THE TIMES - Key Persons
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- Chairman
- Chairman of the Board
- Member of the Nominating & Governance Committee
- Publisher
- Chairman and Publisher / Dean Baquet
- Chairman of the New York Times Company and Publisher of the New York Times
A.G. Sulzberger is chairman of The New York Times Company and publisher of The New York Times. With a journalism operation of more than 2,000 people reporting from around the globe, The Times is the most influential and award-winning English-language news organization in the world.
As publisher and chairman, Mr. Sulzberger oversees both newsroom and company operations, and is the principal steward of the independence, ambition and excellence of Times journalism. During his tenure, Mr. Sulzberger has invested heavily in investigative journalism, pushed The Times to expand into new digital formats like audio and multimedia, and has been an outspoken defender of the free press in the United States and abroad. A key architect of the company's digital transformation and business strategy, he has helped grow The Times's digital subscriber base to more than eight million, from 800,000 in 2014, the year he authored the Innovation Report.
Before becoming publisher, Mr. Sulzberger worked as a reporter and editor. He began his career at The Providence Journal and The Oregonian before joining The Times as a metro reporter. He later served as a national correspondent, assistant metro editor, associate editor for newsroom strategy and deputy publisher. A graduate of Brown University, he is the sixth member of the Ochs-Sulzberger family to serve The Times as publisher since the newspaper was purchased by Adolph Ochs in 1896.
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- Chief Executive Officer
- Member of the Audit Committee
- Member of the Finance Committee
- Member of the Board of Directors of the New York Times Company
Amanpal S. Bhutani has served as a member of the Board of Directors of The New York Times Company since 2018.
Mr. Bhutani is the chief executive officer and a member of the Board of GoDaddy Inc., an Internet domain registrar and web hosting company (since 2019). From 2015 to 2019, Mr. Bhutani was president of the Brand Expedia Group at Expedia Group, Inc. From 2010 to 2015, he was the senior vice president of Expedia Worldwide Engineering at Expedia Group, Inc. From 2008 to 2010, he was a technology senior director at JPMorgan Chase and Co. From 2002 to 2008, Mr. Bhutani was at Washington Mutual, Inc., including most recently as senior vice president of ecommerce technology, when JPMorgan Chase and Co. acquired it in 2008. Prior to that, Mr. Bhutani was the founder and technical lead at a startup, and was a senior engineer at a consultancy.
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- Senior Software Engineer, Story
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- Member of the Audit Committee
- Member of the Finance Committee
- Chief Financial Officer of Bumble Inc
- Member of Our Board of Directors
Anuradha B. Subramanian has served as a member of our board of directors since 2023.
Since 2020, Ms. Subramanian has served as the chief financial officer of Bumble Inc., a company that provides online dating and social networking platforms. From 2018 to 2020, she was the chief financial officer of digital at Univision Communications Inc. During 2017, Ms. Subramanian served as chief financial officer, digital at VICE Media. From 2010 to 2017, she served in various roles at Scripps Networks Interactive, including most recently as the head of finance, digital. Prior to Scripps Networks, Ms. Subramanian worked in investment banking at Citi as part of the media and telecom group. She began her career at Ernst & Young in the assurance division.
Ms. Subramanian holds an M.B.A. from the Yale School of Management and a Bachelor of Commerce (Honors) from Delhi University and is a chartered accountant in India.
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- Member of the Finance Committee
- Member of the Board of Directors of the New York Times Company
Arthur Golden has served as a member of the Board of Directors of The New York Times Company since 2021.
Mr. Golden is a best-selling author. He received a B.A. in art history, specializing in Japanese art, from Harvard College. He also earned an M.A. in East Asian languages and culture from Columbia University and an M.A. in English from Boston University.
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- National Enterprise Correspondent
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- Member of the Audit Committee
- Member of the Compensation Committee
- Member of Committee
Beth Brooke joined the Board of Directors of The New York Times Company in 2021.
