Board Member: Anne Gordon

Anne Gordon, Partner, Dubilier & Company. Anne has primary responsibility for buying, investing and building media firms for Dubilier & Co.'s portfolio. She joined Dubilier & Co. in May, 2007 after having worked for daily newspapers for almost 25 years, in a wide variety of management roles. Her career has also included a two-year stint in the competitive Denver television market, as a top newsroom executive for KCNC-4.

Prior to joining the private investment firm, Anne was responsible for all aspects of the day-to-day operations of The Philadelphia Inquirer in its print and online versions for a little over five years. As managing editor and vice president, she oversaw a budget of $48 million and worked with four deputy editors to oversee the newspaper's journalistic operations as well as broader operational issues, including daily work with its newsroom union on issues from work rules and downsizing to contract negotiation and more broadly directing the news organization’s positions on a variety of First Amendment and personnel issues. Anne regularly appears on national talk shows, speaks on political and media issues, and testified before Congress in October 2005 on the importance of a federal Shield Law for journalists. As managing editor for the Inquirer, Anne was one of only a handful of women editors at large metro dailies in America.

Anne is a 2001 Eisenhower Fellow who studied media issues in Finland and Sweden, with a special emphasis on wireless research and development with Nokia and Ericsson. She was a Pulitzer Prize juror in 2003, serving as chairwoman, and in 2002 was a juror in the Public Service category. In addition to her board role at Bulletin News and OOSKAnews, an international market intelligence service which reports on water issues in the developing world, she is a board member of San Diego-based Verve Wireless, a mobile content provider. In addition, she is an advisory board member of Good Magazine, based in Los Angeles and Covario, an SEO technology firm based in San Diego.