Sarah Bernard is the President of 23/6, a comedic news collaboration between IAC/InterActiveCorp and The Huffington Post. In this role, she is responsible for the development, operations and management of the company. Previously, she served as General Manager for HuffingtonPost.com since its launch in May 2005. From 2000 to 2005, Ms. Bernard held various roles at AOL, Inc., most recently as Vice President of Program Strategy & Promotion charged with audience growth for AOL’s media business. Before that position, she served as Vice President & General Manager of AOL for Small Business, overseeing the launch and ongoing business strategy, programming and product development for AOL’s first line extension. Ms. Bernard was first recruited to AOL for advertising sales development, where she led technology and consumer electronics sales strategies across Time Warner’s interactive properties. Prior to joining AOL, Ms. Bernard was a Director at WashingtonPost.Newsweek Interactive, where she was responsible for guiding business and product development for washingtonpost.com’s recruitment classifieds property, washingtonjobs.com. Ms. Bernard began her career in advertising, where she held account management roles at both TBWA/Chiat/Day and Ketchum Advertising agencies. Ms. Bernard holds a BA in English from UCLA and an MBA from The Leonard N. Stern School of Business at NYU.

Jonathan Busky is currently a Vice-President in the Strategic Planning department of the NYC Economic Development Corporation. Previously, he was an engagement manager at the New York offices of management consultants Booz Allen Hamilton, focusing on the media and entertainment industries. Jonathan has an MBA, MFA, and BA from Yale’s Schools of Management and Drama, and Yale College. He lives on the Upper West Side with his wife, Galen Sherwin, an attorney at the New York affiliate of the ACLU. Hobbies include reading, art, cooking, outdoors activities (hiking / sailing / skiing), and travel, in addition to theater.

Nicole Fix

Liz Jones

Doreen Oliver has been on both the business and creative sides of the media and entertainment industry for over a decade. For the last few years, she has served as both a producer and VP, Development for Lee Daniels Entertainment (LDE). Aside from managing the script review process, Doreen was closely involved with the production of The Woodsman (Kevin Bacon, Mos Def), served as Associate Producer on Shadowboxer (Cuba Gooding, Jr., Helen Mirren, and Macy Gray) and Co-Producer on the upcoming Tennessee, starring Mariah Carey. At LDE, Doreen produced several commercials, including a voter registration campaign sponsored by President Bill Clinton’s foundation featuring Grammy award-winning artists, LL Cool J and Alicia Keys. She began her career in film and television reviewing comedy and long-form series scripts at HBO Original Programming in Los Angeles, and worked in New Media Business Development at Fremantle Media (producer of “American Idol”). Prior to film, Doreen was the Creator/Executive Producer of the successful New York City talent showcase series “Frustrated Artists in Corporate America “, which was featured on CBS Evening News. Doreen featured then undiscovered artists such as comedian Demetri Martin (The Daily Show), novelist Erica Simone Turnipseed ( A Love Noire, Hunger) and Broadway performer Anika Larsen (Rent; Xanadu). In addition, Doreen spent several years in marketing and advertising at Bozell Worldwide ad agency (for which her teams won two American Marketing Association EFFIE awards) and GlaxoSmithKline pharmaceutical company. Doreen has also donated time to the Harlem Theatre Company and increased membership through her marketing efforts. She served as Co-Chair for her Yale College Class year reunion, which achieved the highest attendance, both in percentages and absolute numbers, than any other 10 ^th reunion in Yale history. Doreen has an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and resides in Brooklyn with her husband and son.

Asher Richelli

Daniel Shiffman

Amanda Woods. For the past 13 years, Amanda has worked both nationally and internationally in various capacities for several artistic institutions including Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center Theater, English National Opera, Yale Repertory Theatre and LAByrinth Theater Company. A former theater scout for Paramount Pictures, she holds an MFA from Yale School of Drama. Currently, she is also an Associate at Jane Bergère Productions, a Broadway producing office, as well as a Steering Committee Member for Lincoln Center Theater’s Young Patron Program. She is a Co-Founder of Entourage a new young donor program supporting The New Group, an Off-Broadway company. In April 2007, Amanda was asked to oversee the re-launch of The Old Vic’s American donor program and now helms the New York office as Manager of the American Associates.