Lynda Sachs is the executive director of finance for circulation and marketing at The New York Times. She oversees forecasting, budgeting and analysis for circulation revenue and expenses as well as the operational analysis and business decision support for strategic initiatives for the circulation and marketing department.

Sachs joined the Times in 1993 and has served in a number of roles in the company. Prior to her present role, Sachs was the director of advertising pricing, responsible for ensuring that the advertising teams achieved and maintained profitable selling strategies. Sachs also worked in the financial department evaluating the profitability of various newspaper products.

Before joining The New York Times, Sachs held financial analyst positions at Gitano Group and Kidder Peabody.

Sachs received a B.S. degree from the State University of New York at Albany and an M.B.A. from New York University Stern School of Business.

Jennifer Preston is social media editor at The New York Times, a new role created last year to help expand the use of social networks to improve Times journalism and deepen engagement with users on and off NYTimes.com.

A veteran reporter and editor, Preston oversaw the print and online content for four Sunday suburban metro sections before taking on the social media role last May. She spent most of her reporting career covering politics and government. At New York Newsday, she was City Hall bureau chief and covered the Koch and Dinkins administrations and as deputy metro editor, she oversaw coverage of the Giuliani administration.

After New York Newsday folded in 1995, she moved to the Times as a political reporter and State House bureau chief in New Jersey.

In 1999, Preston left reporting for a newsroom-wide management role as the deputy to Deputy Managing Editor William Schmidt. She managed multiple joint newsroom and business-side projects over six years and worked closely with newsroom department heads on staffing and budget issues. It was not the first time she left journalism for a business role. At New York Newsday, she served as circulation marketing manager, reporting to the vice president for strategic planning and marketing. In 1998, she helped lead The Times in one of its first cross-departmental teams to recommend a 10-year circulation strategy for New York City and the region.

A graduate of Boston University, Preston began her reporting career in Philadelphia as a reporter for now defunct Philadelphia Bulletin and later for The Philadelphia Daily News. She has won several awards for investigative reporting, including the New York Press Club’s top award for public service for a series on the use of deadly force by off-duty officers.

She is the author of a book, Queen Bess, about the rise and fall of former Miss America Bess Myerson, who was caught up in New York City’s municipal corruption scandal during the 1980s. She is an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

Lauren McCullough is an award-winning journalist and social media enthusiast. She has traveled the country speaking about multimedia journalism and she lectures on the use and importance of social media in the newsroom.

In her role as social networks and news engagement manager for The Associated Press, McCullough oversees the newsroom’s social media efforts, including the flagship accounts on Facebook and Twitter. She directs the work of AP’s journalists around the world in pursuing sources from social networks, as well as promoting AP and member content.

McCullough was recognized by the Associated Press Managing Editors Association with the 2008 John L. Dougherty Award. She has also been awarded two AP Beat of the Week Awards for her work with citizen journalists during the 2009 Hudson River plane splashdown and the 2007 Minnesota bridge collapse. Prior to joining the AP, she worked for Newsday.com in Melville, N.Y., and The Post-Star in Glens Falls, N.Y.

Tim Griggs began his career as a sports reporter for the campus newspaper and later for the Associated Press and The Washington Post. But it was the opportunity to lead his campus newspaper – the Collegiate Times at Virginia Tech – as its editor-in-chief where he cut his teeth. In those four years, Griggs and his team reinvented the organization: from twice-weekly to daily, afternoon to morning delivery, black and white to color. They created its first Web site, fended off two major lawsuits and fought (and won) a few of their own. They even created their own independent media company and built a sustainable business that, to this day, supports five other student media organizations.

That education continued in the next chapter of Griggs’ career, a 10-year stint as an editor in various forms at the Star-News, a mid-size daily in coastal North Carolina. His time there solidified his passion for driving organizational change, innovating across platforms and helping a community solve problems through engaging journalism. Griggs was fortunate enough to launch several successful products, ranging from lifestyle magazines and entertainment guides to a user-generated community blog network and a local data portal. He led investigative reporting projects that brought about real change. And he lived day-in and day-out the principles he believes in so strongly: Giving voice to the voiceless, holding the powerful accountable.

