mediaIDEAS Analysts, Consultants, and Business Development
mediaIDEAS was created in the winter of 2006 to help publishers, and the vendors that support them, navigate through the ever changing dynamics of the industry. Analysts Our three leading analysts, who combine more than 60 years of relevant experience, are:
Nick Hampshire - A publisher, writer, entrepreneur, and author of over twenty books on IT, he is widely acknowledged to be one of the leading authorities in digital publishing. Having spent many years as a publisher, he has a profound understanding of the needs of a book, a newspaper and magazine publishers, content creators, and readers. As a technologist he was a pioneer of personal computing in the United Kingdom, and for the last quarter century he has consistently worked at the leading edge of IT.
David Renard - Author of The Last Magazine, a visual anthology of the stylepress and a commentary on the future of printed periodicals. More than nine years ago, he co-created Stare, a publishing and advertising agency, which produced magazines that included Stare and Critic Eye. He then built Netcirculation, the largest nationwide distribution network for high-end boutique fashion, art, photography, and design titles. From 1994 to 1998, at the Gartner Group, the foremost provider of research and analysis on the global IT industry, he advised executives and board directors of Fortune 500 companies regarding the impact of technological innovations on the financial industry, and spearheaded a new European subsidiary that developed research-driven decision support tools.
Bob Sacks, “Bosacks” - Having been involved with printing/publishing since 1970, he is a veteran of the industry. He has held positions in major media companies and startups that have included publisher, editor, freelance writer, director of manufacturing and distribution, senior sales manager, circulation director, chief of operations, pressman, and cameraman, in companies such as McCall's, Time Inc., New York Times Magazine Group, International Paper, Ziff-Davis, CMP, and Bill Communications (VNU). in 1993 he launched the longest running e-newsletter in the world, Heard on the Web: Media Intelligence, delivering pertinent industry news to a diverse, worldwide publishing community of over 10,750 media industry leaders. Consultants We rely on a pool of experienced consultants that includes:
Emily Moyer - Emily Moyer is an experienced professional and independent management consultant with more than 10 years of experience in the media industry. Since 2007, Emily has advised content and mobile companies on digital media strategy and analytics, with a focus on top-line revenue growth and cost containment during a time of vast change in the industry. Prior to launching her consultancy, Emily spent five years at The New York Times Company in a number of leadership roles spanning three major departments (Advertising, Circulation and Digital). Her areas of increasing responsibility over time included direct-to-consumer marketing, business development, financial management, Six Sigma project leadership, sales strategy, distribution operations, and new product development (including Times Reader, in partnership with Microsoft). Most recently, as Managing Director of Strategy and Business Development, Emily directed all forecasting, budgeting, M&A and continuous improvement efforts for a high-growth sales team delivering $150MM in annual revenue. Emily’s media career began on the editorial side at Ziff Davis Media (PC Magazine), followed by three years as a project manager in a successful start-up division of Time Warner. She earned an MBA in Strategic Media Management from The Wharton School at The University of Pennsylvania and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Bowdoin College with a BA in Philosophy and Religion. Brett Barndt - Brett Barndt integrates 20 years of marketing, new product development and change management to build new teams responding to new media developments and communications business challenges. He has set-up, led and managed $1.5-$5M+ engagement teams for launches of major new interactive media and sales channels, large-scale enterprise-wide change management in global companies, turn-around of early-stage technology start-ups and roll-ups, and global brand communications programs across large integrated agency groups. He led new product development launches of online and interactive business channels for the global financial marketplace, achieving market valuations of $1B+ and business flows of $500M+. Brett has skillfully brought teams together from creative, technical, editorial, design, instructional media, filmmaking and video production, media and events planning, and social science disciplines to create new media products and solutions. Brett began his work producing art programs for scientific text-books and general interest science with WH Freeman & Company, text-book publishing division of Scientific American, and went on to work in a new business incubator at Citicorp focused on creating and launching new online information businesses. He recently pioneered knowledge sharing tools at Thomson Corporation to address the new skill-building and knowledge and information sharing needs of a large and diverse sales and services organization resulting in cross-selling pipeline and improved sales proposal/contract closure cycle. He has consulted with Columbia University, WPP, Deutsche Bank, First Data, GE, Morgan Stanley, Adecco, Pfizer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, L'Oreal, Deloitte, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Wolters-Kluwer, Thomson, Reuters, Fidelity and CNBC Europe. He received his M.S. from Carnegie Mellon University, and B.F.A from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He is currently on the faculty of the Integrated Marketing program at NYU. Calvin Chen - Calvin Chen is an accomplished media technology manager/director and management consultant with over 12 years of experience in technology planning, design and delivery of systems through all phases of the information technology project life cycle, and managing ongoing vendor and external partner relationships. He has project management and business analysis experience with new media product and solution design and development, third-party software selection and