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KC Crain is president and chief executive officer for Crain Communications Inc, overseeing the day-to-day operations of Crain Communications, as well as the company’s family of brands including Automotive News and Advertising Age. Previously, he held roles of chief operating officer, executive vice president and director of corporate operations, vice president, and group publisher. He started at Crain as a reporter for Automotive News. Active in a number of civic and business activities, KC is board chair for the Detroit Children’s Fund. He also sits on the boards of the Young Presidents Organization, and the College for Creative Studies. In addition to keen interests and influential connections throughout the automotive, tech and publishing industries, KC is dedicated to Detroit’s economic development with investments and partnerships in real estate and restaurant ventures. KC Crain earned a B.A. in Communications from Denison University. He and his wife, Ashley, live in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., with their four young children.

Daisy Veerasingham was named Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer in February of 2021. Veerasingham had been chief revenue officer since 2019, and continues to lead the company’s revenue division and serve on the AP Management Committee. Veerasingham joined AP in 2004 as sales director for AP Television News in London and was promoted to senior vice president for international revenue in 2010. In that role, she led all international content licensing, AP Global Media Services and AP’s video business, including the news agency’s multichannel live video service. Prior to joining AP, she was group sales and marketing director at LexisNexis and also held sales and marketing roles at the Financial Times. Based in London, Veerasingham will relocate to AP’s headquarters in New York.

Ross Levinsohn is an American media executive who has worked in media and technology. He is the CEO of The Arena Group and Sports Illustrated, and has held senior roles at Yahoo, Fox Interactive and Tribune Publishing, including a brief tenure as publisher of the Los Angeles Times. He became the CEO of Sports Illustrated in October 2019, and becme CEO of The Arena Group in August 2020.