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Chanmo Ahn, the founder and Chief Executive of Beehive Communications, Inc., is a communications specialist, entrepreneur, and journalist. Incorporated in both Korea and the U.S., Beehive Communications, Inc. is a boutique consulting firm that specializes in cross-cultural communication strategies, research, and investigative reporting. At Beehive, Chanmo provides consultative services including communication strategies, strategic networking, and international program planning to government, civic, academic, corporate, banking, and media organizations in the U.S. and Korea.
Prior to founding his own company in 2006, Chanmo served as Press Advisor at the U.S. Embassy in Seoul (1998-2006), where he earned the prestigious "U.S. Department of State Employee (Foreign Service National) of the Year" Award, and worked as a communications specialist for Samsung, a Seoul-based global conglomerate (1994-1998). Chanmo currently lives in a suburb of Charlotte, North Carolina, with his wife and two daughters.
John Barron is the Publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times and Senior Vice President of News and Editorial for its parent company, Sun-Times Media.
Barron is also President and Publisher of the company’s Pioneer Press Newspapers, a collection of 32 weeklies in the Chicago area. He also serves as Group Publisher for Sun-Times Media’s seven other daily papers.
At the Chicago Sun-Times, Barron has held a variety of leadership posts, including General Manager, Editor in Chief, Executive Managing Editor and Features Editor.
Prior to joining the Sun-Times in 1995, Barron was Editor of Detroit Monthly, the city magazine of metro Detroit, published by Crain Communications, Inc.
While in Detroit, Barron also wrote a weekly video column for the Detroit News and was an entertainment correspondent for WXYT-AM.
He began his career as an assistant editor at Crain’s Chicago Business.
Barron serves on the Boards of the Illinois Press Association, the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, the Greater Chicago Food Depository, the Chicago Sinfonietta, Gilda’s Club Chicago and the Illinois First Amendment Center.
He is also a member of the College of Communication advisory boards at Marquette University and DePaul University.
A native of Chicago, Barron attended Marquette University in Milwaukee. He lives in Oak Park with his wife, Maureen, and two daughters.
Principal & Founder
- Ashoka Lifetime Fellow and Purpose Prize Fellow
- Former VP Production, WQED
- Executive Producer of the PBS award-winning environmental sustainability project Edens Lost&Found
- Executive Producer of the acclaimed PBS caregiving project And Thou Shalt Honor
- Former Executive Producer of Kennedy Center Tonight
- Former Executive Producer of Wonder Works
- Production Awards: Academy Award (Woodstock), Peabody Award, 2 Christophers, 2 Emmys, 4 Children's Acts
Eleanor Bloxham is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of The Value Alliance Company and the Corporate Governance Alliance, a board and senior executive education, information and advisory firm, which she
founded in 1999. She is recognized internationally as an authority on corporate governance and valuation.
She is an author who has written extensively on corporate governance, valuation, public policy, financial services, leadership and management topics. She is a regular contributor to Fortune.com and Accountability Central, the author of two books, two book chapters, and numerous articles published by, among others, Chief Executive Magazine, Corporate Board Member, Directors Monthly, Directorship Magazine, International Finance and Treasury, Bank Accounting and Finance, American Banker, National Underwriter, Valuation Issues, Shareholder Value Magazine, CFO, Corporate Finance Review, the Wharton Leadership Digest, Financial Executive, Corporate Governance Advisor, Wealth Management Exchange, Journal of Strategic Performance Measurement, Executive Talent, Journal of Cost Management, Journal of Environmental Investing, Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment and numerous banking publications. Previously, she was a columnist for NIRI's IR Update.
She has authored a library of over 800 short educational taped segments and transcripts of conversations with executives, members of boards, public policy makers and institutional investors entitled Conversations that Build a Bridge of TrustTM. She writes her own blog The Bloxham Voice and publishes (with John M. Nash, Founder of the National Association of Corporate Directors) The Corporate Governance Alliance Digest, a publication which has been recognized by leading academic and other institutions, and read by CEOs, board members, senior managers, regulators and investors across the globe, including Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe and the Americas.
H. Iris Chyi, Ph.D. is an assistant professor in Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin. Specializing in the economics of new media and online journalism, she leads the Media Economics Research Group, which conducts research to demystify the (often misunderstood) economic nature of online content with reality-based data and logical reasoning. Her work has been recognized by the 2010 University of Texas at Austin College of Communication Faculty Research Award and published in major journalism, media management and economics journals. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, her M.A. from Stanford University, and her B.A. from National Taiwan University.
As a technology reporter turned new media scientist, David Cohn is the founder of Spot.us, a Web site pioneer in community-funded reporting. Cohn has written for numerous publications including Wired and the New York Times. He is a board member of NewsTrust and has participated in journalism experiments like NewAssignment.Net. He holds a master’s in new media from Columbia University and a bachelor’s from the University of California, Berkeley.
Jason Collington is the web editor of the Tulsa World in Tulsa, Okla. He is in charge of supervising all digital products for the newspaper. Before being named editor, he was the web content coordinator. He is an Oklahoma State University graduate and teaches a class in Internet Communication at OSU.
Charles Crumpley is the editor of the Los Angeles Business Journal.
Two professional organizations that represent business journalism each gave the L.A. Business Journal the top award for general excellence last year. In fact, one of those organizations (the Society of American Business Editors and Writers) gave the Business Journal its highest award, called “Best of the Best.” In April 2011, SABEW gave the Business Journal three awards, one each for outstanding investigative, explanatory and feature articles.
As editor, Crumpley oversees news coverage and writes a weekly opinion column. He also compiles the Page 3 column, which is about the personal lives of L.A.’s executives and business owners.
For most of his career, Crumpley has been a reporter and editor at daily newspapers. Before joining the Business Journal in January 2006, he had been business editor of the daily paper in New Orleans, The Times-Picayune, for three years. He was born in Kansas City, Mo., and spent much of his early career at The Kansas City Star.
As a reporter and writer, Crumpley won four national journalism awards, including the National Press Club’s top award for consumer journalism. Crumpley was a Fulbright scholar to Japan, and he and his family lived for a year in Tokyo. He is married to his high school sweetheart. They have five children.
