Thomas Publishing CEO and leadership

Tony Uphoff is an award-winning digital media, live event and marketing services executive specializing in transformative leadership of companies, cultures, people and organizational performance.He is a uniquely accomplished operating executive with an unparalleled track record of building, growing and transforming media and marketing businesses. As a pioneer in the use of technology in media, marketing and business, his focus remains on strategic positioning of companies’ brands and products for increased reach, revenues, and profits.He currently serves as President & Chief Executive Officer at Thomas, the leader in product sourcing, supplier selection and marketing solutions for industry. As an industry thought leader Tony is regularly quoted in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Business Insider, and other top media brands, as an expert on the digital industrial economy. Most recently, Tony led a discussion on manufacturing trends with senior government officials and industry leaders at the White House. Tony also advises senior management and boards of media, marketing, and technology companies as the CEO & Founder of Uphoff Management Advisory, LLC.His career highlights include:-Building the single largest B2B media brand, Information Week-Transforming a $125M print-centric legacy CMP Media business into UBM TechWeb, a $275M digital media, live event and marketing services powerhouse.-Growing VNU Media Entertainment Group’s revenues by 50%, profits by 45%, online revenues by 400%. Led core brand, The Hollywood Reporter, to surpass rival Variety in market share for the first time in its 75-year history-Founding CEO of internet media company Beliefnet. Raised $26M in VC funding ($20M after April 2000 U.S. financial crisis. Sold to NewsCorp in 2007)---Principal player in CMP Media sale to UBM. Featured leader in VNU Media sale to private equity consortium.-Speaker at notable conferences such as The Milken Institute’s Global Conference and SXSW