The Newhouse Advisory Board supports the dean, faculty and staff in their efforts to make Newhouse the country’s leading institution for education and research in communications.
Barry Baker ’73
Senior Advisor, Lee Equity
Angela R. Bundrant ’89
Head of Brand and Business Development, Purple Strategies
Neil I. Canell
Managing Director, J.P. Morgan
Deborah B. Curtis ’90
CMO, On Location Experiences
Brian A. Edelman ’03
CEO, RAIN
Andrea Fant-Hobbs ’82
Chief Brand Officer, Brand Strategy, Development and Innovation LLC
Shelly Lotman Fisher ’80
CEO, Pay It Forward Group LLC
Eric D. Frankel ’79
CEO, AdGreetz
Joyce Tudryn Friberger ’81
President and CEO, IRTS Foundation
Steven Fuchs ’79
CEO, True North Inc.
Nicholas B. Godfrey ’02
COO, RAIN
Kristina Hahn ’98
Director of Global Sellside Strategy and Operations, Google
Deborah A. Henretta ’85
Partner and Vice Chairman, G100 Company
Joyce Hergenhan ’63
Retired Vice President, Communications, General Electric
Peter A. Horvitz ’76
President, PAH Investments LLC
Beth Ann Kaminkow ’89
Global CEO, VMLY&R Commerce
Keith Kaplan ’91
Global CEO, Kinetic Worldwide
Lawrence S. Kramer ’72
Board of Directors, Advance Local
Senior Adviser, Advance
Michael Lehman
Partner/Attorney, Lehman and Lehman LLP
Robert W. Lewis ’84
Senior Director of Multi-Format Production, Dow Jones/The Wall Street Journal
Christopher A. Licht ’93
Former CEO, CNN Global
Gary T. Lico ’76
Proprietor, GARYLICO.TV
Robert R. Light ’78
Head of Music Department, Partner and Managing Director, Creative Artists Agency
L. Camille Massey ’87
Founding Executive Director, Sorensen Center for International Peace and Justice, The City University of New York School of Law
Sandra Cordova Micek ’91
President and CEO, WTTW/WFMT
John Douglas Miller ’72
Retired Chair, NBCUniversal Marketing Council
Robert J. Miron ’59
Retired Chairman and CEO, Advance/Newhouse Communications
Eric Mower ’66, G’68
Chairman and CEO, Mower
Jack C. Myers ’69
Chairman, MediaVillage
Philip Nardone Jr. ’82
President and CEO, PAN Communications Inc.
Tonia O’Connor ’92
Independent Board Director
Michael S. Perlis ’76
President and CEO, Forbes Media
Bruce Perlmutter ’81
Content Strategy, Showrunner, Amazon
Melissa Richards-Person ’89
CMO and Vital Brand Builder, Third Arm Consulting
Angela Y. Robinson ’78
Director of Operations, National Association of Black Journalists
Douglas Robinson ’85
Principal, Doug Robinson Productions
Gary C. Schanman ’92
Executive Vice President and Group President, Sling TV
Seth Solomons ’91
CEO, Eastlake Advisory Group
Shari Misher Stenzler ’92
Owner and Founder, London Misher Public Relations
Charles W. Stevens ’77
Adjunct Associate Professor, Columbia University Graduate
School of Journalism
John L. Sykes ’77
President, Entertainment Enterprises, iHeartMedia
Michael T. Tirico ’88
Sportscaster, NBC Sports
Luis C. Torres-Bohl ’82, G’85
President and Founder, Castalia Communications Corporation
David Watson
President and CEO, Comcast Corporation
James G. Weiss ’87
Chairman and CEO, Real Chemistry
Bryan Wiener ’92
CEO, Profitero
Melinda Witmer
Former Executive Vice President, Chief Video Officer and Chief Operating Officer, Time Warner Cable Networks
Howard E. Woolley ’80
President, Howard Woolley Group LLC
Dana Zimmer ’92
President of Distribution, Nexstar Media Group
Joan L. Adler G’76
Assistant Vice President of Regional Programs, Syracuse University Los Angeles
James C. Andrews ’93
Vice President of Licensing, Andrews McMeel Publishing
Roger W. Conner ’70
President and CEO, Conner Communications LLC
Shanti D. Das ’93
CEO and Founder, Silence the Shame Inc.
Founder, mibo LLC
William F. Doescher ’61
President and CEO, The Doescher Group Ltd.
Pamela Giddon Freedman ’73
Retired Owner, Giddon & Company PR Marketing
Andrew T. Heller
Retired Vice Chairman, Turner Broadcasting System Inc.
Steven D. Leeds ’73
Vice President, Talent Relations and Industry Affairs, SiriusXM
Arthur S. Liu G’66
President and CEO, Multicultural Radio Broadcasting Inc.
Donald R. Lockett ’74
Principal, iD-Media Solutions
Sean McDonough ’84
Broadcaster, ESPN
David G. O’Neil ’84
Partner, Rini Coran PC
Andrea Davis Pinkney ’85
Vice President and Editor-at-Large, Scholastic Trade
Howard W. Polskin ’73
President, Polskin Media
Anthony F. Renda ’60
President, Renda Broadcasting Corporation
Stephen A. Rogers ’62
Retired Publisher and Editor in Chief, The Post-Standard
Walter Sabo ’74
Chairman and CEO, Sterling/Sabo Syndicate Radio
Marianne L. Samenko ’79
Retired Senior Director, Marketing, Chase Card Services, JPMorgan Chase and Co.
Mark D. Sena ’76, G’78
President, Mars Communications Inc.
Michael J. Terpin ’78
Owner and CEO, Transform Group
George P. Verschoor ’83
Producer and Director, Television and Film, Hoosick Falls Productions Inc.
Stephen J. Wilkes ’80
Photographer, Stephen Wilkes Photography Inc.
Steven Newhouse
Chairman, Advance.net