Christopher Allen
Consultant
Food Network Magazine

Christopher Allen is currently a consultant for the Food Network Magazine, published by Hearst Corporation.  Previously he was publisher of Cooking Light.  Allen joined Cooking Light in 1991 as eastern advertising sales director, and rose through the ranks to become senior vice president and publisher in 2007.   Under Allen’s direction, the rate base of Cooking Light rose to 1.75 million with a total audience of 11.9 million, making it the world’s largest epicurean and healthy lifestyle magazine. Allen has presided over the launch of several groundbreaking marketing campaigns.  Before joining Southern Progress, Allen held a number of sales and sales management positions at People from 1982-1989. He also served as associate publisher for New England Monthly.

Andrew Bolwell
Managing Director
MagCloud

Andrew Bolwell is Managing Director of MagCloud, a new magazine self-publishing Web Service from HP.  Capitalizing on the explosion of web content, growing consumer demand for content choice and HP Digital Print on Demand innovations, Andrew has guided MagCloud’s evolution from early HP Labs concept to a fast growing online magazine publishing business.  With over 20 years Hi-Tech and New Media experience, Andrew has spearheaded some of HP’s most groundbreaking business innovations including Visual Radio, a strategic collaboration with Nokia; and HP’s Mobile e-Services Bazaar dedicated to bringing new mobile services to the world.  As a Director of HP’s Imaging and Printing business incubations, Andrew is chartered with proactively identifying and pursuing new market opportunities that have the potential to be significant, game changing, and disruptive new businesses for HP.  In this role, Andrew has been instrumental in helping incubate new businesses for HP across a diverse range of markets and industries including mobility, telecom, media and entertainment, publishing and Web 2.0.    Andrew began his career with Hewlett-Packard in 1989.

Leonard E. Burnett Jr.
Co-CEO & Group Publisher
Uptown Media Group

Leonard E. Burnett Jr. – Co-CEO & Group Publisher, Uptown Media Group. Len is an industry veteran and highly successful entrepreneur with over 20 years of publishing experience. Len’s expertise in advertising sales and marketing leadership has enabled him to successfully launch 7 major magazines with exceptional advertising growth.   Burnett serves as Co-Founder and Group Publisher of UPTOWN Magazine, a quarterly publication for urbanites.  Previously, Burnett was Group Publisher of VIBE and its spin-off, VIBE Vixen, in June 2005. Burnett was with the magazine during its inception as Associate Publisher before leaving in 1999 to Co-found the urban publishing company Vanguarde Media, where he was Group Publisher of Honey, Heart & Soul, Impact and Savoy.   Burnett returned to Vibe one more time from 2005 – 2007.

Andy Clurman
Group Publisher and Chief Operating Officer
Active Interest Media

Andy Clurman joined Active Interest Media as Group Publisher and Chief Operating Officer in October of 2003 when the company was formed by Skip Zimbalist. Clurman is directly responsible for the operational and overall management of AIM's current publications.  Prior to joining AIM, Clurman served as Senior Vice President of Time4Media and President/Publisher of Mountain Sport Media. Under his leadership, these two divisions grew to comprise fifteen consumer and trade magazines, an award-winning film and television production unit, and category leading Internet, book, video/dvd publishing, and event marketing businesses. Mountain Sports and Transworld flourished launching five new magazines and acquiring four others doubling revenue with profits growing ten-fold.  Before joining Time4 Media, Clurman was at Times Mirror where he worked on successful corporate initiatives including the launch of The Outdoor Life Network. Clurman also developed Times Mirror Magazine's first web property and introduced Freeze Magazine for teen skiers. In 1997 he orchestrated SKI and Skiing Magazine's successful relocation from New York City to Boulder Colorado and the formation of Mountain Sports Media.  Clurman's 20-year career in special interest publishing began at Ziff Davis where he was a sales representative, regional sales manager, marketing director and finally, publisher of SKI and Skiing Magazines.

Colin Crawford
CEO and Founder
Media7

Colin Crawford is CEO and Founder of Media7, a consultancy and strategic advisory company focusing on mobile media. He is also a Venture Affiliate at IDG Ventures.  Mr. Crawford has a track record of management success over 20 years in diverse international media businesses, including print, online and mobile properties. His responsibilities have included corporate strategy, developing, launching and running high growth, profitable media properties. He has transformed legacy print focused businesses into successful and profitable digital centric organizations by developing new digital revenue opportunities around advertising and performance-related revenue streams, including lead generation.  He held a series of senior executive leadership roles at IDG from 1993 to 2008, and served on the IDG senior management team and the operations review boards of all the IDG brands.

