Charles H. Townsend was named chairman of Condé Nast in January 2016, after serving as the company’s CEO for 11 years. Townsend has long been an integral member of Condé Nast’s executive management team. He joined the company as publisher of Glamour in 1994, became an executive vice president of Condé Nast in 1995, and was promoted to chief operating officer in 2000.

Prior to joining Condé Nast, Townsend served as president and CEO of the Women’s Magazine Publishing Division of The New York Times Company from 1986 to 1994. He began his publishing career in Miami, where he owned and operated an independent publisher’s representative company. In 1975, Townsend sold his firm to the Hearst Corporation and joined that company as publisher of Motor Boating & Sailing magazine. He later served as publisher of Sports Afield, then vice president and group publisher with responsibilities for a number of Hearst titles. Townsend concluded his career at Hearst as executive vice president and general manager of Hearst Books and Business Publishing. A lifelong competitive sailor, Townsend has served as Commodore of the New York Yacht Club, a trustee and vice chairman of the International Yacht Restoration School (IYRS), and an advisory board member of the World Ocean Observatory. He actively contributes to such causes as the Ocean Reef Foundation and Medical Center, the Herreshoff Marine Museum, the South Street Seaport, and the Boy Scouts of America. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Ad Council, the leading producer of public service announcements (PSAs) in the United States. Townsend is a graduate of the University of Michigan.

Robert A. Sauerberg Jr. is president and CEO of Condé Nast, a premier media company renowned for producing the highest quality content for the world's most influential audiences. Attracting more than 100 million consumers across its industry-leading print, digital and video brands in the U.S., the company’s portfolio includes some of the most iconic titles in media.

Under Sauerberg’s leadership, Condé Nast’s total digital revenue has doubled and mobile advertising revenue has more than tripled. The company has also earned more prestigious awards across more categories than any competitor, including a record 119 National Magazine Awards.  In 2011, Sauerberg led the creation of the newest division of the company, Condé Nast Entertainment (CNÉ), to develop film, television and premium digital video programming.  In 2014, the company became the first tenant of 1 World Trade Center, where it plays an active role in the resurgence of downtown Manhattan.   

Prior to his appointment as president in July 2010, Sauerberg served as group president and as executive vice president of consumer marketing.  Under his leadership, Condé Nast’s consumer marketing operations led the industry in circulation growth and audience vitality. During his tenure at Condé Nast, Sauerberg also served in a number of leadership roles at Fairchild Publications, Inc., including chief operating officer and chief financial officer.

Earlier in his career, Sauerberg spent 18 years with The New York Times Company in senior finance and administrative roles in the newspaper and magazine divisions, culminating in his being named chief financial officer of The New York Times Magazine Group. He also spent several years at The New York Times regional newspapers in Atlanta, Alabama, and California, where he was in charge of financial operations and integrating new businesses.

Sauerberg has an MBA from Mercer University and a BSBA in finance from the University of Arkansas.

Anna Wintour has held the position of editor-in-chief of Vogue since July 1988, and was named artistic director of Condé Nast in March 2013. In addition to editing Vogue, Wintour executed the development and successful launch of Teen Vogue in 2001, and serves as editorial director for the title.

During her tenure at Vogue, Wintour has been actively involved in philanthropic fundraising, particularly for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, for which she has raised more than $150 million. She has been the recipient of numerous awards for her leadership and charitable efforts, including the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Award of Courage for AIDS Research from the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amFAR).

In 2008, for her service to British journalism and fashion, Wintour was appointed to the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Queen Elizabeth II. In October 2009, President Obama appointed Wintour to the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities. Most recently, in 2011 she was awarded the Legion d’Honneur by French President Nicolas Sarkozy.  Wintour also serves as an elective trustee of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

David Geithner is the chief financial officer of Condé Nast.

Previously, Geithner was executive vice-president of Time, Inc. and president of their Style & Entertainment Group, where he managed six of the company’s largest brands. During his twenty-year tenure at Time, Inc., Geithner held several senior executive roles across the company’s portfolio, including responsibility for the business operations of Mexico City-based Grupo Expansión (GEx), a significant media group of consumer and business media brands in Mexico.