Ms. Brooke served as the global vice chair of public policy for Ernst & Young LLP, from 2007 to 2019, where she was a member of the firm's global executive board and global sponsor of the firm's diversity and inclusiveness efforts. At Ernst & Young, she previously served as vice chair of public policy, sustainability and stakeholder engagement in the Americas from 2000 to 2007, and held various roles in tax practice management from 1981 to 2000. During the Clinton administration, from 1993 to 1995, Ms. Brooke served in the U.S. Department of the Treasury and was responsible for tax policy matters related to insurance and managed care, including working on healthcare and superfund legislative reform efforts. She is a certified public accountant. Ms. Brooke has been a director of eHealth, Inc. since 2019 and serves on various private and nonprofit boards, including the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee.
Committee memberships: Audit and Compensation
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- Chairman of the Compensation Committee
- Member of the Nominating & Governance Committee
- Member of the Board of Directors of the New York Times Company
- Presiding Director
Brian P. McAndrews has served as a member of the Board of Directors of The New York Times Company since 2012 and as presiding director since 2019.
Mr. McAndrews was president, chief executive officer and chairman of Pandora Media, Inc., an internet radio company, from 2013 to 2016.
From 2012 to 2013, Mr. McAndrews was a venture partner, and from 2009 to 2011, he was managing director of Madrona Venture Group, LLC, a venture capital firm that funds innovative technology companies. From 2007 to 2008, he was senior vice president, advertiser and publisher solutions, of Microsoft Corporation. From 2000 to 2007, he was president and chief executive officer, and from 1999 to 2000 he served as chief executive officer of aQuantive, Inc., a digital marketing company, which Microsoft acquired in 2007. From 1990 to 1999, Mr. McAndrews held various positions of increasing responsibility at ABC, Inc., including executive vice president and general manager of ABC Sports.
Mr. McAndrews also serves on the board of directors of various other companies, including Frontdoor, Inc. and Xero Limited.
Carolyn Ryan is a managing editor at The New York Times.
A native of Massachusetts, she started her career covering small town life in Massachusetts for The Patriot Ledger in Quincy, Mass., and rose to become Metro editor and then deputy managing editor at The Boston Globe.
She joined the Times in 2007, overseeing coverage of New York politics and government. In 2008, Ms. Ryan helped lead the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News for coverage of the sex scandal that resulted in the resignation of Governor Eliot Spitzer. She later served as Metro Editor, where she oversaw an investigation into unexplained deaths of developmentally disabled people in New York state, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for public service. After that, she served as Washington Bureau Chief and political editor.
Ms. Ryan joined the masthead of the Times as an assistant managing editor in 2017 and was promoted to deputy managing editor in 2020. As a member of the masthead, she led a historic reshaping of the newsroom staff, hiring more than 400 journalists, many of them journalists of color.
She graduated from Bates College in Lewiston, Me., where she studied English literature.
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- Staff Software Engineer, UX Foundations
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- Managing Director, External Communications
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- Deputy Publisher, the Athletic and Wirecutter
Cliff Levy is deputy publisher of The Athletic and deputy publisher of Wirecutter.
He is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner who joined The Times's newsroom as a news assistant in 1990, soon after college, and then rose up through the ranks.
Before moving to the company's business side in 2023, he served two stints as deputy managing editor of The Times, helping to run the newsroom and to oversee coverage of the biggest and most consequential stories.
Colbi Edmonds is set to graduate in May from Boston University, where she has served as editor in chief of The Daily Free Press. She has interned with NBC, the Dallas Morning News, Boston Magazine and the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Colbi has also reported for The Boston Globe and is currently covering the Massachusetts Statehouse for the Worcester Telegram & Gazette. She enjoys coffee shops, long walks and rom-coms.