Ken Doctor, a leading news industry analyst, is the author of “Newsonomics: Twelve New Trends That Will Shape the News You Get” (St. Martin’s Press). It’s a handbook for the digital news decade to come. Newsonomics.com, with its new 5-Spot feature tracking the trends, is a daily, updated web companion to the book. As news industry analyst for Outsell, a global research and advisory firm, and through his own Content Bridges company, he covers the transformation of the news media, as it moves from print and broadcast to digital, focusing on changing business models and the journalism created.
Stephanie Durand is Media Development Manager for the UNAOC. She is working on outreach and development, in particular of Global Experts, an online resource that connects prominent experts with journalists around the world and works with editors to syndicate articles. She previously worked at Sciences Po Paris as associate director subsequently at the international affairs division and at the Graduate School of Journalism. Of Franco-German origin, she holds a master’s degree from Sciences Po Paris and the London School of Economics in International Affairs, and an executive master in media management from Sciences Po.
Justin Ellis is an assistant editor at the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University, where he writes about the future of the media industry. A former columnist, blogger and podcast host, he began as a reporter covering local government and would go on to cover the inauguration of President Barack Obama. He has written for such publications as the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram and MaineBiz, reported for Portland-based TV station WMTW, served as a fellow at the Knight Digital Media Center and researcher at Investigative Reporters and Editors. Originally from Minnesota, Justin is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and currently lives in the Boston area.
Alan English was named executive editor of The Augusta Chronicle in March 2009 and was elected to the Associated Press Managing Editors board of directors and served as the 2010 conference program chair. Prior, he had been editor of the Gannett-owned newspaper The Times in Shreveport, La., since April 2004. Before that, he was the Times' managing editor for four years.
In the last two years, you have seen many changes in the Chronicle and its presence online – and now in the iPad. They launched a unique digital subscription model while retaining page views online. Recent public service journalism efforts receiving attention are the Chronicle's water testing package, crime analysis and Iraq war dead effort. The Chronicle celebrated its 225th anniversary and produced its heftiest Masters coverage in recent history for the 75th playing of the tournament, achieving new revenue heights and Web traffic records. He led the launch of the first independent paid Masters coverage app on multiple platforms. He also is member of corporate task forces for mobile and news strategy.
Alan English is approaching 25 years of experience in journalism. He started as a photographer with the Knoxville Journal in Knoxville, Tenn., in 1987. He worked as a photo editor for several newspapers, was photo director for Gannett Suburban Newspapers in White Plains, N.Y., and an assistant managing editor at the Democrat and Chronicle in Rochester, N.Y. There, he led transformations in digital technology and digital publishing experiments in the 1990s and even had a stint as interim managing editor at the Democrat and Chronicle. He was named supervisor of the year in 1998. He also was an adjunct professor of electronic and visual journalism at the Rochester Institute of Technology at that time.
During English's tenure in Shreveport, the newspaper won national and state awards for coverage of Hurricane Katrina LSU coverage and the Columbia shuttle disaster. He has been a speaker at national conferences and served on industry panels and boards. English also has been recognized for leading diversity in news coverage as an APME McGruder nominee and ASNE Pacesetter.
Education: Rochester Institute of Technology, Bachelor of Fine Arts, 1987, Narrative and documentary photography (transferring from the University of Tennessee, 1985).
Roger Fidler is an internationally recognized new media pioneer and visionary. He is best known for his vision of digital newspapers and mobile reading devices, which he conceived and first wrote about in 1981. As Director of New Media for Knight-Ridder Inc. in the 1990s, he pursued his vision at the company’s Information Design Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado. In 1994, his team at the lab produced a video titled “The Tablet Newspaper: A Vision for the Future” that demonstrated how people might one day read newspapers and magazines on tablets. The video has gone viral on the Web since the announcement of the Apple iPad.
As program director for digital publishing at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI), Fidler coordinates digital publishing research projects and the Digital Publishing Alliance, a member-supported initiative that includes The New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Washington Post. He has been at RJI since 2004 when he was named as the first Reynolds Journalism Fellow. At the time of his appointment he was a tenured professor of journalism and information design in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Kent State University in Ohio.
In addition to serving as Knight-Ridder’s Director of New Media, Fidler founded and directed the Knight-Ridder Graphics Network (now McClatchy/Tribune Graphic Service), the first computer-based news graphics service (1983-1988), and PressLink, the first global intranet for the newspaper industry (1985-1991). He also was a member of Knight-Ridder’s videotex development team, and served as the first director of design for the company’s pioneering consumer online service known as Viewtron (1979-1983).
Fidler began his career in 1962 doing a little bit of everything at a weekly newspaper in Eugene, Oregon. A year later the Eugene Register-Guard hired him as a science writer and illustrator. His early career took him from Oregon to Pacific Stars and Stripes in Tokyo as the Sunday magazine editor and editorial art director, to the St. Petersburg Times as a features editor, and to the Detroit Free Press as the paper’s first design director and editorial systems manager.
For his innovative work in digital publishing, Fidler was named one of four finalists in 2003 for the prestigious World Technology Award in Media and Journalism and inducted as a World Technology Network Fellow. In 2004, he was again named as a finalist.
Fidler is the author of Mediamorphosis: Understanding New Media (Pine Forge Press, 1997) and numerous articles and book chapters. In 1999, the Freedom Forum Newseum honored Fidler as an electronic news pioneer and one of history’s “Most Intriguing Newspeople” in its book Crusaders, Scoundrels, Journalists (Eric Newton, ed., Times Books/Random House). He is a frequent speaker at conferences worldwide on topics relating to digital publishing, new media and the future of print media.
He attended the University of Oregon (1962-66) and earned a Master’s Degree in Journalism and Mass Communication from Kent State University in 1999. In 2004 he was inducted into the University of Oregon School of Journalism’s Hall of Achievement.
Joan T.A. Gabel is the Robert J. Trulaske, Sr. Dean at the Trulaske College of Business at the University of Missouri.
