Morgan P. Guenther
President and CEO
Next Issue Media

Morgan Guenther is President and CEO of Next Issue Media, the digital publishing initiative of Condé Nast, Hearst, Meredith, News Corporation and Time Inc.

Joining the venture in June 2010, he brings deep entrepreneurial, management, legal and deal-making experience in the technology, wireless and digital media industries, where he headed and advised innovative companies rooted in Silicon Valley.

At Next Issue Media, he is responsible for executing the venture's mission to develop open standards for a new digital storefront and related technology that will allow consumers to enjoy their favorite media content on portable digital devices. Under Mr. Guenther, the venture intends to create incremental business opportunities for the magazine and newspaper publishing world, while delivering value across the entire industry ecosystem – including consumers, advertisers, publishers and distributors.

Before joining Next Issue Media, Mr. Guenther served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of AirPlay, a wireless entertainment services company. Prior to this position, he was with TiVo Inc., as President from 2001 through 2003 and before that as Vice President and Senior Vice President of Business Development and Revenue Operations.

Prior to his positions with AirPlay and TiVo, Mr. Guenther was a partner at Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker LLP, where he founded the firm's corporate and finance practice in San Francisco.

He sits on the boards of Integral Development Corp., a provider of automated liquidity and trading systems, and Tier Technologies, Inc., a provider of electronic payment solutions.

Mr. Guenther earned his B.A. and J.D. degrees from the University of Colorado and his M.B.A. from the University of San Francisco.

David Carey
Group President
Condé Nast

David Carey is Group President at Condé Nast overseeing the company's properties that reach a business and executive audience, including The New Yorker, WIRED, Golf Digest, Golf World and their related platforms. He is a member of the company's Executive Committee.

Most recently, Mr. Carey led the startup Condé Nast Portfolio and portfolio.com, which debuted in April 2007 and generated headlines worldwide on a constant basis from its debut until its closure in April, 2009.

Previously, Mr. Carey was the Vice President and Publisher of The New Yorker. Under his leadership, The New Yorker staged a remarkable turnaround as a business. The magazine's total circulation broke the million mark for the first time, the subscriber renewal rates reached an industry high of more than 80%, and advertising revenues more than doubled. As a result, in 2002, The New Yorker posted its first profit in 18 years.

In addition to the turnaround of The New Yorker and launch of Condé Nast Portfolio, Mr. Carey has led two other magazine launches. He had been founding publisher of SmartMoney, a joint venture between The Wall Street Journal and The Hearst Corporation. Under his direction, SmartMoney reached profitability in just two years, and was named by Advertising Age as "Magazine of the Year." At Condé Nast, he served as the Publisher for the re-launch of House & Garden in 1996.

David Carey was named by AdWeek as the industry's "executive of the year" in 2004, and in 2005 he was named by Folio: Magazine as a member of its "Dream Team" of publishing executives. In addition, he has received the "Hall of Achievement" award from the American Advertising Federation, an honor given annually to the industry's top executives under 40. He is a member of the Magazine Publishers of America Board of Directors, a board member of the Young Presidents' Organization, and a member of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism Advisory Committee. David is also an Executive Committee Board Member of the American Advertising Federation, and a board member of the magazine industry e-reading joint venture.

David Carey is a graduate of UCLA, grew up in Los Angeles, and lives in Westchester with his family.

Condé Nast, a division of Advance Publications, operates in 24 countries and is the world leader in exceptional content creation. In the United States, Condé Nast publishes eighteen consumer magazines, two trade publications and twenty-seven websites that garner international acclaim and unparalleled consumer engagement.

Dan Fawcett
General Counsel & EVP, News Corp. Digital Media Group
President, Fox Digital Media

Dan Fawcett is General Counsel and EVP of Business Affairs for News Corporation's Digital Media Group (NDM), a role in which he oversees business and legal affairs for the group's portfolio of businesses, while also working closely with News Corp. Chief Digital Officer Jon Miller on company-wide digital strategy. Fawcett also serves as President of Fox Digital Media, where he provides strategic counsel to News Corp. President Chase Carey on all digital initiatives within the Fox group of companies. Fawcett has served in a number of executive roles at News Corporation over the past decade, and has been President of Digital Media since 2007, where, among other things, he played an instrumental role in the formation and launch of Hulu. In this role, he was also responsible for supporting Fox's vast cable, TV and film brands online and driving the growth and evolution of Fox's digital media strategy, including leveraging Fox content across all digital platforms, pursuing long-term tactical initiatives with major technology players and developing additional revenue streams for Fox product. Fawcett also oversaw the business operations and ad sales for all websites owned by Fox's broadcast, cable and sports networks.

