Regan Hofmann, Editor-in-Chief, POZ

Regan Hofmann is currently editor-in-chief of POZ magazine and poz.com, a national, award-winning magazine and website for people living with, and affected by, HIV/AIDS. She is editorial director of Smart + Strong, the multimedia healthcare information company that publishes POZ and poz.com (as well as a host of other magazines and websites focusing on other health concerns). A journalist of 20 years, Hofmann first publicly disclosed her HIV positive status in April 2006 when she appeared on POZ's cover above the words “I am no longer afraid to say I have HIV.” Hofmann believes in leadership by HIV-positive people in order to fight the spread of the pandemic. She regularly speaks to students, health care professionals, government leaders and the general public worldwide about her HIV status in an attempt to raise awareness of and reduce the stigma surrounding HIV/AIDS. Her message is one of personal empowerment, overcoming fear and standing up against ignorance and discrimination.

She is a board member of the Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR), a board member of the Names Project, an ambassador for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, co-chair of God’s Love We Deliver’s Leadership Council, a member of the CDC/HRSA Advisory Committee on HIV and STD Prevention and Treatment, and a steering committee member for ViiV Healthcare’s Positive Action program. She has served as a U.S. delegate at the United Nations’ General Assembly’s Special Session on AIDS and has traveled internationally on behalf of the U.S. Department of State to speak about HIV/AIDS and stigma. She was named by MIN magazine "One of the Top 21 Most Intriguing People of 2006."

Hofmann has professional media training and frequently participates as a keynote speaker, moderator or panelist at various conferences and conventions internationally. She has emceed fundraisers and has hosted charity events. She has appeared on ABC's Good Morning America with Diane Sawyer, The Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN, The Doctors, NBC's Your Total Health and NPR. She has been featured in numerous publications around the world including: The New York Times, Vogue, New York magazine, The London Daily Telegraph, British Marie Claire, Australia's Madison Magazine, The Taipei Times and The China Post. She appeared in a Cable Positive documentary—Women and HIV—with E.R. actress Gloria Reuben. She was featured in Kenneth Cole's spring 2008 fashion advertising campaign.

Simon and Schuster recently published Hofmann’s memoir of her life as an advocate for people living with HIV, entitled I Have Something to Tell You.

Ms. Hofmann has a B.A. from Trinity College in Connecticut and lives on a farm in Hunterdon County, New Jersey where she enjoys riding her horses.

Find her blog at blogs.poz.com/regan.

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Tim Horn, President and Editor-in-Chief, AIDSmeds.com
Tim Horn is president and editor-in-chief of AIDSmeds.com. He has been working with AIDSmeds.com since the website was launched in 1999. He is also a senior editor at Smart + Strong, AIDSmeds.com's parent company, where he oversees the medical, scientific, and treatment information published in POZ magazine and its sister publications.

He has worked as a writer and editor for a number of other AIDS organizations, including Physicians' Research Network (PRN), the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR), the AIDS Treatment Data Network, and the PWA Health Group. He has also contributed regularly to a number of other community-focused publications.

Tim is a member of the AIDS Treatment Activists Coalition, a national coalition of AIDS activists, and has served on the AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG) Community Constituency Group (CCG).

Tim has also done an extensive amount of HIV education and advocacy-related work in Mexico, where he lived for over a year, and was a founding board member of Aid for AIDS.

Sean O. Strub, Founder and Advisory Editor, POZ
Sean Strub is well known as an activist, writer and entrepreneur. Sean has founded many successful fundraising, publishing and marketing organizations, virtually all in support of progressive social change efforts. He founded POZ in 1994. Strub's companies have also launched POZ en Español, Mamm (for women impacted by breast and gynecological cancers) and Milford Magazine (a regional title distributed in the Delaware River Highlands area of northeast Pennsylvania).

He has written extensively on corporate social responsibility, smart growth and land development issues, direct marketing and AIDS, among other topics. Sean co-authored, with Dan Baker and Bill Henning, Cracking The Corporate Closet, (Harper Business, 1995) and co- authored, with Steve Lydenberg and Alice Tepper Marlin, the seminal guide to corporate social responsibility, Rating America's Corporate Conscience, (Addison-Wesley, 1987).

Sean's involvement in the social responsibility and ethical investment movements dates to the early 1980's, when he worked with Alumni Against Apartheid and the Harvard Endowment for Divestiture through his direct marketing firm which specialized in social change and mass marketed fundraising techniques. Direct mail campaigns created by Sean have been labeled "slick" by The Wall Street Journal, "highly sophisticated" by The New York Times, and "inventive and unusual" by Business Week.

Strub has also produced theatre and large-scale fundraising events. In 1992, at the Perry Street Theatre in New York, he debuted his production of The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me, written by and starring David Drake. The Obie Award-winning hit became one of the longest running one-person Off-Broadway shows ever.

In 1990, Strub was a Democratic candidate for the US Congress from New York's 22nd congressional district, running as an openly (but incidentally) gay/HIV+ man. He was defeated by a former member of Congress by fewer than 600 votes.