Dean Gabel previously served as a DeSantis Professor and chair of the Department of Risk Management/Insurance, Real Estate & Legal Studies at the Florida State University (FSU) College of Business. She also was director of International Relations for the College of Business at FSU.
As chair for the Department of Risk Management, Real Estate & Legal Studies at FSU, Gabel oversaw two undergraduate majors, core courses in both the undergraduate and graduate curriculum, a specialization within the MBA program, and a specialized masters program in risk management.
Dean Gabel joined Florida State University in 2007 after serving on the faculty of the Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University for 11 years. At Georgia State, she was interim director of the Institute of International Business and faculty director of the Atlanta Compliance and Ethics Roundtable.
As a faculty member, Dean Gabel has taught legal and ethical business classes; led graduate global business seminars in Chile, Australia and Argentina; and also taught in Italy, France and Egypt. Her research interests include corporate governance and employment law issues, and she has been published in several premier scholarly journals including The American Business Law Journal and The Journal of Business Ethics.
She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Charles M. Hewitt Teaching Award, the Kay Duffy Service Award and the Bunche, Kemper and Holmes-Cardozo Awards for Excellence in Research. Her work also has been placed on the National Law Journal’s “Worth Reading” list. Dean Gabel has served as editor-in-chief of the American Business Law Journal and the Journal of Legal Studies in Business. She received her bachelor’s degree from Haverford College and her juris doctorate from the University of Georgia.
Conan Gallaty is the Online Director for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, a division of WEHCO Media. He oversees all internet operations, editorial and sales for Little Rock and surrounding markets.
Prior to his current role, Conan was the Director of Online Strategy and Operations for Herald-Tribune Media Group, a division of the New York Times Regional Media Group. Before that, he was Online Director for The Augusta Chronicle, a Morris Communications newspaper located in Augusta, Georgia.
In his 13 years working in online media, Conan has been awarded four Digital Edge awards from the Newspaper Association of America and three Editor and Publisher (EPPY) awards for his work at newspaper Web sites for excellence in news, design, and advertising innovation.
Conan began his career as a journalist, starting in the newsroom of the News-Tribune in his hometown of Rome, Georgia. He is a graduate of the University of Georgia with degrees in Journalism and Business.
Mike Jenner, an award-winning editor with a strong history of innovation, is the Houston Harte Endowed Chair at the Missouri School of Journalism. Jenner focuses on innovation's role in journalism.
In 2010 Jenner joined the faculty from The Bakersfield Californian, the family-owned community daily newspaper where he was a leader for almost 17 years, 11 of them as top editor.
Jenner works closely with all areas at the School and Missouri's Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute, a world-class center for researching and testing new models of journalism. He is involved in teaching, research and in identifying, testing and promoting new business models and approaches to journalism.
Jenner joined The Californian in 1993 as managing editor. He launched the company's interactive media division, developing Bakersfield.com. He was then appointed top editor. Under his leadership, The Californian became known as a champion of watchdog reporting and a feisty local paper. Through a focus on transparency and ethics, Jenner helped develop an enduring bond with readers.
Under Jenner's leadership, The Californian became an early leader in convergence journalism and one of the first Web-first newsrooms in the country. It was one of the first papers to develop live-blogging as a reporting tool, from trials, meetings and other live events. It was an early adapter to video, with all reporters producing video. The newsroom was an audience-focused newsroom, with all staffers trained in attributes and interests of target reader groups. It also was a leader in citizen journalism and user-generated content. Jenner led the newsroom through two radical reorganizations, and as a Learning Newsroom participant, helped change the culture from closed and defensive to open and constructive.
Prior to joining The Californian, Jenner was the managing editor of the Hartford Courant. He also served in a variety of roles at The Philadelphia Inquirer, Columbia (Mo.) Daily Tribune, Coffeyville (Kan.) Journal and Hattiesburg (Miss.) American, and worked as a consultant for several years, working with newspapers of varying size across the country.
Jenner earned his bachelor's degree from the Missouri School of Journalism in 1975.
Houston Harte Chair in Journalism
The family of Houston Harte, BJ '15, co-founder of the Harte-Hanks newspaper group, established the Houston Harte Chair in Journalism. Harte bought his first newspaper while still a student at the Missouri School of Journalism. At his death, he was chairman of the executive committee of Harte-Hanks Newspapers, Inc., which owned 19 newspapers and one television station. The Houston Harte Chair works as a teaching editor at the Columbia Missourian, the general-circulation daily newspaper operated by the school and staffed by students. The Houston Harte Chair shares his expertise through classroom teaching, industry outreach, and by working with students and professionals in the school's lab newsrooms.
Donald W. Reynolds Endowed Chair in Business Journalism
The Donald W. Reynolds Foundation awarded the Missouri School of Journalism a $2 million grant to establish the Donald W. Reynolds Endowed Chair in Business Journalism in 2008. The chair is the second in business journalism at the School, joining the Society of American Business Editors and Writers Chair, established in 2000. The Reynolds Chair works with other Missouri faculty to increase undergraduate and master's course offerings at the School. The chair also works with journalism professionals and Reynolds Business Journalism Chairs at other universities to offer advanced training in business and financial journalism for working journalists. Working with other faculty and staff of Missouri's Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute, the Reynolds Chair helps develop, test and write about new digital models of journalism and advertising.
Emma S. Hibbs/Frederick C. Middlebush Chair in Entrepreneurship, Professor of Management. B.S. University of Miami, 1982; PhD Texas A&M University, 1992. He is a member of the Academy of Management, Strategic Management Society, Academy of International Business and the Southern Management Association. His research interests include corporate restructuring and governance (both domestic and international), IPOs and strategy and governance changes in the pre- and post-IPO firm, international diversification and corporate social performance. His teaching interests are in the areas of strategic management, entrepreneurship, organization change and research methods. He has received several research and teaching awards. His publications appear in the Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies and Business and Society, among others. He currently serves on the editorial review boards of Organization Science and the Journal of Management and has served on the Academy of Management Journal editorial review board. Before rejoining the College of Business at the University of Missouri he was a faculty member and holder of the Puterbaugh Chair in American Enterprise in the Price College at the University of Oklahoma.
