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Jim Bankoff

Jim Bankoff

Chairman/CEO

Vox Media

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Jim runs all aspects of Vox Media, one of the fastest growing digital media companies. The company operates many of the most successful media brands on the web, each featuring high-value digital journalism, storytelling, brand advertising and content marketing at scale.

Vox Media’s brands include SB Nation (sports), The Verge (technology/culture), Polygon (gaming), Eater (food/dining), Curbed (home/real estate), Racked (retail/shopping) and Vox (general news). Each of these properties boast highly valuable, sophisticated modern audiences.

Vox Media sites are built on Chorus, its world-class proprietary publishing platform. Vox Creative, the company’s in-house marketing services unit, applies Vox’s technology, design and storytelling capabilities to help major brand advertisers tell their story to valuable digital audiences. The company enjoys support from leading investors including Accel Partners, Comcast Ventures, Khosla Ventures and General Atlantic.

A veteran of the online industry, Jim developed and led dozens of the most popular websites on the internet including AOL, Mapquest, Moviefone, AOL Music and Engadget as an Executive Vice President at AOL.  He co-founded TMZ.com, won an Emmy award for his production of the Live8 Concerts, and also oversaw AOL’s industry-leading instant messaging services, AIM and ICQ, and social networking and community applications including Blogsmith and Netscape