Chairman: Edward T. Reilly
President and CEO, American Management Association, New York

Edward T. Reilly was named President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Management Association on May 31, 2001.  Ed has an extensive background in television, advertising and the educational publishing industry. The American Management Association (AMA) is the world’s leading not-for-profit membership-based management development organization. AMA is the parent company of Management Centre Europe (MCE), the leading pan-European business management education institution for middle and senior executives. Management Centre Europe has been located in Brussels for 40 years. AMA also maintains operations in Canada, Mexico and Japan. AMA’s organizations are distinguished by the quality of their faculty of global business practitioners, the practical action-oriented focus of their learning programs, and the dynamic, interactive nature of their courses.

Ed most recently served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Big Flower Holdings, Inc. (now Vertis, Inc.), a leading provider of integrated marketing and advertising services. Under his four-year leadership, revenues at Big Flower Holdings increased from approximately $1 billion to nearly $1.9 billion.

Prior to joining Big Flower Holdings, Ed spent nearly 30 years with the Broadcast and Book Publishing groups of The McGraw-Hill Companies, a publishing and communications company, and served as the Executive Vice President of McGraw-Hill International Book Company. From 1987 to 1996, he was President of McGraw-Hill Broadcasting.

Currently, Ed serves on the USO’s Board of Governors, and is a member of iVillage Inc.’s Board of Directors, which is the leading Internet portal specializing in women’s issues. He is a past Chairman of The Advertising Council.

Ed holds a BBA in Marketing and Finance from St. Francis College, New York and attended the Stanford Executive Program. He is a member of the Board of the National Council of La Raza, a premier Hispanic civil rights group in the US, and is a Trustee of Lynchburg College in Virginia. He resides in Westport, Connecticut.