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| PRESS KIT: Senior Manager Biographies |
• Jeff Clarke: President & Chief Executive Officer
• Jeff Nemy: Chief Financial Officer
• Linda O'Bryon: Chief Content Officer
• Margaret Berry: General Counsel & Corporate Secretary
• Michael Isip: Vice President for Television Content and Educational Services
• Steve Welch: Vice President, Television Engineering and Operations
• Jo Anne Wallace: Vice President, Radio General Manager
• Donald W. Derheim: Executive Vice President for Marketing and Communications
• Traci A. Eckels: Chief Development Officer
• Joanne Carder: Vice President, Human Resources & Labor Relations
Jeff Clarke [view photos to download]
President and Chief Executive Officer
In 2006, Jeff Clarke successfully oversaw the merger of KQED Incorporated with The KTEH Foundation, creating Northern California Public Broadcasting, the most watched public television broadcaster and the second most listened-to public radio broadcaster in the country. In doing so, Clarke has taken on the role of President and CEO of Northern California Public Broadcasting. He was appointed President and CEO of KQED Public Broadcasting in June 2002.
A Wisconsin native, Clarke has a broadcasting career that spans 41 years with more than 28 years in public broadcasting. Prior to joining KQED, Clarke spent twelve years in Houston, Texas, where he was chief executive officer and general manager of HoustonPBS/KUHT, holding that position since 1992. Clarke led a successful capital campaign to support digital conversion and build a brand-new state-of-the-art facility, the LeRoy and Lucile Melcher Center for Public Broadcasting, which now houses both HoustonPBS (one of the first public television stations in the nation to deliver its digital television signal into homes via Time Warner cable) and KUHF-FM, its sister National Public Radio station.
Before his arrival at HoustonPBS, Clarke served as director of programming and production and Deputy Director of Television for Wisconsin Public Television, a six-station public television network. He also served as executive producer of the national PBS series The New Tech Times, and was manager of news and public affairs at KETC-TV, St. Louis, Missouri. Prior to his work in public broadcasting Clarke worked as a journalist, correspondent and news anchor in commercial radio and television and with the American Forces Radio and Television service.
Clarke currently serves as chair of the board of directors of the PBS subsidiary, National DataCast Incorporated (NDI), as a member of the board of directors for the Boston Based programming distribution service, American Public Television (APT) and as a member of the board and executive council of the Pacific Mountain Network which serves 33 public television stations west of the Rockies. In addition, Clarke served for seven years a member of the PBS board of directors, sitting on the executive, business, compensation and membership committees, and as chair of the technology and distribution committee. Clarke has served on the boards of America's Public Television Stations (APTS), the Southern Educational Communications Association (SECA) and the Central Educational Network (CEN). Clarke is also an American Leadership Forum Senior Fellow.
In the Bay Area Clarke serves as a Governor of the Commonwealth Club of California, as a Trustee of the World Affairs Council of Northern California, is a Founding Father with the Family Violence Prevention Fund and is a member of the Asia Society Advisory Board. He and his wife Gail have been longtime Habitat for Humanity volunteers and were a "wish team" for the Make-A-Wish Foundation of the Texas Gulf Coast while in Houston.
Clarke has won numerous awards in his distinguished career, including five local Emmy nominations; a silver medal from the New York International Film Festival for the national PBS series, The New Tech Times; Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) local program awards; and numerous Associated Press (AP) and United Press International (UPI) news awards during his career as a television anchor and correspondent.
Clarke graduated Cum Laude from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro with a BA in radio, television and film. He received the Paul Franklin Fuller, Jr. Distinguished Alumni Award from the University's Department of Broadcasting and Cinema in 2003. He earned an MA in communication arts-with an emphasis in film-from the University of Wisconsin.
Clarke received an honorable discharge as a staff sergeant in the United States Air Force after his service during the Vietnam era from June 1966 to November 1969.
Clarke and his spouse Gail have one daughter, Melissa. She and her family reside in Houston, Texas. Clarke and his wife live in Mill Valley, California.
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Jeff Nemy [view
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Chief Financial Officer
Jeff Nemy, a 25-year veteran of financial management specializing in broadcast, advertising, and consulting, joined NCPB in 2006. Nemy supervises NCPB's finance and information technology departments and manages all financial affairs. He works with the development of NCPB's strategic and business plans relating to financial management, as well as providing counsel on fiscal matters throughout the organization.
Prior to joining NCPB, Nemy was a Senior Vice President, Regional Finance Director within The Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG) for nearly a decade. Within that capacity, he was Chief Financial Officer of Foote, Cone & Belding's San Francisco office which, at that time, was the largest advertising agency on the West Coast. In addition to IPG, Nemy held senior financial management positions at Nextel Communications and Chronicle Broadcasting, the parent company of several ABC and NBC affiliates, including KRON-TV in San Francisco. He began his career as a management consultant, working with both Arthur Young and Price Waterhouse.
