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Brian F. O’Leary

is a publishing veteran with 25 years of operational, management, and consulting experience. Before becoming a consultant in 1998, Brian served as senior VP and associate publisher with Hammond Inc., an internationally-recognized geographic reference publisher. Responsible for database development, editorial content, production and operations, Brian restructured editorial operations to benefit from the firm’s technology investments. Brian’s previous experience spanned a 12-year career overseeing production and distribution operations at several of Time Inc.’s weekly magazines. As production director at Time, he improved average subscriber delivery and cut ad close deadlines significantly. Before leading Time production, Brian was a member of the management team that launched Entertainment Weekly. In his previous role as operations manager at People, Brian led efforts that advanced the publication’s close schedule. Prior to joining People, he served as Time‘s Southeast Asia operations manager, overseeing production and distribution from Singapore. Brian holds an A.B. from Harvard College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.