Geithner is active in the New York City chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association, where he has served as a board member since 2006 and is a board sponsor of its Hispanic outreach efforts. In 2011, Geithner also served as a David Rockefeller Fellow in a program sponsored by the Partnership for New York that exposes leaders to the private, public, and non-profit sectors of New York City.

Geithner graduated from Dartmouth with a B.A. in government and also earned an M.B.A. from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.

Jim Norton was named chief business officer and president of revenue at Condé Nast in October 2016. In this newly created role, Norton oversees all revenue operations for the company’s 22 world-class brands.

Norton has more than 25 years of experience in media sales and marketing, most recently as the global media sales lead at AOL, where he managed a team of more than 1500 people responsible for selling digital content media to advertising agencies and global businesses. Norton’s sales and client service expertise spans programmatic and platform based media, as well as branded content and premium ad experiences – including native, customized content, original video and innovative ad formats. He was part of the acquisition and integration teams responsible for the partnership with Microsoft Advertising, as well as the sale of AOL to Verizon, and the recently announced intention to acquire Yahoo. Since joining AOL in 2009, Norton held additional senior roles in product sales, managed AOL’s search and sponsored listings business, and AOL’s search and sponsored listings business, and helped launch AOL’s Global Agency Holding Company team. Prior to AOL, Norton spent three years at Google, where he was the national sales manager for Google’s Agency Activation Team. Previously, Norton spent many years working in traditional media focused on both local and national advertisers. He worked as a sales manager at WLVI-TV and at Boston’s Tribune Broadcasting station and was active on the Tribune leadership team, playing an integral role in the local launch of The CW. Norton also held various sales and marketing positions at Miller Brewing Company and Kiss 108FM in Boston. Norton currently serves as the vice chairman of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), and will matriculate to chairman in 2017. He is chairman emeritus of the American Advertising Federation (AAF), serves on the Board of Directors for Ad Council and is a former member of the Board of Directors for the Boston Ad Club. Norton holds both a BA and MBA from Boston College.

Fred Santarpia was named executive vice president and chief digital officer of Condé Nast in October 2014, and is responsible for building and executing the company's digital strategy to expand the reach of its brands, strengthen its marketing offerings, and deepen its relationship with consumers across all platforms.

In this role, Santarpia has pushed Condé Nast to explore new distribution partners and develop new revenue streams, leading the company’s recent acquisitions of the popular music editorial property, Pitchfork, the London-based editorial tech company, Poetica, and the launch of a new digital innovation center in Austin, Texas. Previously, Santarpia served as executive vice president and chief digital officer of Condé Nast Entertainment (CNÉ). Under his leadership, CNÉ launched 14 fully distributed video channels based on Condé Nast’s iconic portfolio of brands, in addition to The Scene, a platform dedicated to creating and curating premium digital video content. Prior to joining CNÉ, Santarpia was general manager of VEVO, where he was part of the company’s founding leadership team and served as head of all operations responsible for audience development and video syndication, social media and marketing strategy, revenue operations and VEVO’s original content and programming team. Under his leadership, VEVO was consistently the #1 video property on YouTube in terms of unique viewership. Before VEVO, Santarpia worked for Universal Music Group, where he held a variety of senior level positions during his tenure with the company, most recently as vice president, operations and finance at Global Digital Initiatives/elabs. Santarpia is a graduate of Villanova University and holds an M.S. from Boston University.

Dawn Ostroff is president of Condé Nast Entertainment (CNÉ), an award-winning next generation production company producing projects across film, television, premium digital video and virtual reality based on Condé Nast’s iconic brands.

