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 created the Webby Award-winning gist.com and competed successfully with TV Guide Online. Gist Communications operated in the USA, France and Germany. Greenberg 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.
Judd Franklin, Web Producer
Judd Franklin recently graduated from the New School with a master's degree in Media Studies. In the last few years, Franklin has developed and maintained websites for
Earthscore.org,
artyarns.com and blogged about the media for an environmental website. In that time, Franklin has also built a wide-ranging media skill-set writing, designing and producing Web, video and print media for nonprofits such as the Council for Children with Behavioral Disorders, City Limits Magazine and Interlock Media. Franklin has also worked on developing and designing the databases of the Sustainable Resources Center.
Beth Bogart, Director of Special Projects
Beth Bogart spent more than 20 years as a communications expert at Fenton Communications, both as manager of its Washington office and as the firm’s creative director. She helped wage media campaigns to expose the Reagan administration’s covert wars in Central America, injustices within the death penalty system, the dangers of nuclear war, and environmental issues from toxic exposure to global warming.
Starting in 1984, Bogart worked for a decade with the anti-apartheid movement by helping TransAfrica’s Randall Robinson during his campaign to enact U.S. sanctions and then by assisting Oliver Tambo, Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela during their visits to the U.S.
Bogart recently conceived and launched the Iraq Policy Information Project, which helped spawn the Win Without War coalition and other ongoing efforts to promote America’s national interests without unwarranted military intervention. A graduate of Princeton University, she left Harvard Law School to serve as press secretary on Democrat Peter Kostmayer’s successful House race. Bogart earned an MFA from Johns Hopkins University in creative writing. She has published articles in The Washington Post Outlook section, The Washington Post magazine, The Washingtonian, Advertising Age and In These Times, among others.
Bumhe Han, Web Researcher
Han was a finance reporter for the Washington Square News, covering educational lobbyists in Albany and Washington D.C. He has also done market research for the SAT prep school Ivy Bound and the web video company Got2Know and was an equity research intern at Sems Capital Investment Management. Han was the public relations chair for Keep a Child Alive at New York University and is the Web Administrator for the Open Washington Square Park. He is currently pursuing a degree in economics at New York University. Han is fluent in Korean.
John Pomponio, Finance Coordinator
For more than 10 years, John Pomponio was the Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Finance for Gist Communications, Inc., an 80-employee Internet content and software applications company with four offices in New York and one in Berlin. At Gist, Pomponio handled financial management, analysis, controller and company development. Prior to joining Gist, he was a Personal Finance Planner for American Express Financial Advisors and Financial Controller for the David Elliot Construction Company.
Pomponio has a BA/BS in Financial Management from Boston University and a MBA in Financial Management from Pace University's Lubin Graduate School of Business.
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.
Markus Horak, 21 Boom, Inc.
Markus Horak started his career as an Industrial Designer, styling consumer products, commercial interiors and theatrical spaces. He was an early adapter of the desktop applications that revolutionized the industry. Horak is currently President and Creative Director of 21Boom, Inc., a New York City-based video production, motion design and branding shop he launched in 2000.
His uniquely insightful and varied approach to film, video and graphics has brought to life countless ad campaigns, videos, network promotions and animated titles for clients including American Express, Discovery Networks, NBC Universal, Nintendo, Viacom and PGA Tour. Most recently, he has focused his efforts on combining video with web design and development. Horak has been awarded numerous international design awards for his dynamic corporate, cable and network projects.
Horak is a graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art.