Kent Ebersole
Publisher
Backpacker Magazine

Kent Ebersole is publisher of Backpacker Magazine. Prior to Backpacker, Ebersole was
Northwest sales director for Juno.com, and Eastern sales manager for Scuba Diving magazine.
Ebersole has served as a consultant to leading outdoor brands, including Trimble Navigation,
Probar, and the Western Rivers Conservancy.

Mike Edelhart
CEO
LiveDeal, Inc

Mike Edelhart is a long-standing media and Internet start-up investor and executive. Currently, Mike is  CEO at LiveDeal, Inc a NASDAQ company that delivers classified, IYP and small business services over the Internet. Mike is also founder of First 30 Services, a new company-creation consultancy. Previously, Mike was CEO of DeepDyve, which has developed revolutionary technology for high end search and was chairman of the board of Olive Software. Mike was CEO of Inman News and  later Zinio.  Before this he was at Redleaf Group, an early stage investment company where he was Sr. Director of the San Francisco office.  Prior to Redleaf, he was founder and CEO of Intagio, an international clicks-and-mortar non-cash exchange network.  Mike was President and CEO of Third Age Media and a Vice-president at SoftBank, where he directed content for the Seybold, Interop and Comdex conferences and launched new businesses in online education, conferences and consulting.  Prior to SoftBank, Mike spent thirteen years at Ziff Davis in a variety of executive and editorial positions.  He was the original Executive Editor of PC Magazine, Editor-in-Chief of PC Week and Editor/Publisher of  PC/Computing. Mike has served as an Internet strategies consultant to Bloomberg, Reuters, AARP and other major media and Internet companies.

Jim Elliott
President
JAMES G. ELLIOTT CO., INC.

Jim Elliott is President of JAMES G. ELLIOTT CO., INC. an independent media sales firm which also includes marketing and research services. Elliott founded the company in 1984.  The James G. Elliott Co., Inc., is celebrating its 25th year in business having handled consumer, trade, association, newspaper, and internet clients.  Elliott has over 35 years experience in the advertising business including working in the advertising agency business and research and sales management at a major publishing operation. His agency years were spent at three ad agencies: Ogilvy & Mather; Foote, Cone & Belding; and BBDO.  Following his agency days, Elliott was Western Research Manager and then Director of Field Services for CBS Publications, where, at the latter job, he was responsible for the marketing needs of the publishing division on a national level. Just prior to starting his own company, Elliott was Western Advertising Manager for Road & Track Magazine, a CBS publication title.

Patricia B. Fox, Sr.
Sr. Vice President, Operations, and General Manager
Healthy Living Group, Active Interest Media

Patricia B. Fox, Sr. Vice President, Operations, and General Manager, Healthy Living Group, Active Interest Media. With more than 25 years of publishing experience, Pat is responsible for all circulation marketing and magazine production for Active Interest Media. In 2006, she also assumed responsibility as General Manager of the Healthy Living Group, including Yoga Journal, Vegetarian Times, Better Nutrition, and Healthy Living Custom Publishing. Before joining AIM, she was Vice President of Operations for Sabot Publications where she oversaw all circulation and production. Pat is the former President and CEO of Caribbean Travel and Life, Inc., which she founded.

Michael Gnade
IGM

Michael Gnade graduated with a Masters in Economics from Tufts University in 2006.  Mike has always had a passion for video games and has been involved in the indie game community since he graduated in 2006.  The concept for the Indie Game Magazine was born on a Saturday while his fiance was out dress shopping.  Needless to say, she took long enough for Mike to put together the first issue of IGM and experiment with MagCloud's service.  Since then, every bi-monthly issue has brought with it more interest.

Clay B. Hall
CEO
Aspire Media

Clay B. Hall, Aspire Media’s CEO and has owned, operated, and advised magazine publishing and media companies for more than 30 years, providing leadership to more than 100 magazine titles in more than 20 sectors.  During this time, Mr. Hall has partnered with six different private equity firms.  Aspire Media, with backing from Hall and private equity firms Frontenac Company and Catalyst Investors, own Interweave Press, LLC, a 30 year old leading publisher of craft magazines, books, and events.  Hall is the former owner/operator of Southwest Art magazine and Vice-President and Group Publisher of Cowles Enthusiast Media’s outdoor recreation group.

