Magellan Media Principals
Brian O'Leary
| Vicki Sell | David
L. Smith | Greg Zorthian
BRIAN O'LEARY
- Founder and Principal, Magellan Media
- Senior Associate, Publishing and Media Group, an
industry-focused management consultancy
- Senior VP/Associate Publisher, Hammond Inc. (1995
- 1998)
- Directed database development, editorial content,
production and operations
- Restructured editorial operations to benefit from
prior technology investments
- Substantially increased the development of new products
- Time Inc. (1983 - 1995)
- As Time production director, improved average
subscriber delivery by a day
- Created 4-week ad close at Time and Entertainment
Weekly
- Member of the core management team that launched
Entertainment Weekly
- Advanced the close schedule for People by
20 hours
- In Singapore, ran Time's Southeast Asia production
operation
- M.B.A., Harvard Business School
- A.B., Harvard College
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VICKI SELL
- Principal, Magellan Media
- Publishing and Media Group, an industry-focused management
consultancy
- Served as Principal, Managing Associate and Senior
Associate (1993 - 2003)
- Responsible for business development, client management
and project execution
- Led process design and benchmarking practice with
functional engagements in advertising, circulation,
fulfillment and content management
- Directed and consulted on over 50 strategic engagements
on behalf of consumer and trade magazine clients in
diverse markets
- Assignments addressed client needs for revenue development,
repositioning launch strategy and acquisition assessment
- Additional focus on primary and secondary research
approaches to support market sizing, competitive analysis
and strategic decision-making
- Lang Communications (Working Woman /Working
Mother)
- American Health
- B.A., University of Colorado
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DAVID L. SMITH
- Senior Advisor, Magellan Media
- Chief Operating Officer, collegeboard.com
- Vice-President, General Manager, BusinessWeek Online
- Vice President, Editorial, Marketing & Production,
SportsMedia, Inc.
- Time Inc.
- Production Director, People
- Production Director, Fortune
- Promotion Director, Fortune
- Promotion Manager, Vanity Fair, Conde Nast
- M.F.A. Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
- M.A., McGill University, Montreal, Quebec
- B.A. Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
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GREG ZORTHIAN
- Senior Advisor, Magellan Media
- Significant roles in general management, consumer
and direct marketing, business development, finance
and international publishing
- Past member, Magazine Directors' Advisory Committee,
ABC
- VP, BusinessWeek Online (2000 - 2002)
- VP, Business Development, Forbes Inc. (1994 –
2000)
- Launched eight businesses, including Forbes Global
- Directed Forbes Global/Asia
- Oversaw consumer marketing
- Time Inc. (1981 - 1994)
- As Time GM, negotiated the magazine's first AOL partnership
- GM and business manager, Fortune
- Directed Fortune International and Fortune's two
European joint ventures
- Circulation director, Magazine Development
- M.B.A., Harvard Business School
- B.A., Yale University
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