James M. (Jim) Kennedy has responsibility for the digital product portfolio of The Associated Press and also leads strategic planning across all divisions of the world's largest news organization.
He began his second stint with The Associated Press in 2001, after two years as executive director of product planning for The Wall Street Journal Online, also known as WSJ.com. Before moving to the Journal, he spent 13 years at AP, first as business news editor and later as the founding director of the news agency's multimedia department.
As business editor of AP, Kennedy led the agency’s award-winning coverage of the stock market crash in 1987 and oversaw the development of new data services that first enabled newspapers to customize their listings of stocks and mutual funds. In 1995, he was tapped to lead a new department that created The WIRE, AP’s first Web-based news service, honored in 1999 by the Smithsonian Institution.
Kennedy has been a board member and president of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, a founding member of the Media Center at the American Press Institute, and a founder and board member of the Online News Association.
He began his journalism career at The Ogdensburg (N.Y.) Journal as a reporter and later managing editor. He also spent several years as a bureau chief, foreign correspondent and business editor for The Tampa (Fla.) Tribune before moving to AP.
He is a 1975 graduate of Amherst College, where he majored in American Studies. He and his wife, Cindy, live in Pleasantville, N.Y. They have two daughters, both journalists.
Wangui is a fellow in the Alfred Friendly Press Fellowship attached to the Columbia Missourian for five months.
Wangui has worked as a business reporter since 2006 for Business Daily, part of the Nation Media Group in Nairobi, Kenya, and primarily covers the tourism and transport sector for the newspaper but also contributes to travel, lifestyle and other sections of the newspaper.
In 2003 Wangui received a bachelor’s degree in Journalism from the United States International University in Kenya and in 2005 received a Master’s degree in International Relations from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.
During the five months in the US Wangui will be learning about American journalism with a goal to improve her writing and interviewing skills as well as to write shorter and accurate stories.
Adam Maksl is in his second year Ph.D. student at the University of Missouri. He also works as a research and teaching assistant. Before coming to Mizzou, he was an instructor and assistant director of workshops in the Department of Journalism at Ball State University. He coordinated workshops for high school journalism teachers and students and helped out in marketing and recruitment for the department and college. Before Ball State, he briefly taught high school journalism and English.
Professor Mantrala is a member of INFORMS (the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) and the American Marketing Association. Previously, he was J.C. Penney Associate Professor of marketing at the University of Florida, Gainesville, and also been a visiting faculty at Chicago, Columbia, Duke, Indian School of Business, Rutgers, Vanderbilt, Washington-St. Louis, and WHU-Koblenz Universities. He has spent several years at ZS Associates Inc., a sales and marketing strategy consulting firm headquartered in Evanston, Illinois. His research interests focus on retail pricing and category management, pharmaceuticals marketing, marketing decision models, sales force resource allocation and compensation strategies. Professor Mantrala has published articles in Marketing Science, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Retailing, International Journal of Research in Marketing, Marketing Letters, Interfaces, Managerial and Decision Economics, and European Journal of Operational Research. He serves on the editorial boards of Marketing Science, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Retailing, Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management, and as a Guest Area Editor of the International Journal of Research in Marketing. He is co-editor of the book Retailing in the 21st Century: Current and Emerging Trends (Springer 2006). In 2008, he co-chaired the 2nd Biennial Enhancing Sales Force Productivity Conference at Kiel, and the 43rd AMA Sheth Foundation Doctoral Consortium at the University of Missouri.
Craig Matsuda is a communications, management and strategy consultant based in Los Angeles. His clients have included Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the Silicon Valley news start-up Ongo, the Knight Digital Media Center at USC Annenberg's Journalism and Communication School and others. He was a senior editor at the Los Angeles Times, where his two-decade career included senior assignment editor posts in International News, Editorial and Opinion, Features and Newsroom Administration. An adjunct professor now at Southwestern Law School (he is not a lawyer), Matsuda has served on the faculty at USC, the Maynard Institute, the Poynter Institute and the American Press Institute. He is on the advisory board of the Alfred Friendly Press Fellowships Foundation, has worked with the Daniel Pearl Foundation and was an active member of the Asian American Journalists Assn., serving on its Los Angeles and National boards. He also has reported or edited for Time Magazine, the Denver Post, Miami Herald and Houston Chronicle and was an intern at the Chicago Tribune, Detroit Free Press and Binghamton, N.Y., Evening Press. He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees in journalism at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill.
Amy McCombs is a chief executive and business leader with broad-based experience in the information media, financial service, higher education and nonprofit sectors. She is widely acknowledged for transforming traditional, legacy-based organizations into proactive businesses ready to respond to changing competitive, regulatory and technology environments. McCombs was at the forefront of technological advances and the creation of news content for multiple media platforms.
McCombs spent the majority of her career in media with executive management responsibilities at both the Chronicle Publishing Company in San Francisco and the Broadcast Division of the Washington Post Company. She was the president and CEO of Chronicle Broadcasting with properties in San Francisco, Omaha and Kansas. She pioneered bundling content and revenue between cable, Internet, and broadcast TV. While at the Broadcast Division of the Washington Post Company, McCombs served with increasing responsibility and led the turnaround of underperforming stations in mature markets during a period of economic crises in the 1970s and 1980s.
McCombs is currently the interim president of the Presidio Graduate School. Heralded as a pioneer, Presidio offers a range of degree programs including an MBA, MPA and dual MBA/MPA in sustainable management. Based in San Francisco, Presidio is regionally accredited and has been recognized by Fast Company as one of the top five green MBA programs in the country.
She serves on the advisory board of Newsy.com a digital media innovator combining news content with emerging technologies. For nearly 20 years, McCombs was a member of the board of directors of the Auto Club Group (ACG) in Dearborn, Michigan serving as board chair, and over the years, chair of the investment, finance and executive committees. ACG is one of the largest and most influential members of the American Automobile Association with revenues over $1.25 billion.
