MICHAEL CLINTON

Eunice An is a practical strategic thinker who honed her strategic and operational skills at Accenture, The New York Times Co., Random House, and Hearst. She now consults with a wide variety of media organizations on process improvement, project management, and business analysis.

At Hearst, she was the General Manager of the Seventeen Group and two startups before heading up the Process Improvement and Project Management group in the Magazine Group.

She partnered with the President of Sales & Merchandising of Random House to restructure the group and redefine roles in response to radical changes in the retail and wholesale markets.

She collaborated with the Editor-in-Chief and Publisher to launch Fitness Magazine at The New York Times Magazine Division.

At Accenture, she managed the first Fortune 100 business process reengineering project at one of its major divisions, which resulted in follow-on work there and at other companies.

Eunice has a BA in Economics from Harvard College and an MBA in Finance & International Business from the University of Chicago.

Giulio Capua is a C-Level sales and marketing executive with over 30 years experience in building and monetizing world class media brands. His reputation as a transformational leader who can navigate periods of disruption, while delivering on stakeholder needs, led to a long leadership career in media and gave him the opportunity to start a brand consultancy in 2022.

Prior to joining ROAR forward, Giulio was the SVP, Group Publisher, Departures, Travel+Leisure, Food&Wine at Meredith Corp. Prior to Meredith, Capua spent 28 years at Condé Nast, a majority of them leading some of their most reknowned brands. He served as Chief Business Officer of AD and Condé Nast Traveler, publisher and CRO of AD, VP and publisher of Gourmet, and Associate Publisher of GQ, (where he joined as a sales representation and advanced to associate publisher).

Under his leadership, AD was named to Advertising Age’s “A-List” and Adweek’s “Hot List” twice. Additionally, while leading Gourmet, that magazine achieved its best ad page performance in history and was named to Advertising Age’s “A-List”, as well as an Emmy Award nomination for “Diary of a Foodie.”

Giulio graduated from Ithaca College with a B.S. in finance and marketing.

Bill Gibbons, a former journalist, editor, and media marketer, has applied his wide media experience to a new ROAR career of advising marketers, PR agencies, and new media companies on content development, monetization, client outreach, and audience engagement.

At ROAR forward, Bill oversees content – producing the ROAR Report, the ROAR Bulletins, and custom content for clients.

Over the course of his career, Bill has held senior positions in newspapers, magazines, digital media, and streaming video. He was a journalist and editor in the first half of his corporate media career, where he honed his content development skills. In the second half, he focused on media marketing and developed his brand, ad sales, social, event, data, and content marketing skills.

As a senior marketer, Bill held positions at CBS News Digital, CBS All Access (Paramount+), Hearst Magazines Digital Media and magazine brands such Town&Country, Travel+Leisure, Forbes and GQ. At those companies he focused on developing strategies and programs that drove advertising/sponsorship revenue and consumer engagement on behalf of clients.

He is a graduate of Syracuse University where he studied Journalism and English Literature.

A creative publicity executive and media strategist, Beth has over 20 years of experience at the intersection of media, thought leadership, and corporate communications. She has worked with a range of clients including musicians, actors, authors, corporate executives, and cultural creatives from television, publishing, music, and the culinary world. Beth designs, devises and delivers bespoke strategies to elevate awareness about ROAR forward.

Previously, Beth served as head of talent relations at AMC Networks, where she was the primary liaison between its on-air talent and the network’s internal business initiatives. Prior to AMC, Beth spent seven years as VP, Communications for Entertainment Weekly (EW) making EW and its editors the go-to source for entertainment news and commentary.

Earlier, Beth was Director, Communications at Conde Nast and began her magazine media career at Rolling Stone. Before working in magazine media, Beth spent over a decade in the music business handling artist development and publicity at Atlantic, Capitol, Tommy Boy and Elektra Records.

Jennifer has an extensive background in experiential marketing and event production, primarily in the media and entertainment space, as well as on the agency side.  She has worked with some of the most culturally influential brands and companies, crafting unique and compelling experiences that make meaningful connections with consumers through inspired storytelling.

She is an experienced thought leader with exceptional communication skills who looks to create strategic partnerships that drive engagement and collaborates with both internal and external stakeholders on sales and marketing initiatives to deliver on ROI.

Following long tenures at both Hearst and Conde Nast, Jennifer joined the ROAR team in September 2023 and continues to consult for other leading brands.

Jennifer lives in Connecticut and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Marketing and Communications from Boston College.

Veteran publisher, trend spotter, and marketing strategist, Linda Mason transitioned her magazine media career into a consultancy business helping magazine brands develop successful positioning platforms.

Prior to that, she was executive vice president, marketing for MPA – The Association of Magazine Media. At MPA she developed magazine industry wide marketing strategies and was a key player in conceptualizing and communicating the medium’s unique strengths to the association’s membership as well as advertising agencies and clients.