Since its founding in 2011, CNÉ has 27 active film projects with two films releasing in 2016, “The First Monday in May,” which opened the Tribeca Film Festival and is currently in theaters nationwide, and “Army of One,” releasing later this year, and two more films going into production this summer. Additionally, CNÉ currently has five unscripted television series in production and on the air, a first-look deal at 20th Century Fox Television for scripted programming, and multiple pilots sold to various television networks. CNÉ’s digital video network was launched 2013 and produces more than 4,000 videos annually. Over the last year, CNÉ garnered more than 2.8 billion video views, won its first Emmy Award, and received multiple Academy Award nominations for its short form film digital content. CNÉ also launched The Scene, the first platform dedicated to premium digital video for its channels. The Scene recently released a redesign and has been reimagined as a mobile-first, video social platform with a new mobile app currently available in the iTunes App store. In just three years, CNÉ’s digital video content has been awarded a Producers Guild Award and nine Tellys, and has received multiple award nominations from the Television Academy, The Webbys, and other esteemed industry organizations. Prior to joining Condé Nast in the fall of 2011, Ostroff launched and led the new CW broadcast network, a joint venture of CBS and Warner Bros., beginning January 2006. As president of entertainment, she was responsible for all aspects of the CW’s creative efforts, including programming, digital initiatives, branding, marketing, research and sales, and developed a multitude of groundbreaking hit series — among them, Gossip Girl, The Vampire Diaries and America’s Next Top Model. In an effort to engage the digital CW generation across multiple platforms, Ostroff and her team developed cutting-edge strategies for streaming in order to leverage content and revenue opportunities. From 2002 to 2006, Ostroff served as president of UPN Network, a subsidiary of CBS, where she oversaw all areas of the network’s business — programming, digital, branding, marketing, sales, finance, research, legal and publicity, and more. Before UPN, Ostroff served as executive vice president of entertainment at Lifetime Television, where she headed up programming and production, scheduling and acquisitions, including Lifetime Original Movies, prime-time series, specials, documentaries, and sports, as well as all programming for Lifetime Movie Network and Lifetime Real Women. In the five years that Ostroff led Lifetime Entertainment (1996–2002), the network rose from sixth place to become the #1-rated cable network in prime time. Earlier in her career Ostroff held senior roles at 20th Century Fox Television, Michael Jacobs Productions (at Disney) and the Kushner-Locke Company. She began her career working at several local channels in news as an on-air reporter and a producer. Ostroff has a B.S. in journalism from Florida International.

JoAnn Murray is chief human resources officer for Condé Nast, home to some of the world’s most celebrated media brands.

Murray serves on the Company’s executive committee, and oversees a network of Human Resources professionals to drive engagement and strengthen capabilities across all functions. During her tenure, Murray has built strong partnerships with brand leaders to ensure Condé Nast retains its position as an employer of choice and a place for dynamic talent in the competitive world of media. She leads the development and execution of human resource strategies to support the company’s organizational priorities, including talent acquisition, learning and development, compensation, and change management initiatives. Murray is a strategic business leader with more than 20 years of experience in implementing best-in-class solutions spanning multiple industries — including media, consumer packaged goods, and business services. Before joining Condé Nast, Murray was chief human resources officer at the Readers Digest Association. As a member of the executive committee, she led the development and delivery of a top global human resources function. She has also held executive positions at Cadbury Schweppes PLC and in the executive search industry, and began her career in human resources with the Pepsi-Cola Company. Murray is a passionate advocate for the education and empowerment of young women. She is also actively involved with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and is a volunteer for St. Judes and the American Cancer Society.

Cameron Blanchard serves as chief communications officer at Condé Nast, and is responsible for leading the company’s communications and positioning strategies, media relations, employee and internal communications, and corporate social responsibility priorities.

Previously, Blanchard worked at NBCUniversal for nearly 20 years, most recently serving as senior vice president of corporate communications, where she had direct responsibility for all corporate communications functions including ad sales, research, cable distribution, legal affairs, diversity, NBC stations and affiliates, and internal communications. Prior to that, Blanchard served as head of communications for NBCUniversal’s Entertainment & Digital Networks and Integrated Media division, and from 2006 to 2011, she oversaw all communications strategies and outreach for Bravo Media, adding Oxygen Media to her purview in 2008 after NBC Universal acquired that cable network.

Blanchard spent two years at NBC as vice president, NBC Entertainment East Coast Communications where she managed NBC’s New York entertainment press office for all East Coast-based primetime programming, movies and specials, as well as all late-night programming. Additionally, Blanchard served as the senior director for the NBC Sports & Olympics division, after joining the company in 1996 for the launch of MSNBC. She began her career in marketing communications for the National Basketball Association.

Blanchard graduated from the University of Oregon with a bachelor of arts degree in journalism.