Creative Director
Jungle Media Group was my first real CD gig. It was an exciting time in publishing, particularly in the "business" niche. The tech bubble was still enormous, VC money flowed, and signing bonuses were still large enough that you could do something fantastic with them. Not only did all of this help Jungle Media Group's expansion (JD Jungle launched 8 months after MBA) but also it gave us some great content for MBA Jungle. Chock full of great features and profiles of the best CEOs, Brands and best thinking about business in general as well as advice from what to wear to an interview to how to find a mentor MBA Jungle was a vital resource to the aspiring and newly minted MBA. My first EIC there, Bill Shapiro had a great ability to get everyone fired up about taking the potentially dense subject matter and kind of turning it on it's head. When I first met him he pitched the project as a "not your Father's business magazine" magazine. His enthusiasm sold me. We found a wonderful Photo editor, Ondrea Barbe, an excellent photographer in her own right, and eventually brought in Marcus Villaca as AD along with Abby Moskowitz as PE forJD Jungle.
