Newly named Time Inc. CEO Joe Ripp won’t start
until September, but he’s already made his first hire. It's Jeff Bairstow, who
will be evp and CFO of the publishing giant as it prepares to spin off from Time Warner.
Bairstow
and Ripp have a long history of working together, first at Dendrite
International, a drug software company where Ripp was president and COO after
leaving Time Warner and where Bairstow was CFO. In 2010, Ripp hired Bairstow as
CFO at regional newspaper chain Journal Register Co. where Ripp was chairman.For the past two years, Bairstow has served as president of Digital First Media, a two-year-old company that was formed to manage Journal Register Co. and MediaNews Group.
Time Inc. and
Time.com have hired three editorial staff. Ryan Sager hired from WSJ as
editorial director, Time Ideas; Callie Schweitzer hired from Vox Media as director
of digital innovation; Chris Wilson hired from Yahoo as interactive graphics
designer. Also, Sam Mansour hired from Say Media, to be director of digital ad
product experience (will “work across Time Inc.’s sales, creative, product,
technology, and operations teams to accelerate our drive to be a premier
provider of innovative and compelling display and video ad product solutions
across desktop, tablet and mobile platforms”).
