The Board of Directors of the Magazine Association of the Southeast is a group of individuals in the industry who volunteer their time and serve specific functions for the organization. We'd like to introduce you to our board!

Stephanie Davis recently got engaged and then three months later ironically accepted the Executive Editor role at Get Married Magazine, a new bridal magazine with a 300,000 circulation started by Get Married TV on Lifetime Television and GetMarried.comm. She is also a new contributing writer on the masthead at PINK Magazine's Little Pink Book, a women in business daily email. Prior to that she was the Editor-in-Chief of skirt! Magazine in Atlanta, GA (a unique, quirky women’s magazine that is currently in 20 markets across the U.S.). She will continue to publish her personal essays in skirt! and her musings on her blog atskirtatl.com. A writer and editor who was formerly on staff at GQ and SELF magazines, she has also written for Gourmet, Domino, Details, Allure, Brides, Pink, Vitals Woman and msn.com.

Don Sadler is a Senior Editor with McMurry, America’s leading custom publisher. He has 20 years of experience in the business publishing arena as a writer, editor and manager. In 1997 he moved to Atlanta to join Media 3 Publications as Vice President and Editorial Director, and Media 3 was acquired by McMurry in 2005. During his career, Don has worked with the largest financial institutions in the country, including Bank of America, Wachovia Bank, National City Bank and Citibank. In addition, as a freelance writer, Don has written dozens of articles published in a variety of national business periodicals. Don graduated from the University of Florida with a degree in Journalism in 1985.

Carolyn is the advertising manager of Georgia Trend magazine. She started there in 1991 and prior to that was with ADWEEK/Southeast for eight years.

MAGS recruited Carolyn in 1999 to head up the Advertising Sales sessions for the annual conference. She served as the advertising track co-chair until 2004, the conference co-chair for 2005, and as president of MAGS from January 2006 until June 2007. Now, as immediate past president, Carolyn will also oversee the GAMMA Awards competition in 2008.

Carolyn says, “You never know everything there is to know about publishing. Each year MAGS helps educate us and creates a network of wonderful colleagues to call upon for advice.”

Carolyn graduated from Georgia State University, School of Business with a BBA in Marketing.

Brian Barry is a Sales Executive in the Eastern Region for Brown Printing Company. Brown Printing has proudly served America’s premier publishers with printing, premedia, and distribution in addition to other-value added services for over 50 years. Brown takes pride in the in the innovative solutions we can deliver for you because we are big enough to serve you and small enough to know you.

Brian travels the Southeast regularly while living in Nashville and worked more than ten years in the magazine business before becoming a printer. Working with publication launches and selling advertising for regional magazines in Tennessee he understands what it is like to be on the other side of the desk.

Rachel Cardina graduated magna cum laude from Samford University with a fine arts degree and a concentration in graphic design. Eager to work in publication design, she interned at Cooking Light magazine where she gained valuable experience early on in her career.

After graduation, Rachel continued to pursue her passion for design by accepting a position at a local, but nationally known award-winning graphic design firm, Metaleap Design. While a part of the team at Metaleap, she designed for Paste magazine and byFaith magazine while playing an active role in other web, identity and branding projects.

Rachel is currently the Art Director at Atlanta Homes & Lifestyles magazine, where she oversees idea generation, designs editorial content, produces photo shoots and helps to define the creative vision of the magazine.

Patrick Hood is a sales representative with Quad/Graphics. He joined Quad/Graphics in January 2001. He worked for two years at the corporate headquarters in Wisconsin in a variety of roles - including Estimating, Scheduling, and Customer Service.

In 2003, Patrick moved out to our Boston sales office where he remained until May 2005.

In May of 2005, Patrick relocated to our Atlanta sales office, and He has been here ever since.

Patrick livex in Smyrna, GA - and he graduated from the University of Georgia in 2000 with degrees in Spanish and International Business.

Professional Background

• Editor in Chief/President Hurley Hargett & Sigler Media Group (HHSmediagroup.com) 2002 to Present
• Editor at Large and co-founder Portico Birmingham magazine (www.porticomag.com) 2001 to Present

Lee Hurley has spent the last thirteen years in publishing with Milton Edward Media, Southern Progress Corp, Vulcan Publications, Open Gate Media and Hurley Hargett & Sigler. As Editor and Editor-in Chief he has launched and/or managed magazines covering Lifestyle (Portico), Travel (Executive Traveler), Music (LEAK CD MAGAZINE), Real Estate (Homes of Grandeur), Manufacturing (Fabricating and Metalworking Equipment News), Construction (Construction Site News), Supply Chain Technology (I-Source), Economic Development (U.S. Sites & Development), Transportation (Transportation Equipment News), Electrical and Utility (EC&EN Magazine). 

Hurley’s career also includes three years in a folk rock band, and a three-year tour in the military serving as Public Affairs and Executive Officer in the United States Army Intelligence School, Fort Devens, Massachusetts. He received an honorable discharge at the rank of First Lieutenant in 1984.

