Board of Directors

The Foundation’s Board of Directors is comprised of leading industry executives representing the media industry as well as advertising and public relations.

Executive Committee

JUDI LOPEZ
Chairperson
EVP, Distribution & Content Strategy
Hallmark Media

SCOTT WEISS
Founder & Chairman Emeritus
President & CEO
Speakeasy

YVETTE MILEY
First Vice Chair
SVP, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
NBCU News Group

MICHAEL BIARD
Vice Chair
President, Operations and
Distribution
FOX

ANDY TOPPING
Vice Chair
SVP, Human Resources
Comcast Cable

SEAN GUPTA
Treasurer
SVP, Streaming Strategy at Paramount+ & Pluto TV
Paramount

JONATHAN SICHEL
Secretary
EVP, General Counsel
Hallmark Media

TOM MONTEMAGNO
Chair, Fundraising Committee
EVP, Programming Acquisition
Charter Communications

JOSEPHINE PAMPHILE
President & CEO
T. Howard Foundation

Directors

MICHELE BARNEY
Co-President, Networks and Streaming Distribution
Warner Bros. Discovery

LYNN BEALL
EVP and COO, Media Operations
TEGNA, Inc.

LINDA BURAKOFF
SVP, Content & Programming
DIRECTV

ALEXANDRA CARLIN
Vice President, Communications
Hearst

ANN CARLSEN
Founder & CEO
Carlsen Resources, Inc.

ANGELA CHENG-CIMINI
SVP, Talent & CHRO
Harvard Business Publishing

LORI CONKLING
Global Head of Partnerships
YouTube TV

ROSALYN DURANT
EVP, Programming & Acquisitions
ESPN

ROBERT E. FREEMAN
Partner, Co-Chair Tech, Media
& Telecom Group
Member, Sports Group
Proskauer

KENNY GERSH
EVP, Business Development
Major League Baseball

RAY HOPKINS
President, U.S. Networks Distribution
Paramount

WILLIAM KOENIG
President, Global Content &
Media Distribution
National Basketball Association

MICHAL LOCKER
National Managing Principal for Technology, Media & Telecom Industry, Deloitte Consulting
Deloitte

LYNN MATTHEWS
VP, Talent & Acquisition
ESPN, Inc.

ERIN L. MCPHERSON
Chief Content Officer
Verizon

SCOTT MILLER
Co-President, Networks and Streaming Distribution
Warner Bros. Discovery

MICHAEL PALMER
Chief Information Security Officer
Hearst

CHRIS PEÑA
SVP, Local Medial News
TelevisaUnivision, Inc. 

YUSUF TAYOB
Group Chief Executive – Accenture Operations
Accenture

AISHA THOMAS-PETIT
Chief People & Diversity Officer
AMC Networks

DAVID ZAGIN
President of Distribution
A+E Networks