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Jonathan Greenberg, CEO
Jonathan Greenberg is a public interest communications specialist, digital media executive and investigative journalist, whose work has appeared in dozens of national publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Mother Jones, Forbes and GQ.
Until October 2006, Greenberg was vice president of the New York office of Fenton Communications, where he created and managed advertising campaigns for clients, including the two “Save Darfur” rallies in Washington and New York, and Helen Hunt's “Faith & Feminism” Internet video and Web ad campaign. He also managed the Action Against Hunger "Campaign to End Starvation in the Congo" initiative and Stonyfield Farms’ “Profits for the Planet” initiatives.
In the year following the attacks of September 11, 2001, Greenberg was appointed Policy Director for the New York City Council's Select Committee on Lower Manhattan Redevelopment. He next worked as a strategic communications and management consultant for nonprofit organizations including Housing Works' entrepreneurial ventures and Wall Street Rising’s business assistance program.
During the 1990's, Greenberg was founder and for six years CEO of Gist Communications, an 80-person Internet content and software applications company that competed successfully with TV Guide Online and operated in the USA, France and Germany. He managed a staff of software engineers, editors, designers and marketing professionals who built, implemented and maintained custom TV listings and entertainment editorial packages for clients, including Yahoo, AOL, Microsoft, NBC, CBS, USA Today, CNN and Hewlett-Packard.
Greenberg started his media work as a Forbes magazine reporter, where he spent more than a year creating the first Forbes 400 list of wealthy Americans. He is the author of the novel “America 2014: An Orwellian Tale,” and the biography “Staking A Claim: Jake Simmons and the Making of an African-American Oil Dynasty.”
Greenberg received his B.A. in rhetoric and literature from the State University of New York at Binghamton and a Masters Studies in Law degree from Yale Law School.
Cheryl Everette, Vice President
Cheryl Everette is an editor and writer with over 20 years experience in online, newspaper and magazine publishing. Prior to joining Progressive Source, Everette was an editor at the Newark Star-Ledger where, among other duties, she coordinated the uploading of the newspaper’s feature content to www.NJ.com. Formerly, Everette was the Editorial Director for Gist Communications where she assembled and managed the editorial team that created TV-related reviews, articles, games, chat rooms and bulletin boards for the Webby-award winning site, www.gist.com, as well as for a dozen of Gist’s clients, including EchoStar’s satellite guide, Yahoo.com, AOL, Microsoft, NBC, CBS, USA Today, CNN and Hewlett-Packard.
Everette is a former editor of the New York Daily News where she held many positions including Sunday magazine editor, Assistant Features Editor and Lifestyle Editor. She was also the editor of New York Vue, the paper’s Sunday TV guide. Everette was Executive Editor of Essence magazine. Among the many departments she handled was the magazine’s Speak Out page where readers submitted opinion pieces about national issues.
Everette was a co-author of “The African Americans,” published by Viking Penguin. The book is a series of photos and essays on prominent African Americans in entertainment, sports, religion, civil rights and business.
Kaveri Marathe, Account Coordinator
Kaveri Marathe, a recent journalism graduate at New York University, has been the campus outreach coordinator for the Open Washington Square Park Coalition since September, 2006. Marathe was a community reporter and assignment editor for Washington Square News, NYU’s award-winning daily student newspaper. Marathe is fluent in Marathi, Spanish and Italian. During high school, she was a freelance writer for The St. Augustine Record in Florida.
Bonnie Skiver, Design Coordinator
Bonnie Skiver holds a BFA in Design from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she exhibited work at The Weatherspoon Art Museum. As an undergrad, Skiver also studied fine art in Florence, Italy. A native North Carolinian, she moved to New York in 2005 to pursue a career in graphic design. Before joining Progressive Source, Skiver was employed at the Stephen B. Jacobs Group, an architectural firm, and was also the Production Coordinator of the Corporate Communications department at DDS, a software company. She also works as a freelance web designer and volunteers for organizations such as Dress for Success and the GO Project.
Tomas Marsh, Music and Audio Producer
Tomas Marsh got his start in music and audio when he was signed to Warner Bros. in his native Brazil. Working with various bands, he composed and arranged music in many different styles, playing guitar, bass, keyboards and percussion. He moved to New York in the early ‘90s and worked in a major recording studio, focusing on digital audio engineering.
Cliff Roth, Video Specialist
Cliff Roth is currently the editor of the Video/Imaging DesignLine website, a video technology publication owned by CMP Media (http://www.videsignline.com). Roth’s articles on video technology have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Rolling Stone and numerous specialty magazines including Sound & Vision, Popular Photography, High Technology, Sony Style, CNET, Videomaker, and Camcorder Buyers' Guide. From 2001 to 2003 Roth was Director of Interactive Television for Gist Communications, where he created and oversaw the development of interactive TV applications for Dish satellite-TV and Charter Cable Television. In the 1990s he was Senior Editor for E-town (a consumer electronics web site), and Editor-in-Chief of Smart Media Business (a monthly newsletter about interactive television). Roth also taught video production at the School of Visual Arts in New York and electronics at The Institute of Audio Research. He is the author of The Low Budget Video Bible and Mobile Computing for Dummies. He holds a Master’s Degree in Film from San Francisco State University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Communications from Binghamton University.
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