In his current role in strategic planning, Griggs is responsible for a wide-range of projects that run the gamut from cost-cutting to evaluating new business models. Most require challenging the organization to think outside the box or reinvent itself for long-term sustainability.

Kerrie Gillis serves as advertising director, corporate, for The New York Times and as the advertising director for the Americas for The International Herald Tribune.

As advertising director, corporate, Gillis is responsible for the print and online advertising sales for the corporate category, which includes business-to-business advertising for energy, logistics and manufacturing companies, as well as economic development. As advertising director of the Americas for the International Herald Tribune since June 2008, she is responsible for all print advertising out of the Americas.

Gillis joined The Times in 1985 and after 10 years in various marketing roles in both circulation and advertising, including director of advertising marketing planning and new business development and director of database marketing, she moved to the sales department. She has worked in a number of categories as a group director including media, pharmaceuticals, packaged goods, fashion/jewelry and classified. Prior to joining The Times, Gillis spent over four years at Viacom as a senior financial analyst and an international sales analyst in the entertainment division. Gillis also worked for two years at the National Endowment of the Arts.

Gillis received a B.A. degree in comparative literature from the University of California at Berkeley and also studied for a year in Grenoble, France. She received an M.B.A. degree in marketing/international business from New York University, which included a semester at Hautes Etudes Commerciales in France.

Thomas Cavallaro is the vice president and controller of The New York Times Media Group. He has also served at the Times as the executive director of both financial operations and circulation operations and as financial director of the production, labor relations and building operations departments. He served six years in corporate roles including project manager for the financial process re-engineering project, financial manager of the Forest Products Group, and senior analyst in the corporate controllers office of the New York Times Company.

Prior to joining the New York Times, Cavallaro was manager of audit services in the media and publishing practice at Deloitte & Touche LLC.

Cavallaro currently serves as director and treasurer of the Nassau Community College Foundation and has also served as an adjunct professor of business at Queensborough Community College.

He received a M.B.A. degree in public accountancy and a B.A. in public administration and business from St. John’s University in New York, and he is a certified public accountant.

Carlos Cabán joined ESPN in 2001 and serves as a senior director at the sports network, providing general managerial oversight of ESPNdeportes.com, the leading Spanish-language sports site on the Web. Primary markets include the U.S. Hispanic population and Latin America. Cabán’s position includes oversight of nearly 60 full-time employees.

In addition to serving on a number of task forces, Cabán worked for two years on ESPN’s Diversity Council and is currently on a 15-member World Cup Working Committee.

From 1999 to 2001, Cabán worked as an editor at Virtual Inc, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. At Virtual, which is owned by El Nuevo Dia, Puerto Rico’s largest circulating daily newspaper, Cabán supervised a staff of fifteen to launch a portal – zonai.com – and various verticals -- consalud.com, saborsabor.com, solterosonline.com – and published online newspaper sites such as elnuevodia.com and primerahora.com. From 1997 to 1999, Cabán was deputy business and sports editor at El Nuevo Dia, managing the business section, the weekly business magazine Negocios del Domingo and the sports magazine Ovación Dominical.

Cabán was a reporter, covering business, sports and entertainment, from 1989 to 1990 for Clarin, an influential newspaper in Argentina. In 1991, he moved to Washington, DC where he was co-founder and manager editor of El Tiempo Latino, the area’s weekly award-winning Spanish-language newspaper. During his tenure, the paper was cited with multiple national awards by the National Association of Hispanic Publications, including best Spanish-language weekly and best sports section. El Tiempo Latino was eventually bought by The Washington Post. Cabán worked as a news aide/special correspondent at The Washington Post.

