Greater Los Angeles Area
- Past
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- President Business Technology Group at CMP Media
- President VNU Media (now Nielsen Media) Entertainment Group/Publisher The Hollywood Reporter at VNU Media
- President & CEO at Beliefnet Media
- Connections
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- Industry
- Online Media
Tony Uphoff’s Summary
Innovative leader with a unique track record of success in building, growing and leading media businesses in highly competitive markets. Executive experience in all aspects of media; digital and online, live events, print, integrated media and data and research. Experienced as well in mergers, acquisitions, transformation/restructuring, public companies, fund-raising and start-ups.
Served in key positions at Ziff-Davis Media during the build out of the company in the late 80's and early 90's. Joined CMP Media as publisher of InformationWeek leading the brand to the # 1 position and into one of the largest brands in B2B media.
Key executive during CMP's dramatic growth in the mid 90's from a $200 Million family company, to a $600 Million, publicly traded, global leader in technology media.
Founding CEO of the internet media company Beliefnet, which was sold to News Corp in 2007.
Leader on 3 of the top 10 B2B brands in history at the peak of their revenues, profits and market share; InformationWeek, The Hollywood Reporter and PC Week.
Named one of the top 100 business media executives by B2B Magazine's "Who's Who in Business Media" 2006, 2007 and 2008. Named a Top Innovator in 2009 by Media Business Magazine.
Guest speaker and panelist on media, technology and entertainment issues at industry and association conferences including; The Folio Media Conferences, The Milken Global Conference, The LA RoadShow, The Association of Media and Entertainment Attorneys, Price Waterhouse Coopers "Outlook Conference", Media Post "Outlook 2008", "Inverge" and The American Business Media Conferences.
Guest lecturer on "Leading Internet Businesses", "Managing High Growth Environments", "Technology and Financing in Film" and "Digital Transformation" at Columbia, Emory, NYU and USC's Annenberg Business Schools.
Currently CEO of TechWeb (formerly CMP Media). TechWeb is a division of United Business Media.
Tony Uphoff’s Experience
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President Business Technology Group
CMP Media
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; UBM; Publishing industry)
November 2006 — February 2008 (1 year 4 months)
Responsible for CMP Media's largest division containing the leading brands in business technology including TechWeb, Interop, InformationWeek and Light Reading.
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President VNU Media (now Nielsen Media) Entertainment Group/Publisher The Hollywood Reporter
VNU Media
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Publishing industry)
September 2003 — November 2006 (3 years 3 months)
Responsible for leading entertainment b2b brands The Hollywood Reporter, Back Stage, Hollywood Creative Directory, THResq, Key Arts, Hollywood & Games. Helped lead The Hollywood Reporter and the group to the largest years in their history in revenues, profits and market share. Leading brand of The Hollywood Reporter surpassed arch rival Variety in share of market for first time in 75 year history. Launched 6 new products, grew online revenues by over 400% and transformed primarily legacy print business into a multimedia group with strong growth in online and face to face revenues.
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President & CEO
Beliefnet Media
(Online Media industry)
2000 — 2003 (3 years)
Founding CEO for online media business for all things spiritual. Raised over $26 Million in venture funding from 5 leading firms. Helped lead this content rich online business through the turbulent 2000-2003 phase of the development of the Internet and the economy. Beliefnet was sold to News Corp in November of 2007.
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President Business Technology Group
CMP Media
(Public Company; Publishing industry)
1996 — 2000 (4 years)
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Publisher InformationWeek
CMP Media
(Public Company; Publishing industry)
1993 — 1997 (4 years)
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Vice President
Ziff Davis, Inc.
(Publishing industry)
1988 — 1993 (5 years)