Dana Green - Chief Legal Officer
Job Titles:
- Senior Counsel
- Chairman of the Media Law Committee of the International Bar Association
- Senior Counsel to the New York Times Company
Dana Green is senior counsel to The New York Times Company. In her role, she provides legal advice regarding newsgathering and publication issues and litigates access to information and official proceedings. She also defends The Times in defamation, copyright and other content-related litigation.
She began her legal career at The Times as the 2010-2011 First Amendment fellow in the legal department. She then clerked for the Hon. I. Leo Glasser of the United States District Court, Eastern District of New York from 2011 to 2012. From 2012 to 2014, she was an associate with WilmerHale LLP in London, where she practiced international litigation and provided pro bono legal services to the Media Legal Defence Initiative (now known as Media Defence). In 2015, she returned to the United States and was a senior associate in the media and First Amendment practice at Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz LLP in Washington, D.C., which subsequently merged with the law firm Ballard Spahr LLP. She rejoined The Times in 2019 as counsel and was promoted to senior counsel in 2020.
Dana is the chair of the Media Law Committee of the International Bar Association and co-chair of Women in Communication Law, part of the American Bar Association's Forum on Communications Law. In 2023, Dana joined the board of Cartoonists Rights Network International, a nonprofit organization that supports the freedom of expression of political cartoonists. She is also secretary of the Journalism Refugee Education Fund, which she helped found in 2023, together with other colleagues from The Times who led the evacuation of Times staff from Afghanistan.
She received her undergraduate degree from the University of St Andrews in Scotland in 2003 and her law degree from Columbia Law School in 2009, where she was a Hamilton fellow.
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- Senior Vice President, External Communications
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- Deputy General Counsel
- Senior Vice President
David McCraw serves as the lead newsroom lawyer for The New York Times. He has been at The Times for 21 years and currently holds the position of senior vice president and deputy general counsel. He is the author of the book "Truth in Our Times: Inside the Fight for Press Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts" (St. Martin's 2019), a first-person account of the legal battles that helped shape The Times's coverage of Donald Trump, Harvey Weinstein, national security and the rise of political partisanship in America.
In addition to advising the newsroom on libel and other legal issues, David is one of the nation's most prolific litigators of Freedom of Information cases. On behalf of The Times, he has litigated dozens of federal FOIA cases, winning the disclosure of records on topics ranging from drone strikes on suspected terrorists, the prison death of Jeffrey Epstein and the F.B.I.'s purchase of now-banned phone surveillance software. He has led The Times's efforts to gain access to courts and judicial documents in such high-profile cases as the Dominion-Fox libel case, the military tribunals at Guantanamo and the prosecutions of Trump lawyer Michael Cohen and El Chapo, the notorious Mexican drug lord.
He also oversees international security for Times journalists working in high-risk areas and has served as the crisis response manager when journalists have been kidnapped or detained abroad.
In 2023, his media law litigation team at The Times won the Tony Mauro Media Lawyer Award from The American Lawyer magazine in recognition of the team's work in protecting freedom of the press.
David regularly teaches a course in press law at Harvard Law School and has been an adjunct faculty member at the N.Y.U. School of Law. He is a graduate of the University of Illinois, Cornell University and Albany Law School.
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- in 2010 As Executive Director
- Publisher of the Athletic
David Perpich is the publisher of The Athletic and Wirecutter, which are standalone subscription products of the Company, since February 2022, and he has served as a member of the Board of Directors of The New York Times Company since 2019.
Mr. Perpich previously served as the head of standalone products at The New York Times Company from 2020 to February 2022, where he oversaw Games, Cooking, Wirecuttter, Audm (our read-aloud audio service), and the exploration and incubation of a how-to product for kids.
Mr. Perpich joined The Times in 2010 as executive director, NYTimes.com paid products. In this role, Mr. Perpich helped lead the development and launch of The Times's online subscription business.
