Jim Friedlich
James Leo "Jim" Friedlich (born February 22, 1957) is an American media operating and investment executive. He has served as Chief Executive Officer of Empirical Media and on the boards of various companies.[1]
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Career
Dow Jones and Company
From 1990–2000, Friedlich managed the global advertising sales, consumer marketing and business development of various Dow Jones & Company newspapers, magazines, web sites, TV channels and conferences. He had business responsibility for all WSJ foreign-language print editions as well as full global sales, marketing and business development responsibility for all Dow Jones international holdings on the Internet, on TV, and in print. Among his responsibilities were The Wall Street Journal, The Wall Street Journal Americas - the largest circulation Journal edition outside of the United States - and CNBC Europe and Asia, as well as the local language editions of The Wall Street Journal in Europe, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East.[2]
From 1999-2000, Friedlich headed Business Development for Dow Jones' Electronic Publishing Group, including WSJ.com, Dow Jones Newswires, and Dow Jones Indexes. Friedlich played key roles in the creation of a number of new print, Internet, TV and conference properties while at Dow Jones. He was responsible for the international business launch of WSJ.com, co-founded The Wall Street Journal Americas, and launched Dow Jones Conferences, the company’s first events business.[3] He served on the Board of Directors of several international media companies and publications including CNBC Europe, CNBC Asia, Nikkei International, Vedomosti [The Record], a Russian language business newspaper joint venture with the Financial Times, America Economia, and the Far Eastern Economic Review. He also served as a Managing Director of Handelsblatt-Dow Jones, GmbH, a joint venture with Germany’s leading business publisher.[4]
ZelnickMedia
Friedlich joined ZelnickMedia in 2001 as one of four original partners.[5] From 2001-2011, Friedlich specialized in investments in publishing, business-to-business media, professional information and marketing services. Among his other ZelnickMedia activities, Friedlich served as Chairman of Naylor LLC, a North American business-to-business media services provider whose acquisition by ZelnickMedia he oversaw in 2005.[6]
Empirical Media Advisors
Friedlich partnered with Jack Griffin to form Empirical Media Advisors in 2011 and serves as its CEO.[7]
Personal
Friedlich attended Dartmouth College, is a graduate of Wesleyan University with a BA in English magna cum laude, and received his MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.[8] He serves on the Board of Directors of The Door, a New York-based youth services organization, and WFMU, a public radio station.
Friedlich lives with his wife Melissa, a writer and studio artist, and their son Max.
Notes
- ↑ http://empiricalmedia.com/jim-friedlich/
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