Agenda

Gavin Daly is Executive Editor and Managing Director at Money-Media, A Financial Times company. Publications under Daly's editorial direction, including Agenda, BoardIQ, FundFire, Ignites and Ignites Europe have averaged more than 90% renewal rates each of the past six years. His portfolio also includes The Outstanding Directors Exchange conference series for board directors. Before joining Money-Media in 1999, he was with The Boston Globe, The Hartford Courant and Institutional Investor. Daly graduated from the University of Connecticut.

Eduardo Llull is managing editor of Agenda. He joined the publication following its merger with Base and Bonus, an executive compensation journal where he had been associate editor. He has a financial journalism background and got his start as a reporter covering community news in Brooklyn. He has degrees from the University of Notre Dame and Columbia University.

Kristin Gribben is Agenda's associate editor. Before joining the team, she covered North American energy markets in Washington, D.C., writing about ever-increasing gas prices among other issues. Kristin has several years of experience in print journalism at consumer magazines, newspapers and trade publications. Born and raised in Seattle, she has a B.A. in International Politics and Economics from Albertson College of Idaho.

Tony Chapelle is a senior reporter with Agenda. He previously covered stockbrokers, individual investors and brokerage companies as a senior editor for On Wall Street magazine. In the late 1990s, he and his wife Carla ran a newsletter called Securities Pro, which reported on African Americans in the financial services industry. From 1989 until 1993, Tony produced television programs at CNN Business News in New York. Tony earned a master’s degree from Columbia Journalism School. He and his wife have three children and live in Harlem.

Amanda Gerut is a senior reporter with Agenda. She spent the past five years covering the mutual fund industry, particularly issues of interest to mutual fund independent directors. Before coming to Agenda, she served as the managing editor of BoardIQ. She has also worked previously as a reporter for The Star-Ledger in Newark, N.J., and as a reporter for The Herald News in New Jersey. Amanda was born in Chicago and has a B.A. in Journalism and Politics from New York University.

Josh Martin is a senior reporter with Agenda. Josh was previously managing editor of World Business Media, which covered the homeland security field. He has also worked as New York correspondent for IC Publications/The Middle East, reporting on international trade and investment, and a feature correspondent for the American Management Association. His work has appeared in The Journal of Commerce, Global Investor and other publications. Josh was born in New York and graduated from Fordham University/School of Visual Arts.

Katie Wagner is a reporter with Agenda. She joined Money-Media as a junior reporter, writing for Agenda and two of the company’s other publications, Ignites and BoardIQ. Katie has covered state, county and municipal politics for New Jersey daily and local newspapers. She has also written for the South Bend Tribune. Katie's a graduate of the University of Notre Dame.

Marc Hogan is a reporter for several Money-Media publications, including Agenda. He also writes about music for Pitchfork Media and Playboy.com. Marc comes from BusinessWeek, where he covered the financial markets. He has also written for AOL CityGuide, The Chicago Tribune, National Geographic Traveler and Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, among others. Hogan holds bachelor's and master's degrees in journalism from Northwestern.

Greg Shulas is Opinion Editor for Agenda and Interactive Editor for sister publications Ignites and Fundfire. He has previously served as senior reporter at Agenda. He has also served as a wealth management reporter for FundFire and a staff writer for the Connecticut Post. The New Jersey native has a B.A. from the University of Delaware.

Jonathan E. Braunstein is Interactive Editor at Money-Media, producing The Exchange webinar series for Agenda, BoardIQ, FundFire, Ignites and Ignites Europe. Prior to this position, he was News Analyst at Agenda, a sister publication that covers corporate boards of directors. Jonathan worked as a television news producer and writer in Boston for two network affiliates, most recently at WHDH, Boston’s NBC affiliate. Originally from New Jersey, he is an alumnus of Brandeis University in Waltham, MA.

Jonathan Gregg is the copy editor for Agenda. He has been working in New York City as a copy editor, musician and writer for the past 20 years. A graduate of Brown University, he spent more than a decade freelancing for numerous magazines ranging from Institutional Investor to Vanity Fair before doing a five-year stint at Time, Inc., where he was the senior editor of Time.com. Besides working for Money-Media, his most recent assignment was copyediting and fact-checking George Plimpton's biography of Ernest Shackleton.

Kate Ventricelli Kate Ventricelli is Director of Sales for Agenda, Agenda Best Practices Series and the Outstanding Directors Exchange. Kate has worked in the financial services industry in sales and client service area in the media, conferences and advertising industries. She has her bachelors degree in finance from Fairfield University.

Grail Jennings is the director of subscriber management for Money-Media. Previously, she worked in business development in the fashion industry. Grail is originally from Northern Ireland and studied at F.I.T. in New York City. She loves to travel.

Michael Cronan Michael Cronan is the Senior Vice President of Content Sales for Money-Media. In this role he oversees the content sales for new business and renewals as well as ticket sales for conferences. Prior to Money-Media, Michael has spent over 15 years working at b to b companies such as Wolters Kluwer, ALM, McGraw-Hill, Thompson, and Ziff-Davis where he held a progressive series of sales and marketing positions.

Andrew Sollinger In January 2009, Andrew Sollinger was appointed Managing Director of the FT’s US commercial operations, which include the Financial Times and Money-Media, the US-based market leader in online news and commentary on fund management and corporate boards. Previously, Sollinger was Managing Director of Money-Media and was a part of the executive team that sold Money-Media to the FT in January 2008. Before joining Money-Media in 2005, he was Group Publisher of Capital Markets at Thomson Media in New York, where he held various roles in strategy and new product development from 1997-2004. Prior to joining Thomson, he was an editor with Institutional Investor for 10 years, including a year each in London and Hong Kong.

Rachel Umansky Rachel Umansky is Group Head of the Asset Management & Services team for Money-Media and the Financial Times. Rachel is responsible for overseeing this advertising team and sales growth for FundFire, Ignites, Ignites Europe and BoardIQ as well as integrated growth across the suite of FT products. Previously, Rachel sold print and online advertising for a securities industry publication. Prior to this, she managed conferences and online seminars in the financial markets. She holds a BA in Communications from Tulane University.

Rachel Wang is the Advertising Services Manager for Money-Media. In this role, she is responsible for managing numerous advertising campaigns across all of Money-Media's publications. She joins us from FHM/Emap Metro LLC, where she was Online Production Controller.

Dan Fink is the Senior Vice President of Marketing for Money-Media. In this role he oversees the marketing, graphics, and customer service functions. Prior to Money-Media, Dan managed an e-commerce web site for Computer Associates’ consumer division and was the head of the Direct Marketing department at Loan Pricing Corporation (a subsidiary of Reuters). Dan earned an MBA at Indiana University and was a national champion gymnast.