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- Chairman and Publisher / Dean Baquet
- Local Investigative Times Fellowship Lead
- Senior Manager, Email Operations / Dean Baquet
Dean Baquet leads The New York Times's Local Investigations Fellowship. Previously, he served as executive editor of The New York Times from May 2014 until June 2022. Mr. Baquet served in the highest ranked position in The Times's newsroom and oversaw The New York Times news report in all its various forms.
Before being named executive editor, Mr. Baquet was managing editor of The Times. He previously served as Washington bureau chief for the paper from March 2007 to September 2011. Mr. Baquet rejoined The Times after several years at the Los Angeles Times, where he was editor of the newspaper since 2005, after serving as managing editor since 2000.
Previously, Mr. Baquet had been National editor of The New York Times since July 1995, after having served as deputy Metro editor since May 1995.
Mr. Baquet joined The Times in April 1990 as a Metro reporter. In May 1992, he became special projects editor for the business desk, and in January 1994, he held the same title, but operated out of the executive editor's office.
Before joining The Times, he reported for the Chicago Tribune from December 1984 to March 1990, and before that, for The Times-Picayune in New Orleans for nearly seven years.
While at the Chicago Tribune, Mr. Baquet served as associate Metro editor for investigations and was chief investigative reporter, covering corruption in politics and the garbage-hauling industry.
He was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in March 1988 when he led a team of three in documenting corruption in the Chicago City Council, and was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 1994 in the investigative reporting category. Mr. Baquet has also received numerous local and regional awards.
Diane Brayton - Chief Legal Officer, EVP
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- Executive Vice President
- General Counsel
- Executive Vice President & General Counsel of the New York Times Company
Diane Brayton became executive vice president & general counsel of The New York Times Company in January 2017. In her role, she provides legal counsel to the company's board of directors and senior management and leads a legal team that advises on, among other areas, media and intellectual property law, corporate governance and securities matters, commercial transactions, employment and labor relations, and litigation management.
In addition to her duties as general counsel, Ms. Brayton oversees the company's information security, corporate security and occupational health and safety functions. Ms. Brayton served as the Times Company's corporate secretary from 2011 to 2023.
In 2016, Ms. Brayton served as deputy general counsel. In 2009, she was named assistant secretary and assistant general counsel. She joined the Times Company in 2004 as counsel and was promoted to senior counsel in 2007.
Prior to working at the Times Company, Ms. Brayton was vice president and counsel in the legal department of Credit Suisse First Boston from 2002 to 2004 and an associate at the law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in New York, Moscow and London from 1997 to 2002. From 1996 to 1997, she was a clerk for the Honorable W. Eugene Davis of the United States Court of Appeals, for the Fifth Circuit.
In 2019, Ms. Brayton joined the board of directors of the Committee to Protect Journalists, a nonprofit organization that promotes press freedom worldwide.
Ms. Brayton received a bachelor of journalism degree from the University of Nebraska and a J.D. degree from the University of Texas School of Law in 1996, where she graduated with honors.
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- Reporter and Writer, the Morning
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- Member of the Board of Directors of the New York Times Company
Hays N. Golden has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the New York Times Company since 2017.
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- Director, Brand Marketing
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- Audience Editor, the New York Times Magazine
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- Chief Human Resources Officer
- Executive Vice President
Jacqueline M. Welch became executive vice president and chief human resources officer in January, 2021. In this role she leads The Times's human resources team and oversees all aspects of talent acquisition, career development, organizational development, equitable compensation practices, performance enablement and diversity, equity and inclusion. She sits on the company's executive committee and reports to the chief executive officer.
Ms. Welch joined The Times from Freddie Mac, where she was senior vice president, chief human resources officer and chief diversity officer since 2016. In this role, she led the Freddie Mac H.R. team and served as a trusted adviser to its board of directors and the executive team. She also had oversight responsibility for Freddie Mac's corporate community engagement program and their 10 employee resource groups.
