John Marcom
President
John Marcom, joined Future US in October 2009 from Adgent 007. He has unique experience as a journalist and executive for both “old” and “new” media businesses around the world.
From mid-2003 to early 2007, John led Yahoo! Inc.’s operations outside the U.S. as senior vice president, driving a tenfold growth in the web company’s international revenues. Prior to Yahoo!, John was President of Financial Times Americas, where he led the company’s print and online businesses in the U.S.
John worked for Time Warner from 1993 to early 2000, involved with a portfolio of magazines that extended from the international editions of the company’s flagship news-magazine to Japan’s first, and only, cooking magazine for men. He became President of Time Inc. Asia in 1998. As President of Time Inc. International in 1999, his responsibilities expanded to include Time’s editions in other regions as well as London-based Wallpaper*.
Earlier in his career, during eleven years as a reporter in Japan, the US, and Europe, Marcom covered a range of business issues for The Wall Street Journal and, later, Forbes magazine. Awarded a Henry Luce Foundation Scholarship in 1979, Marcom worked under that program in Seoul as a correspondent for The Asian Wall Street Journal. John graduated from Princeton summa cum laude, and received an MBA from INSEAD. He is a native of Jonesboro, Arkansas, and completed his secondary education at Memphis (Tennessee) University School.
John Sutton
CFO
John joined Future US in August 2006 as the CFO. John began his career in Boston in 1985 working in Public Accounting, and moved to the bay area in 1988. After working in the San Francisco office of BDO Seidman, John began what has turned out to be a lengthy career in Finance at publishing companies. John worked for Miller Freeman (MFI) from 1993 until 2000 as the VP of Finance, and was there during a period of extraordinary growth for the company. John was an instrumental part of the acquisition team that helped acquire CMP Media and was also there for the integration of the two businesses. John also was an integral part of the management team that prepared a large portion of MFI for its eventual sale to VNU Media in 2000. After leaving MFI, John accepted a the role of CFO at Fawcette Technical Publications. John remained there for 5 challenging and rewarding years, just prior to coming to Future. John is a graduate of Boston College.
Kate Byrne
Vice President Technology and Living Group
As Vice President of the Technology and Living Group, Kate Byrne oversees the print and online outlets associated with Maximum PC, Mac|Life, Pregnancy and Mom magazines.
Prior to joining Future, Kate was the Sales Vice President at Loomia Inc., which develops recommendation software tools for the publishing industry. A well-known veteran in the media industry, Byrne has held key sales and executive positions at leading technology, business media brands and agencies including BusinessWeek, Fast Company, Inc., The Industry Standard, Entrepreneur, United Hemispheres, Gannett Outdoor and Grey Advertising.
Utilizing creative and strategic thinking, Byrne helped launch key brand extensions such as BusinessWeek’s small business edition, Fast Company’s Social Capitalist Awards and the digital magazine edition for Edutopia, the publication and website for The George Lucas Education Foundation, opening new revenue streams in tough competitive times. A strategic self-starter, Byrne put her entrepreneurial spirit into action as Vice President of Sales at Ladies Who Launch, a web and event offering that guides women entrepreneurs in starting and growing their businesses.
Rachelle Considine
Vice President Sales & Marketing
As Vice President, Sales and Marketing, Rachelle Considine oversees marketing and sales development and advertising sales in Future’s gaming magazines as well as its consumer-branded online digital portfolio. She first joined Future in 2009 as General Manager of the Games Advertising Group, significantly boosting the group’s growth and sales. In her role as Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Rachelle draws upon her expertise in working with some of the world’s most well known brands to find new ways to connect to readers and partners to grow the company.
Prior to joining Future, Rachelle served as Vice President of Sales for What They Like, Inc. where she was responsible for building the company’s sales teams, tools and revenue. Earlier in her career, Rachelle held several management roles in the gaming industry, notably as the National Sales Director for Fox Interactive Media/IGN Entertainment and MySpace Games Group. In that position, she was a key component in building and implementing the strategy for the games team vertical within Fox Interactive Media’s sales group. During Rachelle’s five-year tenure, she also represented some of the company’s other top brands, including TeamXBOX, Rotten Tomatoes and AskMen.
Rachelle began her media-focused career partnering with such clients as PeopleSoft, Edmunds.com and WesternUnion.com as an offline media planner and online media planner for Starcom Worldwide and Starcom IP.
Rachelle earned a Bachelor of Science from Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration.
Kelley Corten
Vice President Games Media
As VP of the Games Media, Kelley is responsible for leading all aspects of the games websites, magazines, and on console multimedia programming. She first joined Future in 2008 as Publisher of Nintendo Power and Official Xbox Magazine.
Prior to joining Future US, Kelley was the Group Publisher of the Computing and Photography websites, magazines and events at Future UK. While there she successfully launched four websites and two magazines as well as revitalized number of ailing titles, turning them into highly profitable businesses. She supervised and developed more than a dozen consumer products, including Computer Arts, .Net, 3D World, ImagineFX, MacFormat, PC Answers, PC Plus, PC Format, Linux Format, What Laptop, Digital Video, Digital Camera Magazine, Photo Plus and Photography Focus Guides.
Before joining Future Publishing Ltd., she was in the newspaper business, beginning in sales and eventually becoming the publisher for the Cheltenham and Gloucester “Independent” newspaper. In the early ’90s, Kelley was the lead on a number of businesses acquired by NewsCom.
