TEGNA CEO and leadership

Anne Bentley is an accomplished Public Relations Executive with extensive experience and a track record of success leading all aspects of corporate communications, public relations, digital PR, and employee communications for global consumer brands. Anne is currently VP and Head of Corporate Communications at PBS where she leads PBS' Corporate Communications team, developing and implementing external and internal strategies to support the organization's strategic vision. She is PBS’ chief corporate spokesperson and manages reputation, media relations, executive communications, primetime and kids publicity, social media strategies, internal communications, and events. Anne work directly with PBS' CEO and senior executives. Most recently, Anne was Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications at AOL where she developed communications strategies and advised senior executives during AOL’s transformation from a subscription-based business to a global Web-services company.

Grady Tripp is vice president and chief diversity officer for TEGNA Inc. where he oversees all aspects of TEGNA’s diversity strategy, including attracting, retaining and growing diverse talent at all levels of the company, developing training programs to enhance awareness and accountability in diversity issues, and facilitating the company’s racial diversity and inclusion employee working group.

Since joining TEGNA in 2017, Tripp has been an integral part of the company’s people and culture strategy. As senior director of human resources and talent acquisition, he oversaw strategy and execution for TEGNA’s talent acquisition team, in addition to leading a team of human resources professionals supporting television stations in 15 markets.

Prior to TEGNA, Tripp was a human capital performance and change management leader within Accenture’s talent and organization practice in the United States and Europe and has held human resources leadership roles for companies across five industries.

Tripp holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management and an MBA in Finance from Florida A&M University.

Jeffery 'Jeff' Newman is a Chief Human Resources Officer at TEGNA INC and is based in McLean, Virginia. He has experience at General Electric (GE) and has worked as Compensation Manager at USF&G Insurance, Compensation Consultant at CAPITAL ONE FINANCIAL CORP, and Compensation Analyst at USF&G Insurance. Jeffery attended Towson University between 1990 and 1994.

Kurt Rao has been Chief Technology Officer at TEGNA Inc. since April 2018. Mr. Rao has extensive experience working at large media companies on software development and managing infrastructure operations that support critical business functions. He was chief information and technology officer for Time Inc. since 2016, having previously served as Vice President and Corporate CIO of Time Warner Inc. since 2007. He has also worked at NBC Universal, Vivendi, IAC Interactive and MTV Networks. He began his career at Viacom.