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Colin Mathews, CEO
Colin has been working in startups since 1991, when he joined Morningstar (ticker: MORN) while it was still filling up Chicago’s historic Monadnock Building.
Prior to joining readMedia’s predecessor, Colin was Vice President of Business Development at Contact Networks (acquired by Thomson) and before that he was Senior Director of Strategic Development for Into Networks, a software virtualization platform that was ultimately acquired by Microsoft.
Between these recent early-stage companies and Morningstar, Colin worked in private equity (with AIG’s Alternative Investments Group), and investment banking (at Citigroup in New York, and Lehman Brothers in London, both focused on M&A).
Colin received an MBA, with distinction, from NYU’s Stern School of Business, where he was a Dean’s Scholar, a Bachman Scholar, an Auerbach award winner, a recipient of the Joseph Taggart Prize, the president of the MBA class, and a founder of The Stern Journal. He received his BA from Binghamton University.
Peter Pollak, Chairman
Peter is the founder of readMedia’s predecessor, Empire Information Services, and was EIS’s President and CEO from 1986 to 2004. It’s Peter’s focus on the value of local and regional newsmakers, and his commitment to giving those clients the best services available, that animate readMedia today.
Peter has served as president of the Eastern New York Chapter of Sales & Marketing Executives International for two terms and serves on the International’s board of directors. He was president and a member of the board of directors of Capital District Business Leaders, and president and a director of the Eastern New York Chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators.
Before starting EIS, Peter was a public affairs specialist for the New York State Defenders Association and the New York State Coalition for Criminal Justice. He was also a visiting professor in the School of Education at the University at Albany, adjunct faculty member of the Junior College of Albany and a mentor with Empire State College.
Peter earned his Ph.D. in 1978 from the University at Albany. He was editor of The New Citizen, a community newspaper from 1977-1978 and the founder and editor of The Albany Liberator, a civil rights newspaper published by The Brothers from 1967-1968. He served as a VISTA volunteer in Atlanta, Georgia from 1965 to 1966.