Kelley has won a number of awards during her 19 years in media including Newspaper Society Award Salesperson of the Year, Best Integrated Advertising Campaign, Best Daily Newspaper, Best Weekly Newspaper, Best Supplement and Best Initiated Event. She has also won Periodical Publishing Association Awards including Creative Production Initiative of the Year and Consumer Specialist International Magazine of the Year.
Kelley has a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from Goucher College, Maryland and a Masters Degree in Publishing achieved in England.
Anthony Danzi
Vice President Music
Anthony has responsibility over Future’s Music Division. Based out of Future’s New York office, Anthony oversees a talented and experienced team who are the creative force behind the Guitar World, Guitar Aficionado, Revolver and Golden Gods Awards brands. Anthony has successfully extended both the commercial and editorial reach of these brands from print to online, television, mobile, VOD, retail, direct commerce, book publishing, and events.
Anthony joined Future US in January of 2004 and held the position of Publisher of Maximum PC and PC Gamer magazines before moving over to the Music Division in 2007. Prior to joining Future US, Anthony was a Sales Director at CNET from 2000 to 2004. Anthony earned a Juris Doctorate from Hofstra University Law School in 1992 and worked as an associate attorney for the law firm of Speiser & Krause (NYC) where he was involved in complex, multi-district Federal Court civil litigation. Anthony has also represented Time Warner Cable in litigation involving various media issues.
Anthony lives in Brightwaters, NY with his wife Mari and their three children Isabella, Jonathan and Dean. He enjoys his family, being active and playing the guitar.
Nancy Durlester DuBois
Director of Human Resources
As Director of Human Resources and Office Operations, Nancy oversees the Human Resources, Information Technology and Office Administration teams. She first joined Future US in 1997, bringing her expertise in HR and IT process evaluation, structure implementation and change management. In 2006, Nancy helped the company achieve the “Best Medium Sized Company to Work For” award by the Great Place to Work® Institute and the Society for Human Resource Management.
Nancy joined Future from the International Data Group, where she held the position of IT Manager at InfoWorld Magazine, and later, Director of IT and Operations for GamePro Media Group. She remained there for 8 years prior to joining Future US.
Nancy is a graduate of California State University, Chico where she earned a BS in Mass Communications/Public Relations with a Minor in Business.
John Gower
Director FuturePlus
John transferred to Future US in 2007 to lead the newly created FuturePlus US custom publishing outfit. Since moving to the U.S., John has worked on partnerships with NVIDIA, Toys R Us, Best Buy, and Blizzard to produce the ultimate magazine for its rapidly growing community of WoW gamers across the globe.
A custom publishing veteran, John joined Future in 2004 and helped make FuturePlus UK an award-winner, securing business from major retailers, blue-chip companies and globally recognised brands. With 15 years of media experience, John spent time in South Africa – working for many of the region’s leading publishers – spearheading the region’s custom publishing strategy.
Jon Phillips
Editorial Director
Jon has been with Future US since 1995, when he joined the company to serve as executive editor of The Net magazine. In 1997 he joined the staff of boot magazine, and when that PC technology title relaunched as Maximum PC, Jon became editor-in-chief and set new benchmarks in newsstand sales. In his current role of editorial director, Jon directly oversees the content development of Maximum PC, Mac|Life, Windows Vista: The Official Magazine and Pregnancy.
Kristen Salvatore
Publisher
As Publisher, Kristen directs the business strategies of the PC Gamer and PlayStation: The Official Magazine brands, including analysis of emerging market opportunities, technical development, sales and marketing and direction of the creative teams. She is also the head of Future Studios, an in-house digital development unit that creates multimedia products aimed at reaching hardcore gamers, such as Qore, which is available on the PlayStation Network.
An experienced media veteran on both the editorial and business sides, Kristen is focused on delivering engaging media content in any way or place Future’s audience wants to receive it – whether that is in print, online, on their favorite gaming console or by creating a new media mix.
Before Kristen’s role as publisher, she spent nearly a decade in the editorial world of games journalism, including three years on PC Gamer’s editorial staff, first as executive editor and later as editor-in-chief. Both as EIC and most recently as associate publisher, she explored creative ways to market and extend Future brands’ reach, demonstrating that hardcore gamers are everywhere.
Kristen first joined Future in 1999 as the managing editor and later was promoted to features editor of Maximum PC. This was followed by four years at Ziff Davis, including her role as Managing Editor of Computer Gaming World, before returning to Future in 2006. Earlier in her career, she was a freelance editor, regional director for Community for Education Foundation and a development editor with the Prentice Hall division of Simon and Schuster.
Kristen earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Bryn Mawr College and a Master of Arts degree from Columbia University.
Brad Tolinski
Editorial Director
Born and raised in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan, Brad Tolinski played guitar and electric violin in numerous bands until it became painfully clear at the age of 25 that he needed to find gainful employment. In the mid-Eighties he moved to New York City and became the Managing Editor of the groundbreaking magazine “Music, Computers & Software.”
In 1989 he joined the staff of Guitar World magazine as Managing Editor and shortly thereafter became Editor-In-Chief, a position he has held ever since. He currently serves as Editorial Director of Future US’s music division, which includes Guitar World , Revolver, and Guitar Aficionado.
