Bio
David Carey
David Carey was named president of Hearst Magazines in June 2010. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Hearst Corporation. During his tenure at Hearst, he was instrumental in the acquisition of more than 100 magazines in 14 countries from Lagardére SCA, which greatly expanded Hearst's footprint in both the U.S. and internationally.
Prior to joining Hearst, Carey was group president at Condé Nast, where he oversaw that company's media properties targeted to business and executive audiences. Carey led the print/digital startup of Portfolio and Portfolio.com and, before that, he was vice president and publisher of The New Yorker.
Among other honors, Carey was named industry "Publisher of the Year" by Adweek in 2011 and was selected by Folio as a member of its "Dream Team" of publishing executives. Carey serves on the Executive Committees of the American Advertising Federation and the Magazine Publishers of America. He is also a member of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism Advisory Committee. Carey is a graduate of UCLA.
Duncan Edwards
Duncan Edwards is president and CEO of Hearst
Magazines International, a unit of Hearst Corporation. Edwards is also
executive vice president of Hearst Magazines and vice chairman of Hearst
Magazines UK, Hearst’s publishing business in the U.K., and a member of
the Board of Directors of Hearst Corporation.
As the largest U.S. publisher of magazines worldwide, Hearst
Magazines International publishes more than 300 editions for
distribution in more than 100 countries. Major titles include powerful
brand equities like Cosmopolitan and ELLE, both international super-brands with more editions than any other women’s magazines in the world; ELLE DECOR; Esquire; Good Housekeeping; Harper's BAZAAR; Popular Mechanics; and Seventeen. In addition, Hearst Magazines International publishes other titles through joint ventures, including Men’s Health and Runner’s World in the U.K., Grazia and Madison in Australia, and The Robb Report
in Russia and China. In Great Britain, a wholly-owned subsidiary,
Hearst Magazines UK, publishes 24 magazines and 22 digital assets.
Hearst Magazines publishes 20 titles in the U.S.
From 2005 to 2009, Edwards was chief executive of NatMag, which
publishes 20 magazines in the U.K., reaching 14 million adults. He
joined NatMag in 1989 and served in various executive roles since then,
including publisher of Company magazine, director of business development and managing director.
During Edwards’ time at NatMag, the company grew from publishing nine
magazines in 2000 to 20 in 2009, through a mix of launches,
acquisitions and joint ventures. Its digital business expanded to
include not only online versions of its major magazines but also the
U.K.’s leading women’s interest portal, handbag.com, and the leading
consumer health website, netdoctor.co.uk.
Edwards spent the early part of his career at Media Week Ltd. and
holds a dual honors degree in geography and politics from Sheffield
University.
Scott Galloway
Scott is a clinical professor at the NYU Stern School of Business where he teaches brand strategy and luxury marketing and is the founder of L2, a think tank for digital innovation. Scott is also the founder of Firebrand Partners, an operational activist firm that has invested more than $1 billion in U.S. consumer and media companies. In 1997, he founded Red Envelope, an Internet-based branded consumer gift retailer. In 1992, Scott founded Prophet, a brand strategy consultancy that employs more than 120 professionals in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Scott was elected to the World Economic Forum’s “Global Leaders of Tomorrow,” which recognizes 100 individuals under the age of 40 “whose accomplishments have had impact on a global level.”
Scott has served on the boards of directors of Eddie Bauer (Nasdaq: EBHI), The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT), Gateway Computer, eco-America, and UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. He received a B.A. from UCLA and an M.B.A. from UC Berkeley.
Maureen Mullen
Maureen Mullen leads L2’s research and advisory group and has benchmarked and/or developed digital and social media initiatives for over 300 prestige brands. She began her career at Triage Consulting Group in San Francisco. At Triage, she led several managed care payment review and payment bench- marking projects for hospitals including UCLA Medical Center, UCSF, and HCA. She has gone on to lead research and consulting efforts focused on digital media, private banking, M&A, insurance industry risk management, and renewable energy economics for professional firms and academics. Maureen has a B.A. in Human Biology from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from NYU Stern.
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- China
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.Country, eastern Asia. Area: 3,696,100 sq mi (9,572,900 sq km). Population (2009 est.): 1,331,433,000. Capital: Beijing. It is the world's most populous country, the Han (ethnic Chinese) forming more than nine-tenths of the population. Languages: dialects of Han Chinese, Mandarin being the most important. Religions: traditional beliefs, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Daoism (all legally sanctioned). Currency: renminbi (of which the unit is the yuan). China has several topographic regions. The southwestern area contains the Plateau of Tibet, which averages more than 13,000 ft (4,000 m) above sea level; its core area, averaging more than 16,000 ft (5,000 m) in elevation, is called “the Roof of the World” and provides the headwaters for many of Asia's major rivers. Higher yet are the border ranges, the Kunlun Mountains to the north and the Himalayas to the south. China's northwestern region stretches from Afghanistan to the Northeast (Manchurian) Plain. The Tien Shan (“Celestial Mountains”) separate China's two major interior basins, the Tarim Basin (containing the Takla Makan Desert) and the Junggar Basin. The Mongolian Plateau contains the southernmost part of the Gobi Desert. The lowlands of the eastern region include the Sichuan Basin, which runs along the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang); the Yangtze divides the eastern region into northern and southern parts. The Tarim is the major river in the northwest. China's numerous other rivers include the Huang He (Yellow River), Xi, Sungari (Songhua), Zhu (Pearl), and Lancang, which becomes the Mekong in Southeast Asia. The country is a single-party people's republic with one legislative house. The head of state is the president, and the head of government is the premier.
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