He has received numerous awards and honors from AIDS organizations, community and professional groups, including the 1995 AIDS Action Foundation's National Leadership Award, the 1996 Cielo Latino Companero award from the Latino Commission on AIDS and Los Angeles-based Being Alive's Spirit of Hope award in 1997.

A native Iowan, Sean attended Georgetown and Columbia Universities. He lives in Milford, Pennsylvania and New York City.

Kate Ferguson, Editor-in-Chief, Real Health
Kate Ferguson joined Smart + Strong in June 2008. Her responsibilities also include being a senior editor for POZ magazine and POZ.com.

Previously, Kate was editor-in-chief of Today's Black Woman and the managing editor of Black Men magazine. She supervised the launch of the African-American lifestyle titles in 1995 and 1996, respectively.

For 10 years prior, Kate was the editor-in-chief of two teen entertainment magazines, namely, Word Up! and Rap Masters. She also served as editor-in-chief for Black Teen and Female Bodybuilding and was the entertainment news editor and on-camera talent for "The Video Zone," a local music program on cable television.

A graduate of Hunter College in New York City, with a B.A. in Mass Communications, Ferguson received her M.A. in Broadcast Journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia.

Oriol Gutierrez, Deputy Editor, POZ
Oriol Gutierrez brings to Smart + Strong his passion for advocacy on behalf of people with HIV, as well as editorial experience since 1996. He was diagnosed with HIV in 1992.

His responsibilities also include serving as editor in chief of TuSalud, Smart + Strong's new bilingual Spanish/English magazine covering Latino health and wellness.

Since 2003, Gutierrez was managing editor of DiversityInc magazine, which covers diversity management in the workplace; executive director of the DiversityInc Foundation; and communications director for DiversityInc Media, LLC.

He co-founded LGNY Latino, the first bilingual Spanish/English LGBT U.S. periodical, as publisher and editor in chief in 2001. Earlier in his career, Gutierrez was executive editor of Pet Business magazine and business director of publications for the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

Gutierrez has previously freelanced for Smart + Strong, including work on several issues of POZ Focus and the first Spanish-language POZcast in 2007.

He often participates as a speaker, moderator or panelist at various conferences. He has appeared on NPR, Sirius OutQ and OutCast. He was named one of the "25 Most Influential GLBT Latinos" by MyLatinoVoice.com.

He is a graduate of New York University in New York City, with a B.A. in Print Journalism and an M.S. in Publishing. He also is vice president of print and new media for the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association.

Find his blog at blogs.poz.com/oriol.

Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/oriolgutierrez.

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Jeremy Grayzel, CEO, Smart + Strong and CDM Publishing LLC
With over 30+ years of business and publishing expertise, Jeremy Grayzel bought Smart + Strong in the fall of 2004. As CEO, he has spearheaded the redesign of POZ magazine and POZ.com. Prior to Smart + Strong, Jeremy served as president of VNU eMedia and headed a new division to web-enable VNU Business Media, the second largest B2B publisher and trade show operator in the country.

As founder and CEO of Facsimile Marketing, he developed broadcast fax and fax-on-demand technology and developed leading-edge custom publishing software. The company also became a website developer and hosted customized publishing services for third party publishers.

Jeremy's other experience includes a position as President and COO of Family Media Inc., as well as directorial roles at both Charter Publishing Company, where he served as general manager of Ladies' Home Journal, and RCA Global Communications, where he was responsible for financial planning of the domestic satellite communications business. He is on the board of directors of the Metro Chapter of the World Presidents' Organization and the past chairman of the Emerging Business Council of the Information Industry Association.

Jeremy earned his MBA at New York University's Graduate School of Business.

Ian Anderson, President, Smart + Strong
Ian Anderson joined Smart + Strong as Vice President/General Manager in June 2005 and was promoted to President/COO in January 2007. He has responsibility for all external and internal business management including technology and print production services, circulation and product development, edit, and business planning.

Previously, Ian spent six years at VNU eMedia (now known as Nielsen Business Media) as Director of Operations and then as Director of Product Development. Prior to VNU, he spent six years at Editor & Publisher magazine as Research Director and General Manager.

Ian earned his BA in Communications at Ramapo College, Mahwah, New Jersey.

Megan Strub, Publisher, Executive Vice President, Smart + Strong
Megan was part of the launch of POZ in the spring of 1994 and has been working with pharmaceutical companies and agencies focused on reaching the HIV community ever since. Early on, she demonstrated the value of direct to consumer advertising to people with HIV. Megan has continued to develop additional educational programs and publications including the POZ Life Expo, MAMM, InfoPack treatment newsletter, ComboCards and Real Health.

Prior to joining Smart + Strong, Megan was an account executive with The Caribiner Group (now owned by Jack Morton Wordwide), a multi-media production company specializing in corporate events, national sales meetings and product launches. Megan has over 16 years of sales experience and has been profiled in Sales & Marketing Management magazine, New York Magazine, and MIN, a trade publication for the magazine publishing industry.