Previously, Fawcett served as Executive Vice President of Content Acquisition, as well as General Counsel, for DIRECTV. As head of Content Acquisition, Fawcett was responsible for selecting the mix of programming carried on DIRECTV; for managing an annual programming budget of over $6 billion; and for negotiating the terms of carriage with all programming suppliers—more than 200 national basic cable networks, 30 premium movie channels, 30 regional sports networks, 1500 local broadcast stations, major movie studios, adult content providers, event rightsholders, music distributors, and professional sports leagues. As General Counsel, Fawcett was responsible for all legal affairs for DIRECTV's US operations, and managed a 40-member in-house legal team which supports DIRECTV's wide array of transactional and licensing matters, manages DIRECTV's litigation, protects its intellectual property, and handles regulatory matters with federal and state agencies such as the FCC, FTC, and state attorneys general and consumer protection agencies.

Prior to joining DIRECTV in 2003, Fawcett was Executive Vice President of Business & Legal Affairs for Fox Cable Networks (FCN) where he oversaw all legal and business affairs matters for FCN's portfolio of more than 20 managed domestic sports and entertainment cable networks, including Fox Sports Net and FX. As FCN's chief business lawyer, Fawcett was responsible for structuring, negotiating and drafting transactions for programming rights, development, acquisition and production; for channel and content distribution through cable, satellite and other media platforms; and for Fox's sale or purchase of, or investment in, networks and other sports-related assets.

Fawcett joined Fox in Los Angeles in 1997 as Senior Vice President of Business & Legal Affairs for Fox Sports Net, having previously served as Assistant General Manager and General Counsel of FSN Pittsburgh. Fawcett was also a corporate and finance attorney at Reed Smith in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia.

Fawcett holds a B.A. from Tufts University, a J.D. from the University of Pittsburgh, and an M.B.A. from Carnegie Mellon University.

Jack Griffin
President of the National Media Group
Meredith Corporation

Jack Griffin is President of the National Media Group at Meredith Corporation, a publicly-held media and marketing company headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa (NYSE: MDP). Based in New York City, Jack oversees an extensive portfolio of media and marketing properties including some of the country's most successful and best-known brands such as Better Homes and Gardens, Parents and Family Circle.

Griffin is responsible for Meredith's numerous magazine brands and its branded Internet and digital properties. He also oversees Meredith Integrated Marketing (MIM) as well as the Company's Brand Licensing business and its book publishing operations. The National Media Group accounts for annual revenues of $1.1 billion and was recently named “Publishing Company of the Year” by Advertising Age for industry-leading performance in 2009.

From 1994 to 1999, Griffin oversaw the creation of MIM, Meredith's innovative marketing services arm. Under his leadership, through organic growth and strategic acquisitions, MIM has nearly tripled in size since 2004 and expanded from its roots in custom publishing to its current industry-leading position as a sophisticated creator of CRM and loyalty marketing programs in digital, print and other formats. In addition, Griffin has led an aggressive expansion and repositioning of Meredith Interactive, the company's branded Internet and digital business unit.

Measured by circulation, Meredith is the second-largest publisher of consumer magazines in the United States. In addition to BH&G, Parents and Family Circle, the Company publishes recognized titles such as Ladies' Home Journal, More and Fitness. In 2005, Meredith Griffin was a key member of the leadership team that acquired Gruner + Jahr USA and he oversaw its successful integration into Meredith, doubling the size of the Company's magazine business.

From 1999 to 2003, Griffin was with Parade, a division of Advance Publications. He joined Parade as Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing and later became its President.

In 1998-1999, while based in Des Moines, Griffin served as Vice President of Marketing for the Meredith Broadcasting Group. From 1989-1994, he spent five years with The New York Times Company Magazine Group in business and sales positions in New York and Chicago.

Griffin is Vice Chairman of the Magazine Publishers of America and is a Director of the Internet Advertising Bureau and the Audit Bureau of Circulations. He is Past Chairman of the American Advertising Federation (AAF).

Griffin has received numerous industry and community awards. In 2005 he was selected by Advertising Age as Publishing Executive of the Year and in 2007 was named Corporate Publisher of the Year by The Delaney Report. He is a member of the AAF Hall of Achievement™ and he received the AAF Jack Avrett Award for industry and community service. For his commitment to charitable work, Griffin received the National Human Relations Award from the American Jewish Committee in 2005.