McCombs has been included in the San Francisco Business Times 50 Most Influential Business Women in the Bay Area and is the recipient of numerous media awards and honors including the Missouri Honor Medal for Distinguished Service in Journalism and the First Amendment Freedom Award from B'Nai Brith Anti-Defamation League.
McCombs is actively involved in professional associations as well as national and local cultural organizations. She has spoken extensively at conferences and symposia on technology and the media and has received numerous awards and recognition. McCombs holds a master's degree in journalism and bachelor's degrees in political science and journalism, all from the University of Missouri. McCombs continued her education at the senior executive program of Graduate School of Business at Stanford University and the National Association of Broadcasters General Management Program at the Harvard Business School, Harvard University.
Logan Molen is the chief operating officer at The Bakersfield Californian and oversees news content, digital media and information systems. He has 25 years of daily newspaper and digital journalism experience, and has led the launch of more than 25 local websites and mobile products. He blogs on a variety of topics at loganmolen.com and tweets @lmolen
Jean-Raymond Naveau is a twenty years veteran software product manager with expertise to drive a development effort from roadmap through launch.
He relocates his family from Belgium to the Silicon Valley in 1997 to help Oracle market its softwares for the transition to the euro (2002) and for the inception of shared services When he does not surf, his son majors in Biology at UCSB; his daughter, a UCSB alumnus, who majored in Biology and minored in French and Spanish, will attend Med School at USC in Fall 2011. During his 10 year tenure at Atlanta-based MSA, he operated from the European Development lab in Brussels, Belgium to commercialize international releases of US-domestic financial softwares in nascent and established markets. After MSA was merged with Dun & Bradstreet-owned McCormack & Dodge, he temporarily relocated to HQ in Atlanta, GA to ensure the internationalization of the first release of D&b Software's SmartStream® client-server suite of financial and manufacturing / distribution products.
He embraces entrepreneurship in 2008 and is co-founder of the Global IPR Exchange. Global IPR Exchange Corporation was to launch an highly automated marketplace for the licensing of patent rights, an "eBay" for patents. In 2010, he joins Chris Shipley's Guidewire Group, Inc. and builds the G/SCORE SELECT software platform for entrepreneurs to assess the progress of their business. G/SCORE is a standardized methodology that provides startups with actionable, unbiased feedback about their strengths and opportunities. Since 2011, he directs the development of the next generation of Loan Origination Systems ("LOS") for Calyx Software in the Cloud. Calyx Software is the #1 provider of mortgage solutions for banks, credit unions, mortgage bankers and brokers.
When he is not bragging about his two children, he is an avid reader of scientific magazines, technology news, French and English literature, and Belgian comics. During the weekend, he is found at Kelly’s French Bakery in Santa Cruz, CA, where he writes French illustrated children’s books and meets with illustrators. He believes that quantum field theory is a top-notch thriller and therefore recommends "How to Teach Physics to Your Dog" by Chad Orzel.
Miriam Pepper was named editorial page editor of The Kansas City Star in November, 2001 and vice president, editorial page, in 2007.
In her career at the newspaper she has been Readers' Representative and Associate Editor/Forum; a business columnist; political writer; projects reporter; City Hall bureau chief; Missouri legislative correspondent and an editor of a Sunday business section.
She served as a Pulitzer juror in 2011 and 2010. She was part of The Star's team coverage of the Hyatt Hotel skywalks collapse that won a public service Pulitzer Prize in 1982. She is president of the Kansas City Press Club Foundation and a past president of the Greater Kansas City Press Club, a board member of the National Conference of Editorial Writers Foundation, and a past board member of the Organization of News Ombudsmen.
She began her career at The St. Louis Post-Dispatch as a sports writer and worked for the Associated Press in Jefferson City, Mo., covering the state legislature.
She is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley. She is married to an attorney and has two adult children, a son who is a musician in Lawrence, Ks. and a daughter who is a nurse in New York City.
K.V.'s experience spans diverse industries from computer systems, internet technology, aerospace, and automotive industries across companies large and small, from NASA and GM to SGI and WebEx. Most recently, K.V. transitioned his leadership responsibilities from Zuora, a company he founded four years ago that is the leader in billing and subscription management for subscription-based businesses. He is involved with several organizations as an advisor or board member.
Most of K.V.'s experience has been developing cutting edge technologies and bringing them to market as new products or businesses. As founder of Zuora, he developed the vision and strategy along with his two co-founders, and successfully recruited a world class team, raised $21.5M from top tier venture capitalists and signed up over 100 enterprise customers within twelve months of launching the flagship product. In less than four years, Zuora has become the leader in subscription billing with customers including Sun, EMC, Reed Business Information, and Coremetrics
Prior to Zuora, K.V. spent five years at WebEx, where he was among the first fifty employees. At WebEx, he reported directly to the founder and President with strategic marketing and business development responsibilities and played a key role in the growth of this successful start-up.
K.V. has a passion for working with entrepreneurs and technologists and helping them to bring new solutions to the market. He has worked with a variety of startups to help them develop their product strategy, pricing, and go-to-market plans, often taking hands-on roles in product marketing and business development to evangelize and sign up the first customers.
K.V. is a patent holder in computing technology, and has an extensive public speaking and technical publications record, with presentations at industry conferences as well as invited talks at university and research institutions. He earned a doctorate in engineering from Iowa State University, a master's degree from the University of Missouri-Rolla, and bachelor's degree from IIT Bombay
Ochieng Rapuro is the managing editor of the Business Daily – Kenya's only daily business paper that was launched four years ago. The Business Daily is a publication of the Nation Media Group, Eastern Africa's largest media house with five newspapers, two radio stations, two TV stations and a digital division.
Mr. Rapuro has 10 years experience in business journalism and has an interest in new media research – particularly in the use of mobile phone in the delivery content in a market where access to computers and wired internet remains scanty.
The Nation Media Group is using the Business Daily as its testing ground for media convergence – adding to Mr. Rapuro's stable the task of managing the transition to new media.
Mr. Rapuro has published two books, one on people's rights, and on East Africa's regional integration project. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English, a Postgraduate Diploma in Journalism from the University of Nairobi and a Masters degree in Public Policy from the University of Potsdam, Germany.
