Experience

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  Foster Co Ps Cpas

  • Editor-At-Large

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  Print Is Dead (Long Live Print!)

  • Boston, Massachusetts, United States

  • Editor-at-Large

    • Jan 2022 - Present
    • Boston, Massachusetts, United States

    A podcast about magazines and the people who made (and make) them.

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  The Solo Project™

  • Boston, MA

  • Founder/Managing Director

    • Jan 2020 - Present
    • Boston, MA

    Working on client consulting projects and developing content related to the burgeoning independent work life in the U.S. and abroad.

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  Birthing of Giants Fellowship Program

  • New York, United States

  • Member, Board of Expert

    • Jan 2019 - Present
    • New York, United States

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  Community Wealth Partners

  • Director

    • 2000 - 2016

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  Inc. Magazine

  • New York, NY

  • Managing Director, New Ventures

    • 2010 - Nov 2013
    • New York, NY

    Returned to Inc. to create new sources of revenue and new business models for the Inc. brand. Created The Build Network, a multimedia venture for the middle market, providing content marketing, proprietary research and thought leadership services to corporations who desired channels to reach the middle market. Launched award-winning print quarterly and website, working with the Founding Creative Director of Fast Company and former Editor-in-Chief of MIT's Sloan Management Review.

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  Clark University

  • Clark University, Worcester Ma

  • Founder, Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship

    • 2005 - 2010
    • Clark University, Worcester Ma

    Leveraging my years leading the creative team at Inc. Magazine and building a network of exceptional company builders and innovators, I designed an unusual program in innovation and entrepreneurship for undergraduate students in the liberal arts, the performing arts, the sciences, and social sciences. The goal was not to graduate entrepreneurs, but to help students develop the skills, experiences, and attitudes necessary to transform their passions into economically sustainable lives. Created an elite team of practitioners as faculty and advisers to propel students out of the classroom and into the world of trial and error and constant iteration.

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  Inc. Magazine

  • Boston, Ma

  • Editor-in-Chief

    • 1980 - 2002
    • Boston, Ma

    Editor-in-Chief of Inc. Magazine, creating the world's premiere business magazine for leaders of small to mid-sized growing companies. Led the company through its sale to German media giant Bertelsmann in 2001. Created the Inc. 500, a ranking of America's fastest-growing private companies,which has become an international brand in its own right. The Inc. 500 featured many of the world's leading companies while they were still in their infancy, including Microsoft, Oracle, Domino's, Intuit, Charles Schwab, Patagonia, Paychex, Qualcomm, and countless others.

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  Boston Magazine

  • Boston, MA

  • Editor-in-Chief

    • 1975 - 1978
    • Boston, MA

    Recruited to become Editor-in-Chief at 26 yrs. old after invaluable training at New York Magazine. Back in mid-seventies Boston was home to an astonishing pool of journalistic talent. Thanks to the work of a young, imaginative, and fearless team of writers, editors, designers, and photographers, we transformed Boston Mag from a failing, timid Chamber-of-Commerce spin-off into an award-winning, dynamic publication.

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  New York Magazine

  • New York, NY

  • Arts & Entertainment Editor

    • 1972 - 1975
    • New York, NY

    Started out at New York Magazine as the mailboy. Imagine sorting mail for Tom Wolfe, Nora Ephron, Jimmy Breslin, Dick Reeves, Gail Sheehy, Nik Cohn and, of course, Clay Felker and Milton Glaser. Talked my way into the newsroom and onto the arts and entertainment section of the mag, and worked with Judith Crist, Barbara Rose, Tom Hess, Alan Rich, and John Simon. (Thanks to John I made it as a clue in the Sunday Times Crossword: Clue: John Simon's editor. Answer: panhandler.) In some ways the rest of my career could be viewed as attempts to re-create the thrill of walking into that newsroom every morning.