Griffin earned his BA in philosophy, cum laude, from Boston College and a Master's Degree from the Yale School of Management. He is former chairman of that school's Alumni Association and a former director of the Yale Alumni Fund. He is currently a Director of the Yale Center for Customer Insights. Griffin lives in Southport, Connecticut.

Jon Housman
Senior Advisor
News Corporation

Jon Housman is a Senior Advisor to News Corporation, a role in which he provides strategic counsel to the company's Digital Media Group (NDM) and its Chairman, Jon Miller. NDM manages all of the company's standalone digital and mobile assets, while shaping News Corporation's company-wide vision of both product innovation and revenue generation in the digital space. Housman brings a wealth of experience to News Corporation, having grown and led media and marketing enterprises across several sectors and markets.

For the last five years, Housman has worked closely with News Corporation in a number of capacities, primarily directing projects at Dow Jones, Fox Entertainment Group, Fox Interactive Media and NDM. At Fox, his main duties have been to advise senior leadership and to develop a variety of digital-oriented initiatives and investments related to the company's film and television businesses. Currently, working closely with Jon Miller, Chairman of NDM, he is a key member of the leadership team that is directing the company's global news initiative in the digital space.

At Dow Jones, Housman was Managing Director and board member of The Wall Street Journal Europe SPRL, leading the Dow Jones European subsidiary which publishes in nine countries and distributes in 35 countries across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Housman led a significant restructuring and turnaround of the company's performance, including the introduction of a redesigned, compact newspaper, revamping its Web properties, and closely integrating its online and print operations. Later, he directed the company's local-market growth strategy, and was instrumental in identifying opportunities in several markets, including leading a successful bid to acquire eFinancial News in the UK. Housman also led a division formed by Dow Jones to build and grow the company's global online and classifieds business, and developed a number of opportunities in this regard.

Prior to joining Dow Jones, Housman was co-founder and chief executive of Jungle Media Group, a New York-based media company targeted at the ‘Young Professional' marketplace, with properties in digital, print magazines, conferences, and books. He served as the company's CEO from its founding in 2000 until its eventual sale to Universum in 2005.

Previously, Mr. Housman worked as a consultant with McKinsey & Co., specializing in strategy and technology for companies and private equity firms in the media and entertainment space. In 1990, he co-founded Green Earth Gourmet Specialties, a U.S.-based gourmet food company, and co-managed the company until its sale in 1994. From 1994-1996 he worked for Leedan Group, a publicly traded merchant bank and private equity firm, working primarily in Europe and the Middle East. He has also served as either a board member or advisor to several start-up companies in the media or media technology fields.

He holds a B.A. in History from Cornell University, and an M.B.A. in Finance and Marketing from New York University's Stern School of Business – where he also served as a board member and adjunct professor for several years. Housman is based in New York.

Neeraj Khemlani
Vice President
Special Assistant to the CEO for Digital Media
Hearst Corporation

Neeraj Khemlani is vice president and special assistant to the CEO for digital media, Hearst Corporation. Khemlani, who reports directly to Frank A. Bennack, Jr., vice chairman and chief executive officer of Hearst Corporation, is responsible for promoting and coordinating digital content transformation across the Company.

Khemlani was formerly vice president and general manager of Yahoo! News & Information as well as Yahoo! Originals. In this position, he managed the business and products of Yahoo! News, Tech, Weather and Education, and the editorial programming for Yahoo! Finance, as executive editor. He also directed original content programming, including product design, content production and sponsorship, across all Yahoo! channels; and initiated and oversaw strategic business development content deals with major media companies.

Some of his projects at Yahoo! included an interview with President Bush, the first time a sitting president has granted an exclusively online interview; producing the first ever online presidential debate with Charlie Rose & Bill Maher on Yahoo! News; executive producing the Fantasy Football Live show on Yahoo! Sports; Primetime in No Time on Yahoo! TV, a tech investing program on Yahoo! Finance; a fashion program on Shine; and platinum act concerts on Yahoo! Music.

From 1998 to 2006, Khemlani was a producer for CBS News' 60 Minutes and 60 Minutes II, and a creative consultant to Imagine Entertainment, ABC Entertainment, from 2000 to 2001, where he advised scriptwriters. His television experience also includes producer positions with Crile Communications and ABC News, where he produced segments for Nightline, Good Morning America, Peter Jennings Reporting and ABC News Specials. Khemlani began his career as a newspaper reporter, writing for the New York Times and The Post-Standard in Syracuse, N.Y.

