves on the boards of the American Society of Magazine Editors and the Bronx Global Learning Institute for Girls and is affiliated with a number of professional associations including the National Association of Hispanic Journalists and the Council of Urban Professionals.

 David Willey

Ex-officio
Senior VP, Editor-in-Chief, Runner’s World;
Editorial Director, Bicycling, Running Times

David Willey, a senior vice-president of Rodale, is the editor-in-ehief of Runner’s World and the editorial eirector of Running Times. He joined Runner’s World in 2003 and oversaw its award-winning redesign in 2004. Since then, the magazine has had the five most successful years in its 42-year history. Runner’s World has earned seven National Magazine Award nominations, including its first-ever nominations for General Excellence, and eight of its feature stories have appeared in The Best American Sportswriting. In 2005, the magazine was named to the Advertising Age “A-List” and ranked #1 on the Adweek “Hot List” (10 Under 50).

In 2006, Willey assumed editorial oversight of runnersworld.com. After a redesign in 2007, traffic has more than doubled, to 1.5 million unique visitors and 19 million page views per month. Runnersworld.com is now the most popular running-related site on the web, and it has earned several publishing-industry honors, including a 2008 National Magazine Award for General Excellence, and three MPA Digital Award nominations (two for Website of the Year).

Prior to joining Runner’s World, Willey spent more than eight years at Men’s Journal, starting as an assistant editor in 1995. He worked with award-winning writers such as Hampton Sides, Mark Bowden, Mark Levine, P.J. O’Rourke, Bruce McCall, Philip Caputo, Sean Flynn, and David Samuels. While serving as executive editor, he edited Wild Stories, an anthology published in conjunction with Men’s Journal’s tenth anniversary.

Willey has made dozens of television appearances and for the past two years has worked as the on-course reporter for NBC’s broadcast of the New York City Marathon, where he conducted live on-the-run interviews with Lance Armstrong and other runners.

Willey joined the board of directors of the American Society of Magazine Editors in 2006 and currently serves as ASME’s president. He graduated from Williams College in 1989 and received a master’s dedgree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in 1992. He lives in Pennsylvania with his wife and three children.