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Mentoring Breakfast Series
Organized by the Media Management Association and The Media Program, the mentoring breakfast series brings together a senior media executive with a small group of first- and second-year students for an informal discussion of current trends in the media industry as well as career paths and opportunities.
2013-2014 Mentoring Breakfasts:
- February 17 — Todd Yellin, VP Product Innovation, Netflix
- January 30 — Ben Luban '09, Global Head of Business Development, GrubHub Seamless Inc.
- November 21 — Christopher Barry '99, Managing Director for Digital and International Strategy, A&E
Past hosts have included:
- Mark Almeida, Sr. Managing Director, Moody’s
- Bob Bakish ’89, EVP Operations, Viacom
- William Bardeen ’04, VP Strategy & Corporate Development, NY Times
- Chris Barry ’99, VP Business Development and Operations, Sundance Channel
- Bruce Campbell, EVP Business Development, NBC Universal Global Networks
- Cheryl Chotrani ’06, Director Global Branding & Syfy Ventures, NBC Universal
- Wade Davis, SVP Strategy, Mergers & Acquisitions, Viacom
- Michael Dolan ’77, President & COO, IMG Worldwide
- John Eastman, entertainment lawyer, Eastman & Eastman
- Stuart Epstein, Chief Financial Officer, NBCUniversal
- Shana Fisher, SVP of M&A and Strategy, IAC
- Richard Gay, EVP Strategy & Business Operations, VH1
- Michael Hansen ’89, Chief Executive Officer, Elsevier Health Sciences
- Katherine Hays, COO, Massive
- William Kerr, Chairman, Meredith
- Dhiraj Kumar, Mobile Strategist, Facebook
- Anton J. Levy ’03, Managing Director, General Atlantic
- John Martin ’94, CFO, Time Warner Cable
- Jarrod Moses, CEO and Founder, United Entertainment Group
- Steve Newhouse of Condé Nast (pictured above)
- Jason Rapp ’99, SVP Mergers & Acquisitions, IAC
- Arne Rees, VP, Assistant to the President, ESPN
- Andres Sadler, SVP Strategy, Wolters Kluwer
- Alexander Saint-Amand, President and CEO, Gerson Lehrman Group
- Ann Sarnoff, COO, BBC Worldwide America
- Eric Schmidt, Director of Business Development, MTV Networks
- Pete Sheinbaum, CEO, Daily Candy
- Scott Singer, Principal, Deloitte Financial Advisory Services
- Sheila Spence, SVP, Corporate Development, WPP Group USA
- Oakleigh Thorne ’86, Chairman & CEO, eCollege
- Max von Zuben '04, Principal, Wicks Group
- Richard Zannino, CEO, Dow Jones
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