Bob Rose is the deputy managing editor at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, where he's in charge of STLtoday.com and the organization's photo, graphics and design desks. During his 20 years in St. Louis, Rose has worked in the news, features and sports departments. He previously worked for Gannett Westchester Newspapers in New York and for the Knoxville, Tenn. Journal.
Leo Burnett once said, "Magazine advertising is to put the very heart throbs of a business into type, paper and ink." Lucy shares this same zeal for magazines in every campaign she plans. Through building strong relationships with publishers, Lucy creates multi-platform campaigns to deliver the brand message in the right environment and extend beyond the page. She handles print negotiations across all accounts; combining discounted rates, synergistic merchandising programs, and research to meet client objectives.
Lucy has a dynamic print background, including 5 years with The Richards Group in Dallas, TX, where she planned and placed numerous campaigns across multiple categories from luxury home appliances to underwear. Her passion for magazines stands out as she was recognized by Media Week for high impact, pop-up butterflies and perforated sachet campaigns for Fruit of the Loom. Lucy has extensive knowledge of the
Shelter category after working on home accounts such as Sub-Zero, Stainmaster and Thomasville. Since joining Empower, Lucy has added several accounts to her roster, including Bush Beans, Clopay, Mederma and Michaels.
Randall Smith, BJ '74, is the first Donald W. Reynolds Endowed Chair in Business Journalism. He joined the Missouri School of Journalism in August 2009. His 30-year career at The Kansas City Star began in 1979, and he has worked on both the news and business sides. Smith started as a copy editor, rising to the positions of business editor and deputy managing editor, and most recently, to director of strategic development.
Smith is a former president of the Society of American Business Writers and Editors and a recipient of the organization's Distinguished Achievement Award. He played a major role in conceiving the idea and raising the money for the School's SABEW endowed chair.
He is the vice chair and first non-family member of the board of the Alfred Friendly Press Fellowships. The author of the book "A Kenyan Journey," Smith has lectured to classes in China, Africa and the U.S. Throughout his career Smith has been involved with helping promote young minority journalists, and he played a key role in getting Knight Ridder to adopt the Rotating Internship Program, which placed more than 250 journalists into newspapers during a 20-year run.
As an editor Smith has worked with award-winning newsroom teams that have earned the profession's top awards and honors. One won a Pulitzer Prize in 1982 for coverage of the Kansas City Hyatt skywalks disaster in July 1981. Other staff recognitions include a Sigma Delta Chi award, an Eppy award, a Philip Meyer Award, 12 Missouri Press Association Gold Cups and a Nancy Dickerson Whitehead Award.
Smith received the Mizzou Alumni Association's highest recognition, the Faculty-Alumni Award, in 2005.
Donald W. Reynolds Endowed Chair in Business Journalism
The Donald W. Reynolds Foundation awarded the Missouri School of Journalism a $2 million grant to establish the Donald W. Reynolds Endowed Chair in Business Journalism in 2008. The chair is the second in business journalism at the School, joining the Society of American Business Editors and Writers Chair, established in 2000. The Reynolds Chair works with other Missouri faculty to increase undergraduate and master's course offerings at the School. The chair also works with journalism professionals and Reynolds Business Journalism Chairs at other universities to offer advanced training in business and financial journalism for working journalists. Working with other faculty and staff of Missouri's Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute, the Reynolds Chair helps develop, test and write about new digital models of journalism and advertising.
Michael Stacy is an editor for Silicon Prairie News, a website that covers the Midwest's leading entrepreneurs and creatives, focusing primarily on technology startups and venture capital. Before joining Silicon Prairie News, Stacy worked as a reporter at the Springfield (Mo.) News-Leader. He graduated from Creighton University in Omaha, Neb. with a bachelor's degree in journalism and a business certificate.
Leggett & Platt Distinguished Professor of Information Systems, Professor of Management. Ph.D. University of Kansas, 1986. He previously was a Professor in the Department of Management Information Systems at the University of Georgia. He has also served in Visiting Professor and Research Scientist roles in Belgium, Austria, and France. Professor Stam is a member of the Association for Information Systems, American Statistical Association, and Decision Sciences Institute. His primary research interests include applied artificial intelligence, decision support systems, muticriteria decision making, applied statistics, and time series analysis. He has published in a wide variety of scholarly journals, including Management Science, Decision Sciences, Journal of the American Statistical Association, European Journal of Operational Research, and Journal of Multicriteria Decision Analysis.
Reginald Stuart, a journalist, is corporate recruiter for The McClatchy Company, one of the nation's largest newspaper publishers and a major provider of online news. A journalist for more than 40 years, he got his start in 1968 as a general assignment reporter for The Nashville Tennessean, his hometown newspaper.
From the Tennessean, he went into radio and television news reporting, earned a Masters in Journalism degree in 1971 from Columbia University in the City of New York, returned to television in Nashville for a year then free-lanced for several years writing about education, politics and the economy in the post-segregation era South.
Stuart joined The New York Times in 1974 as a business reporter based in New York. He stayed with the Times for 13 years, serving as the paper's national correspondent and bureau chief in Detroit, Atlanta and Miami. His final tour for the Times was as Washington Correspondent where he covered deregulation of the nation’s broadcast, airline, telephone, trucking and railroad industries.
Stuart joined Knight Ridder in 1987 as National Affairs Correspondent in Washington for the Philadelphia Daily News. Later, he was appointed an assistant news editor in Knight Ridder’s Washington Bureau. He was an editor for seven years before leaving Knight Riddder in 1997. He returned a few months later as corporate recruiter, working with Knight Ridder's 32 newspapers to recruit news and business side talent and run its corporate early career development programs.
When Knight Ridder was acquired in June, 2006, by The McClatchy Company, Stuart joined McClatchy as corporate recruiter.
