Mr. Jon R. McTaggart serves as the Chief Executive Officer and President of Minnesota Public Radio Inc. Mr. McTaggart serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of American Public Media Group and previously served as its Chief Executive Officer since July 1, 2011. Mr. McTaggart co-founded Gather Inc. in 2004. He served as Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for American Public Media Group and its largest division, Minnesota Public Radio. He is the senior executive responsible for daily operations of MPR and APMG. He provides leadership of MPR's operating divisions, including Content & Media, Technology, Marketing, Development and Membership, Underwriting and Sales, and Business Development. He also leads daily operations provided by APMG to its subsidiaries including Southern California Public Radio (Los Angeles, CA) and Greenspring Companies. He has been deeply involved in MPR's growth; he joined MPR in 1982 as a Station Manager in Bemidji. Since then, he has served as General Manager of MPR's five-station group based in Collegeville/Saint Cloud, as Senior Vice President for New Media, and as Vice President of Business Development for APMG. He served as Senior Vice President of Content & Media, where he was responsible for all MPR programming and media platforms, regionally and nationally, including MPR's 35 FM radio stations and two regional program networks with more than 700,000 weekly listeners; all 20 of MPR's national programs (including Prairie Home Companion, Marketplace, American RadioWorks, and Saint Paul Sunday) with combined weekly audiences of nearly 12 million listeners; Classcial 24, an MPR partnership with Public Radio International (PRI) providing a 24-hour classical music program service to more than 280 public radio stations in all 50 states with a weekly audience of 2 million listeners, and MPR's media platforms (namely Radio and Direct Broadcast, including direct satellite, New Media including all related Internet sites, and Live Programming Events). Prior to returning to MPR in 1995, he served as Vice President for Advancement and University Relations of a private liberal arts university in Riverside, California. Mr. McTaggart serves as a Director of Minnesota Public Radio Inc. He serves on the Second Harvest Heartland organizational board and is a former board member of Bemidji State University Foundation and National Public Radio. In addition to his tenure at MPR, he has led strategic planning, communications, fundraising, and business development as a Director for a non-profit hospital group and was an Executive Director of the hospital foundation in Reading, Pennsylvania. He served as a Director of Gather, Inc. He holds a Masters of Public Management from Kurtztown University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelors degree in Communications and Journalism from Bemidji State University.