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 the founder of L2, a think tank for digital innovation, and clinical professor of marketing at the NYU Stern School of Business where he teaches brand strategy and digital marketing. Scott is also the founder of Firebrand Partners, an operational activist firm that has invested over $1 billion in U.S. consumer and media companies.

In 1997, he founded Red Envelope, an Internet-based consumer gift retailer (2007 revs, $100mm). In 1992, Scott founded Prophet, a brand strategy consultancy that employs over 250 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 age 40 "whose accomplishments have had impact on a global level." Scott has served on the board of directors of Eddie Bauer, The New York Times Company, Gateway Computer, and Berkeley's Haas School of Business.

Doug Guthrie

Doug Guthrie is an expert in the fields of management, economic reform in China leadership, and corporate governance, Doug is the Dean of The George Washington University School of Business.

Previously, he served as Professor of Management at NYU Stern School of Business. He also held a joint appointment as Professor of Sociology at NYU's College of Arts and Sciences. Doug has been a trusted adviser of both multinationals and local Chinese companies and a student of China for some 25 years. He is the author of Dragon in a Three-Piece Suit: The Emergence of Capitalism in China, China and Globalization: The Social, Economic and Political Transformation of Chinese Society, and Social Connections in China: Institutions, Culture, and the Changing Nature of Guanxi. He is currently writing China's Radical Transformation: Economic Reform, Global Integration, and Political Change in the World's Largest Nation, which is an in-depth look at how China's government-driven form of capitalism has successfully overcome traditional theories of development and helped China become the economic and political juggernaut it is today.

In addition to NYU Stern, Doug has also taught at Harvard Business School, INSEAD, and the graduate schools of business at Stanford University, Columbia University, and Emory University. He received his B.A. in Chinese Literature from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in Organizational Sociology from the UC Berkeley.

Maureen Mullen

Maureen leads L2's research and advisory group and has bench marked 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 BA in Human Biology from Stanford University and an MBA from NYU Stern.