Hilary
Beard, Executive Editor, Real Health
Hilary Beard, executive editor, Real Health,
has a wealth of experience in writing
and editing, with a special focus on health
and personal growth for the African American
market. She is co-author of "Venus and Serena:
Serving from the Hip: 10 Lessons on Living,
Loving and Winning" (Houghton Mifflin), the
first of two books on values for teenagers
by tennis' Williams sisters (featured on
Oprah in April 2005). She also cowrote "Success
Never Smelled So Sweet: How I Followed My
Heart and Found My Passion" (Ballantine Books),
with Lisa Price, CEO of Carol's Daughter,
a bath and body-care company. She co-edited "What
Your Mother Never Told You About Sex" (Putnam)
by Hilda Hutcherson, M.D. (featured on Oprah
in May 2002) and coauthored "Lighten Up:
The 30-Day African-American Weight-Loss Program" (Amistad).
Hilary
is a contributing health writer for NiaOnline.com,
a Web site for Black women, a frequent contributor
to Essence and
a former editor of HealthQuest magazine.
Prior to enterting the publishing field she
advanced through sales, marketing, management
and business development positions at Procter & Gamble,
Johnson & Johnson and Pepsi. She is a graduate
of Princeton University and lives in Philadelphia.
Jeremy Grayzel,
CEO, Smart + Strong and CDM Publishing LLC
With over 30+ years of business and publishing
expertise, Jeremy Grayzel bought Smart +
Strong in the fall of 2004. As CEO, he has
spearheaded the redesign of POZ magazine
and POZ.com. Prior to Smart + Strong, Jeremy
served as president of VNU eMedia and headed
a new division to web-enable VNU Business
Media, the second largest B2B publisher and
trade show operator in the country.
As founder and CEO of Facsimile Marketing,
he developed broadcast fax and fax-on-demand
technology and developed leading-edge custom
publishing software. The company also became
a website developer and hosted customized
publishing services for third party publishers.
Jeremy's other experience includes a position
as President and COO of Family Media Inc.,
as well as directorial roles at both Charter
Publishing Company, where he served as general
manager of Ladies'
Home Journal, and RCA Global Communications,
where he was responsible for financial planning
of the domestic satellite communications business.
He is on the board of directors of the Metro
Chapter of the World Presidents' Organization
and the past chairman of the Emerging Business
Council of the Information Industry Association.
Jeremy earned his MBA at New York University's
Graduate School of Business.
Ian Anderson,
Vice President, General Manager, Smart + Strong
Ian Anderson joined Smart + Strong as General
Manager/Vice President in June 2005. Ian
has responsibility for internal business
management including technology and print
production services, circulation and product
development, and business planning.
For the last six years, he worked at VNU
eMedia as Director of Operations and then
as Director of Product Development. Prior
to VNU, Ian spent 6 years at Editor & Publisher magazine
as Research Director and General Manager.
Ian earned his BA in Communications at
Ramapo College, Mahwah, New Jersey.
Megan
Strub, Publisher, Executive Vice President,
Smart + Strong
Megan was part of the launch of POZ in
the spring of 1994 and has been working
with pharmaceutical companies and agencies
focused on reaching the HIV community ever
since. Early on, she demonstrated the value
of direct to consumer advertising to people
with HIV. Megan has continued to develop
additional educational programs and publications
including the POZ Life Expo, MAMM,
InfoPack treatment newsletter, ComboCards
and Real Health.
Prior to joining Smart + Strong, Megan
was an account executive with The Caribiner
Group (now owned by Jack Morton Wordwide),
a multi-media production company specializing
in corporate events, national sales meetings
and product launches. Megan has over 16
years of sales experience and has been
profiled in Sales & Marketing
Management magazine, New York Magazine,
and MIN, a trade publication for the magazine
publishing industry.
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