Nemy holds a CPA and an MBA from the University of Santa Clara. He received his Bachelors Degree in both Economics and Finance from California State University, Chico. Nemy also was a contributing author to the recent Wiley & Sons book entitled "The Professional Services Firm Bible", responsible for writing on finance, accounting, and human resource issues.
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Linda O'Bryon [view
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Chief Content Officer
As Chief Content Officer (CCO), Linda O'Bryon leads the content divisions of Northern California Public Broadcasting (NCPB) across multiple platforms of Television, Radio, Interactive and the Education Network. She oversees a team of television and radio producers, editors, reporters, educators, web content developers, management and technical personnel at television stations KQED/San Francisco, KTEH/San Jose and KCAH/Monterey, as well as KQED 88.5 FM and KQEI 89.3 FM/Sacramento.
O'Bryon joined NCPB in January 2007. She is the founding executive editor of Nightly Business Report (NBR), which is distributed nationally by PBS on more than 250 stations. In addition to editorial oversight of NBR, she also served as senior vice president and general manager of NBR Enterprises, the operating division of public station WPBT/Miami, where she orchestrated worldwide distribution and content partnerships that have helped shape Nightly Business Report into an international news force around the world.
O'Bryon spearheaded the creation of NBR in 1979, when she was serving as news director at the South Florida public television station. When NBR was launched, she both managed the program and served as its co-anchor. O'Bryon joined Miami-based WPBT2 as a producer/reporter in 1976, and later that year became the first woman television news director in South Florida. Before joining Public Television, O'Bryon was a producer at WPLG, Miami's ABC affiliate. She began her career as an on-air reporter for KCPX (now KTVX), Salt Lake City's ABC affiliate.
O'Bryon's work has earned her the distinction of being named as one of the 20th century's Top 100 Business News Luminaries by TJFR. That group also ranked her as the nation's most influential woman business news executive in the year 2001. She has received numerous other awards, including: Ohio State, Economic Understanding/Dartmouth College, American Women in Radio and Television, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. She is also the recipient of the 2004 Distinguished Achievement Award from The Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW) for her role as a pioneer of television business news. In 2005, a team of Nightly Business Report journalists won a National Emmy for business and financial reporting for the program's extensive coverage in China. O'Bryon has interviewed numerous world and national leaders including Warren Buffett, Steve Forbes, Bill Gates, Jack Welch and former President Jimmy Carter.
Born and raised in Washington, D.C., O'Bryon graduated cum laude from the University of Miami with a major in journalism and a minor in economics.
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Margaret Berry [view photo to download]
General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
Margaret Berry joined KQED in 1985 and has served as KQED's general counsel and corporate secretary since 1995. She is responsible for managing the legal affairs of KQED and for overseeing activities related to the board of directors.
Berry attended Hastings College of the Law where she served as executive research editor for COMM/ENT, Hastings Journal of Communications and Entertainment Law. Before law school, Berry had an active career in the television and film production industry.
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Michael Isip [view photo to download]
Vice President for Television Content and Educational Services
As executive director, television production and programming, Michael Isip directs all areas related to television content including production, acquisition, programming, creative services, and research and development.
Michael Isip joined KQED in June 2001 as executive producer in the television production department and has demonstrated expertise as a manager, television producer, and organizer of multimedia projects and strategic partnerships. He serves as executive producer of This Week in Northern California, KQED's longest-running series, and produced the acclaimed documentary Hope on the Street. He also led the innovative multimedia initiative, On the Homefront, during the first weeks of the war in Iraq, and oversaw KQED's participation in a multimedia election coverage partnership, a McNeil-Lehrer citizen engagement effort, and a national town hall program following 9/11.
In 2003, Isip was one of five journalists from around the U.S. to receive a Kaiser Family Foundation Media Fellowship in Health. Isip was also one of seven journalists awarded a Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health in 2000. Before coming to KQED, Isip worked five years at KVIE TV in Sacramento as executive producer of news and public affairs and was a two-time winner of the California Journalism Award for Television Coverage of State Government and Politics. He began his career as a field producer at WLS TV, the ABC affiliate in Chicago. Isip received his B.A. from Cornell University, his J.D. from DePaul University, and he is a licensed attorney in Illinois.
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Steve Welch [view photo to download]
Vice President, Television Engineering and Operations
As executive director, television operations and engineering, Steve Welch oversees all television technical operations, including broadcast and production facilities, equipment and personnel, training, scheduling, and engineering.
