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past media guru speakers and events

Media Gurus, 2001—2012
(Titles, companies and descriptions listed at time of event)

2011/2012

1.26.12: Media Guru Bob Sauerberg

President, Conde Nast

12.08.11: Media Guru Vivian Schiller

Chief Digital Officer, NBC News

11.02.11: Media Guru David Carey

President, Hearst Magazines

9.08.11: Media Guru John Borthwick

CEO, Betaworks

2010/2011

5.02.11: Media Guru Evening: Steve Rosenbaum

"Curation Nation" Author

4.05.11: Media Guru Eric Hippeau

Former CEO, Huffington Post

3.29.11: Media Guru Evening Event: Tina Sharkey

Chair and Global President, BabyCenter

2.01.11: Media Guru Steven Waldman

FCC's Visionary Entrepreneur Explores "Future of  Media"

1.13.11: Media Gurus Brian Napack and Andrew Heyward

Traditional-to-Digital Experts Talk about Leading Core Businesses through Their Disruption

9.23.10: Media Guru Debra Lee

Chair and CEO, BET

2009/2010

6.15.10: Media Guru Tim Armstrong
Chair and CEO, AOL

4.29.10: Media Guru Roger Faxon
Chair and CEO EMI Music Publishing

3.25.10: Media Guru Mathias Dopfner
CEO, Axel Springer AG

2.16.10: Media Guru Breakfast: Jack Griffin
President, Meredith National Media Group

12.02.09: Media Guru Breakfast: Jodi Kahn
Executive Vice President, iVillage Network

11.17.09: Media Guru Breakfast: Chris Anderson
Author, Thinker, Wired Editor-in-Chief

11.04.09: Media Guru Breakfast: Craig Newmark
Founder of Craigslist

10.06.09: Media Guru Breakfast: Thomas Gensemer
Managing Director, Blue State Digital, Creators of BarackObama.com

9.17.09: Media Guru Breakfast: Strauss Zelnick
Board Chairman of Three Media Companies

2008/2009

6.04.09: Media Guru Breakfast: Glenn Britt
President and CEO, Time Warner Cable

4.21.09: Media Guru Breakfast: Tina Brown
Daily Beast Editor in Chief and Best-selling Author

3.25.09: Media Guru Breakfast: Jonah Bloom
Editor in Chief, Advertising Age

12.03.08: Media Guru Breakfast: Peter Sheinbaum
DailyCandy CEO

11.12.08: Media Guru Breakfast: Larry Burstein
Publisher and G.M. of New York Magazine

10.08.08: Media Guru Breakfast: Janet Robinson
C.E.O. The New York Times Company

2007/2008

• Norman Pearlstine, Chief Content Officer, Bloomberg
• Charles Goldstuck, President and COO of the Bertelsmann Music Group
• Deanna Brown, President, Scripps Interactive Group
• Susan Lyne, President and CEO, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia
• Richard Zannino, CEO, Dow Jones & Company
• David Zaslav, President and Chief Executive Officer, Discovery Communications
• Irwin Gotlieb, Global Chief Executive Officer of GroupM, the consolidated media assets of WPP: MAXUS, MediaCom Worldwide, Mediaedge:cia Global and MindShare Worldwide
• Andy Sareyan, President, Better Homes and Gardens / EVP Meredith Publishing Group

2006/2007

• George Kliavkoff, Chief Digital Officer, NBC Universal
• Philip S. Birsh, President & Publisher, Playbill, Inc.
• Tom Rogers, President and Chief Executive Officer of TiVo
• Sarah Chubb, President, CondéNet
• Scott Meyer, CEO, About.com
• John Squires, Co-Chief Operating Officer, Time, Inc.
• Arianna Huffington, Writer, Author, Co-Founder of Huffingtonpost.com

2005/2006

• Gregory Coleman, Executive VP, Global Advertising Sales, Yahoo
• Steve Murphy, President and CEO, Rodale
• Adam Klein, EMI Music's EVP of Strategy and Business Development
• Mary Berner, President and CEO, Fairchild Publications
• Mark Jung, President and CEO, IGN
• Jim Citrin, Spencer Stuart: Technology, Communications & Media and Board Services practices
• Betsy Frank, EVP, Research and Planning of Viacom
• Hugh Panero, President and CEO of XM Satellite Radio

2004/2005

• Kenneth W. Lowe, President and Chief Executive Officer, E.W. Scripps Company
• Jonathan Klein, President, CNN/U.S
• Jeff Housenbold, CEO, Shutterfly
• John Griffin, President, Magazine Publishing Group, National Geographic Society
• Jeffrey Bewkes, Chairman, Entertainment and Networks Group, Time Warner
• Cathleen Black, President, Hearst Magazines

2003/2004

• Publisher Donald Welsh and President, Eric Rayman, Budget Living
• Jessica Reif Cohen, Senior Media and Entertainment Analyst, Merrill Lynch
• Shelly Lazarus, Chairman and CEO, Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide
• Jonathan Knee, Senior Managing Director, Evercore
• Jim Casella, CEO of Reed Business Information
• Tom Ascheim, General Manager, Noggin/The N
• Todd Larsen, President, Consumer Electronic Publishing at Dow Jones

2002/2003

• Amy Banse, head of Programming Investments at Comcast
• Jon Miller, Chairman and CEO of AOL, Inc.
• Bob Garfield, AdAge columnist and NPR commentator
• Nora McAniff, Executive VP and Anne Jackson, Group President, both of Time, Inc.
• Bonnie Fuller, Editor-in-Chief of Us Weekly
• Stephen Colvin, President of Dennis Publishing, USA
• Michael Loeb, CEO of Synapse
• Michael Wolff, media columnist and author

2001/2002

• Phyllis Grann, former President and CEO of Putnam Penguin
• Jane Friedman, President and CEO of Harper Collins
• Tad Smith, President, Media Division Reed Business Information
• Judy McGrath, President, MTV Networks Music Group
• Kurt Andersen, entrepreneur, radio personality and author
• Dan Brewster, President of Gruner & Jahr, USA
• Henry Schleiff, Chairman and CEO of CourtTV

Quantum Highlights

Quantum Media, Paris, Hired by OECD

OECD Headquarters, Paris

The OECD headquarters in Paris' posh 16th arrondissement are a mixture of old and new. The 19th century Chateau de la Muette witnessed the signing of the Marshall Plan. The recent reconstruction of a neighboring 1970s office building yielded an eye-catching set of conference rooms designed by IM Pei, where policy makers and businessmen from the 30 OECD member countries - and beyond - gather to discuss the hot OECD issues in trade, taxation, energy, transport, agriculture and more.

The hot issue for Rory Clarke, the editor in chief of the OECD Observer, the organization's bimonthly magazine in English and French, was finding a new company to replace his long-standing publishing partner.

Rory turned to Quantum Media's Paris branch, which quickly identified some global ad sales representatives and editorial partners. The main responsibility was advertising sales, the lifeblood of the magazine, although paid subscriptions to corporations, governments, research centers and universities around the world add butter to the spinach.

Mediaside was quickly set up as the new operating partner, and the speed enabled the OECD to produce its planned issue on the MENA countries in time for a large ministerial conference in Marrakech, Morocco.

Quantum Media is now busy expanding the magazine's traditional advertising reach. The OECD Observer is expected to generate more ad revenue in 2010 than it did for all of 2008 and 2009 combined. The team is also working on the monetization of the Observer websites, which capture over 350,000 monthly page-views. Further projects in book licensing and events are also underway.

Proof that Quantum Media sets itself apart from other consultants by providing strategic thinking — and acting on it.

Quantum Highlights