BusinessWeek

Stephen J. Adler
Editor-in-Chief, BusinessWeek

Steve Adler became editor-in-chief of BusinessWeek in 2005. Under his leadership, BusinessWeek has dramatically expanded its Web presence, redesigned and relaunched its print magazine, and introduced a number of multi-channel initiatives that have helped strengthen its brand and extend its reach around the world. Most recently, Steve played an integral role in launching BusinessWeek's newest venture, Business Exchange, an online community connected around business topics.

During his tenure, BusinessWeek has won two National Magazine Awards and, over the past year alone, has garnered more than 35 additional national and global awards, primarily for investigative and analytical journalism.

Steve began his journalistic career as a reporter for the Tampa Times and the Tallahassee Democrat. In 1983, he joined The American Lawyer and later became editor of the magazine and editorial director of the American Lawyer Newspapers group, a chain of local dailies and weeklies.

In 1988, he joined The Wall Street Journal as legal editor. He was appointed to the Journal's page-one staff as special projects editor in 1994; named assistant managing editor in 1998; and deputy managing editor in 2000. Between 1995 and 1999, he directed reporting teams that won three Pulitzer Prizes, for articles on the tobacco industry (1995), the new AIDS treatments (1996), and military spending (1999).

In 1985, Steve was named a National Magazine Award finalist for his American Lawyer article on the Union Carbide accident in Bhopal. He is the 2008 winner of the Benjamin Rush Award from Dickinson College.

Steve's book, The Jury: Trial and Error in the American Courtroom, was published by Times Books in 1994 and won the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award in 1995. With his wife, novelist Lisa Grunwald, he was co-editor of the best-selling Letters of the Century, published by The Dial Press in 1999, and of Women's Letters, published by Dial in 2005.

Steve is a member of the executive committee of the board of directors of the Goddard Riverside Community Center, one of New York's original settlement houses. He also serves on the Board of Advisers of the Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Economics and Business Journalism, and on the Financial Services Leadership Forum Advisory Committee of the New York Public Library. He is a member of the International Media Council of the World Economic Forum.

He and his wife have a daughter and a son and live in New York City.

Ellen Pollock
Executive Editor, BusinessWeek

Ellen Joan Pollock is an executive editor at BusinessWeek, charged with overseeing the editorial operations of the global print edition. Ms. Pollock, who came to BusinessWeek in July 2007, led the recent launch of the redesigned Personal Business section in print and online, and was an integral part of the team that directed the redesign of the magazine. Also under Ms. Pollock's leadership, BusinessWeek published the special Business@Work double-issue, which was the first of its kind for the magazine. Nearly 4,000 readers identified the topics covered in the issue, and also submitted case studies, personal vignettes, and videos about the challenges they face at work.

Prior to joining BusinessWeek, Ms. Pollock worked at The Wall Street Journal for almost 18 years. Most recently, she was deputy Page One editor, responsible for managing the senior group of wordsmiths who make up the Page One staff, and editing many important pieces, including much of the series on corporate scandals that won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting. She also supervised a series about living with cancer that won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for beat reporting.

Previously, Ms. Pollock was a senior writer, reporting on such topics as corporate fraud, shareholder activism, and the Whitewater scandal, which she covered from New York, Washington and Little Rock. Prior to joining the Journal as an editor specializing in legal issues in 1989, she was a reporter at The American Lawyer magazine and then editor of The Manhattan Lawyer, a weekly.

Her book, The Pretender: How Martin Frankel Fooled the Financial World and Led the Feds on One of the Most Publicized Manhunts In History, was published in January 2002 by Wall Street Journal Books/Simon & Schuster. Turks & Brahmins, her book about a revolution inside a Wall Street law firm, was published by Simon & Schuster in 1991.

John A. Byrne
Editor-in-Chief, BusinessWeek.com and Executive Editor, BusinessWeek

John A. Byrne is Editor-in-Chief of BusinessWeek.com and Executive Editor of BusinessWeek magazine.

Previously, Mr. Byrne was editor-in-chief of Fast Company magazine. He joined Fast Company in April 2003, succeeding founding editors Alan Webber and Bill Taylor. Prior to joining Fast Company, he worked for BusinessWeek for nearly 18 years as a senior writer authoring a record 57 cover stories for the magazine. His articles have explored the fairness of executive pay, the folly of management fads, and the governance of major corporations. Mr. Byrne developed the idea of a monthly best-sellers list, launched the industry-leading business school rankings, established and managed the magazine's ranking of the best and worst corporate boards, and created the list of the most generous philanthropists.

Mr. Byrne is the author of eight books on business, leadership, and management. His latest book, Jack: Straight from the Gut (Warner Books, 2001), the highly anticipated collaboration with former General Electric Co. CEO Jack Welch debuted at the top of The New York Times bestseller list. Byrne has written or co-authored seven other books, including Chainsaw (HarperCollins, 1999), the behind-the-scenes story of Al Dunlap's rise and fall as a business celebrity; Informed Consent (McGraw-Hill, 1995); The Headhunters (MacMillan, 1986); Odyssey (Harper & Row, 1987), the business biography of former Apple Computer chairman John Sculley; and The Whiz Kids (Currency/Doubleday, 1993), which explored the life and times of 10 Army Air Force officers who helped to remake the Ford Motor Co. in the post-war period. Byrne also wrote BusinessWeek's Guide to the Best Business Schools (McGraw-Hill, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1995, and 1997) and co-wrote BusinessWeek's Guide to the Best Executive Education Programs (McGraw-Hill, 1992).

Mr. Byrne holds a master's in journalism from the University of Missouri and a bachelor's degree in English and political science from William Paterson College.

Kimberly Weisul
Editor, BusinessWeek SmallBiz and Senior Editor, BusinessWeek

Kimberly Weisul is the editor of BusinessWeek SmallBiz magazine, the bimonthly small business publication launched in June 2004. In addition, she is the Small Business Editor for BusinessWeek. Prior to this position, Ms. Weisul was the department editor for the UpFront section of BusinessWeek.

Under Ms. Weisul's leadership, BusinessWeek SmallBiz has won four Jesse H. Neal Business Journalism Awards for: 2005 Best Startup Publication; 2006 Best Single Issue, WebSmart; 2007 Best Online Article, "The Best Entrepreneurs Under 25"; and 2007 Best Single Issue, Do You Need to Be Green? The magazine also received a Silver Award from the American Society of Business Publication Editors for its launch issue.

Before joining BusinessWeek, Ms. Weisul was the business editor at Interactive Week, where she focused on finance in her "Wall Street Watch" column. Before that, she was a staff writer at Investment Dealer's Digest covering new technology. She was also the founding editor of the Digest's Web Finance newsletter.

Ms. Weisul has freelanced for Forbes.com and has appeared on ABC World News This Morning, CNNfn, Dow Jones News Radio, and AP News Radio. She received an award for her finance coverage from the New York Society of CPAs and won the Computer Press Award for Best Print News Story in 2000.

She holds a degree from Brown University.