Ann Jackson

Ann Jackson has been an operating executive in both large public companies and private equity portfolio companies for more than 30 years. Ms. Jackson began her career at Time Inc., a division of Time Warner. After graduating from Columbia Business School in 1980 she joined Time Inc. as a financial analyst. Over the next 23 years she held positions as a Business Manager at Money Magazine and Sports Illustrated, Direct Mail Manager for Time Life Books based in London, General Manager of People Magazine and then launched the first two successful magazines in 20 years – InStyle and Real Simple. During her last three years at the Firm Ms. Jackson was responsible for The Women’s Magazine Group, and all print and on line development as well as acquisitions in this market.

In 2004 Ms. Jackson joined Ripplewood Holdings LLC in New York where her role was Chief Executive Officer of WRC Media, a Ripplewood Portfolio Company. WRC was an online and print educational publisher with divisions across the country. Ms. Jackson developed a strategy for the company, recruited key team members including a new CFO, General Counsel, and COO. This team re-organized the company, closing unprofitable divisions and building high growth businesses. WRC was successfully sold at EV 15X and EBITDA11x in 2007.

From 2007 to 2008 Ms. Jackson was EVP Global Business Development at Sotheby’s based in New York with offices in London and Hong Kong. At Sotheby’s Ms. Jackson built a global marketing and business development team around a shared strategic plan.

Another private equity firm, Catterton Partners, recruited Ms. Jackson in 2009 as a turnaround agent for their portfolio company, Healthy Advice Networks, based in Cincinnati, Ohio. Ms. Jackson acted as advisor to the senior management team of this healthcare education company. Their businesses included consumer facing television programing in doctors offices, professional education for medical professionals directly fed to back offices, and an online site serving both the consumer and the medical community. Ms. Jackson helped the CEO and his team build the brand and develop new sources of revenue, significantly increasing profitability.

 Ms. Jackson has served on non profit boards throughout her career, including God’s Love We Deliver, Cosmetic Executive Women, Cancer Research Institute (dedicated to funding research in the area of cancer immunology), the Board of Trustees of Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont, Destination College and The International Biomedical Research Alliance, a collaboration of the NIH, Oxford and Cambridge Universities. Ms. Jackson served on the Cancer Research Board for 10 years and acted as Chairman for 5. Her current board responsibilities are The International Biomedical Research Alliance and Destination College (not for profit).

Ms. Jackson graduated from Middlebury College in 1974 with a degree in English Literature, Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude. She earned her MBA at Columbia University with a concentration in Finance in 1980. She has three children who live and work in New York City.