Barbara Israel
Partner
Weiser LLP

Barbara Israel is a partner at Weiser LLP.   Ms. Israel has approximately 30 years of experience in providing accounting, audit consulting, and income tax services to corporations with a focus on the media and communication industry. She has focused on providing merger and acquisition consulting services to corporations and private equity groups, including assisting in transaction structure, contract negotiation, and the performance of financial due diligence verification procedures.

Christopher Jerard
Sales and Marketing
Storm Mountain Publishing

Christopher Jerard has been deeply involved with snow-sports culture and media for more than a decade.  As a fixture at Freeskier magazine since 1999, he has held various positions in the editorial, creative, marketing, sales and circulation departments.  Currently he oversees sales and marketing at Storm Mountain Publishing, managing both the Freeskier and Snowboard brands, and is widely views as an expert in youth and action sports culture.  He has helped develop and execute successful youth marketing strategies for SMP’s media properties by creating partnerships with over 80 ski industry and non-endemic companies.

Rick Jones
President and CEO
DJG Marketing

Rick Jones has been President and CEO of DJG Marketing since its founding in 1993.  In addition to starting their marketing services business, he has overseen DJG’s growth and industry branding.  DJG companies include ProCirc - the top circulation management outsourcing company, WRSS – the leading distributor of magazines to public places, and DJG Marketing Services which provides outsourced marketing services, including research planning and audience estimates, ad sales development strategies and strategic planning for publications and websites.  He has a long ad agency career as a Media Director, and was Director, Research and Marketing Development at Reader’s Digest, prior to starting DJG.  His agency background includes Ogilvy and Mather, Foote, Cone & Belding and BBDO.

Noah Kalina 
Photographer

Noah Kalina is a photographer living and working in New York City. He is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts with a BFA in Photography.  His editorial work has been published in numerous magazines including Interview Magazine, Blender, New York Magazine, Time Out New York, Food and Wine, SEED, Esquire and I.D.  Commercial clients include Brooklyn Industries, Neiman Marcus, Motorola, VH1, MTV and College Humor.  Noah Kalina's is most famously known for his video project "everyday" which consists of 2356 self portrait photographs spanning six and a half years and has been viewed on YouTube over 12.5 million times. The television show "The Simpsons" parodied the video and the episode would go on to win an Emmy.  Embraced not only online but in the art world, "everyday" has been shown in museums, galleries and film festivals around the world.

Laura Kornish
Assistant Professor of Marketing
Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado at Boulder

Laura Kornish has been an assistant professor of marketing in the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado at Boulder since 2005. From 1998-2005, she taught at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.  Professor Kornish's teaching and research interests relate to new product introduction, the adoption of new technologies, and on-line marketing. She teaches MKTG 4250 Product Strategy-an undergraduate new product development course and MBAX 6350 Marketing of High Technology-an MBA marketing strategy course. Her research has been published in Marketing Science, Journal of Consumer Research, Management Science, Operations Research, and Journal of Economic Theory.

Nina B. Link
President & CEO
Magazine Publishers of America

Nina B. Link joined Magazine Publishers of America (MPA) as President and CEO in
November 1999. Applying her depth of knowledge in several areas of the consumer
magazine industry, she has reinvigorated the organization through highly strategic plans --
key areas: government affairs, advertising, circulation and promotion & professional
development. Under Ms. Link’s leadership, MPA successfully helped contain a number of
postal rate increases, provided support for the passage of comprehensive postal reform and
addressed a host of other issues centered on First Amendment, food and drug advertising
restrictions, consumer protection and the environment.

Steve Linke
Associate Director of Business Development
Open Development Group at Verizon Wireless

Steve Linke is the Associate Director of Business Development for the Open Development group at Verizon Wireless responsible for identifying new business opportunities that will increase network subscribers through innovative products outside the traditional Verizon Wireless device portfolio.  In addition, Steve works with ecosystem partners to drive long-term Open Development growth for CDMA and LTE opportunities.  Prior to joining the team, Steve worked in the OEM and National Distribution program for Verizon Wireless where he managed embedded notebook and product distribution partners.  Before joining Verizon Wireless, Steve worked at Citrix Systems in Business Development focusing on mobility initiatives and QUALCOMM in Corporate Marketing.

