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Lisa Frazier - President & CEO
Prior to joining as CEO of The Bay Citizen, Lisa was a partner at McKinsey & Company where she led the West Coast Media and Entertainment practice. During her close to nine years at McKinsey & Company, Lisa served several of the leading online, broadcast and cable TV, newspaper, and information companies on a variety of issues, including growth strategy, operations, and marketing and sales.
Lisa has also had the opportunity to support a number of non-profit organizations including the New York Fire Department post 9/11, the Robin Hood Foundation and others. Currently, Lisa is on the Board of Governors of The Commonwealth Club, the nation’s oldest public forum. She is also an advisory board member to both The Texas Tribune, a Texas based non-profit public media organization, and Link TV, an organization focused on educating and activating the community about world events.
Before joining McKinsey & Company, Lisa spent nine years in the petroleum industry where she worked as a senior marketing representative for Akzo Nobel Chemicals and held operation and engineering positions with Mobil Oil Corporation.
Lisa holds an M.B.A. in strategy, marketing and finance from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, as well as a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Melbourne, Australia.
Lisa resides in San Francisco with her husband and two and a half year old son.
Jonathan Weber - Editor-in-Chief
Prior to joining as Editor-in-Chief of The Bay Citizen, Weber served as CEO and editor-in-chief of New West Publishing, the Missoula, Montana-based media company that he founded in 2005. New West’s flagship product is NewWest.Net, an award-winning local and regional online publication about the Rocky Mountain West. .
Before founding New West Publishing, Weber was the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Industry Standard, the highly-regarded San Francisco-based newsweekly that chronicled the dot-com boom of the late 1990’s. Weber built the editorial staff from scratch to a peak of more than 100 journalists. The Industry Standard earned many awards and plaudits for its no-nonsense coverage of the Internet revolution.
Prior to the Industry Standard, Weber served eight years as a writer and editor at the Los Angeles Times, including three years as the Silicon Valley correspondent.
Weber began his journalism career with Fairchild Publications, and served in that company’s Paris bureau, among other assignments. He was part of the launch team for Geneva-based World Link magazine, a publication of the World Economic Forum.
Weber earned a B.A in Philosophy from Wesleyan University. He is excited to be relocating back to the San Francisco Bay Area from Montana with his wife, Karen, their three children, and their two dogs and two cats.
Brian Kelley - Chief Technology Officer
Prior to joining The Bay Citizen as Chief Technology Officer, Brian Kelley co-founded ReputationDefender, the world’s first comprehensive online reputation management and privacy company. As Chief Technology Officer, he played a key role in assembling a quality technology team that is capable of maximizing company resources related to technology strategy, software development, and system infrastructure.
Before ReputationDefender, Brian Kelley was CTO of The Ticket Reserve, an online futures market for sporting event tickets. Following The Ticket Reserve, Brian became CTO of The Academic Approach, leading the development of online interactive educational software.
Brian is an active musician and supports a number of non-profit organizations including Rock-For-Kids and Save the Music Foundation, as well as the AIDS Project Los Angeles. He has also worked with the San Francisco veterans organization, Swords to Plowshares.
He has had over 10 years experience building enterprise-class software applications in a wide variety of industries including music, sports, finance and education. Brian holds a B.A. in Music and B.S. Computer Science from Skidmore College.
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