Forbes Champions Success

Sherry Phillips

Chief Executive Officer

Forbes

Sherry Phillips is the Chief Executive Officer at Forbes Media, leading the iconic brand through strategic growth and embracing innovation during a new era of media.

Under Sherry, Forbes is strategically building new revenue streams, expanding key platforms and franchises like its Creators Community, exploring AI’s potential and strengthening relationships with leading tech partners and top brands.

A media executive with nearly 30 years of experience, Sherry has held various C-Level roles at Forbes over the course of her tenure.

Sherry is a graduate of the University of Michigan, she currently resides outside of the Philadelphia area and enjoys spending time with her husband, four children and dog, Doug.

William Adamopoulos

CEO/Asia

Will Adamopoulos is the CEO/Asia for Forbes Media LLC and also serves as the CEO of Forbes Media Asia Pte Ltd. He joined Forbes in 1999 and established Forbes’ Asia headquarters. During his tenure with Forbes he launched Forbes Asia magazine as well as local Forbes editions in Japan, China, Korea, India, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam. He also developed a highly successful conference and events business, led by the Forbes Global CEO Conference – an annual gathering of global CEOs, entrepreneurs and thought leaders. Prior to joining Forbes, Adamopoulos was the Publisher and Managing Director of The Asian Wall Street Journal, and the President of Dow Jones Publishing Company (Asia). A graduate of Harvard College where he studied economics, Adamopoulos is based in Singapore.

MariaRosa Cartolano

General Counsel

MariaRosa Cartolano began her career as an associate at a small corporate law firm, after earning her B.A. from Fordham University and her J.D. from Fordham University School of Law. In 1986, she became Associate General Counsel at First Investors Corporation and then joined Forbes Media in 1989 as Assistant General Counsel. She was appointed to the role of General Counsel in 2012. During her long tenure at Forbes, she has played an integral role in the evolution of Forbes from a modest family-owned business to the leading global media, branding and technology company it is today. MariaRosa is married with three children and resides in Brooklyn, New York.

Moira Forbes

Executive Vice President, Forbes Media; President & Publisher, ForbesWomen

Forbes

Moira Forbes is the Executive Vice President of Forbes, one of the world’s largest media brands, where she is responsible for driving new business initiatives across the company’s diverse media platforms and branding Forbes events worldwide. Today, Forbes, which is synonymous with “success” in almost every country around the world, engages 140 million people across every platform every month – the most in its 104-year history.

Moira also serves as the President and Publisher of ForbesWomen, a multi-media content channel dedicated to successful women in business and leadership which she founded in 2007. Moira oversees Forbes’ annual list of the World’s Most Powerful Women and the annual Power Women’s Summit which she launched in 2013.

Across Forbes’ global editorial platforms, Moira convenes preeminent thought leaders for timely perspective and analysis around today’s most critical issues. She hosts "Success with Moira Forbes," a Forbes interview series spotlighting dynamic changemakers and industry innovators as well as “The Takeaway,” a new Forbes simulcast series featuring how top minds are navigating these defining times and explores what’s ahead within their respective arenas.

Moira is a Governing Trustee of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and serves on the Board of Trustees for the St. Andrews School. She currently lives in New York City with her two sons.

Nina Gould

Chief Innovation Officer

Nina Gould is a digital media executive recognized for building engaging content experiences that delight and inspire audiences. As Chief Innovation Officer of Forbes, she leads a team of world-class product managers, designers, e-commerce leaders and other experts focused on building the products that shape the Forbes brand across web, mobile, social and emerging platforms. During her tenure at Forbes, she’s helped grow the company into the world’s biggest business media brand that consistently places in the top 30 of the most-popular sites in the United States, in good company with brands like Netflix, Apple and Google. Prior to Forbes, she worked in the UI/UX design and front-end web development space, and taught photography and visual reportage. Born and raised in New York City, she now splits her time between NYC and her home in Catskills.

Laura Brusca

Chief Communications Officer

An accomplished and award-winning communications executive, Laura exerts influence that shapes the modern-day narrative at one of the world's most-storied media brands.

Peter Hung

President Licensing & Branded Ventures

Peter C. Hung is a Board member and Board Secretary of Forbes Global Media Holdings Inc. and President of Forbes Global Holdings. In his current role, Hung manages the global licensing and branded venture business, as well as corporate administration and joint venture projects for the company. Peter Hung is a seasoned executive in the world of TMT (Telecom, Media and Technology), having spent his entire 25+ years of his professional career in all three but highly integrated business segments in both United States and Hong Kong. Prior to joining Forbes, he was the Chief Operating Officer for China Runking Financing Group Holdings, a subsidiary of the public-listed Credit China Holdings Limited in Hong Kong, which focuses on fast growing micro-lending and P2P business in China. He also served as the Chief Operating Officer for China Motion Telecom International, also a publicly-listed company under the same investment group in Hong Kong. He advised the board on investment in various telecom and technology ventures. Before joining New World Telecom to head up its marketing operation in Hong Kong, Peter was the division head with AT&T International and Local Service & Lucent Technologies Messaging Group in California and served as global marketing chief for Terayon Communications Systems, a cable broadband system provider based out of Silicon Valley, California. Hung currently serves on the advisory board of the School of Hotel & Tourism Management of the Chinese University of Hong Kong Business School where he graduated with a first-class honors degree in Marketing and Computer Science. He also holds an MBA from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a Certificate in Strategic Marketing in Information Technology from Stanford University.

Ali Intres

Chief Human Resources Officer

Ali Intres is the Chief Human Resources Officer, of Forbes. An industry veteran with significant experience in media and advertising, Ali oversees all facets of HR for Forbes, including recruitment, training and development, benefits administration, culture and inclusion and more. Ali believes in the power of working for purpose-driven companies like Forbes, whose mission is to help drive change in business, society and culture. She works directly with the company’s journalists, storytellers, brand-marketers, event planners, data scientists, engineers, designers and more to reach their full potential and advance business objectives. Ali has strong experience in media and advertising. Prior to joining Forbes, Ali served as Senior Vice President of Talent and Business Operations at the large, multinational ad agency Digitas for the East Coast and was a member of the company’s leadership team. At Digitas, she spearheaded a number of initiatives that simultaneously ignited employee pride and helped drive business results. Before Digitas, Ali served as the VP of HR for Time Inc., where she oversaw all HR for the company’s central business groups, including consumer marketing, finance, sales & marketing, and legal. She also was a recruiting manager for Meredith Corporation and previously Worth Magazine. Further, Ali has significant global experience - having worked for SHELL International, where she led global recruitment efforts from The Netherlands. Ali lives in Montclair, NJ with her husband Rogier and son Florian.

David Johnson

Chief Data Officer

Leann Bonanno

Chief Sales & Marketing Officer

Stephanie Lewis

Chief Financial Officer