Media Forum

Acting as a dynamic bridge between the media industry and the Columbia Business School community, the Media Forum is an invitation-only group formed in 1995 to facilitate the exchange of ideas and best practices among senior-level executives and investors in the media industry and thought leaders from relevant academic disciplines. In addition to occasional breakfasts and lunches, an annual Forum meeting is held each spring to foster high-level discussions of economic and business trends that are of particular strategic significance to the sector. Current Forum members are listed below. 

AMC Networks
Charlie Collier '98, President & General Mgr, AMC
Sean S. Sullivan '98, EVP & CFO

AOL
Arthur Minson '97, COO

Atlantic Media LLC
Justin B. Smith, President

Bloomberg L.P.
Norman Pearistine, Chief Content Officer

Cablevision
Gregg G. Seigert, EVP & CFO

Cambridge Information Group
Andrew Snyder, CEO

CBS Corporation
Joseph Ianniello ‘96, EVP & CFO

Dice Holdings
Scot W. Melland, Chairman, President & CEO

DirecTV
Michael White, Chairman, Pres, & CEO

ESPN
Arne Rees, VP International Digital Media

Fried Films
Robert Fried '83, President, Fried Films & CEO,
Ideation Acquistion Corp

General Atlantic
Anton Levy '03, Managing Director

George Little Management
Charles McCurdy '83, Chairman & CEO

GoldenTree Asset Management
Steve Shapiro, Founding Partner &
Sr Portfolio Manager

Hearst Corporation
James Asher, SVP & Chief Legal and
Development Officer

IMG Worldwide
Michael Dolan '77, Chairman & CEO

KKR
Alexander Navab, Head of Media & Communications
Industry Team and Co-Head of North American
Private Equity Business

The McGraw-Hill Companies
Glenn Goldberg, President, Information & Media
Charles L. Teschner Jr., EVP Global Strategy & Corporate Development
 

Moody's Corporation
Raymond McDaniel, President & CEO

NBC Universal
Adam L. Miller, Executive Vice President

News Corporation
Brian Murray, President & CEO, Harper Collins Publishers Worldwide

New York Times
Michael Golden, Vice Chairman

The Nielsen Company
Mitch Barns, President, Global Client Service

Pearson plc
Philip Hoffman, EVP

Playboy Enterprises Inc.
Scott Flanders, CEO

Reed Elsevier
Youngsuk Chi '84, Chairman, Elsevier Management Committee

Spotify
Jared Grusd ‘06, Head of Corporate Development & General Counsel

Thomson Reuters
Steven Schwartz, Global Managing Director, Reuters News Agency

Thorndale Farm, LLC
Oakleigh Thorne '86, Chairman

Time Warner
James Burston '94, SVP

Time Warner Cable
Christian Lee '07, VP Investments

United Business Media
Ninan Chacko, CEO, PR Newswire

Viacom
Robert Bakish '89, President & CEO, Viacom International
Media Networks

Warburg Pincus
Mark Colodny, Managing Director

The Washington Post Company
Ann McDaniel, SVP

Wolters Kluwer
Andres Sadler, SVP Strategy

WPP
Sir Martin Sorrell, CEO