David A. Lusterman
Founder and Publisher
String Letter Publishing

David A. Lusterman is Publisher of String Letter Publishing, a company he founded in 1985.  String Letter Publishing is located in San Rafael, California, employs a staff of 30, and publishes Strings, Teen Strings, Acoustic Guitar, Play Guitar!, and Guitar Teacher magazines, as well as a line of related books.  Mr. Lusterman previously held staff positions at The New York Review of Books, The Nation, [MORE], and democracy, and has contributed to the Village Voice, The Nation, Newsday, and other periodicals. He is Past President of the Music Magazine Publishers Association.

Sue Marek
Editor-in-Chief
FierceMarkets Wireless Group

Sue Marek has been Editor-in-Chief of FierceMarkets Wireless Group since joining the company in January 2007.  In her current position, she oversees the editorial content of several FierceMarkets’ newsletters including FierceWireless, FierceMobileContent, FierceDeveloper, FierceWireless:Europe and FierceBroadbandWireless and provides editorial guidance for the publications’ websites, webinars and live events.   Sue has more than 18 years of experience reporting on the telecom industry.  Prior to joining FierceMarkets, she was the executive editor of Wireless Week.   From 1999 to 2001, she worked as an analyst for Paul Kagan Associates, specializing in wireless and broadband technologies.  She also was the managing editor of Convergence magazine, a monthly magazine for cable television, phone and wireless network operators.

 
Charles McCullagh
Senior VP/Member Services
Magazine Publishers of America

Charles McCullagh is Vice President, International, MPA, responsible for serving more than 70 members in 30 countries through original research, regular newsletters and media presentations.   His current focus is on the India, China, Brazil and Russia markets.  Prior to joining MPA, McCullagh was International Managing Director for Holtzbrinck/Scientific American.  He worked on acquisitions, divestitures and investments at Hachette Filipacchi Magazines, and also served as a Director of Strategic Planning with emphasis on circulation.  Earlier he worked with DeSilva & Phillips, had his own international consulting business, and had assisted several publishers in their international development.

Jeanniey Mullen 
Chief Marketing Officer 
Zinio

Jeanniey Mullen is the Chief Marketing Officer for Zinio and its sister company, the digital
lifestyle destination: VIV. Jeanniey is recognized as both a pioneer and visionary in the
marketing and advertising space, with a specific expertise in Email Marketing and Digital
Publishing. Prior to joining Zinio, Jeanniey was the Senior Partner and Global Executive Director
of the Email Marketing and Digital Dialogue practice at OgilvyOne Worldwide. There, she
worked with clients including IBM, American Express and Yahoo. Jeanniey founded The Email
Experience Council, the world’s largest email marketing trade organization. Jeanniey currently
serves as the Executive Director of the EEC (now owned by the DMA). In the late 1990’s
Jeanniey created the global email marketing division at Grey Direct.

Don Nicholas
Editor-in-Chief
Mequoda Daily

Don Nicholas is America's top expert on Internet marketing strategy for information marketers. Since 1994, Don and his team have helped design, launch and optimize dozens of America's most success Internet marketing systems.  Don is the creator of many popular Internet marketing strategies, concepts, terms and tools. They include The Mequoda Method, the Mequoda Internet Marketing System and the Mequoda Internet Marketing Model.  Don is the lead author of Internet Marketing Strategy, Generating Website Revenue, Creating Landing Pages that Sell, Membership Website Publishing and Multiplatform Publishing Strategies. He is editor-in-chief for the Mequoda Daily which offers its readers quick tips and news briefs to help them sell more products and services online.

Don Peschke
Founder
August Home Publishing

Don Peschke founded August Home Publishing in 1978 -- working out of his basement to produce the first issue of Woodsmith, a magazine for woodworkers that carries no advertising. The first issue of Woodsmith had a circulation of 326.  This small entrepreneurial effort has grown to a magazine with a paid circulation of 275,000.  The one-person publishing company he founded landed twice on Inc. magazine's list of the 500 fastest-growing privately-owned companies in America.  In 1992, August Home launched a spin-off woodworking title, ShopNotes.  Since then, the company has launched two more magazines: Garden Gate and Cuisine , both with no advertising. In 1996, Workbench was purchased and repositioned for home improvement enthusiasts.   Today, August Home has expanded in many ways to meet its mission of “surrounding our customers with service.”  In addition August Home has a book division that publishes woodworking books; a consumer products division that provides home centers around the country with Woodsmith and Workbench Plans and Tools; and has a new media group devoted to producing an active commerce and information site.

