Cathryn Cronin Cranston

AllWorld is deeply sorry to report the death of Cathryn Cranston, who lost a fight with leukemia on May 31, 2011. We will remember Cathy for her brilliant insights and witty remarks, but mostly for the light and energy she brought to everything. She will be missed.

Cathy Cranston was a senior media executive with global expertise in sales and marketing, premium content, and digital distribution.

Most recently, she was Executive Vice President at Mansueto Ventures, owner of the Inc. (www.inc.com) and Fast Company (www.fastcompany.com) media brands. At MV, she integrated each brand, built the sales and marketing network, and crafted a global licensing deal with the New York Times syndicate.

Before joining Inc. and Fast Company, Ms. Cranston was world-wide publisher at the Harvard Business Review, the leading journal of management thought and ideas. As chief revenue executive for advertising sales and marketing, she led a global team of 30 professionals in the US, Europe, and Asia. During her four year tenure as publisher online and print advertising revenue grew 27% and profitability remained constant. As a marketer, she crafted a consistent image and context for the HBR brand in all markets and for all reader and advertiser touch points. Before assuming the publisher role, Ms. Cranston served as associate publisher and marketing director, both with world-wide responsibility.

Ms. Cranston began her publishing career at The New York Times, where for 12 years she held a variety of strategic planning, marketing and sales management positions in New York and California.

She began her career in management consulting first at Coopers and Lybrand and then Cresap McCormick and Paget.

She serves and Chairman of the Governing Board of the Chicago-based Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (www.thebulletin.org) the peace and security journal founded in 1946 by veterans of the Manhattan Project. In 2008, she was appointed to the Visiting Committee of the Division of Physical Sciences at the University of Chicago (www.psd.uchicago.edu). She is on the media advisory board of Clickability, Inc. (www.clickability.com) the global web content management company. She is a member of the Economic Club of New York and the Women's Forum of New York.

Ms. Cranston is a graduate of Harvard University, and lives in Chappaqua, NY with her husband and two children.