A seasoned corporate executive, Ms. Welch joined Freddie Mac with 20 years of experience in H.R. strategy and execution. She served as senior vice president for international human resources for Turner Broadcasting System from 2010 to 2013 and was senior vice president, talent management and diversity, from 2008 to 2010.
Prior to Turner, she worked for organizations such as WestRock, Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting) and Willis Towers Watson (formerly Towers Perrin). She began her career in New York at Lord & Taylor as a merchant.
Ms. Welch earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Syracuse University and a Master of Science in Human Resources Management from The New School's Milano School of Policy, Management and Environment. She serves on the Boards of the Human Resources Policy Association and Buckman, a privately held, global, chemicals solutions company.
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- Editorial Director, Wirecutter
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- Johannesburg Bureau Chief
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- Chairman of the Finance Committee
- Member of the Nominating & Governance Committee
- Founder, Chairman, Co - Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer
John W. Rogers, Jr. has served as a member of the Board of Directors of The New York Times Company since 2018.
Mr. Rogers is the founder, chairman, co-chief executive officer and chief investment officer, of Ariel Investments, LLC, an institutional money management and mutual fund firm.
Mr. Rogers also serves on the board of directors of various companies, including Nike, Inc. and Ryan Specialty Group Holdings, Inc.
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- Associate Creative Director, Marketing
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- Executive Editor
- Executive Editor of the New York Times
Joseph Kahn is the executive editor of The New York Times. He oversees all aspects of The Times's global newsroom and news report.
Before becoming executive editor in June 2022, Mr. Kahn had served as managing editor since 2016. In that role, he led The Times's push to become a fully digital-first news operation, build a global news operation, transform the newsroom's culture to be more diverse and inclusive, and encourage new forms of storytelling.
A two-time Pulitzer winner, Mr. Kahn has a long track record of both producing and helping journalists produce their most ambitious and courageous work. Early in his tenure as executive editor, Mr. Kahn identified his priorities of maintaining editorial independence in an age of polarization, continuing to chart an ambitious path for The Times, and upholding a commitment to build a diverse workforce.
In 1987, he started his career in local news at The Dallas Morning News and subsequently worked as a China correspondent for The Wall Street Journal.
He joined The Times in 1998 and has served as a business reporter in New York, an economics correspondent in Washington, and a foreign correspondent in China. As an editor on the International desk, and eventually its leader, Mr. Kahn led coverage of some of the most complex storylines including wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria; to terrorism attacks and political turmoil in Europe; to the Ebola epidemic in Africa. He also championed high-impact enterprise in our global report, notably in Russia and China. The International desk won six Pulitzer Prizes for its international reporting during Mr. Kahn's years as an editor on the desk.
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- Global Chief Advertising Officer
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- Director, Audience and Operations, Audio
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- Principal Product Designer, Games Design
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- Member of the Nominating & Governance Committee
- Chief Product Officer of Roblox Corporation
- Member of Committee
Manuel Bronstein joined the board of directors of The New York Times Company in 2021.
Mr. Bronstein is the chief product officer of Roblox Corporation (since March 2021). Prior to this role, he served in senior product roles at Alphabet, including as vice president of product at Google, leading Google Assistant from 2018 to 2021, and at YouTube, as director of product management from 2014 to 2016 and vice president of product management from 2016 to 2018, overseeing the company's mobile, desktop and living room applications, as well as live streaming, growth and community. From 2010 to 2014, he held senior leadership roles at Zynga Inc. and from 2003 to 2010, he served in various product leadership roles for Xbox at Microsoft.
Marc Lacey is a managing editor at The New York Times.
Previously, he was an assistant managing editor overseeing The Times's global live news operation. During his two decades at The Times, Mr. Lacey held leadership positions as an editor in New York and as a correspondent in Washington, Nairobi, Mexico City and Phoenix.
