Experience

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  Stone Hearth Newsletters

  • Greater Boston Area

  • Founder

    • 2010 - Present
    • Greater Boston Area

    Curated news feed about health, science, medicine

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  Gentag

  • Director of Corporate Communications

    • 2007 - Present

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  EXOS, formerly Athletes' Performance

  • Massachusetts

  • Web Site Editor

    • 2005 - 2008
    • Massachusetts

    First editor of the CorePerformance.com web site.

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  Myca Health Inc.

  • Quebec City, Canada

  • Vice President, Interactive

    • 1998 - 2005
    • Quebec City, Canada

    Over two tours at this Quebec City-based fitness and health technology company, I was vice president of interactive products, a co-patent holder on MyFoodPhone, and named and created the branding for the Xystos division. I also created the post-MyFoodPhone concept that eventually become Hello Health and Myca.

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  Club Executive Magazine

  • Needham, Mass

  • Publisher, Editor

    • 2001 - 2003
    • Needham, Mass

    This startup business magazine for private club executives began operations on September 12, 2001 and published its first issue 14 weeks later, with the most advertising pages of any magazine launch in this industry sector's history. The magazine subsequently launched and sponsored a successful trade show in Las Vegas in the fall of 2002 with 175 booths.

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  Worcester Magazine

  • Worcester, Mass

  • Editor

    • 2000 - 2001
    • Worcester, Mass

    Worcester Magazine is an alternative weekly magazine for the Worcester, Massachusetts region. During my tenure, the magazine won the most New England Press Association awards that it had ever won in a single year.

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  TROTTER, now known as Cybex International

  • Medway, Mass

  • Director of Marketing

    • 1995 - 1997
    • Medway, Mass

    Trotter was the leading manufacturer of high-end treadmills. It introduced its own line of strength equipment, Galileo, in 1996, which I named. I also developed and managed the branding campaign for this product.

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  Club Industry Magazine and the Club Industry Shows

  • Greater Boston Area; Framingham, Mass

  • Founding Publisher, Editor

    • 1983 - 1992
    • Greater Boston Area; Framingham, Mass

    Club Industry was the first business magazine for the commercial fitness industry. From 1983 to 1992, it was the dollar-volume leader in the industry. The Club Industry Shows, which started in 1986, were the first independent and open trade shows for the club industry, and from 1986 to 1992 they were the largest shows in the industry in terms of high-end attendance. .

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  Sportscape Magazine

  • Publisher, Editor

    • 1980 - 1992

    Sportscape Magazine was one of the first regional participant-sports magazines. It featured service and how-to articles, travel reviews, and essays.

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  Northeastern University

  • United States
  • Higher Education
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Acting Chairman, Psychology Department

    • 1978 - 1980

    The department housed a Ph.D. program in experimental psychology, one of the first series of courses in American Sign Language, as well as introductory psychology courses and statistics courses that employed self-paced, peer-taught, interactive methods, in its own building, a facility called Psych Central. This system laid the groundwork for the Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) movement that is being cited as the future.

  • Lecturer, History Department

    • 1975 - 1980

    Created and taught The History of Sport in America for the history department. I also taught Race and Sport and Psychology and Crowd Behavior for other departments. During this time, I wrote on a freelance basis on sport history and culture for Sports Illustrated, The New York Times,The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Houston Chronicle, Revista Review Interamericana, Black Sports, The Boston Globe, The Boston Herald, The Real Paper, The Roslindale Post, and the Journal of Sport History.

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  The Boston Globe

  • Greater Boston Area

  • Co-op Student

    • 1968 - 1969
    • Greater Boston Area

    Selected photo cuts for editors. Filed hard-copy clippings in research library folders. Met future wife.

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  Delirama

  • Manchester, New Hampshire

  • Counter Staff, Waiter, Caterer

    • 1961 - 1967
    • Manchester, New Hampshire

    Family-owned start-up New-York-style deli, featuring one of the world's first specialty food trucks and two satellite locations to expand the brand.