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The American Management Association

Sunday, 07 May 2006

Edward T. Reilly - Leadership. Innovation. Ethics.

Edward T. Reilly

Meet the President and CEO ot the American Management Association in this exclusive Landed Radio Interview

The American Management Association (AMA) is the world's leading non-for-profit, membership-based management development organization. AMA is the parent company of Management Centre Europe (MCE), the leading pan-European business management education institution for executives. AMA also maintains operations in Canada, Mexico and Japan.

In our in-depth interview with Ed Reilly, we discuss three important survey reports commissioned by the AMA and conducted by the Human Resource Institute in Tampa, Florida: Leading Into the Future, The Ethical Enterprise, and The Quest for Innovation. These, and many other valuable resources are available on the Association's web site at no cost.

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Edward T. Reilly Biography
Source: AMA

Ed Reilly previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Big Flowers Holdings, Inc. (now Vertis, Inc.), a leading provider of integrated marketing and advertising services. Under his four-year leadership, revenues at Big Flower Holdings increased from approximately $1 billion to nearly $1.9 billion. The NYSE-listed Company broadened its services and made numerous acquisitions, specializing in newspaper insert advertising, individualized direct mail, digital asset management and application software for the broadcasting and advertisings agency industries. In December of 1999, the Company was taken private in a leveraged transaction.

Prior to joining Big Flower Holdings, Ed spent nearly 30 years with the broadcast and book publishing groups of the McGraw-Hill Companies, a publishing and communications company, and served in the following capacities: Editor in Chief of the Accounting, Computing and Data Processing Department of Gregg Community College Division; Chief Financial Officer of the California Test Bureau; General Manager of the Instructo Corporation; Group Vice President for Europe, Africa and The Middle East; Group Vice President for McGraw-Hill Training Systems; Executive Vice President in charge of McGraw-Hill International Book Company. In 1987,Ed became the President of The McGraw-Hill Broadcasting Company and during that time, he served on the Boards of the Television Bureau of Advertising (TVA), The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), and the Association for Maximum Service Television (MSTV). Ed is also a past Chairman of the Advertising Council.

About the AMA
AMA is a global not-for-profit, membership-based association that provides a full range of management development and educational services to individuals, companies and government agencies worldwide, including 486 of the Fortune 500 companies. Each year, thousands of business professionals acquire the latest business know-how, valuable insights and increased confidence at AMA seminars, conferences, current issues forums and briefings, as well as through AMA books and publications, research and print and online self-study courses.

Today, companies are constantly looking to do more with less in order to keep up with and outpace change and competition. Responsibilities may increase at a moment's notice and require different or greater skills. That's why training has never been more critical for advancing careers and achieving organizational success. Ongoing learning enables managers to continuously enhance their professional and personal development and increase their value to their organizations.

Resources:
AMA Website
HRI Website