Management Team
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James H. Harris, Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Harris brings a 25-year track record of achievement in consulting, brand management, and integrated marketing communications to The WSJ Office Network. During his career, Mr. Harris has led strategic and marketing consulting engagements for clients including: Google, National Football League, Hyatt Hotels, Gillette, Citibank, FOX, Miller Brewing, Molson Breweries, Lands' End, The Thermos Company, Audible, Sony, Activision and Time Warner.
Prior to forming The WSJ Office Network, Mr. Harris was a founder and managing director of Equity Office Media Network, an in-house advertising division of Equity Office Properties – then the nation’s largest publicly held owner and manager of commercial office buildings.
Previously, he served as principal and managing partner of marketing communications consultancies ThoughtStep and Thomas L. Harris & Co., as a founding partner of Z Group (later Zyman Marketing), and, earlier in his career, in executive roles with Allied Riser Communications, DDB Needham Worldwide Advertising and the Miller Brewing Company.
Mr. Harris graduated from the University of Michigan with a B.A. (High Honors), and from Northwestern University’s J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management with a Masters in Management. His views have been featured widely in the media, including The Wall Street Journal, CNN, New York Magazine, USA Today, Brandweek, and ESPN: The Magazine. He has also served as a lecturer in Integrated Marketing at Northwestern University’s Medill School, and as advertising columnist for Sports Business Journal.
Tim Donmoyer, Chief Financial Officer
Tim is one of the leading financial executives in the outdoor advertising and marketing services industries. He started his career as an investment banker at Bear Stearns & Co., where he developed a specialization in outdoor advertising, leading and executing significant M&A’s and financing deals for a broad range of companies in the outdoor industry.
Tim joined Eller Media Company in 1995 as chief financial officer and served in that capacity through more than 200 acquisitions and the sale of the company to Clear Channel in 1997 for $1.2 billion. Upon leaving Eller in 1999, Tim became CFO of Lighthouse Holdings, a venture-backed marketing services holding company. In 18 months, he acquired a portfolio of 17 companies delivering more than $200 million in sales and $48 million in EBITDA before selling the company to Cordiant Communications for $600 million in 2000. Tim also owned and operated Aztec Media, a Chicago-based outdoor advertising business until selling it to Eller in 1995.
Prior to forming The WSJ Office Network, Tim was a founder and managing director of Equity Office Media Network. Tim serves on the boards of three outdoor advertising entities and holds a B.A. degree from Dartmouth College.
David L. Kahn, Senior Vice President of Sales
David Kahn’s career has been dedicated to driving top-line growth for narrowcast media brands – both online and offline – through strategic and revenue-generating partnerships. He has spent considerable time applying this experience in start-up and turn-around situations.
Before joining The WSJ Office Network as Senior Vice President – Sales, he advised and managed a number of digital media companies in the area of advertising revenue, including Disney (NYSE: DIS) and IAC/InterActive Corp (NASDAQ: IACI). His assignment at Disney focused on structuring and managing their advertising sales operation for IdealBite.com, a newly acquired eco-focused online business. At IAC, Kahn joined ServiceMagic.com – the nation’s leading online marketplace matching homeowners with contractors – where he helped build an advertising revenue stream from scratch in a lead-generation focused company.
He has succeeded in a number of dynamic offline media companies including The New Yorker, where he served as Publisher, leading the magazine past $100 million in annual revenue for the first time in its 75 year history. Other print media turn-arounds included Latina magazine (Solera Capital) and Country Home (Meredith Corporation). New brand/business launches include Worth in the personal finance category, Saveur in the epicurean field, and Crain’s New York Business. In each of these situations he focused his entrepreneurial spirit to drive these businesses forward through strategic positioning, focused advertising sales leadership and disciplined financial management.
Kahn earned an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management, where he served on the Kellogg Alumni Advisory Board. He received his undergraduate degree in Business Administration from The University of Illinois at Champaign. Kahn was selected as one of Crain’s New York Businesses, ‘40 Under 40: Executives to Watch’ and he currently resides in Larchmont, New York with his wife and two children.
Rob Lee, Chief Technology Officer
Rob brings more than 18 years of experience and leadership in technology integration, product development and engineering management to The WSJ Office Network. By leading engineering organizations in the design and development of business-oriented products and services that utilize advanced communication, custom electronics and sophisticated software components, Rob has pioneered many leading-edge interactive delivery technologies. He has been credited with bringing to market the world's first videoconferencing kiosk, formulating an award-winning OEM interactive video kiosk product line and developing an internet-based interactive video conferencing software.
As a co-founder of BroadStar, Inc., Rob lead the design and deployment of its innovative community-based network, delivering residential telephone, cable television, high-speed Internet and home security services. Rob participates in technology advisory groups, providing broadband services in partnership with real estate developers and national builders. As a co-founder & CEO of DynaZign, Inc., Rob and his partners provided electronic solutions to industrial clients, such as Bayer Pharmaceuticals and Fuelman Fleet Card. Rob has led software development teams at Convey Systems in pioneering web-conferencing for call-center companies, (i.e. Convergence and Market Central), creating firewall-friendly voice, video and data conferencing.
Earlier in his career, Rob directed the development of an interactive MDU network for Able Networks incorporating sleek interactive kiosks, multi-function set-top boxes and an advanced network infrastructure. As Aegis Technologies’ CTO, he authored several technology patents, led development efforts for electronic signature devices, remote control document scanning software, a multi-point video controller, remote kiosk-based check printing, and authored the company's original remote presentation software product. Rob earned his degree in computer science at George Mason University.
David Miller, Vice President of Sales
Prior to joining WSJON in March 2009, David served as Associate Publisher for The New Yorker where was responsible for leading the advertising sales team and helped conceptualize new lines of revenue stream through online and offline products. Before The New Yorker, David was Associate Publisher for the successful launch of Men’s Vogue where the magazine won numerous sales awards such as AdWeek’s 2007 “Start Up of the Year”, and MIN’s 2007 “Sales Team of the Year”.
David has also held positions as Advertising Director for SmartMoney Magazine and as Corporate and Financial Advertising Director for The New Yorker. David has a B.A. in Economics from The University of Maryland and resides in New York City.
Gil Stedman, Vice President of Operations
As Vice President of Operations, Gil oversees the fabrication, installation, and maintenance of all WSJ Office Network screens. He brings over 10 years of experience in operations management in the out-of-home advertising industry for companies like Equity Office Media Network and Clear Channel Outdoor. Previously, Gil managed his own operational consulting firm working with a variety of out-of-home companies and served as a director for the Arizona Sign Association. Gil is president of Westridge Development, Inc., an Arizona development and consulting company.