Stuart is author of "Bailout," a book about the 1980 federal bailout of the Chrysler Corporation. He has been a contributing author to five other non-fiction books, most recently a book for job seekers and a book about Nashville at the turn of the century. His writings for the former Emerge Magazine about former federal prison inmate Kemba Smith are largely credited with prompting former President Clinton to commute Smith's sentence to time served. Stuart's story on Kemba Smith is cited in the book "Muckraking," as one of the best pieces of 'journalism that makes a difference' in American history. He has also written freelance articles for Black Enterprise magazine, The New York Times Magazine, The Crisis magazine, Washingtonian, The Washington Post and Diverse Issues in Higher Education.
Stuart is a past national president of The Society of Professional Journalists. He has won numerous awards for his journalism and volunteer work including the Headliners Award for Best Television News Team Reporting, Carter G. Woodson Award for Race Reporting, The Wells Memorial Key (SPJ's highest honor), the Leadership in Diversity Award from the Asian American Journalists Association, the Ida B. Wells Award (presented by the National Association of Black Journalists and National Conference of Editorial Writers), The Robert Maynard Legacy Award presented by the National Association of Minority Media Executives, and the Alumni Award for Distinguished Service to Journalism, awarded by the journalism alumni of Columbia University.
Stuart is married, has three adult children and resides in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Patrick J. Stueve is co-founder of Stueve Siegel Hanson LLP headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. SSH represents plaintiffs and defendants in complex antitrust, business, class action, securities, wage and hour, environmental, and product liability litigation and trials. Patrick began his career clerking for United States District Court Judge John W. Oliver in the Western District of Missouri, Kansas City. He then joined the trial department of Stinson, Mag & Fizzell and became partner in 1994. He left Stinson in 1996 to found Berkowitz, Feldmiller, Stanton, Brandt, Williams & Stueve. Patrick had various management responsibilities at these firms before leaving to found Stueve Siegel in 2001. Patrick received his B.A. in Economics, with distinction, from Benedictine College in 1984, and his J.D. from the University of Kansas (Order of the Coif) in 1987, serving as an Editor of the Kansas Law Review and the Criminal Justice Review.
Patrick has served as lead trial and class counsel successfully prosecuting multi-million dollar claims in federal and state courts nationwide (and AAA arbitrations) in the areas of antitrust, trademark and patent infringement, class actions, securities fraud, telecommunications, franchise, and health care. Patrick has been elected by his peers as one of the Top 100 "Super Lawyers" in all of Missouri and Kansas and repeatedly named "Best of the Bar" by the Kansas City Business Journal. He is the past President of the Lawyers Association of Kansas City and currently is Vice-President of the Federal Courts Advocacy section of the KCMBA and serves on the Missouri Supreme Court's E-Discovery committee.
Cynthia is a successful serial entrepreneur in social web endeavors. Her first internet venture was GolfWeb, which she co-founded despite not being a golfer. On the day of launch in January 31, 1995, GolfWeb included reader reviews of golf courses and a find a playing partner social networking service. GolfWeb became a major presence in the golf world and was acquired by CBS Sportsline in 1999. While at GolfWeb Cynthia envisioned and led the development of the GolfWeb Players Club, a subscription-based social application for golfers launched in August 1997. The Players Club had member profiles, a reputation system, integration with the golf course data base, and a sophisticated social application that allowed players to track their golf game statistics (in 20 different ways!) and compare themselves to others in groups.
Based on what she learned about social interaction at GolfWeb Cynthia founded RealCommunities, a way-too-early platform for social networking and online communities. Her 2001 manifesto on The 12 Principles of Civilization became a major white paper on defining the successful web features for online social interaction. [See also the article about the 12 Principles in Fast Company magazine, September 2000.]
After doing some random consulting work in a variety of tech industries she got the idea for what is now Kachingle in 2004.
Although Cynthia has always been a technologist, not a journalist, ever since GolfWeb she felt that the content and service sites weren't getting their fair share of the revenue (or valuation) vis-à-vis search engines. Cynthia does have some experience as a journalist however a bee photo was published in the SF Chronicle, and a set of a classic articles written for GolfWeb in February 1995 at Pebble Beach:
- Ken Everett, Official Scorekeeper
- Technology in the AT&T National Pro-Am Press Room - Part A
- Technology in the AT&T National Pro-Am Press Room - Part B
Cynthia is a former director of product marketing & management, and director of standards at Sun Microsystems. She has taught courses in these subjects and online communities at the University of California Berkeley Extension. At Kachingle, she is particularly passionate about applying her knowledge and experience in creating de-facto standard platforms. Earlier in her career, she was a software developer at Bank of America.
Cynthia has a B.S. in chemistry from UC Berkeley, where she also attended graduate school in computer science, and an MBA from MIT.
Languages: American English, pathetic Spanish. Cynthia is a native Californian but has lived in Pasadena, Boston, Ivrea (Italy), Mount Vernon (MO), Panama and Silicon Valley.
What do television reporting, non-profit leadership, election campaign management and event planning all have in common? They have all helped Jennifer build a diverse skill set she draws from to create and implement impactful communications and marketing programs for RANGENCY clients.
For more than ten years, Jennifer has sharpened her ability to build strong, effective communications and marketing programs. Whether it is handling a media crisis situation, securing coverage on CNN for a local business, creating strategy for a county-wide election campaign, or organizing and managing non-profit events that raise more than $100,000, Jennifer consistently helps clients accelerate their brands to the audiences they want to reach.
A 2001 graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism, Jennifer excels in public and media relations, crisis communications, marketing planning and execution, and event design and coordination. Her ability to increase community involvement and raise awareness levels for countless corporate, non-profit and community based organizations have made her a well known as an expert in community, media and public relations, as well as event planning.
Yvette Walker teaches by day and edits by night. She is Night News Director at The Oklahoman, the daily newspaper for Oklahoma City and surrounding metro area, and the Edith Gaylord Kinney Ethics Chair at the University of Central Oklahoma.
At the Oklahoman, she supervises the news operation, overseeing late-breaking news decisions and design for the news sections of The Oklahoman. In addition, she also is responsible for the overall look and feel of the paper and supervises the editors of several special sections and niche publications. Previously, she was Director of Presentation and Custom Publishing, where she coordinated content in the features section. She headed the paper's most recent redesign to the 44-inch web.
