Co-Founder
Press+

Gordon Crovitz is a media executive and advisor to media and technology companies. He is a former publisher of The Wall Street Journal and former executive vice-president of Dow Jones, where he launched the company’s Consumer Media Group. Under his decade-long leadership, the Wall Street Journal Online became the largest paid subscription news site on the web, with more than one million paying subscribers. He founded the online news service Factiva and is a member of the board of directors of the news and information provider ProQuest, both of which provide highly profitable revenues to news publishers.

He is an advisor to several technology-based media companies in California and New York and was named to the “Silicon Alley 100” for 2008. He writes the weekly “Information Age” column in The Wall Street Journal.

While at Dow Jones, he turned around the financial performance of The Wall Street Journal to become strongly profitable after earlier losing money, including strong growth in circulation revenue in print and on the web. He led the acquisition of publicly traded MarketWatch as well as specialist services Private Equity Analyst, VentureOne and VentureWire, London-based news franchise eFinancial News and Frankfurt-based newswire VWD. Earlier in his career at Dow Jones, he served as the corporate vice president for planning and strategy. He was editor and publisher of the Far Eastern Economic Review in Hong Kong and founding editorial page editor of the Wall Street Journal Europe in Brussels.

He is a graduate of the University of Chicago and has law degrees from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes scholar, and Yale Law School. He and his wife, Minky Worden, live in New York with their two sons.

Senior Vice President
Digital Operations
The New York Times Company

Martin Nisenholtz was named senior vice president, digital operations for The New York Times Company in February 2005. He is responsible for the strategy development, operations and management of The New York Times Company's digital properties.

In 1995, Martin founded nytimes.com, today the world’s largest newspaper web site.

From 1983-1994 Martin was with Ogilvy & Mather, where he started the Interactive Marketing Group, the first unit at a major U.S. agency devoted to interactive communication.

Mr. Nisenholtz is an active leader in the advertising and publishing industry and participates in the following organizations:

• Founder and Executive Committee Member, Online Publishers Association (OPA)
• Board member and Executive Committee Member, Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB)
• Board Member, Ad Council