WGBH CEO and leadership

Irvin Alexander has over 19 years of executive leadership experience in both for profit and nonprofit organizations. He has managed all aspects of operations, including: finance and accounting, human resources, legal, administration, information technology and donor/membership databases. He is also adept at strategy formulation and execution, systems implementation and integration and project management. Irvin has an MBA and a Master of Science in Accountancy and is a Certified Public Accountant, Certified Management Accountant and Certified Association Executive.

KEY STRENGTHS:

Leadership: Strategic leader with over 19 years of executive experience in applying business management techniques to serve and enhance the organizational mission, including strategic planning and risk management within international organizations.

Project Management: Significant experience in project management through systems implementations, and use of MS Project to develop timelines and critical path for project completion. Develops communication strategies for project roll-outs.

Financial Acumen: Extensive experience in all aspects of financial management, including membership associations, at a strategic level. Designations include CPA, CMA, and CFM.

Cultural & Political Integration: Culturally savvy with a career history of working in internationally based organizations, leading multi-cultural teams and partnering with a diverse population of professionals and political leaders from different environments.

KEY SKILLS:

Strategic planning

Accounting Operations and Financial Infrastructure Improvement

Mission alignment and integration

Fiscal Management and Operational efficiency

Risk Management

Government Grants, Cooperative Agreements and Contracts Management

Indirect Cost Rate Allocations

Volunteer Engagement

Investment Portfolio Management

Annual Business Planning and Budgeting

Executive Leadership

Tina’s passion for connecting stories with the right audience has not changed since she began writing for newspapers as a teenager, but the vehicles for doing so and her job titles have: Reporter, editor, author, blogger, twitterer (@tinacassidy2), public relations strategist. At InkHouse, she leads account teams that work on campaigns, launches, branding, and issues management. She also oversees InkHouse’s Content Bureau, which produces bylines, op-eds, Web content, speeches, e-books and other communications that reflect the voice, vibe and goals of the organization for which they are written. And she leads the firm’s real estate practice, which includes community relations, permitting, branding, messaging, social content and event planning. Before joining InkHouse, Tina was a vice president at the Boston-based Solomon McCown & Co. for nearly five years, where she developed award-winning communications strategies for corporate, nonprofit, quasi-public and academic clients, and was a key member of the firm’s crisis team. She also led the firm’s real estate practice, including community relations and media relations for developers, REITs, brokerage firms and construction management companies. Tina made the switch to public relations after more than 20 years as a journalist, launching her career as a writer at 15 when she began contributing regularly to The Providence Journal and had to have her parents drive her to complete assignments. She wrote for the Boston Globe while she was a college student; covered banking and retail for the Boston Business Journal after graduation; worked for the Associated Press; and returned to the Globe as a staff writer in 1995, with beats ranging from real estate, sports marketing, the politics of business, the State House, the 2000 presidential campaign and fashion. She was a founding member of the Association of Capitol Reporters and Editors, a national group for state government reporting. She was also an assistant business editor at the Globe, played the drums in a company band called the Nutgrafs, and was an adjunct professor of journalism at Northeastern University, her alma mater. She left the Globe in 2005, and a year later, Atlantic Monthly Press published her internationally acclaimed book Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born, which has also been published in the UK by a division of Random House. She was part of the popular Ricki Lake documentary “The Business of Being Born,” and is an internationally recognized authority on maternity issues and motherhood (follow her @historyofbirth).

Ben Godley is a CEO at Contributor Development Partnership, Chairman//Pres/CEO/Co-Founder at Cgn Marketing & Creative Svcs, and Board Member at Rand Group and is based in Wellesley, Massachusetts. He has experience at INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORP and Hill+Knowlton Strategies and has worked as President:Business Services at WGBH and Executive Vice President at WGBH.

Claudia Palmer has been with Reuters since March 2014. As Chief Business Officer she heads up the business activities of Reuters, including Reuters News Agency, Reuters Content Solutions, Reuters.com and Reuters TV. Claudia is also the Chief Financial Officer for the Reuters news organization. Claudia spent over 15 years in the music industry at EMI, where she most recently ran the European region for its music publishing division as their executive vice president and chief operating officer. Before that, she led Investor Relations for EMI Group plc. Claudia was also vice president, business development at The North Face, where she worked to develop B2B and B2C sites. Prior to this, she had a strategy role at EMI and was a strategy consultant at Bain & Company and The Parthenon Group. Claudia holds a bachelor's degree from Brown University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She lives in London.