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Andrew Pancer joined the About.com executive team in summer 2005 as chief operating officer. Andrew served as chief financial officer of About.com, Inc. from 2002 to 2004, overseeing the financial operations of About.com, Sprinks and About.com Web Services. Prior to re-joining About.com, Andrew served one year as chief financial officer of Direct Revenue LLC, a contextual advertising firm. Andrew was controller of ECS (Electronic Commerce Solutions), the web development, direct marketing and cross-selling arm of IAC/InteractiveCorp, from 1999 to 2002. From 1997 to 1999, he was controller at Sterling Development, Inc. Andrew began his career as a staff accountant for KPMG Peat Marwick LLP and then Ticketmaster Inc. Andrew earned a B. S. degree in business administration from Washington University, St. Louis in 1992. He received his M.B.A. degree from New York University's Stern School of Business in 2000. He is also a Certified Public Accountant.

Michael has been actively involved in the creation and management of About.com's content since 1999...

Marc Goldberg is Vice President, Business Development at About, Inc. Marc oversees the company's corporate development initiatives as well as strategic partnerships and ecommerce deals. Marc facilitated the company's recent acquisition of Calorie-Count.com and has been instrumental in helping to establish the company's European presence. Marc joined About, Inc. in 2002. Before his post as Vice President, business development, Marc held various sales roles within the company. Prior to joining About, Inc., Marc held Sales and Advertising managerial positions at Phase2 Media, J. Walter Thompson and Zenith Media. Marc received his BA in Communications from the University of Hartford.

Mike Metz, my Creative Director at About.com, said of me: "Mr. Reilly's adaptability and flexibility allow him to be singularly adapted to our high-pressure environment. I have come to depend on James' sustained energy and willingness to stay with the job until it is done perfectly."

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Camilo was born and raised in Bogota, Colombia, and at age 16 moved to Boca Raton, Florida. Shortly after college, Camilo began his professional career when forming Abt's, an award-winning Screen Printing and Design studio. At abt's, he directed a wide range of projects including corporate branding, print, web and apparel designs. While directing Abt's, Camilo began various other projects, including Motusgear, a scuba diving inspired apparel company, and a Hurricane relief organization, which assisted in part to Florida's Hurricane Relief Fund. FHRF provides relief assistance to victims of hurricanes Frances and Katrina. In early 2008, he moved to New York City to gain new and different experiences. He now works full time as a graphic designer for About.com (part New York Times Company). Aside from his full time position, he continues to delve into colorful character designs, illustrations, and design projects.

Cathy Wong is a licensed naturopathic doctor and nutritionist with 10 years of research, clinical, and teaching experience in the field of complementary and alternative medicine. She has been the Alternative Medicine guide for About.com since 2000, where she writes an enormously popular blog, newsletter, and weekly articles. Cathy was profiled in the book Weight Loss: An Alternative Medicine Definitive Guide, and recently contributed to Complementary and Alternative Medicine Information for Teens. She's also a member of the American College of Nutrition, American College for Advancement in Medicine, and the American Academy of Environmental Medicine. A sought-after consultant to the spa and wellness industry, her expert opinion on nutrition, alternative medicine, and weight loss has been featured in Woman's Day, Woman's World, Body + Soul, First for Women, Men's Health, Natural Health, Alternative Medicine, among other publications, and on Sirius Radio's Healthy Living show, Body + Soul radio, and ABC-TV Channel 5 News.

Felissa Benjamin: Felissa is a New York City-based freelance writer who specializes in style and beauty. She is About.com's Celebrity Style Guide, a website focusing on the the red carpet style of today's hottest celebrities. Felissa started out her journalistic career at Health where she learned the benefits of living a healthy and beautiful life. She became an expert at pitching stories that accentuated the health-aspects of the beauty world, including choosing non-invasive cosmetic procedures. Prior to becoming a full-time freelancer, Felissa was on staff as a fashion writer at Life & Style Weekly and also wrote for the New York Daily News.

Francesca Di Meglio is a full-time freelance writer based in Fort Lee, N.J. As the guide to Newlyweds for About.com (http://newlyweds.about.com) since 2007, she covers everything from love and sex to getting along with your spouse. Community manager and reporter for the B-schools channel at BusinessWeek Online, she writes regularly about management education and occasionally about small business and women trying to break through the glass ceiling. She led the development and launch of the undergraduate business school channel for BWOL. Di Meglio was recognized as a major part of the BusinessWeek.com teams that won National Magazine Awards in 2007 and 2008 (the highest honor in the magazine industry) for Interactive Service and Personal Service Online respectively. An Italian American, Di Meglio is fluent in Italian and is an expert on Italian culture and lifestyle. Her weekly column, Our Paesani, which appears on ItaliansRus.com and Las Vegas' La Voce, bridges the gap between Italians abroad and those still in Italy. She has written for Tour & Food Italia, Primo, America & Italia Review, the Italian Tribune, and Ambassador, the official publication of the National Italian American Foundation (NIAF). A fervent soccer fan, Di Meglio also frequently covers soccer, especially the men's national and club teams in Italy. Her crowning glory was a front-page spread in the Italian Tribune featuring her story and photos about spending a day in 2003 at Giants Stadium with Juventus and Milan. Since she launched her career at Ladies' Home Journal, Di Meglio has been no stranger to women's magazines. Her articles have appeared in LHJ and various parenting titles at iVillage.com, where she was an assistant producer for the Relationships channel. Writing about dating, love and even the battle of the sexes is a specialty of hers. Although Di Meglio has had many successes in her career, she is always sharpening her writing and reporting skills. She seeks to work with solid editors who are unafraid to criticize and question. An editor herself, Di Meglio knows how to deliver polished stories (on time) and welcomes opportunities to report on interesting and varied topics.

