Lisa Gersh

David J. Pecker, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of American Media, Inc

Betsy L. Morgan served as the Chief Executive Officer of HuffingtonPost.com LLC from October 2007 to June 2009. Ms. Morgan served as the Senior Vice President for CBS Interactive and General Manager of www.CBSNews.com at CBS News Inc. Prior to that she served as the Vice President of CBS News in charge of business development, digital media and new television ventures. From October 2007 to June 2009, Ms. Morgan served as Chief Executive Officer of The Huffington Post, a leading news and opinion website. In addition to her experience in the media and communications industry, Ms. Morgan spent several years in investment banking while working in the media and entertainment group of Schroders, a global asset management company. Ms. Morgan worked in business development of CBS before taking the top post at CBSNews.com in 2005. She serves as a Director of CTPartners and Vertical Acuity. She has been a Director of Journal Register Company since February 2011 and served as its Member of the Advisory Board from March 2010 to February 2011. Ms. Morgan is credited as the leader of the team that grew the Huffington Post from a start-up to a serious game changer in the field of American journalism. Ms. Morgan is also a member of the national advisory board of the Poynter Institute. She has an M.B.A. from Harvard university. She received her BA in Political Science and Economics from Colby College.

Kelly Day oversees all operations for the recently combined Digital Media and Commerce division, including the company's U.S. websites; Interactive Technology; Digital Operations and Programming; and Licensing and Home Entertainment. Most recently, Day served as Chief Operating Officer of Discovery's Commerce division. Under her purview, DiscoveryStore.com became one of the most well-regarded e-commerce websites in the industry, recently named The E-tailing Group's best of the web for consumer experience. Also under Day's leadership, Discovery Commerce recently refocused its efforts on online commerce, expanded its product lines sold through mass-market retailers and outsourced its retail licensing business as part of a strategic realignment to better position the business for growth and success in the competitive retail market. Prior to joining Discovery in 2005, Day was vice president of e-commerce at The Knot, the leading wedding media company. She spent the previous seven years at AOL in a variety of digital media/commerce positions, most recently with AOL Shopping, where she developed new products for AOL's Shopping portal site.

Joanne Lipman was the founding Editor-in-Chief of Conde Nast Portfolio magazine and Portfolio.com website from 2005 to 2009.[1] Previously she was a Deputy Managing Editor of The Wall Street Journal, the first woman to hold that position.[2] She is a frequent television commentator on business issues, appearing on CNN, CNBC, CBS and other news outlets.[3] She has also contributed to the New York Times.[4][5] A native of East Brunswick, New Jersey, Joanne Lipman graduated from East Brunswick High School and summa cum laude from Yale University with a B.A. degree in history. While a student at Yale, she worked as an intern for The Wall Street Journal, which she joined as a staff reporter upon graduating in 1983.[6] After covering the insurance and real estate beats, she created and wrote the Journal's daily Advertising column from 1989 through 1992. She served as a Page One editor of the Journal from 1992 through 1996. In 1998, she created the Journal's popular Friday section, Weekend Journal.[7] She served as its Editor-in-Chief through 2000, when she was named a Deputy Managing Editor of the newspaper, the first woman to hold that post.[8] In 2002, she oversaw the creation of a new fourth section, Personal Journal. The New York Times described her role as the Journal's "innovator in chief."[9] In 2005, Lipman moved to Conde Nast to create Conde Nast Portfolio and Portfolio.com, a business magazine and website that launched in April 2007. The print magazine folded after 21 issues in May 2009.[10] The website, Portfolio.com, is now being run by a Conde Nast sister company, American City Business Journals. Lipman serves on the Yale University Council,[11] the Yale Daily News board of directors, and the Breastcancer.org advisory board.[12] She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She has served as a judge for the Pulitzer Prize and National Magazine Awards, among others.

Sharon Otterman is the Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of MSNBC. In this role, Otterman strategically leads the marketing activities of MSNBC, including spearheading all brand development initiatives, managing marketing communications as well as managing the promotional assets of the network. Otterman joins MSNBC from ESPN, where she most recently served as Vice President, Customer Experience, Strategy & New Media Marketing, leading the customer acquisition, brand development and positioning efforts for all digital products, including ESPN.com, Mobile, Broadband, and Customer Care. Otterman joined ESPN in 2003 as the Vice President, Integrated Media & Market Planning and was promoted to Vice President, Brand Development for ESPN in April 2006. Prior to joining ESPN, Otterman was vice president for Modem Media where she helped Fortune 500 clients plan and execute digital marketing programs and partnerships. For over 8 years, Otterman’s innovative approach to developing marketing strategies helped Modem's clients attain first mover status. Some examples of her out-of-the-box thinking include buying the first advertisement online, assisting in the first Russian newspaper online and developing the first industry contracts.  Otterman’s method for developing new media vehicles has been recognized in industry publications. Also, as Chairperson of the 4A's, she has helped set new industry standards. Prior to joining Modem, Otterman was with Ogilvy & Mather, where she was one of the original members of Ogilvy's non-traditional Media department. During her four-year tenure at Ogilvy, Otterman helped: develop the first interactive marketing programs for IBM, lead the AT&T Out of Home AOR, and create sports marketing programs for American Express and Sears. Otterman was graduated cum laude from Ithaca College with a Bachelor of Science degree.  Otterman is also a 2002 graduate of the Executive MBA Program at New York University. Sharon lives in New York City with her husband and twin daughters.

Two-time National Magazine Award winner Michael Wolff is the editorial director of e5's AdweekMedia, a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, and the founder of newser.com. His latest book is The Man Who Owns the News, a biography of Rupert Murdoch, based on nine months of interviews with Murdoch and his family and associates. His work has been widely anthologized and appeared in numerous publications, including New York magazine, where he was a long-time columnist. He has also been an entrepreneur involved with the start-up of many businesses, including, in 1993, his first Internet company. As an early Internet pioneer (an experience chronicled in his book Burn Rate), and student of the media, Wolff has witnessed and written about the revolution in news habits. The collapse of newspapers and the slow death of broadcast news have not meant the death of the news market, but rather a flight of consumers to other news platforms. News consumers want access to a wide range of news sources; they want this new wealth of information presented in an efficient and entertaining way; and they want technological tools to help them cut through the chaos of the web. Newser, launched in late 2007, is Wolff's effort to help invent the new news.