API Staff/Contact Info

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They are frequently invited to speak or moderate discussions at industry conferences, they are often quoted in industry magazines and newsletters and they write for a wide range of trade and general interest publications.

If you would like to invite a member of API's executive staff to speak at an event, please contact Mark Mulholland.

Andrew B. Davis took over as President and Executive Director of API in December, 2003. He was previously director of innovation and business development for the Media Management Center at Northwestern University. A major general in the Marine Corps Reserve, Davis took leave from the Media Management Center between July 2001 and July 2003 to serve as director of Marine Corps Public Affairs at the Pentagon in Arlington, Va.. Prior to joining the Media Management Center, Davis was president of Chicago Sun-Times Features, Inc., a division of The Sun-Times Company, and of Performance Media, a custom publishing division he conceived and developed into a multi-million-dollar venture. He also was vice-president of the Sun-Times Company. He holds a bachelor's degree cum laude in English literature from Princeton University and a master's degree with distinction in journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School. For 10 years he was group publisher and newspaper operations vice-president of Pioneer Newspapers, a 41-newspaper group based in suburban Chicago. He is married to Margaret Bergan Davis, a consultant to nonprofit organizations for fundraising and strategy. They have two daughters.

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Joined API as an associate director in 1986. Named director of programming in 1997; assumed personnel responsibilities in 1999. Researches and designs circulation and executive-level seminars. Grew up in a weekly newspaper family. Spent 13 years working for daily newspapers as a reporter and editor in Michigan, Florida, Illinois and Wisconsin, including The Capital Times in Madison. Introduced to API by her father, Thomas Riordan, who was a discussion leader in the '70s. Loves musical comedy, travel and attending her sons' Little League and hockey games, although she could do without the 4:30 a.m. ice times. Considers being called a Cheesehead a high compliment.

Joined API in February 2005. She is a certified public accountant with more than 20 years experience in audit and financial management. Prior to joining API, she was vice president for finance at Pact, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit that carries out social and economic development programs for developing countries around the world. Born and raised in the Philippines, she graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor's degree in Science major in accounting from the University of Santo Tomas and a Master of Business Administration from De La Salle University, both in the Philippines. She ranked among the top 20 in the Philippine CPA Board Exam and worked with SGV & Co.--one of the premier audit firms in Asia. She came to the United States in 1991 and took the U.S. CPA Board Exam while awaiting the birth of her first child. She loves to travel and enjoys gardening.

Mary Glick joined the executive staff at API in 2001. Previously, she was director of the journalism program at the State University of New York, College at Oswego, where she founded the Center for Community Journalism. She began teaching journalism in 1991 at California State University, Long Beach. In 1994, she was named Outstanding Journalism Educator by the California Newspaper Publishers Association. Glick has held editorial positions for daily newspapers in Southern California, including posts as features editor for the Star-News in Pasadena, lifestyles editor for Copley Los Angeles Newspapers and copy editor for the Daily Report in Ontario. Before becoming a journalist, she was director of communications for Disneyland Hotel and partner in a small public relations agency. She holds a bachelor's degree in English from SUNY Oswego and a master's in communications from California State University, Fullerton.

Mark Mulholland's extensive media career provides a broad-based background of experience in sales, marketing and management across a wide range of markets and circulation sizes, at both corporate and field levels. Prior to joining API, he held advertising sales and management positions at news organizations in Virginia, North Carolina and Mississippi, he served as marketing director of the Roanoke (Va.) Times and then in that same role for the Chicago Sun-Times. He was corporate marketing director for Lee Enterprises in Davenport, Iowa; vice president /marketing director for WFLA-TV, Media General's Tampa, Fla.,-based television affiliate; and sales and marketing director for the Victoria (Texas) Advocate. He is a member of the International Newspaper Marketing Association and the NAA Display, Market Development & Promotions and Smaller Market Federations.

Mary Peskin joined API in 2005 as associate director and assumed digital operations and strategy responsibilities in 2008. She has worked and consulted in newsrooms, advertising and marketing departments of newspapers large and small in the U.S., Europe and South America. Her newspaper career began bringing people together around the art and design of newspapers. Before joining API, she was design director of the New York Times Regional Newspaper Group for 22 years. Two of her designs received "World's Best Newspapers" honors in the Society for News Design's "Best of Newspaper Design" international competition. A North Carolina native, she is a Phi Kappa Phi graduate from the College of Design of N.C. State University and has served on the executive committee of the College of Design Foundation and board of directors of the Society for News Design.