Public Service
Vice Chairman and Incoming Board Chairman Alabama Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society
Board Member Children’s Literacy Guild of Alabama
Mountain Brook Soccer Commissioner 4^th Grade Girls
Past Board Member Mountain Brook Chamber of Commerce

Professional Affiliations   
Member Society of American Travel Writers (SATW)
Board Member the Magazine Association of the Southeast (MAGS)
Graduate 2006 Stanford Professional Publishing Course Speaker 2005 and 2006 Travel Classics Writer’s Conference
Speaker 2006 MAGS conference

Education:
Masters in Liberal Arts (Government), Harvard University
Bachelor of Arts in History, University of Alabama.
OBC (Officer Basic Course) Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana

Personal:
Married to Annie Hall Hurley since 1988
2 Children: Daughter, Brit, aged 9; and son, William, aged 4.
Also living in the home are a small dog, two cats and a fish.

Suzanne Kayes Oliver is senior editor of Atlanta Magazine's Home, a bimonthly title focusing on upscale home design, as well as a regular contributing writer for Atlanta Magazine. Before joining Emmis Publications, she worked for Points North Magazine for four years, where she worked her way up from editorial assistant to managing editor. In 2001, she graduated from The University of Georgia's Grady School of Journalism, where she participated in a national internship program in New York awarded by the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME), where she worked at YM for a summer. For the last three years, she has also headed up the local chapter of Ed2010, a networking group for young aspiring editors.

Tina McCrary is a sales executive for R.R. Donnelley in the Southeast Region. She joined RRD with the acquisition of Banta Corporation in January 2007. Prior to RRD/Banta, Tina worked for Quebecor World where she got her start in 1988 as a customer service account manager. For the next 14 years she worked in customer service and management at QW’s Merced, Calif., Dyersburg, Tenn., and Cincinnati, Ohio facilities. Tina joined their sales force in 2002 and relocated to Atlanta where she resides today. Prior to Quebecor World, she worked for Time Inc’s California office as the transportation manager for the Pacific Northwest.

Cathy Pierce is the Director of Membership Development for Conway Data/Industrial Asset Management Council. She began her career in association management in 1989 and in 1996 joined the staff of Conway Data. Cathy has been a member of the Georgia Society of Association Executives since 1990; she has served on numerous committees over the years; she is past Vice Chair of the Leadership Task Group and is currently serving as Vice Chair of GSAE’s Community Project. Cathy was chosen as one of the “90 Movers and Shakers” of GSAE.

Cathy has two children, Kevin and Kimberly and three grandchildren, Brittany, Jaclyn and Marcus.

Gary Powell is the Sales and Marketing Director for Oz Publishing, Inc. He graduated from the University of Florida College of Law in 1988, and was a practicing litigation attorney in Atlanta, GA until 1993. Deciding that practicing law was more strife than life, Gary hung up his meat cleavers and joined wife Tia Powell and Oz Publishing.

Oz Publishing is dedicated to producing high quality publications for and about the visual communication industry, including Oz Magazine, The Creative Index, and The Georgia Film & Video SourceBook.

Tim Regan-Porter joined Paste Media Group in 2002 as a co-founder of the magazine.  He is largely responsible for the name, tagline and CD/DVD samplers of the magazine, as well as the Paste Rock ’n’ Reel Festival.  Originally focused on developing film editorial and industry relationships, Tim assumed the role of publisher in 2006 and oversaw exponential growth in national, non-endemic advertising. 

In addition, Tim wrote cover stories on Philip Seymour Hoffman, Cameron Crowe and Wilco, and developed most of PasteMagazine.com.  

Prior to Paste, Tim spent ten years in web consulting and development at several firms, including IBM’s e-business National Practice where he managed some of the company’s largest projects.

Lisa Sparer has more than 10 years of experience in magazine design, working with such publishers as Southern Progress/Time Inc., Cond_Nast, and the Sunday magazine of The New York Daily News. She was instrumental in redesigning The Daily News Magazine and Health Magazine at Southern Progress. She is an editorial designer who enjoys packaging articles, images and ideas by working collaboratively with editors, photographers and illustrators. She has designed a wide range of magazines covering topics such as health, lifestyle, food, travel, beauty and entertainment.

Shannon Wilder is managing editor for Georgia Trend, a statewide magazine covering business and politics. Her 17-year editorial career has encompassed publications dedicated to such diverse topics as antique furniture (Antique Monthly) and screen printing (Impressions). She also served on the national headquarters staff for two locally-based nonprofits: Boys & Girls Clubs of America where, she received national recognition for developing the organization’s first Web site, and the Arthritis Foundation, where she was managing editor for the group’s award-winning publication, Arthritis Today. And though VetExchange, a company developing practice management software for veterinarians, did not survive the tech bust, she thoroughly enjoyed her tenure as content director — not to mention the entire dot-com experience.

A member of MAGS since she joined the Atlanta publishing community in 1989, Shannon has increased her involvement in recent years, beginning with the GAMMA Awards committee, then moving to the organization’s inaugural scholarship committee. She joined the board officially as secretary in 2006, and continues to serve on the scholarship committee. Shannon graduated from the University of Alabama with a double major in journalism and international relations.