From 2016 to 2021, Mr. Lacey oversaw dozens of correspondents across the United States as the national editor of The Times. His tenure overlapped with the Trump presidency, the coronavirus pandemic and the racial justice protests that followed the murder of George Floyd. In 2019, he represented The Times in a live televised debate with CNN that featured a dozen Democratic presidential candidates.
Before that, he was a deputy foreign editor and weekend editor, and in 2016 he served on the newsroom's 2020 Committee, which outlined The Times's strategy for jumpstarting its move into the digital world.
Mr. Lacey, who was born in Queens, N.Y., and grew up in Mandeville, Jamaica, and upstate New York, joined The Times in 1999. As a correspondent, he was the bureau chief for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. In that role, he led coverage of the Haitian earthquake in 2010, Cuba's transition from Fidel Castro and Mexico's drug war.
From 2001 to 2006, he was the Nairobi bureau chief for The Times, responsible for a dozen countries in east and central Africa. He traveled frequently to Sudan, writing some of the earliest news accounts of the war in Darfur. He also did a stint in Iraq after the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.
Mr. Lacey joined The Times as a White House correspondent, where he covered the final years of the Clinton administration and the beginning of the presidency of George W. Bush.
He has served as a juror for the Pulitzer Prizes in the breaking news and international reporting categories. As a reporter at The Los Angeles Times, he contributed to the Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the 1992 Los Angeles riots and the 1994 Northridge earthquake. He got his start in journalism at The Cornell Daily Sun, the student newspaper at Cornell, where he majored in biology.
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- Deputy Editor, Digital News Design
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- Assistant Editor, Culture and Lifestyle
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- Assistant General Counsel
- Corporate Secretary
- Vice President
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- Chief Executive Officer
- Fellow
- President
- President and Chief Executive Officer of the New York Times Company
Meredith Kopit Levien has served as president and chief executive officer of The New York Times Company, and a member of Company's Board of Directors, since 2020. She leads the Company's global operations and directs its business strategy.
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- Senior Staff Editor, Food
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- Chairman of the Audit Committee
- Member of the Compensation Committee
- Chief Financial Officer of Etsy, Inc
- Member of the Board of Directors of the New York Times Company
Rachel Glaser has served as a member of the Board of Directors of The New York Times Company since 2018.
Ms. Glaser is the chief financial officer of Etsy, Inc., a global creative commerce platform (since 2017). From 2015 to 2017, she was the chief financial officer of Leaf Group Ltd., a company that owns and operates consumer media and marketplaces. From 2012 to 2015, she was the chief financial officer of Move, Inc., the parent company of Realtor.com. From 2008 to 2011, she was the chief operating and chief financial officer for MyLife.com, a subscription-based search business, and from 2005 to 2008, she was the senior vice president of finance for Yahoo! Inc. She began her career at The Walt Disney Company and served in a variety of finance and operations positions over 19 years there.
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- Chief of Staff to the C.E.O. and S.V.P., Platform Strategy and Partnerships
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- Chairman of the Nominating & Governance Committee
- Member of the Compensation Committee
- Member of the Board of Directors of the New York Times Company
Rebecca Van Dyck has served as a member of the Board of Directors of The New York Times Company since 2015.
Ms. Van Dyck was the chief operating officer for Reality Labs at Meta Platforms, Inc. (formerly Facebook, Inc.) from 2020 to 2022. At Meta, she previously served as chief marketing officer of AR/VR from 2017 to 2020, and vice president of consumer and brand marketing from 2012 to 2017. From 2011 to 2012, she was senior vice president and global chief marketing officer at Levi Strauss & Co. From 2007 to 2011, she was senior director, worldwide marketing and communications, of Apple, Inc. From 1994 to 2006, she held various positions at Wieden + Kennedy, Inc., including global account director for Nike International, from 2002 to 2006. From 1992 to 1994, she held various positions at TBWA Worldwide Inc.
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- Vice President, Learning and Development
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- Senior Manager, Email Operations / Dean Baquet
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- Editor, Narrative Projects