Ava Seave

Adjunct Professor of Business: Marketing Division

Areas of Expertise: Media, Strategy

Contact: Office: 580 Kravis; Phone: (212) 2220025; E-mail: [email protected]

Professor Seave is a Principal of Quantum Media, the New York City based consulting firm focused on marketing and strategic planning for media and entertainment companies as well as nonprofits. As a Quantum Media principal, she has led numerous consulting engagements since 1998 and has provided senior-level management consulting services to many companies in a broad range of assignments. Before founding Quantum Media with four others in 1998, she was a general manager at three media companies: Scholastic Inc., The Village Voice and at TVSM(the country's largest cable listings magazine.) She started her career at Dell Publishing (a division of Doubleday) and as a photography editor for two horticulture magazines. Professor Seave's university teaching experience beyond CBS includes teaching at the Columbia Journalism School and at the New York University School of Professional and Continuing Education in the Masters of Publishing and E-management programs. Professor Seave is currently on the non-profit boards of the American Poetry Review and De La Salle Academy.

Education: BA, Brown, 1977; MBA, Harvard Business School, 1982.

Joined CBS: 2003