Khemlani was a term member of the prestigious Council on Foreign Relations in New York. He has won numerous awards, including a 2004 Emmy nomination for Business Reporting, a 2003 Emmy nomination for Best Interview, the 2002 Edward R. Murrow Award for Investigative Reporting and a DuPont Award in 1995 for his participation in ABC News' coverage of the war in Bosnia.

Khemlani holds a master's of science in journalism from Columbia University, where he graduated with honors, and a bachelor's in communications from Cornell University, where he was the editor-in-chief of The Cornell Daily Sun.

John P. Loughlin
Executive Vice President
General Manager
Hearst Magazines

John P. Loughlin was named executive vice president and general manager of Hearst Magazines in September 2005. Loughlin's general management duties at Hearst Magazines include leadership of the group's digital businesses, consumer marketing, finance, production and distribution, as well as strategy. In addition, he serves on the board of Comag Marketing Group LLC and is responsible for CDS Global, North America's largest magazine fulfillment business.

Loughlin joined Hearst after three years as president of Gemstar-TV Guide International's TV Guide Publishing Group, where he led the repositioning of TV Guide to a full-size, full-color magazine, which launched in October 2005.

Prior to joining Gemstar, Loughlin was president and CEO of Primedia Consumer Media and Magazine Group, where he led a 150 title multi-media business. Before that, he served as president of Meredith Corporation's television broadcasting group beginning in 1997. He joined Meredith in 1993 and held a variety of positions with increasing responsibility including vice president and publishing director of a number of Meredith magazines.

Following graduation from Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration and St. Lawrence University, Loughlin worked for the New York Times' women's magazines, becoming a senior vice president and group publisher.

Monica Ray
Senior Vice President,
Strategic Planning & Corporate Development – Digital Paid Content
Time Inc.

Monica Ray is Senior Vice President, Strategic Planning & Corporate Development – Digital Paid Content at Time Inc., where she leads the company's paid content strategy.

Monica was one of two Time Inc. executives who laid the groundwork and strategy for Next Issue Media, the digital content venture formed by Conde Nast, Hearst, Meredith, News Corporation and Time Inc. The venture plans to produce, sell and distribute paid content products on portable digital such as tablets, netbooks and smartphones. Monica is a board member of the venture on behalf of Time Inc., as well as a board member of the Magazine Publishers of America (MPA).

Prior to her current position, Monica served as Vice President, General Manager for Entertainment Weekly and EW.com. In this role, she managed the brand's print and digital businesses. Monica joined Time Inc. in 1992 and has held a number of senior positions within the company, including Senior Vice President, General Manager of Time Inc.'s digital group, Time Inc. Interactive. Here she implemented companywide audience development initiatives and created a digital advertising operations network for sites like People.com and Time.com. Monica rose up through the ranks in Time Inc.'s Consumer Marketing division, serving as Vice President, Consumer Marketing, overseeing all subscription, newsstand and consumer research activities for Sports Illustrated, People, Time, and Entertainment Weekly. During her tenure, Monica was responsible for developing groundbreaking subscription marketing partnerships that drove record profits.

Monica received her MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and graduated magna cum laude, phi beta kappa from Smith College, with degrees in economics and French literature. She lives in Manhattan with her husband and two daughters.

Robert A. Sauerberg, Jr.
Group President
Consumer Marketing
Condé Nast

In January 2008 Bob was named Group President, Condé Nast Consumer Marketing. Most recently, Bob was Executive Vice President of Condé Nast Consumer Marketing. Bob continues to oversee all sales and marketing activities to consumers for Condé Nast. He is a member of the company's Executive Committee. Under Bob's leadership, Condé Nast has led the industry in circulation growth and audience vitality as measured by ABC and MRI.

Until September 2005 Bob was Chief Operating Officer of Fairchild Publications, Inc., a position he held since December 2001, when he was promoted from Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. At Fairchild, his combined responsibilities included oversight of manufacturing and distribution, information technology, and finance. In addition, he managed all activities relating to Fairchild's internet, trade circulation, licensing, and conference businesses.

Prior to joining Fairchild, Bob spent 18 years with The New York Times Company in finance and administrative roles in the newspaper and magazine divisions, culminating in his being named CFO of The New York Times Magazine Group. Prior to his time in magazines, Bob worked for several of the New York Times regional newspapers in Atlanta, Alabama and California, where he was in charge of managing the financial operations of the various newspapers, as well as integrating new businesses.