A 1984 graduate of Cornell University, Cabán has been a journalism fellow at Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina ''Santa María de los Buenos Aires'' and has taken graduate courses at American University in International Law/International Development.

Brian Carovillano is the first U.S. regional editor for the Associated Press. He is leading the 13-state South region, stretching from Delaware to Florida and west to Louisiana, covering more than 20 bureaus, a staff of more than 150 and an all-formats regional desk in Atlanta. Carovillano has spearheaded an ongoing two-year reorganization of AP’s domestic news operation, launching the first of four regional desks and the template by which three more hubs were created.

In less than two years leading the region, Carovillano has overseen coverage of three ongoing efforts selected by AP leadership as Pulitzer Prize nominees. These include Hurricane Ike in 2008, the scandal involving South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford and the AP Economic Stress Index, a multimedia project built by a team of journalists working on all platforms that aims to measure the relative impact of the recession on American communities.

During his tenure as news editor for Northern California, Carovillano’s team focused on diverse topics, from the death of ex-NFL star Pat Tillman, to food safety, airline ticket taxes and the credit crisis. This yielded more internal citations in 2007 than for any other AP bureau. He also served as a desk supervisor in the Boston bureau, first as night supervisor and then as day supervisor.

Carovillano started as an AP reporter in Providence, Rhode Island, serving as lead reporter for the federal corruption trial of Mayor Vincent “Buddy” Cianci, which culminated in the conviction of the city’s colorful longtime leader. Before that, he was regional editor for the MetroWest Daily News, a 60,000-circulation daily. He started his career at the Monadnock Ledger, an award-winning weekly paper in rural southwestern New Hampshire. He won awards from the New Hampshire Press Association for his weekly outdoor sports column.

Carovillano earned a B.A. degree in English in 1995 from Colby College and attended the Syracuse University program in Florence, Italy in spring 1994 and the Colby College program in Rome, Italy in January 1995.

Sally Buzbee is the deputy managing editor of The Associated Press, in charge of creating and building the news cooperative's News Center, a new global headquarters operation based in New York. The headquarters will help support regional news field leaders, keeping AP competitive across formats and regions. The center will also be a place to experiment with new kinds of storytelling and fresh ways to engage readers and viewers.

Previously, Buzbee had served for five years as Middle East editor for the AP based in Cairo, Egypt, running a region of 11 bureaus in 16 countries. This role involved supervising Iraq war coverage, Israeli conflicts with Hezbollah and Hamas, the Darfur crisis and the growing activities of terrorist cells in Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Her responsibilities included content across text, photos and video, plus staff and budget, logistics and security issues.

Before moving to Egypt in 2004, Buzbee was assistant bureau chief supervising foreign affairs coverage in the AP's Washington bureau. She covered education, politics and economics in Washington and supervised various coverage areas as a news editor before that.

She joined the AP in Topeka, Kansas, in 1988 and was a correspondent in San Diego before moving to Washington in 1995.

She holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Kansas and an M.B.A. from Georgetown University.

In his newly appointed position, Boege is responsible for marketing and development processes of the daily quality newspapers: DIE WELT, WELT KOMPAKT, the Sunday edition, WELT AM SONNTAG, as well as the online and mobile activities of the newspapers.

From 2007 to 2009, Boege was executive assistant to the chairman and CEO of Axel Springer, responsible for the coordination of the work of the management board. His duties included preparing monthly and quarterly reports and steering projects with financial, marketing and journalistic focus, including the re-launch of the daily newspaper WELT KOMPAKT.

Before working for Axel Springer, Boege collected professional experience in the private sector in the banking and airline industries, as well as in the public sector.

Boege graduated in 2005 with double diplomas in international business administration from the European School of Business Reutlingen, Germany and the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce Reims, France. He also participated in an exchange program with the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. In 2007, he earned a master’s degree in public policy from the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, Germany, and was part of an exchange program at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs.