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AP Sales and Marketing Department
- March 2008
Thomas R. Brettingen
Chief Revenue Officer and Senior Vice President of Sales and
Marketing
The Associated Press
Tom Brettingen, in his new role as AP's Chief Revenue Officer
and Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing, oversees
all of AP's lines of business. Prior to moving into this new
position, he was senior vice president, Global Newspaper Markets,
responsible for AP's business relationships with all newspapers
and news agencies in the world, as well as AP's commercial
photo sales organization. Based at New York headquarters,
he assumed responsibility for Global Newspaper Markets in
2005. Previously, Brettingen, 59, directed AP's Newspaper
& New Media Markets (N&NMM) department, responsible
for AP's business relationships with newspapers and new media
customers in the United States. Brettingen has more than 28
years of AP experience as a newsman, editor and executive.
Prior to being named senior vice president in 2003, he was
vice president of Business Development. In that position he
oversaw several commercial divisions of AP. He joined the
AP in 1970 as a newsman in Sioux Falls, S.D. He was Sioux
Falls correspondent and Minneapolis news editor before being
named deputy sports editor in New York in 1976. He served
as Miami bureau chief for five years and then returned to
New York as a general executive in the Newspaper Membership
department. He left the company in 1986 to join ARI Network
Services Inc., a Milwaukee-based electronic commerce company,
as vice president of business information services. Returning
to AP in 1994, Brettingen helped launch AP AdSEND as executive
director of the company's startup digital advertising delivery
service. He later became deputy director and then director
of Business Development. A native of Isle, Minn., Brettingen
is a journalism graduate of the University of Minnesota.
Jane Seagrave
Senior Vice President for Global Product Development
The Associated Press
Jane Seagrave, in her new role as senior vice president for
Global Product Development, will oversee development of AP's
next-generation (Web 2.0) multimedia product portfolio, as
well as manage product growth in mobile and Web video and
key content verticals, including entertainment, sports and
business. Seagrave, 53, based at The Associated Press headquarters
in New York, was named a vice president of New Media Markets
in 2005, having rejoined the AP in 2003 as director of AP
Digital. She has overseen the development of AP Financial
News, the elections product Campaign Plus and video products
for international markets. She's also headed AP's mobile initiatives.
As head of AP Digital, Seagrave has been responsible for the
worldwide marketing and sales of AP’s products and services
to commercial Web sites, wireless providers, governments,
corporations and information resellers. She rejoined the AP
after working as chief online strategy consultant for American
Lawyer Media, where she developed and managed the integration
of that company with San Francisco-based law.com. She was
an AP journalist from 1980 to 1985 with assignments in Santa
Fe, N.M., Grants Pass, Ore., and Boston. She later served
as vice president-editorial and production for Lawyers Weekly
Publications in Boston, president and chief operating officer
of Legal Communications, Ltd., a Philadelphia-based legal
publisher, and chief executive officer of localbusiness.com,
a national news service that reported on the technology business
sector. A graduate of Bowdoin College, Seagrave holds a master's
degree in public administration from Harvard University's
John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Sue Cross
Senior Vice President of Global New Media and U.S. Print and
Broadcast Markets
The Associated Press
Sue A. Cross, in her new role as senior vice president of
Global New Media and U.S. Print/Broadcast Markets, has responsibility
for sales to AP's domestic newspaper and broadcast customers
as well as sales to all digital customers. She has been vice
president/online for U.S. Newspaper Markets at The Associated
Press since 2005, directing strategy, product development,
business operations and online services for newspaper Web
sites that collectively reach more than 60 million people
a month. Cross, 47, led development of Money & Markets,
AP's multimedia financial information service, helped launch
AP's Online Video Network in 2006 and initiated redevelopment
of AP's hosted online news. Based in Los Angeles, she served
as regional vice president for the Western U.S. in 2004-2005
and expanded AP's services for the U.S. ethnic media market.
From 1998 through 2003, she was chief of bureau for Los Angeles,
overseeing international, national and state coverage from
California and Nevada. She created a multimedia newsroom and
expanded AP's West Coast entertainment report with a focus
on real-time coverage of entertainment events. Cross served
as AP's bureau chief in Phoenix, assistant bureau chief in
Chicago, and news editor in Illinois and Texas. She joined
the AP in Cincinnati in 1983, and also worked in the Columbus
and Toledo, Ohio, and Juneau, Alaska, bureaus. Cross holds
a bachelor's degree in journalism from Ohio State University
and is active in number journalism and community boards and
organizations.