Jini Rooney
Business Woman, Medical Doctor and Entrepreneur

Jini Rooney is an international business woman, medical doctor and entrepreneur. A fourth generation South African, Jini has lived and worked on 3 different continents and cofounded Horizon Speakers & Seminars in Ireland and now the Chief Partnership Officer for BizTechDay, a must-attend boot camp which connects entrepreneurs with internet mavericks, social media gurus, potential investors and other successful entrepreneurs on October 22-23.  Using the MagCloud technology, BizTechDay put together their 1st magazine last year (in less than 6 weeks) and without previous experience has now become one of the pioneers in independent business magazine publishing.

Bo Sacks
President and Consultant
The Precision Media Group

Bo Sacks is a veteran of the printing/publishing industry since 1970, Bo Sacks was always an innovator. He founded his own weekly newspaper in the metro New York Area.  After several years press publishing newspapers in New York and Tucson, AZ, he went on to become one of the founding fathers of High Times Magazine.  Since then, he has held positions that include Publisher, Editor, Director of Manufacturing and Distribution, Senior Sales Manager (Paper), Circulator, Chief of Operations, Pressman, Cameraman, Developer of web site companies, and Corporate Janitor. His resume lists directorships at such prestigious companies as McCall’s, Time Inc., New York Times Magazine Group, International Paper, Ziff-Davis, CMP and Bill Communications (VNU).  Currently, Mr. Sacks is a consultant to the Printing/Publishing industry at large, and is President of The Precision Media Group. He is also the Publisher & Editor of a daily industry newsletter entitled “Heard on the Web”.

David Schimke
Editor-in-Chief and General Manager
Utne Reader

Since 2006, David Schimke has been the editor in chief and general manager of Utne Reader, an alternative media digest owned by Ogden Publications that sparks forward-thinking conversations about politics, pop culture, and the environment. Prior to entering the magazine world, David spent 10 years working for Village Voice Media as a staff writer, managing editor, and media columnist. His political reporting, cultural analysis, arts criticism, and feature writing was honored by the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies and the Society of Professional Journalists.

Lynn Schofield Clark
Associate Professor and Director
Estlow Center for Journalism and New Media at the University of Denver

Lynn Schofield Clark is an Associate Professor and Director of the Estlow Center for Journalism and New Media at the University of Denver.  She has been studying the way young people and their families negotiate media use for more than 10 years.  She is author of several books and articles on this topic, and is currently completing a book titled, Digital Media and the Generation Gap.  She has explored how popular media fit into young peoples' everyday lives, and thus in this presentation she will consider  how emerging social practices of media use will shape the ways in which young people seek content.

Janine Scolpino
Senior Vice President
Enthusiast Group & Consumer Marketing

Janine Scolpino is the Senior Vice President at Enthusiast Group & Consumer Marketing, The Taunton Press.  Janine joined Taunton in 2008 as Senior Vice President, Group Publisher & Consumer Marketing, and was recently promoted to Chief Marketing Officer.  At Taunton, her consumer marketing responsibilities encompass all Direct to Consumer marketing, including Subscription Acquisition, Single Copy Sales, Interactive Marketing and Digital Marketing. Prior to joining Taunton, Janine was Group Vice President, Group Publisher at Guideposts, spanning a successful twenty-two year career with that company.  Janine began in Marketing growing to become Circulation Director and Publisher, supervising the launch of Guideposts’ first ever advertising initiative.

Eric Shanfelt
President and Founder
eMedia Strategist, Inc.

Eric Shanfelt is the President and Founder of, eMedia Strategist, Inc., a media consulting firm that specializes in practical revenue-generating strategies for B2B and consumer publishers and in the transformation of publishers into true multiplatform media companies. Eric has served as the Senior Vice President of eMedia for Penton Media and Executive Vice President of eMedia for Aspire / Interweave. He is a member of the board of directors for Virgo Publishing, and has an extensive emedia background spanning 18 years with B2B / consumer publishing and interactive agencies.

Daliah Singer
Editor-in-Chief
Clarion Newspaper at Denver University

Daliah Singer is editor-in-chief, Clarion Newspaper at Denver University.  Her thesis is a study on what it means for college students today to be informed, how they get informed and how they deal with information overload.

