WUSF Public Media competitors

Chris Ripley is a President & Chief Executive Officer at SINCLAIR BROADCAST GROUP INC, Dir:Investor at hibu, and Member Board of Directors (Audit Committee Chair) at hibu and is based in Reading, Reading, United Kingdom. He has worked as Managing Director - Head of Los Angeles Investment Banking at UBS, Chief Financial Officer at SINCLAIR BROADCAST GROUP INC, and Mng Dir:Global Media Group at UBS Investment Bank. Chris attended University of Western Ontario/The and Ivey Business School.

Matthew Shilvock is a CEO/General Director at San Francisco Opera. He has worked as Associate General Director at San Francisco Opera. Matthew studied at University of Massachusetts, Lowell and University of Oxford.

Senior Executive with proven track record as Chief Executive Officer, President and Chief Operations Officer in publically traded and private corporations all with rapidly changing and highly competitive market environments. Also served in high ranking government positions, including Managing Director of the City of Philadelphia, the most senior non-elected position in the government.Specialties: Strong leadership and management skills in organizational settings with diverse constituencies. Particular strengths in:developing, communicating and executing clear vision and strategy for improved performance; ensuring individual high performance patterns to improve team performance; developing customer driven strategies; using vision and values to shift organization culture as required by market conditions, and; directing complex and major projects.

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.

Margaret Low is Vice President of The Atlantic and President of AtlanticLIVE. She oversees all aspects of The Atlantic‘s live events team, which produces more than one hundred events each year across the country and around the world. Before joining The Atlantic, Smith was NPR’s Senior Vice President for News, where she oversaw that organization’s award winning news division and the work of nearly 400 broadcast and digital journalists. Smith also spent eleven years as NPR’s Vice President for Programming, where she developed the live events strategy for the hit show Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! and oversaw all program acquisitions including Car Talk and Fresh Air. Low is a graduate of the University of Michigan.