AccuWeather CEO and leadership

Chris Patti is a Chief Technology Officer at AccuWeather.

Evan Myers is a Council Member at STATE COLLEGE BOROUGH, Senior Vice President - Chief Operating Officer at AccuWeather, and President at Borough Council of State College and is based in Pennsylvania Area, State College, Pennsylvania. He studied at Penn State University between 1967 and 1971, La Leche League International Inc between 1963 and 1967, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) between 2001 and 2001.

Vincent C. Mcdonald is a Chief International Strategy Officer at AccuWeather.

Tech savvy, general manager, SVP and chief product executive, experienced digital native in multiplatform product development, business strategy, 360 storytelling and emerging platforms. Successful track record leading large global organizations with distributed teams, managing full P&Ls up to $300M and structuring strategic deals. Operational and entrepreneurial leader, mentor with 10+ years track record at building successful teams, talent management and change processes.

Key Executive Skills:

- Global product management in US, Mainland China, other APAC regions and EU

- Operational executive and mentor of teams comprising of varying disciplines in product, design, software development and data science & analytics

- SVP and general manager with proven track record in driving growth in revenues, audience and brand equity

- Strategic dealmaker experienced in negotiation, term structure and partner management at global scale

- Inspiring communicator and visionary leader with an accessible, collaborative and open approach

Oliver Knowlton is Chief Strategy Officer at AccuWeather, bringing his considerable operational expertise to help raise AccuWeather’s overall execution as it grows and further diversifies revenue.

In this role, he oversees the AccuWeather Line of Business that includes radio, newspaper, local television partnerships, AccuWeather’s local television solutions business, as well as digital out of home. In addition, as a valued member of AccuWeather’s leadership team, Knowlton works directly with AccuWeather’s President and CEO to bring increased efficiencies and superior execution to all AccuWeather businesses. He handles a wide range of special strategic projects related to company growth and revenue diversification.

Prior to this appointment in September 2019, Knowlton was a strategic consultant with his own practice, called Work Well Digital, working with AccuWeather’s Digital Media business and was instrumental in helping to build out AccuWeather’s Sales team and Product office. Knowlton joined AccuWeather in late 2018 on a part-time basis to help manage the Local Media Solutions Line of Business (formerly known as Traditional Media).

Before joining AccuWeather as a consultant, Knowlton had leadership positions at such renowned media and digital enterprises as TIME Inc., MediaNews Group, One News, PointRoll and Gannett. Knowlton is an executive with extensive digital media experience with an expertise in operational execution. He understands the business landscape at companies in the media, technology and digital space. At his core he thrives in managing companies in transition, trying to achieve renewed growth or repositioning due market disruptions.

When he is not working, Knowlton is passionate about volunteerism, donating his time to CitySquash, a Bronx, based urban youth program, and Brooklyn Tech Talks, a (700+) Meetup group dedicated to broad technology issues. He is also an avid sports fan, a 2:30 marathoner, and has completed two Ironman triathlons.

Ed Arditte is a Board Member at AccuWeather and Chief Financial Officer at AccuWeather. He has worked as VP:Finance & Business at Textron Inc., Exec VP/CFO at FAIRWAY GROUP HOLDINGS CORP, and Consultant at FAIRWAY GROUP HOLDINGS CORP. Ed studied at Boston University and University of California - UC Berkeley.

Eric Danetz is a Chief Revenue Officer at AccuWeather and Publisher:Fortune at TIME. He has experience at CNET; J2 Global, Inc.; and CBS Interactive and has worked as Exec VP/Chief Revenue Officer at Defy and Senior VP/General Manager at TIME. Eric works or has worked as BOARD MEMBER at nteractive Advertising Bureaus Data Center of Excellence.

Jennifer Chung is AccuWeather's Chief Legal Officer. In this key leadership role, Jennifer advises AccuWeather’s executives on all legal matters affecting the company, and provides legal support across all lines of business and functions, including in the areas of intellectual property (IP), regulatory compliance, ad sales, emerging technologies, media and data privacy.

AccuWeather, with global headquarters in State College, Pennsylvania, now reaches over 1.5 billion people worldwide through smart phones, tablets, wired and mobile Internet sites, radio, television, newspapers, digital signage and the AccuWeather Network cable channel. Further, AccuWeather serves more than half of Fortune 500 companies as well as thousands of other businesses worldwide including such well respected brands as Amazon, Disney, Google, LG, Microsoft and Samsung. Recognized as the most accurate source of highly localized weather forecasts and warnings everywhere in the world with proven Superior Accuracy™, AccuWeather has saved tens of thousands of lives and prevented tens of billions of dollars in property losses.

Before joining AccuWeather, Jennifer spent three and a half years as Assistant General Counsel for Time Inc. (now Meredith Corp.), where she managed the global trademark and domain name portfolios, and assisted with other issues related to intellectual property and brand management in the print, digital and social media ecosystems, in addition to managing the company’s patent portfolio and new patent application filings and assisting with other corporate matters.

Jennifer previously served as an Assistant Counsel at the New York State Department of Economic Development, providing counsel on state-wide agency matters concerning economic incentive programs and intellectual property issues, including the “I Love NY” family of service marks and trademarks.

She was an associate at several local law firms, including Kaye Scholer LLP; Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP; and Frommer, Lawrence & Haug LLP, where she worked on a wide range of high level intellectual property litigations and counseled clients on intellectual property issues.

Jennifer also served as an Assistant District Attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, working under the Honorable Robert M. Morgenthau, and as a Law Clerk to the Honorable Gabriel W. Gorenstein of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Evan Myers is a Council Member at STATE COLLEGE BOROUGH, Senior Vice President - Chief Operating Officer at AccuWeather, and President at Borough Council of State College and is based in Pennsylvania Area, State College, Pennsylvania. He studied at Penn State University between 1967 and 1971, La Leche League International Inc between 1963 and 1967, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) between 2001 and 2001.

Ed Arditte is a Board Member at AccuWeather and Chief Financial Officer at AccuWeather. He has worked as VP:Finance & Business at Textron Inc., Exec VP/CFO at FAIRWAY GROUP HOLDINGS CORP, and Consultant at FAIRWAY GROUP HOLDINGS CORP. Ed studied at Boston University and University of California - UC Berkeley.