implementation, change management, technology strategy, and business process design with a focus on publishing. Calvin was mostly recently responsible for managing the entire digital asset archive of Condé Nast Publications, which included article and image content for over 30 publications, over 1 million archive images, over 1500 issues, and more than 100,000 articles. This involved managing the launch and upgrade of a corporate-wide digital asset management system. At Conde Nast, he also recently launched e-commerce ventures within Conde Nast, including several online gift stores and an online ticketing venture for consumer events for Conde Nast brands, such as The New Yorker Festival. He has led and managed $1-$2M engagement teams for launches of major digital asset management systems and title management systems for several publishers. Calvin began his work as a management consultant for over 10 years, focusing on publishing/media. He has a background in digital asset management, e-commerce, OLAP tools / business intelligence, information architecture/user experience, and data warehousing and has worked with Hachette Book Group USA, Rodale Publishing, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Merck, Chanel, MetLife, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and various government agencies. Calvin graduated with Honors with dual bachelor degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and the Wharton School of Business. He currently serves as the National President of the University of Pennsylvania Asian Alumni Network. Albert Choi - Albert has over a decade of business development, product development and marketing experience for major publishers and media companies around the globe. Among these include serving as the Business Development Director for Nielsen Business Media's online business unit, leading high impact partnerships to deliver revenue and traffic for the websites of over 40 trade publications and trade shows including Billboard, The Hollywood Reporter, Adweek, Mediaweek, Photo District News and Kitchen-Bath Industry Show and serving as the Business Development Executive for Economist.com, the web site of The Economist magazine. Albert has significant experience in developing social media strategies, creating video businesses and building initiatives to develop ancillary revenue in the online and mobile environment. He has contributed to multiple successful redesign of content websites, including several Webby Award nominees. Outside of publishing, Albert has applied his expertise for global media companies and worldwide organizations including News Corporation (STAR Television, FOX Filmed Entertainment), MGM, and the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Business Advisory Council. Albert earned his MBA from the Marshall School of Business at University of Southern California and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University. Andy Arluk - Andy has over 12 years of experience in media and technology. He was most recently a founding partner in a publisher focused technology and graphics services outsourcing company, serving leading national media companies to realize cost savings through technology and cost effective labor and processes. Andy previously was a member of the Corporate Executive Team at BMG Music Publishing where he successfully led post Sony-BMG merger activities, managed operational cost reduction initiatives and was responsible for pricing and deal term structures for acquisitions worldwide. Prior to that, Andy was at Microsoft, where he managed a variety of initiatives in the PowerPoint, Windows and Digital Media Divisions. He was responsible for working with external media companies on the adoption of new Microsoft technology, including launching the initial movie Internet download offerings with the Hollywood studios. Andy holds an MS and BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Johns Hopkins University, where he was a Beneficial Hodson Scholar and graduated Summa Cum Laude. He also has an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Ram Rajagopal - Ram has over 12 years of experience in helping companies develop innovative, technology-driven products and services. Most recently, Ram was an executive in Accenture’s Strategy Practice where he focused on the Communications, Media and High Tech industries, with specialties in Wireless and Consumer Technology Services. As a consultant, he helped Fortune 100 clients develop tangible business opportunities of strategic significance. His specialties include strategic planning, partnerships, service development and marketing strategy. Some of his projects have included: developing next generation wireless business models for non-traditional players; working with a media and electronics conglomerate to evaluate and optimize their advertising and marketing investments; and developing a retail strategy to help consumers manage all of their interconnected devices and services, to name a few. Prior to that Ram worked with investment banks and investment managers to streamline their operations through technology innovation. Ram holds a BA in Economics from University of Rochester and an MBA in Strategic and Entrepreneurial Management from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Business Development Adam Rosenberg - Adam Rosenberg is a strategic marketing advisor and entrepreneur with experience in film, TV, magazines, tech, finance. Learning strategic market research at Time Inc. Corporate Marketing Research, one of the industry’s leading strategic research groups, Adam worked with Time Inc. Pres. Don Logan on the CNN Merger, and co-authored thought-leading strategic market research and prognostications covering internet advertising. As Morgan Stanley’s E-Commerce Strategy Group E-vangelist, Adam helped lay the groundwork for i-Ventures, Morgan Stanley’s innovation program. Recently, Adam worked on projects ranging from bringing open-source software and practices to NewsCorp, marketing a US/China co-produced barter-syndication television series, to conceiving an innovation program for BPA to collaboratively evolve a new vision and industry consensus on digital magazine metrics and reporting. Adam's education includes a BA in cultural anthropology and film at Columbia University, performance at Juilliard, and studies at Aish HaTorah in Jerusalem. |
