Tony Uphoff

Chief Executive Officer

Tony Uphoff is CEO of UBM TechWeb. UBM TechWeb is a UBM company. He is an innovative media executive with a unique track record of building, growing and leading B2B media businesses in highly competitive markets and has been at the forefront of media innovation and transformation for the last 20 years.

Uphoff has the distinction of having been a leader of three of the top five B2B brands in history all at the peak of their reach, revenues and profits; InformationWeek, The Hollywood Reporter and PC Week. He served in several key management positions at Ziff-Davis Media during the build out of the company in the late 80's and early 90's. He then joined CMP Media as publisher of InformationWeek leading the brand to the # 1 position in the market and ultimately into one of the largest brands in B2B. Uphoff also served as divisional VP and President during CMP's dramatic growth in the mid 1990's from a $200 Million privately owned company, to a $600 Million, publicly traded, global leader in technology media. He was the founding CEO of the Internet media company Beliefnet, which was sold to News Corp in November of 2007 and he also served as President of VNU Media's Entertainment Group and Publisher of The Hollywood Reporter.

Named one of the top 100 business media executives by B2B Magazine's "Who's Who in Business Media" 2006-2011, "Top Media Innovator" in 2009 by Media Business Magazine and "Folio 40, C-Level Visionary" by Folio Magazine in 2011. He is a regular speaker on media, marketing and technology trends at industry and association conferences including; The "Folio Media Conferences", The "Milken Global Conference", The "LA RoadShow", The "Association of Media and Entertainment Attorneys", "Jive World Conference", Price Waterhouse Coopers "Outlook Conference", Media Post "Outlook 2008", "Inverge" and The American Business Media Conferences, SISO Conferences.

He has also been guest lecturer on "Leading Internet Businesses", "Managing High Growth Environments", "Technology and Financing in Film" and "Digital Transformation" at Columbia, Emory, NYU and USC's Annenberg Business Schools.

Uphoff and his wife live in San Francisco and they are regular visitors to Oregon where their daughter attends college. In his spare time he is an avid music buff, formula one fan, guitar player and surfer. Uphoff is also a very slow but dedicated runner.