Bob represents Condé Nast on the board of CMG, a retail distribution partnership with the Hearst Corporation, and also serves on the Executive Committee of the Magazine Publishers of America. In addition, Bob is on the board of Next Issue Media.

Bob has an MBA from Mercer University and a BSBA in Finance from the University of Arkansas.

Condé Nast, a division of Advance Publications, operates in 24 countries and is the world leader in exceptional content creation. In the United States, Condé Nast publishes eighteen consumer magazines, two trade publications and twenty-seven websites that garner international acclaim and unparalleled consumer engagement.

Brian D. Wolfe
EVP, Consumer Marketing & Sales
Time Inc.

Brian Wolfe is EVP, Consumer Marketing & Sales division of Time Inc. responsible for the circulation activity of Time Inc.'s 23 U.S. based magazines including Time, Sports Illustrated, People, Entertainment Weekly, Fortune, Money, InStyle and Real Simple. With a combined circulation of 37 million, these titles are the industry leaders in their respective categories. Brian has held this position since January 2003. In addition, reporting to Brian is Time/Warner Retail Sales & Marketing, a wholly owned retail distribution company, as well as Synapse and QSP, wholly owned subscription agents.

Prior to his current position, Brian served at Time magazine as Vice President, Consumer Marketing, where he managed circulation marketing for Time's 4 million subscribers and newsstand buyers.

In October of 1999, Brian was named President and CEO of American Family Enterprises. In that capacity he oversaw the profitability, strategic direction and operation of this direct marketing company until February 2001. From 1996 to 1999, Brian worked as Vice President of Consumer Marketing for Sports Illustrated.

Brian came to Time Inc. in 1984 as a Systems Analyst for its corporate circulation unit. Two years later, he joined Fortune magazine as a Financial Manager, moving on to become Renewals Manager, Assistant Consumer Marketing Director, Consumer Marketing Director and Vice President, Consumer Marketing. Under his direction, Fortune not only developed promising new consumer revenue streams, but significantly strengthened their core circulation economics as well. Prior to joining Time Inc., he worked at AT&T in market research and for J.C. Penney as an Operations Research Analyst.

Brian serves on the Board of Directors for the Direct Marketing Association and is a frequent speaker at industry events.

Brian received a Bachelor of Arts Degree from James Madison University and an MBA from Virginia Tech.

John Zieser
Meredith Corporation

John S. Zieser serves as Chief Development Officer, General Counsel and Secretary of Meredith Corporation. He is responsible for managing the Company's business development function, as well as legal affairs, corporate communications and government relations. Zieser is also Secretary to the Meredith Board of Directors. Zieser has led Meredith's business and strategic initiatives ranging from the purchase of the magazine franchises of Gruner + Jahr (Parents, Family Circle, Fitness, Ser Padres and Child), led several recent acquisitions of online marketing services and data analytics firms resulting in the transformation of Meredith's high growth integrated marketing business, acquired and aligned with consumer digital companies including RealGirlsMedia, a fast-growing online content network, and forged significant strategic global licensing relationships with Walmart relating to the Better Homes and Gardens brand, and Realogy (the world's leading franchisor of real estate brokerages). Zieser also leads the Company's international business initiatives including over thirty-five licensing partnerships with major non-U.S. media partners around the globe.

Zieser is a well-recognized international speaker and panelist on business development and the digital marketplace, and regularly featured in leading trade and online sites including The Deal, TheDeal.com and Silicon Alley Insider. Zieser has also been featured in Super Lawyer and The National Law Journal.

Prior to joining Meredith in 1999, Zieser was Group President at First Data Merchant Services, a $400 million subsidiary of First Data Corporation. He joined First Data in 1993 and served in various executive positions. Prior to joining First Data, Zieser was with the multi-national law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell, where he specialized in U.S. and international mergers, acquisitions, venture capital and private equity transactions. While at Sullivan & Cromwell, Zieser had posts in the U.S. as well as London and Melbourne Australia.

Zieser earned his law degree from Cornell University, graduating magna cum laude and serving as Senior Editor of the Law Review. Zieser earned both an MBA and a Bachelor's of Business Administration degree from the University of Iowa.

Zieser sits on the boards of The Hyperfactory (a leading mobile services firm), Real Girls Media and Next Issue Media LLC (the digital e-reader joint venture among Time, Meredith, Hearst, Conde Nast and News Corp).

Maurice Edelson
Time Inc.

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