Joy Jones
Vice President of Marketing Operations
The Associated Press
Joy Jones, in her new role as vice president of Marketing
Operations, will oversee global management of product communications,
research, distribution and support. She will also handle general
administration for the new sales and marketing organization.
Based at The Associated Press headquarters in New York, Jone,
37, has been vice president of business operations for AP's
Global Newspaper Markets division since 2004. GNM is the sales
department responsible for customer relationships with newspapers
and news agencies worldwide. Her duties expanded in November
2007 to include direct oversight of Europe, the Middle East
and Africa (EMEA). Jones has been vice president for global
business operations since joining the AP in 2004 from Cap
Gemini Ernst & Young consulting firm. She has managed
the AP AdSend, AP AdVantage, and AP Technology operations
in addition to previously acting as interim regional director
for Latin America. Jones joined AP in 2004 from Cap Gemini
Ernst & Young consulting firm where she was an executive
with the Media and Entertainment team within CGE&Y's Telecom
Media Networks practice, working with media, entertainment
and telecommunications clients to develop technology-led strategies
for international companies.
Eric Braun
Vice President and Managing Director of International Television
The Associated Press
Eric Braun has been AP Vice President and Managing Director
of International Television since 2005. Based in London, he
has management responsibility for AP Television News (APTN),
AP's global video news agency. Braun, 57, has broad experience
in a range of media markets and disciplines, both in the United
States and internationally. Formerly Vice President for News
and Convergence at Raycom Media, Inc, he supervised matters
concerning news and public affairs programming for all 39 of
the company’s local television operations. He also oversaw
marketing of Raycom’s Internet business and new media
strategies. Before working at Raycom, from 1989 to 1998, he
held a variety of senior and executive positions at Magid. As
Vice President of New Technology, Braun directed Magid’s
development of research and consulting services to television
broadcasters, networks, new media and Internet businesses. He
consulted with networks, group owners, producers, and location
stations across North America, and in Europe and Asia, developing
research-based business development strategies and new business
plans. Braun was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and earned a degree
in business administration and finance from Baldwin-Wallace
College in Berea, Ohio. It was at college that he began his
media career, first as a freelance news reporter for television
and radio stations, and subsequently as news director for numerous
radio and television stations.
Ian Cameron
Vice President of AP Images
The Associated Press
Ian Cameron has been vice president of AP Images since June
2006, based at The Associated Press headquarters in New York.
Cameron, 51, has been responsible for AP's commercial photo
operation globally. AP Images is one of the world's largest
collections of historical and news images and an essential source
of photos and graphics for professional image buyers and commercial
customers. Cameron came to the AP from Getty Images where he
was director of editorial sales for North America, based in
New York. Prior to his nearly two years with Getty Images, Cameron
worked as a vice president of sales for data solutions at TV
Guide. Before that he spent more than two years with Reuters,
first as Canadian sales director and then as media sales director
for the Americas. He was Canadian sales manager for Dow Jones
for nearly four years before going to Reuters. A retired lieutenant
colonel in the Canadian Armed Forces Reserves, he has a bachelor
of arts degree in history from Concordia University/Loyola campus.
James R. Williams
Senior Vice President of Global Broadcast
Jim Williams, who is retiring, has been a senior vice president
of The Associated Press since 2005. Based at the Broadcast
News Center in Washington, Williams has been overseeing the
broadcast division, which produces video, audio, and text
news services and other products that serve the traditional
and new media outlets of AP's global television and radio
customers. Williams joined AP in 1979 as broadcast executive
for Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas. In 1982 he became
broadcast executive for California and Nevada and the following
year was named general broadcast executive for the Eastern
Division, in charge of sales for 18 states. In 1985 he was
appointed deputy director of marketing for AP Broadcast Services
before being promoted to director of Broadcast in 1987. He
became a vice president in 1990. Before joining AP Williams
worked for WTBC-WUOA Radio in Tuscaloosa, Ala. A native of
Eufaula, Ala., Williams graduated from the University of Alabama.
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