Newhouse Advisory Board

Barry Baker ’73
Senior Advisor, Lee Equity 

Angela Bundrant ’89 
Head of Brand and Business Development, Purple Strategies 

Dwight Caines ’87
President, Domestic Marketing, Universal Pictures 

Neil I. Canell 
Managing Director,
Wells Fargo Advisors

Sandra Cordova Micek ’91 
President and CEO,
WWTM/WFMT

Brian A. Edelman ’03
Founder and Chief Investment Officer, RAIN

Andrea Fant-Hobbs ’82 
Chief Brand Officer,
Brand Strategy, Development and Innovation LLC

Steven Fuchs ’79
CEO, True North Inc.

Kristina Hahn ’98 
Director of Global Sell Side Strategy and Operations, Google

Deborah A. Henretta ’85 
Partner and Vice Chairman, G100 Co.

Joyce Hergenhan ’63
Retired Vice President–Communications, General Electric

Peter A. Horvitz ’76
President, PAH Investments LLC

Beth Ann Kaminkow ’89
Global CEO, VMLY&R Commerce

Keith Kaplan ’91 
Global CEO, Kinetic Worldwide

Lawrence S. Kramer ’72
Board of Directors,
Advance Local 
Senior Advisor, Advance

Michael Lehman 
Partner/Attorney,
Lehman & Lehman LLP 

Robert W. Lewis ’84 
Senior Director of Multi-Format Production, Dow Jones/The Wall Street Journal

Christopher A. Licht ’93 
Former Chairman and CEO,
CNN Global  

Gary T. Lico ’76 
Proprietor, GARYLICO.TV

Robert R. Light ’78  
Head of Music Department, Partner, Managing Director, Creative Artists Agency

L. Camille Massey ’87 
President and CEO, Synergos 

Robert J. Miron ’59
Retired Chairman and CEO,
Advance/Newhouse Communications

Eric Mower ’66, G’68
Executive Chairman, Mower

Philip Nardone Jr. ’89
President and CEO, PAN

Tonia O’Connor ’92
Independent Board Director

Bruce Perlmutter ’81
Content Strategy, Showrunner, Amazon

Melissa Richards-Person ’89 
Founder and Chief Marketing Officer, Third Arm Consulting

Angela Y. Robinson ’78
Director of Operations, National Association of
Black Journalists 

Doug Robinson ’85
Principal, Doug Robinson Productions

Gary C. Schanman ’92 
Group President and Executive Vice President, Video Services, DISH/EchoStar

Alyson Shontell ’08 
Editor-in-Chief, Fortune 

Shari M. Stenzler ’92 
Owner/Founder, London Misher Public Relations

Charles W. Stevens ’77  
Adjunct Associate Professor, Columbia University
Graduate School of Journalism

John L. Sykes ’77 
President, Entertainment Enterprises, iHeartMedia

Michael T. Tirico ’88 
Sportscaster, NBC Sports

Joyce Tudryn Friberger ’81 
President and CEO,
IRTS Foundation 

David Watson 
President and CEO,
Comcast Corp.

James G. Weiss ’87 
Chairman and CEO,
Real Chemistry

Bryan Wiener ’92 
CEO, Profitero

Melinda Witmer 
Former Executive Vice President, Chief Video Officer and Chief Operating Officer, Time Warner Cable Networks

Howard E. Woolley ’80  
President, Howard Woolley Group LLC 

Valerie Workman ’86 
Chief Talent Engagement Officer, Handshake 

Dana Zimmer ’92 
President of Distribution, Nexstar Media Group

Emeritus Members 

Joan L. Adler G’76
Assistant Vice President of Regional Programs, Syracuse University Los Angeles 

James C. Andrews G’93
Vice President, Licensing, Andrews McMeel Publishing 

Roger W. Conner ’70  
President and CEO,
Conner Communications LLC 

Deborah B. Curtis ’90
CMO, On Location Experiences

Shanti D. Das ’93
Owner, Press Reset Entertainment

William F. Doescher G’61  
President and CEO,
The Doescher Group Ltd. 

Eric D. Frankel ’79
CEO, AdGreetz

Pamela Giddon Freedman ’73
Retired Owner, Giddon & Company PR Marketing 

Steven D. Leeds G’73 
Owner, Neo Entertainment Consultants

Arthur S. Liu ’66
President and CEO, Multicultural Radio Broadcasting 

Donald R. Lockett G’74
Principal, iD-Media Solutions

Sean McDonough ’84
Broadcaster, ESPN

John Douglas Miller ’72 
Retired Chair, NBCUniversal Marketing Council 

Jack C. Myers ’69 
Media Ecologist, Media Village

David G. O’Neil ’84 
Partner, Rini Coran PC

Michael S. Perlis ’76
President and CEO,
Forbes Media

Andrea Davis Pinkney ’85 
Vice President, Editor-at-Large,Scholastic Trade 

Howard W. Polskin ’73
President, Polskin Media 

Anthony F. Renda ’60
CEO, Renda Broadcasting Corporation 

Stephen A. Rogers ’62 
Retired Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, The Post-Standard

Walter Sabo ’74
Chairman and CEO, Sabo Media

Marianne L. Samenko ’79 
Retired Senior Director, Marketing, JPMorgan
Chase & Co.

Mark D. Sena ’76, G ’78 
President, Mars Communications

Seth Solomons ’91 
CEO, East Lake Advisory Group

Michael J. Terpin ’78 
CEO, Owner, Transform Group 

Luis C. Torres-Bohl ’82, G ’85 
President/Founder, Castalia Communications Corp.

George P. Verschoor ’83  
Producer/Director, Television and Film,
Hoosick Falls Productions

Stephen J. Wilkes ’80  
Photographer, Stephen Wilkes Photography

Honorary Members

Steven Newhouse 
Chairman, Advance.net 

Welcome to the Advisory Board

Newhouse welcomes Dwight Caines ’87 and Valerie Workman ’86 to the Advisory Board in 2024-25.  

Dwight Caines

Dwight Caines  As president of domestic marketing at Universal Pictures, Caines oversees media, digital marketing, multicultural marketing, data analytics and publicity. He previously was president of marketing at Sony Pictures Entertainment. During his career, Caines has served in key marketing roles for hundreds of movies, including global franchises such asJames Bond,” “Spider-Man,” “Jurassic World” and “The Fast and the Furious.

Valerie Workman

Valerie Workman  As chief talent engagement officer at Handshake, Workman helps employers define and execute their talent acquisition strategies by providing thought leadership on the future of work. She is a leading industry voice at the intersection of artificial intelligence, careers and global workforce planning. Prior to joining Handshake, Workman served as vice president of people at Tesla, where she reported directly to the CEO and became known as “Tesla’s Top Diversity Advocate.”