Executive Bio
Mr. John E. Marcom, Jr., has been Senior Vice President of Strategy and Business Development at Time Inc. since January 25, 2016. Mr. Marcom oversees the overall strategy for Time International, new media expansion, multi-platform product development working with Time editors, marketing communications and mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Marcom co-founded Media BBQ. Mr. Marcom served as the Chief Executive Officer of Future US, Inc. Mr. Marcom served as President of US Business at Future PLC since October 2009. He served as the President of Future US, Inc. since October 2009, where he developed new sources of digital revenue growth. He served as the Chief Operating Officer of AdGent Digital, Inc. until October 2009. He has extensive multi-platform content experience - international, commercialand creative. He served as the Senior Vice President of International Operations at Yahoo! Inc. (Now known as Altaba Inc.) from July 14, 2003 to February 2007. Mr. Marcom served as the President of Americas at Financial Times Inc., a division of FT Publications, Inc. from May 2002 to June 2003. He was responsible for the business operations of the Financial Times in the U.S., Canada and Latin America. From March 2001 to April 2002, he consulted with a variety of magazines and web properties. He served as the Senior Vice President of Worldwide Revenue and Media Strategies AtomFilms, now part of Atom Entertainment Inc. (formerly, AtomShockwave Corp.) from February 2000 to February 2001. From September 1999 to February 2000, Mr. Marcom served as the President of Time Inc. International. From January 1993 to August 1999, he held various positions with AOL Time Warner in Asia. He managed Time's businesses in Australia, Latin America, Europe and Asia. Under his leadership, Time Inc. launched new editions of TIME and Fortune in Taiwan and mainland China. In Asia, he led the development of TIME.com's award-winning Asian website and in collaboration with Turner Broadcasting, launched CNN.com/AsiaNow as the region's most comprehensive online news and information source. Mr. Marcom was a Journalist and Executive for publishing and Internet companies in all the world's major markets. He began his career as a journalist, for more than a decade covering media and technology subjects for the Wall Street Journal in Tokyo, New York and London and then was Forbes magazine's European Bureau Chief. Mr. Marcom has been a Director of MarketWatch, Inc. since October 25, 2002. He serves as a Member of the Advisory Board at CogniSign LLC. He served as a Director of PlanetOut Inc. since November 25, 2007. He was a Henry Luce Foundation Scholar. He headed up the Asian Wall Street Journal's Tokyo bureau, then jumped to the U.S. Journal and covered IBM and emerging players in the information technology industry from New York. Later, in London, he covered major media and consumer-marketing players like Nestl??, Reuters and News Corp. He serves as a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Mr. Marcom holds an M.B.A Degree from Insead, the European Institute of Business Administration and an A.B. Degree in Economics from Princeton University.