Dedra Smith
Publishing Consultant

Dedra Smith has worked for 19 years as a publishing consultant, using her extensive experience in the areas of production, print buying, contract negotiation, launches and acquisitions, and workflow solutions to help publishers save money, create efficient workflows, and be perceived as smart buyers in the marketplace. Her clients range from large, multi-title publishers to smaller single title clients, who rely on her to help them attain their best product through a thorough understanding of prepress, printing, distribution, and workflow, including the web.

Teresa Stack
President
The Nation

Teresa Stack is president of The Nation magazine and has been working on postal reform issues on behalf of smallpublishers since January 2007.  Prior to joining The Nation in 1993, Teresa was corporate circulation director for Fairchild Publications.

Dr. J. Richard Stevens
Assistant Professor
School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Colorado at Boulder

Dr. J. Richard Stevens is an assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His research interests include new media design and usability, media ethics, digital news-gathering techniques and the sociological effects of digital technology on American society.  Without understanding the potential differences between subsets of a media property’s potential consumers, said property limits its possible reach and impact through the rising networks of media consumers.

Bryan Welch
Publisher and Editorial Director
Ogden Publications, Inc.

Bryan Welch runs Ogden Publications, Inc., the nation’s larges magazine publishing and affinity marketing company dedicated to sustainable lifestyles. Founded in 1996, his company publishes 12 magazines in the sustainable-lifestyle, rural-lifestyle and collectible categories, including Mother Earth News, Natural Home & Garden,  Utne Reader and the Herb Companion, all of which are category leaders in print and online. His company’s websites generate about 15 percent of revenues and two-thirds of its total audience with about 1 million unique visitors monthly. As a journalist, he has covered sustainable lifestyles, solar energy, green building and conscientious business practices for nearly 30 years.

Jonno Wells
CEO
Surfline/Wavetrak, Inc.

Jonno Wells CEO, Surfline/Wavetrak, Inc. Since 2002.   Previous to Surfline he was with technology media company CMP Media, where he held various publishing, operational management, sales and business development positions over 16 years. He also served as Vice President of Client Services of an interactive advertising agency and was involved in the management of a start-up streaming media venture, On2 Technologies.

Rachel Wilson
Business Development
Plastic Logic

Rachel Wilson leads business development for content relationships and vertical markets at Plastic Logic Prior to Plastic Logic, as the vice president of business development and premium services for Casabi, Rachel led content acquisition, advertising product strategy and distribution relationships for connected devices on behalf of carrier customer like Comcast and Embarq. At Casabi, Rachel was responsible for strategic relationships and CE retail product launch programs with top tier partners including Motorola, Vtech, Yahoo!, Superpages, Plaxo, Sybase and more. Rachel spent five years with ITOCHU, one of the world’s largest trading companies, managing its subsidiary’s marketing strategy and business development with partners like Disney and the Jackie Chan Group.  Rachel spent several years in advertising at InFreeDA, eVoice, and years earlier in advertising and marketing agencies acquired by Interpublic.

John B. Winsor
Author and Founder
Dial-a-Story

John B. Winsor, author and founder of Dial-a-Story, is the author of national magazine articles, a contributor to an anthology, author of Love of the Hunt, and is writing RiverStone.  Set in Manhattan and Montana, RiverStone is an adventure novel about family secrets - deceit, betrayal, murder and love.  He is General Partner of Winsor Communications, LLLP, formerly a media business that consisted of daily and suburban weekly newspapers, national magazines, Internet sites, printing, audio, radio and satellite communications companies.  Winsor Communications now concentrates on investments.  He is a past president of the Inland Daily Press Association and the Greater Yellowstone Coalition.

Tom Winsor
President and General Manager
Belvoir Equine Group

Tom Winsor, President and General Manager of Belvoir Equine Group, started his publishing efforts in 1994 with the launch of his first consumer newsletter, The Trail Less Traveled. With successes and failures, he continued to build his company through launches and acquisitions including Ride with Bob Avila, Spin to Win and Trail Rider magazines.  In 2004 Tom developed a partnership with Belvoir Media Group to form Belvoir Equine Group (BEG) which currently employs 21 people producing more then 3,600 magazine and newsletter pages a year. BEG currently publishes three magazines-- Perfect Horse, Trail Rider and Spin To Win; a consumer reports style newsletter for the equine industry, The Horse Journal and a continuity book series, The John Lyons Library.