Ann Moore was appointed Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Time Inc. in July 2002. In this position, Ms. Moore oversees all of the businesses of Time Inc., which is the world's leading magazine company and a leading direct marketer of music and videos.
Before assuming her current position, Ms. Moore served as Executive Vice President of Time Inc. since June 2001, responsible for the business and development operations for several of the most popular consumer magazines in publishing today—TIME, People, In Style, Teen People, People en Español, Real Simple, and The Parenting Group. In addition, she managed the Consumer Marketing division of Time Inc.
Ms. Moore joined Time Inc. in 1978 as a corporate financial analyst and went on to serve in key executive positions at Sports Illustrated, Fortune, Money and Discover magazines. She was the founding publisher of Sports Illustrated for Kids in 1989, until moving to People as its publisher in July 1991.
She was named president of People in 1993. During her tenure, she took what was already the most successful weekly magazine in the U.S. to new heights of success, both domestically and internationally. Under her guidance, People grew from a single title to the centerpiece of a thriving magazine family—spinning off the Australian WHO, followed by In Style, Teen People, People en Español, and Real Simple, as well as In Style's growing international franchise.
A native of McLean, Virginia, Ms. Moore graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1971 and received her MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1978.
Ms. Moore currently serves on the Board of Directors of Avon Products Inc. Her numerous awards and honors include her appearance on Fortune magazine's list of "The 50 Most Powerful Women in American Business" for all three years of its existence. She was named one of Advertising Age's "2001 Women to Watch," MIN Magazine's "1999 Consumer Magazine Player of the Year," and Adweek's "1998 Publishing Executive of the Year."
In 2003, Ms. Moore received the first Annual AOL Time Warner Civic Leadership Award, which recognizes the senior executive at the company who does the most to foster a spirit of employee volunteerism and corporate responsibility.
From her efforts to establish Gilda's Club, a cancer-care community, and her major support for the Pediatric Aids Foundation, to her work on behalf of Women Against Breast Cancer, Ms. Moore has regularly embraced causes big and small. She has long been an ardent supporter of education, and recently started Time to Give Back, a program at Time Inc. that raised $350,000 for education. Beneficiary organizations included The Fund for Public Schools, Learning Leaders, After School Corporation and Teach for America. Ms. Moore has also served several times as Principal for a Day in a N.Y.C. public school and is a major proponent of that initiative. At her urging, several dozen Time Inc. executives have recently participated in that program.
Ms. Moore is an active and prominent public speaker on business and women's issues.