Steve Welch joined KQED in April of 2000 and has successfully led the operations and engineering departments through KQED's revolutionary transition to digital technology. He brings more than 30 years of television management experience to the senior team. Prior to KQED, he spent most of his professional career at KCTS TV in Seattle, where he began as a television producer/director and served nearly a decade as director of broadcast and production operations. He completed his tenure as director of HDTV production and facility marketing, a role in which he helped establish KCTS as the early leader in U.S. production of HDTV content.
Welch received the PBS Engineering Individual Achievement Award in 1995, among other honors. During the digital transition in Seattle, he traveled to Japan three times to study advanced television at NHK (Japan National Broadcasting). After leaving KCTS, Welch worked as an HD production and marketing consultant for KCTS, Convergence Services, Corbis Corp., WETA TV, American Production Services, and the Arnold Creative Group. He earned his B.A. at the University of Washington.
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Jo Anne Wallace [view photo to download]
Vice President, Radio General Manager
Jo Anne Wallace has 25 years of experience in public radio management. She has served as station manager of WYSO-FM in Yellow Springs, Ohio, KPFA-FM in Berkeley and WGBH-FM in Boston, and as director of administration and planning in national Public Radio's news and information programming division. At NPR, Wallace participated in the development of Weekend Edition and instituted cooperative projects with NPR member stations.
Wallace came to KQED-FM in 1990 as general manager of the station. Since her arrival, the station's audience has grown from 300,000 to nearly 650,000 listeners a week, and KQED-FM ranks as the most-listened -to public radio station in the nation. In 1996, Wallace was promoted to vice president and general manager of KQED-FM. For her contributions to public broadcasting and journalism, Wallace received the 1992 American Women in Radio and Television award (Golden Gate Chapter) and the 1995 Public Radio News Director's Leo C. Lee Award. In September 1998, she was elected to the NPR Board of Directors.
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Donald W. Derheim [view photo to download]
Executive Vice President for Marketing and Communications
As vice president of marketing, Don Derheim manages KQED's efforts in the areas of membership, corporate support and television marketing. With 200,000 annual members, Derheim directs the integration of customer service and fund raising to sustain KQED's most valued relationships. Overseeing the national funding efforts of such recent KQED productions as Jacques Pepin Celebrates! and Hope on the Steet, he plays a key role in developing strategic partnerships from coast to coast. In addition, Derheim oversaw KQED's growth in corporate support including the multi-million dollar funding increases seen for KQED Radio.
In Winter 2003 he was named to the PBS Communications Advisory Committee where he advises PBS staff on branding, promotional and advertising issues. In Fall 2002 Derheim finished a three-year appointment on the PBS Development Advisory Committee and often speaks at industry-wide meetings such as the Public Radio Conference, and PBS Development Conferences.
Before joining KQED in 1991, he was the advertising and marketing publicity manager at MTV Networks where he helped oversee such non-PBS projects as the Museum of UnNatural History! He joined international public relations firm, Burson-Marsteller, in 1984 where he worked on accounts such as GE, Black and Decker, and FTD.
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Traci A. Eckels [view photo to download]
Vice President, Development
As vice president of development, Traci Eckels leads KQED Public Broadcasting in its efforts surrounding securing annual major gifts from individuals, foundation support, planned gifts and donations to the KQED Campaign for the Future. She joined KQED in June 2000 and was named vice president in August 2002. During her tenure, she has worked closely with the Campaign Cabinet, Board of Directors, KQED senior managers and development staff in strategically cultivating and soliciting prospects for all of KQED's funding needs. The Campaign for the Future will reach its five-year $70 million goal in December 2003.
Prior to coming to KQED, Eckels served for 11 years in leadership positions within the development departments of San Francisco State University, the YWCA of Seattle, and the School of Law (Boalt Hall) at the University of California at Berkeley.
Eckels is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, holding a bachelor's degree in political economy of industrial societies.
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Joanne Carder [view photo to download]
Vice President, Human Resources and Labor Relations
Joanne Carder is charged with directing, developing and implementing all human resources policies and procedures and with managing all labor relations for KQED's staff of nearly 240 employees.
Carder most recently served as director of human resources for Bay Medical Management, LLC, a medical practice in Walnut Creek. Prior to that, she served as director of employee relations at Children's Hospital-Oakland and director of employee/labor relations at Alta Bates Medical Center.
Earlier in her career, Carder worked as a senior administrative analyst in the office of the president at the University of California at Berkeley. In addition, she served as a labor representative for Healthcare Worker's Union, Local 250, as well as chief spokesperson for that organization during contract negotiations. She also served as a legislative aide to Congressman Paul N. McCloskey, Jr. in Washington, D.C., and worked actively within the United Farm Workers union movement during its early years. Carder graduated from Holy Names University in Oakland with a B.A. degree in political science. She currently resides in Berkeley.
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