She joined the Oklahoman in 2006, and managed online content and presentation for NewsOK.com, the paper's Web site, and was instrumental in bringing newsroom blogs onto NewsOK.
Before coming to The Oklahoman, Walker was News Editor at The Kansas City Star, where she was responsible for the front page and supervised the Universal Desk. At The Star, Walker had been Readers' Representative, met with readers and regularly responded to concerns through a column in The Star and on kansascity.com. She started The Star's first ombudsman column online. and helped launch newsroom content on kansascity.com. She has worked for several newspapers throughout the Midwest in Gary, Ind., Detroit, Dallas, Austin and Kansas City.
As the Edith Gaylord Kinney Ethics Chair at the University of Central Oklahoma, Walker teaches media ethics and is planning an ethics conference for October 2011. She also has taught editing, design, writing and media culture classes.
Walker has a Master's degree in media management from the University of Missouri-Columbia and a Bachelor's degree from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. She has been a Change Leadership fellow at the Poynter Institute, a past Unity Mentor and has completed several journalism fellowships and seminars. She is a member of the Online News Association and the National Association of Black Journalists, where she served as editor of its journal from 1998-2002.
Richard Ward is founder and CEO of CentraMart Services LLC, the provider of eCommerce services to the National Newspaper Association. He also leads Providence Publishing, LLC, a CentraMart subsidiary that manages, acquires, and creates community newspaper groups by combining print, online, mobile and interactive platforms into NewzMedia businesses. The firm owns Wyandotte Publishing Group, serving Wyandotte County, KS, the western side of the Kansas City metro. The Wyandotte Daily News, Wyandotte Marketplace and WyCoCHAMPS are anchor publications of CentraMart’s three NewzMedia prototypes. Ward also heads Providence Business Group, Inc., a strategic and business development consultancy. He also serves on governance and advisory boards for several companies and civic groups.
Ward has pursued a diversified career as a serial entrepreneur. He is a former Missouri newspaper and magazine editor and an award-winning Navy journalist during the Vietnam era. His corporate positions include successful executive careers at Fidelity National Financial, Microsoft, HomeSpace.com (an early dot-com acquired by Lending Tree) and GeoTel Corporation. At GeoTel, he founded NISCO (now NewzGroup), which owns and operates newspaper clipping services serving 13 state press associations: Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Arkansas, Kentucky, Texas, South Carolina, Colorado, North and South Dakota, New Mexico, West Virginia and Wyoming. Ward has been active in many roles at the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s Bloch School as a guest lecturer, competition judge and mentor for MBA students. University of Missouri’s President Gary Forsee has twice named him to panels to select the University’s faculty & student entrepreneurs of the year from nominees representing the system’s four campuses.
A licensed real estate broker since the 1970s, Ward has served in numerous REALTOR® leadership roles including more than a decade as a national director of the National Association of Realtors® and as a Realtor® political action committee chairman and trustee. While a political consultant, Ward participated in numerous election campaigns and briefly headed the bi-partisan National Campaign Institute in Washington, DC.
A 10-year cancer survivor, Ward is a trustee for the Urological Research Foundation, a national prostate cancer research organization based at Northwestern University. Along with other prostate cancer patients, Ward was the named lead plaintiff in a landmark national legal action to establish a patient’s right to control use of their tissue donated for medical research. His story has been recounted in The New York Times, on National Public Radio and in numerous media.
Ward co-founded VETS®, a national veteran information service provider and serves as its volunteer executive director.
Ward resides in the Kansas City metro area with his spouse, Elizabeth Healey. They are advisory board members and active supporters of Kansas City’s Operation Breakthrough and MoCASA, a state-level organization supporting court appointed special advocates for neglected and abused children. Both are graduates of the University of Missouri-Columbia and members of the school’s Jefferson Club.
Andy Waters has worked at the Tribune as a general assignment reporter, business writer/editor, city editor, head of online operations and now is the company’s general manager. His first exposure to the newsroom came as a reporting intern during summers off from Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Va. After graduating with a journalism degree, Andy worked four years for The Associated Press in Kansas City, Los Angeles and Portland, Ore. He came back to Columbia to join other family members at the Tribune full-time in 1995.
Principal & Founder
- Ashoka Lifetime Fellow and Purpose Prize Fellow
- Executive Producer of PBS's career planning series Change Your Job/Change Your Life.
- Executive Producer of the acclaimed PBS caregiving project And Thou Shalt Honor
- Executive Producer of the award-winning PBS environmental sustainability project Edens Lost&Found
- Former CEO and founding partner of Leonardo Internet (Santa Monica, CA)
- Award-winning producer/developer of multimedia distance learning courseware for PBS — 3 Emmys, Ben Franklin Award and Family Media Award Gold Medal
- Former columnist for freeagent.com's Wiland's World re. navigating the new business landscape
Steve Wyatt is vice provost for economic development at the University of Missouri.
In addition, Steve provides leadership for the Missouri Small Business Development Centers, Missouri Procurement Technical Assistance Centers, University Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Missouri Federal and State Technical program, Career Options, Missouri Market Development, Missouri Film Commission, and various environmental programs. Last year the programs served more than 20,000 participants and had nearly a half-billion dollars in economic impact.
Steve began his involvement with the University as a Missouri Small Business Development Centers (SBDC) counselor in 1987. He became the Associate Director for the Missouri SBDC in 1989. As Associate Statewide
Director, he provided leadership for the internal operations of the SBDC, provided legal assistance to University Extension and directed the Missouri Procurement Assistance Center. In 2001, Steve became the Statewide Business Development Program Director. Most recently, he was named Associate Dean in the College of Engineering and Extension Professor.
Steve served as a certified examiner for the Excellence in Missouri Foundation in 1997-1998. Since 2002, Steve has served on the Director’s Council for the national eXtension Initiative and Foundation. In 2006, the Provost selected him to chair the Existing Business Economic Development Task Force for the University.
Steve received his BS degree in business administration from the Liberty University, VA in 1986, his MBA from the University of Missouri in 1989, and his JD from the University of Missouri in 1990. He is a member of the Missouri Bar and practices Law on a part-time basis.
He is married to Tamela and has three children.
