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In 2001, Edward T. Reilly became the 17th President and Chief Executive Officer of American Management Association (AMA), the world's leading not-for-profit membership-based management development organization. Each year, AMA directly interacts with over 100,000 managers and executives in the United States and around the world, through its renowned management education seminar programs. AMA is the parent company of Management Centre Europe, located in Brussels, the leading pan-European business management education institution for middle and senior executives. AMA also maintains operations in Canada, Mexico and Japan. AMA’s organizations are distinguished by the quality of their faculty of global business practitioners, the practical action-oriented focus of their learning programs and the dynamic interactive nature of their courses.
Ed previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Big Flower Holdings, Inc. (now Vertis, Inc.), a leading provider of integrated marketing and advertising services. Under his four-year leadership, revenues at Big Flower Holdings increased from approximately $1 billion to nearly $1.9 billion. The NYSE-listed company broadened its services and made numerous acquisitions, specializing in newspaper insert advertising, individualized direct mail, digital asset management and application software for the broadcasting and advertising agency industries. In December of 1999, the Company was taken private in a leveraged transaction.
Prior to joining Big Flower Holdings, Ed spent nearly 30 years with the broadcast and book publishing groups of The McGraw-Hill Companies, a publishing and communications company, and served in the following capacities: Editor-in-Chief of the Accounting, Computing and Data Processing Department of Gregg Community College Division; Chief Financial Officer of the California Test Bureau; General Manager of the Instructo Corporation; Group Vice President for Europe, Africa and the Middle East; Group Vice President for McGraw-Hill Training Systems; Executive Vice President in charge of McGraw-Hill International Book Company. In 1987, Ed became the President of The McGraw-Hill Broadcasting Company and during that time, he served on the Boards of the Television Bureau of Advertising (TVB), the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), and the Association for Maximum Service Television (MSTV). Ed is also a past Chairman of The Advertising Council.
Currently, Ed serves on the USO Worldwide Board of Governors and is a member of the Board of Directors of the New York Society of Association Executives. He is the U.S. Chairman of the Fellows of the Royal Society of the Arts. He is also a member of iVillage Inc.’s Board of Directors, where he sits on the Audit Committee and is Chairman of the Compensation Committee. IVillage is the leading Internet portal, specializing in women’s issues and is listed on the NASDAQ (iVil).
Ed holds a BBA from St. Francis College, New York, and attended the Stanford Executive Program. He resides in Westport, Connecticut, with his wife Susan.
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