Mason also held various positions with Conde Nast, including vice president, integrated marketing where she built and governed a business that integrated all elements of cross-platform, multi-brand, multi-media custom marketing and advertising for large corporate accounts. She was also a key contributor to Condé Nast’s positioning platforms.

Her magazine brand experience includes the launch of Elle Girl as Vice President/Publisher, publisher of Details and associate publisher at GQ where she started as fashion director.

Mason is a native New Yorker and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from New York University.

Ellen leverages her wide and varied experience to bring a unique perspective to her consultancy that includes clients in the marketing, media, advertising, and non-profit worlds. She applies her expertise in business development, marketing (digital and traditional), and advertising to improve her clients’ bottom lines and operations.

Ellen has held senior roles as a marketer, ad agency strategist, ad buyer, advertising seller, account manager, content creator, editor, consultant, qualitative researcher, and adjunct professor. She has been a key leader at FCB New York, Time Magazine, Magazine Publishers of America, The Advertising Research Foundation, Prohaska Consulting, Mediavillage.com and more. She and her teams have won numerous industry awards for their innovations and results.

A native Mississippian, she makes New York City her home and enjoys time in North Carolina, where she graduated with Honors from UNC Chapel Hill’s Journalism School. She serves on boards and contributes her skills to benefit multiple non-profit organizations.

Cara built her long and successful career by developing ground-breaking approaches to storytelling for the world’s most iconic brands. She has produced custom content for many of the world’s greatest companies by marrying that brand’s identity with the editorial DNA of each media platform she has worked for.

She launched her career at Condé Nast, where she developed the company’s first Special Advertising section during her tenure at GQ. She went on to lead all of Condé Nast’s custom content creative. She later joined Time Inc. as VP, Creative Director at The Foundry, and then SVP, Head of Creative Strategy for The Foundry at Dotdash Meredith.

Among the hundreds of companies that Cara has produced custom content for, she includes Audi, Donna Karan New York, Walmart, Levi’s, L’Oreal, Microsoft, American Express, Nike, and P&G, as former clients. For each of them she created a unique visual experience that not only pushed the boundaries of design and voice, but drove engagement and conversion for those clients across every media platform.

At ROAR forward, Cara is the founding Head of Creative of ROAR Studios, where she consults and creates content for clients to connect them with Re-Imagineers and The New Longevity demographic.

With more than 30 years as a C-Suite sales executive, Kelly Peterson has worked with global brands to develop and deliver powerful marketing initiatives resulting in significant lifts in sales volume and ROI for her clients.

Kelly’s experience as a Group Advertising director with the Hearst Corporation, and as a consultant to national and global brands, has given her the ability to identify and implement marketing programs that maximize her clients’ investments.  Her expertise in print, digital, social, and broadcast media gives her unique cross platform insight into the needs of marketing and sales organizations.

Beyond media, Kelly works with two artificial intelligence start-ups and has launched a voiceover practice. She is a past President and Board Chair of Women in the Home Furnishings Industry (WITHIT) and a mentor at the College of Charleston Business Program.  Kelly is a graduate of Iowa State University where she studied Advertising and Mass Communication and has an Executive MBA from the University of California, Berkeley.

Elisa Shevitz is a writer and communications pro that thinks like both a publicist and a storyteller. She brings her knowledge of brand, audience, and culture to every story. Elisa’s consultancy currently creates content for a wide variety of companies in the lifestyle, publishing, travel, and entertainment industries.

Elisa was formerly the Director of Communications at the Broadway League where she headed public relations for the organization of Broadway producers and theatre owners. There she oversaw consumer messaging and supported the Tony Awards publicity efforts. Prior to that, she created the first in-house communications department at American Express Publishing (publishers of Travel + Leisure, Food & Wine, Departures) generating coverage of the magazines, their stories, the editors, and events such as The Food & Wine Aspen Classic.

In addition to her communications career, Elisa is also a writer whose work has appeared in HBO’s Inspiration Room, a public archive of women’s journals celebrating Women’s History Month, The New York Times, and various memoirs in the Six-Word Memoirs series.

After graduating with a management degree from the University of Maryland, she launched her career in Washington, D.C. before moving to, and making New York, her home.

Sean is a senior creative leader experienced in developing award-winning brand campaigns and strategies across digital, print, and experiential platforms. He led multidiscipline teams with a focus on branding and promotion, storytelling, ideation, activation, multimedia design, motion graphics, and video production. Sean has grown in his career in positions at accomplished titles such as The New Yorker, Travel + Leisure, Food & Wine, Departures, and GQ, among others. A self-starter who takes pride in bringing big ideas to life with a proven track record of driving new business, mentoring young talent, and cultivating client relationships. Sean lives in Brooklyn with his wife and spends his free time creating fine art, illustration, and animation.