Michael Dugan

Michael Dugan is the current Chief Technology Officer at G/O Media. Michael has previously served as the Chief Technology Officer at Hearst Magazines and Forbes.

At G/O Media, Michael is responsible for all product and engineering teams supporting the company's digital publishing and content delivery platform. Michael works closely with all department leaders within the organization and external partners and service providers in the planning, development and support of any product or technology dependent initiatives.

At Hearst Magazines, Michael was responsible for all product and engineering teams supporting the Hearst Magazines digital publishing and content delivery platform as well as the CDS Global customer data management platforms. Michael worked closely with all department leaders within the organization and external partners and service providers in the planning, development and support of any product or technology dependent initiatives.

At Forbes, Michael was responsible for all software, systems and network engineering teams in support of Forbes digital and print publishing and website platforms. Michael's responsibilities also included Forbes corporate information and communication systems and data center hosting environment. Michael worked closely with all department leaders within the organization and external partners and service providers in the planning, development and support of any technology dependent initiatives. In addition to leading technology innovation, Michael ensured that Forbes production systems were performing efficiently at scale and compliant with the latest in evolving data privacy guidelines and regulations. Michael employed a variety of in-house solutions and web analytics partners to provide the organization with data driven insight into traffic sources, content consumption and audience behavior. Work on unique visitor tracking and recommendation engines for Forbes has been published in a machine learning conference paper (ECML-PKDD 2012) and granted United States Patent 9,356,845 in 2016.

They are on a team with Aditya Mishra - Head of Consumer Revenue, Adelina Pepenella - CFO, and Angela Persaud - SVP, Head of People. Michael Dugan reports to Jim Spanfeller, CEO.