Prior to becoming a freelance writer, Jamie Littlefield worked with inner-city teens as a high school English teacher. She was also a member of the Student Success Team, an intervention committee designed to help at-risk students work with their teachers, families, and social workers to find ways to succeed. In recognition of Littlefield's work as an educator, she was presented with the Peter Lincoln Spencer Fellowship award for excellence and innovation in teaching. Littlefield received a M.A. in Education from Claremont Graduate University, a part of the Claremont Colleges Consortium. Prior to that, she was awarded a B.A. in English from Brigham Young University. In addition to her work with Charity Guide, Littlefield develops textbook material and is an education writer for About.com.

Kori Ellis is a freelance writer and editor living in Texas. Her areas of concentration include fashion, beauty, sports, travel and weddings. However, she also has several years of experience writing other types of content. Kori is the guide to San Antonio at About.com and writes for dozens of other Web sites, blogs, newspapers and magazines.

You may not know it, but you've heard Mike's work. For ten years he was a regular on the Los Angeles recording scene, bringing his special talents to many film and television soundtracks. In addition to every Mel Brooks movie from Spaceballs to Robin Hood: Men in Tights, his playing may be heard on many popular, syndicated television shows, including Home Improvement, Dinosaurs, and The Little Mermaid. His recording work now focuses on jingles, record projects, library music, music for industrial video, and lots of drum & percussion loops. Returning to the sanity of the Northwest after ten years of L.A. session work and life in Southern California, Mike continues to develop his unique talents. His varied performance abilities which include drum set, percussion, and extensive electronic knowledge keep Mike busy recording, creating drum loops, and giving drum clinics in the U.S. and abroad. Mike holds a Master's degree in percussion from The University of Southern California and a Bachelor's degree in percussion from The University of Oregon. He is the author of All About ... Electronic Percussion, published by Hal Leonard, and a frequent columnist for DRUM! Magazine. His continued album tracking, industrial, and national jingle work as a drummer, programmer, hand percussionist, and composer can be heard on music for HP, Jeld-Wen, Microsoft, Westin Hotels, and Nike. In addition to his performing, Mike has been heavily involved in electronic percussion design since the mid-eighties. DRUM! Magazine's Drummies readers' poll named him runner-up electronic drummer of 2003. Because of his direction setting designs for Trigger Perfect drum triggers, and his continued work with Roland Drums and Percussion, his ideas and designs continue to influence the direction of electronic drums and percussion.

A graduate of McGill University and a diplomate of the Royal College of Organists, Kennedy draws on his more than 35 years of experience in music education to give you and your child sound, practical solutions. Kennedy has lived in Montreal, New York, London, Litchfield County in Connecticut, Nassau (Bahamas) and Miami. His four children attended private schools. He was co-founder and vice-principal of a private day school in Nassau. Kennedy has been the Private School Guide for About.com (a New York Times company) since 1997. Based in Raleigh, NC, he also is available by appointment in Savannah, GA and Toronto, Ontario.

Gross chairs the University Seminar on Innovation, at Columbia University. As a practitioner of "Eldergogy", Gross is known nationally for his work as creator of the "Lively Minds" program for Elders, funded by federal and state grants. He has been writing, speaking, advocating and working with elders for 25 years. His other writings in the field of aging include syntheses of major conferences, conventions, and policy-planning efforts, such as Lifelong Learning for Self-Sufficiency, White House Conference on Aging, 1980, and Adults Learning Here: How New York State Serves Older Adults. Gross is an on-line columnist for ABOUT.com, one of the ten most-visited "portals" on the Internet; formerly, he was a long-time columnist for Lifelong Learning Today, and for Convene, the magazine of the Professional Co nvention Management Association. Gross has served at The Ford Foundation and the Academy for Educational Development. In recent years Gross has keynoted major national conferences and conventions, and been featured in major stories in the national press including The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Denver Post, Dallas Morning News, Newsday, and on numerous radio and television programs including ABC-TV News. Recent speeches and workshops have included: "The Socratic Elder: Seven Master Keys to Masterful Aging," "The Magic of Your Mind." Exhilarating exercises in which elders discover and share 10 key dimensions of their ageless mind, such as "Your Creative Mind," "Your Wise Mind," and "Your Historic Mind," using proven strategies from one of the most acclaimed programs for celebrating the capabilities of mature adults.

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