Theodore J. Forstmann
Summary
Theodore J. Forstmann (born 1940) is one of the founding partners of Forstmann Little & Company, a private equity firm, and chairman and CEO of IMG, a leading global sports and media company. Forstmann is a graduate of Greenwich Country Day School, Phillips Academy, Yale University and Columbia University Law School with what is now a juris doctorate. At Yale, he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. He is usually known as "Ted" (occasionally "Teddy" to friends and family).Forstmann, an attorney, founded Forstmann Little in 1978 with his brother Nicholas C. Forstmann, who later died of lung cancer, and William Brian Little.
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With Greg Licciardi Joining as VP/Client Development, Publishers Are Becoming A Pipeline To Univision
Last week, Licciardi ended a nearly six-year stint as Audubon publisher (the bimonthly’s many advertiser-partnered events and its 375,000-to-420,000 rate-base hike in 2011 are among his accomplishments) to join the Spanish-language Univision as vp/client development. “I am very happy at Audubon. . .
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Light My Fire? Magazines Face The New Kindle’s Seven-Inch Challenge
It is a good thing Amazon priced the Kindle Fire at $200. Otherwise, I imagine the new tablet-in-training would have gotten savaged by critics rather than given a grudging verdict of “good enough for the price. ” I will spare you another review, but the weaknesses of the Fire take only about an.
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MIN’S WEEKLY BOXSCORES (week of December 12, 2011)
MIN’S WEEKLY BOXSCORES (week of December 12, 2011) Issue Date 2011 Ad Pages Issue Date 2010 Ad Pages % of Diff. YTD 2011 YTD 2010 % of Diff. AMERICAN PROFILE 12/12 8. 60 12/12 11. 67 -26. 31 479. 16 531. 39 -9. 83 BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK 12/12 47. 42 12/13 37. 35 26. 96 1,473. 60 xSJ 1,240. 81 18. 76 CQ (last. . .
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'National Review’s' Cardinal Rule When Endorsing A Presidential Candidate
That can always be applied to the Republican who most heeds the late NR founder (1955) Bill Buckley’s 1960 Sharon Statement on conservatism and free-market capitalism (historically exemplified by Barry. . .
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A Favorite Number At 'National Geographic' Is 7,000,460,000
Not as enriching as the $254 million Powerball haul by the three Connecticut investment bankers, but NG’s sum is a combination of its 2011 reporting of the world population surpassing 7 billion plus the 10,000 distribution to the Washington, D. C. , “establishment” (members of Congress. . .
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Hearst Corp. Is A Landlord--Twice
New York’s five-year-old Hearst Tower at 300 West 57th got two tenants this fall in time for the holiday season. First was the cooking retailer Sur La Table. . .
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Enthusiast Magazine Ad-Page Review: ‘SI Kids’ Did Not Soar As High As Noah Flegel
The December/January SI Kids anointed the 14-year-old wakeboarder Sports Kid of the Year, and Flegel--who consistently beats older teen-age competitors--was honored along with Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year Mike Krzyzewski and Sportswoman of the Year Pat Summitt at a December 6 New York reception. . .
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Wenner Media Retains The Group Publishers’ Ad-Page % Lead Through September
Consistency reigns supreme here, as the Rolling Stone-flagshipped Wenner’s +12. 27% differential was close to its +14. 59% first-half, and although the momentum is slowing in the fourth quarter, the company will stand out by having RS, Us Weekly and Men’s Journal all ending the year ad-page up. . .
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‘Reader’s Digest’ North America President Dan Lagani Had A Good 2011...
Personally, with his June promotion (he had been in charge of the U. S. Reader’s Digest since May 2010) and professionally, with Lagani telling min that RD is leading all magazines in Kindle sales, has exceeded 1 million Facebook downloads, and finished 2011 nearly +18% in ad pages. All in spite of the.
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Eric Schmidt, Sean Parker, Marc Andreessen Invest In Boutique Bank Raine
Raine, new boutique bank with some very high profile backers from the tech and media world, is starting to look for deals, the FT reports.
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