Experience

Maroland high-performance team with 2012 “Leader in Excellence” trophy – awarded to just 14 companies out of 900 surveyed nationwide.

Prior Experience

In prior experience as Vice President Consumer Marketing of AMI/Weider Publications, leading a staff of 20 he was responsible for $58 million in revenue and $30 million in contribution generated by 20 periodicals, including weekly tabloids, monthly and bi-monthly magazines. He also served as Vice President, General Manager of Electronic News Publishing, where he was responsible for planning, budgeting, consumer marketing, research, financial reporting, and production of the newspaper. As a consultant to media companies world-wide his experience included acquisitions, division reorganizations, start-ups, raising investment capital, product line extensions, new customer acquisition and customer retention. Distinguished clients included: Abril, S.A., American City Business Journals, Brandt Publications, Conde Nast Publications, Grolier, Inc., Jobson Publishing, Micromedia Affiliates, Inc., Ogilvy & Mather Direct, OrangeGlow Products, Rodale Press, Southam Communications and Times Mirror Magazines. He is a veteran of several publication start-ups and repositionings, as well as launches of a consumer products company and a company that provided services to hospitals. He has also served as consultant to leading social profit organizations, including: Consumers Union, The Asia Society, The Council on Foreign Relations, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Assignments as a policy analyst have included: the U.S. Office of Education (Funding Elementary and Secondary Education, Pell Grants), the Baltimore Teachers Union, the Riverside Research Institute (Role of the Principal in Academic Achievement), the Public Education Association of the City of New York and the Metropolitan Applied Research Center (accountability in education, A Possible Reality: A Program to Upgrade Academic Achievement in Washington, D.C. Public Schools).

Haverford College (BA, Political Science)

Harvard University Graduate School of Education (Ed.M., Policy Analysis)

Harvard Business School (M.B.A.)