Poynter Competitors

Deborah Acklin is president and chief executive officer of WQED Multimedia, the nation’s first community-owned public media company, also known worldwide as “Mister Rogers’ station”.Ms. Acklin has served in multiple executive roles in public broadcasting, the cable television industry, and commercial broadcasting. At WQED Multimedia, she manages or has managed the operations, strategies, and fundraising to create original multi-platform content distributed across three television channels, three radio signals, an interactive Web-based learning channel, an interactive global media distribution portal, an education department, a publishing division, and PBS, NPR and their member stations.Her tenure includes many achievements, including four Mid-Atlantic Emmy Awards for Station and Overall Excellence, given by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences to a general manager of a commercial or public television station in Pennsylvania, Delaware, West Virginia and New Jersey.

Pierre Leroy is a graduate of the École Supérieure de Commerce of Reims business school and holds a degree in law. He has spent his entire career with the Lagardère group. He was appointed Director and Chief Executive Officer of MMB (which became Lagardère SCA) in 1987, then Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Lagardère Sociétés in 1988 and Secretary General of the Lagardère group in 1993. He was appointed Co-Managing Partner of Lagardère SCA in March 2004 and was re-appointed in 2010 and 2016. On June 30, 2021, he has been appointed as Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Lagardere SA. He also serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Hachette Livre since March 2021.

Mike Maggio is a President and Chief Executive Officer at SP Richards Co. at Richards Lerma and is based in Atlanta, Georgia. He has worked as General Manager at TSRC Inc dba Frank Parsons Co, Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Group Dekko Inc, and President & CEO at ActionEmco. Mike works or has worked as President at TriMega Purchasing Association Now Independent Suppliers Group. He attended Rowan University between 1979 and 1984, Hamilton University between 1990 and 1990, and Stony Brook University between 1973 and 1975.