management bios
Michael Marzec
Publisher and Chief Operating Officer
As COO of Smart Business Network, Mike has responsibility for all product-related activities of the company, including editorial, production and distribution. He has 24 years of experience in business-to-business publishing as a reporter, editor and publisher for more than two dozen local business publications. Mike has extensive experience in managing award-winning publications with multiple local editions, as well as in starting and growing local business publications. He has participated in the launch of 19 titles in as many different cities. Publications under his direction have won more than 50 awards for journalistic and design excellence. In addition, he directed the development and launch of multiple versions of SBN Online, the Smart Business Network website. As a member of the company's management team, Mike has played a key role in establishing corporate policies and developing the company's long-term corporate strategy.
Prior to joining Smart Business Network in 1995, Mike served as a Senior Editor of Duff & Phelps Credit Rating Co.'s fixed-income research publications; as Business Editor of The Times, a suburban Chicago daily newspaper; as U.S. Editor of the Weekly International Edition of The Japan Times, the largest English-language daily in Japan; and as Editor of the South Florida Business Journal. He was also a co-founder of the San Francisco Business Times, helping to successfully grow the start-up business weekly to reach over 45,000 readers in three years before selling the newspaper to American City Business Journals Inc., the largest publisher of business weeklies in the country. Finally, Mike was a member of the editorial start-up team for American City, helping to start five local publications in different cities, including three in three months. He holds a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York City and a bachelor's degree in English from Columbia College of Columbia University.
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Management Bios
Fred Koury President & CEO
Michael Marzec Publisher and Chief Operating Officer
Lee M. Koury Chief Development Officer & General Counsel
Dustin Klein Executive Editor
G. Charles Huebner, CCCP Circulation Director
Jim Mericsko Design Director
Kathy Deutsch Controller
Melissa Gottlieb Vice President of Sales
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