President, The James G. Elliott Co.
Jim Elliott has over 40 years experience in the advertising industry. Before founding his own national media sales company in 1984, he held numerous executive positions, including director of field services at CBS Magazines and western advertising manager for Road & Track Magazine...
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Assistant Professor, Magazine Innovation Center at the University of Mississippi's Meek School of Journalism and New Media.
The Meek School of Journalism and New Media at The University of Mississippi
Samir “Mr. Magazine” Husni is the founder and director of the Magazine Innovation Center at the University of Mississippi’s Meek School of Journalism and New Media. He is also Professor and Hederman Lecturer at the School of Journalism and President and CEO of Magazine Consulting...
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Chairman and CEO, Meredith Corporation
Managing Director, Market Analytics Project, LLP
A twenty-year veteran of the newsstand industry, working for a small wholesaler – Independent Direct Distributors – in the 1990s and for the Meredith Corporation in the 2000s. His newsstand successes include the Dollar Tree Program, Family Circle’s 75th Anniversary multi-platform...
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Publisher & CEO, Conscious Dancer Magazine
Mark Metz is the founder of the Dance First Association, and publisher of Conscious Dancer magazine, founded in 2007. Since then, the term 'conscious dance' has become the catch-all phrase used by holistic movement and dance fitness professionals around the world, and Conscious Dancer...
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Assistant Professor of Multiple Platform Journalism, Meek School of Journalism and New Media at the University of Mississippi
Darren Sanefski is an Assistant Professor of Multiple Platform Journalism at the Meek School of Journalism and New Media at the University of Mississippi. He recently received an RFK Journalism Award for "M-Powered" a magazine he designed, which detailed the students’ service experience...
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Principal, Next Steps Marketing
M. Thea Selby is a Principal in
Next Steps Marketing, a San Francisco boutique firm that solves audience-building challenges in creative, customized way using practical "call-to-action" marketing techniques where the return is clearly measurable by clicks, online sign-ups, responses to direct mail, orders from partners, or sales at...
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Managing Editor, Fortune
As managing editor of FORTUNE, Andy Serwer is responsible for overseeing FORTUNE magazine and FORTUNE.com, with a combined audience of more than 11 million readers, as well as FORTUNE digital media and FORTUNE’s conferences. He was named managing editor of FORTUNE in October 2006...
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Publisher, Covey Rise
John Thames is Covey Rise’s Publisher, CEO, and Editor in Chief. “My goal with Covey Rise is to create a magazine that readers will enjoy many decades from now, and that means a 100# cover, 80# paper, perfect bound, with content generated from award-winning writers and photographers...
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President and Associate Publisher, Covey Rise
Kelly Waldrop is Covey Rise’s President and Associate Publisher. He brings a lifetime of publishing and sporting experience to the magazine. “I’ve been in publishing for most of my career but always wanted to create a clean, content-driven magazine. Our current model includes...
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Publisher, Food Network Magazine
Vicki Wellington was named launch publisher of Food Network Magazine, a joint venture of Hearst Magazines and Food Network, in October 2008. Powered by the electricity and magic of its celebrity chefs, Food Network Magazine has rocketed to success by bringing the excitement of the...
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