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As
a
life long fan of all kinds of media,
one of the people I most look forward to
seeing and chatting with at domain
conferences is NameMedia
Chairman and CEO Kelly Conlin.
Kelly is one of the few high level
executives who has very successfully
transitioned from traditional media to the
digital media world and is completely
comfortable on both sides of the
fence.
Before
coming to NameMedia (the parent company of
domain industry powerhouses Afternic
and BuyDomains),
Conlin filled leadership roles at some of
the world's iconic media outlets including
CNN, where he was the Chief
Assignment Editor in New York during the
network’s start-up era, and the New
York Times, where he worked on
both the editorial side of the newspaper
and on the business side of the
company’s magazine group.
Kelly
went on from there to serve as President
(and later added CEO duties) at IDG,
the world’s leading technology media
company, with more than 500
targeted publications, websites, |
Kelly
Conlin
NameMedia Chairman & CEO |
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subscription
research services and events in more than 85
countries. In his last stop before
coming to NameMedia he was the President
and CEO at Primedia, the
country’s leading special interest media
company, with more than 100 brands
operating through print, online, event and
video platforms. |
Having
been named one of the Top 5 executives in the
entire business publishing field by Media
Industry Magazine, the Harvard
Business School graduate's advice
and counsel is valued throughout the media
world. That was illustrated again today when the
E.W.
Scripps Company, one of America's
biggest newspaper and TV ownership groups,
announced
that Conlin has been
nominated to serve on the Scripps board and will
stand for election by the Common Voting
shareholders at the May 1 annual
meeting.
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Scripps
reached out to Conlin in the course of
some major board changes at the
90-year-old Cincinnati based company. Nackey
E. Scagliotti, a great-granddaughter
of the founder, Edward Willis Scripps,
notified the board that she will retire
from service after the annual meeting and
will not stand for re-election. The
board’s nominating committee has
recommended that Rich Boehne, who
has been the CEO and a director since
2008, replace Ms. Scagliotti as the board’s
chair. With the CEO serving as chair, the
board will also select a lead
independent director from among the
directors elected in May.
Scripps
owns and operates 19 television
stations in |
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markets
including Denver, San Diego, Detroit,
Phoenix, Cleveland, Cincinnati and my home
town - Tampa, Florida, as well as 13
newspapers in cities including
Memphis, Knoxville, Naples, Florida and
Corpus Christi, Texas. As the company
positions itself to adapt and grow in a
new media world they couldn't have a
better advisor on board that Kelly. |
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