AccuWeather Announces Appointment of Edward Van Saders as Chief Financial Officer
Van Saders is a Featured Speaker This Week at The CFO Playbook for Private Companies Summit in Miami, FL AccuWeather Global Weather Center – November 20, 2014 – AccuWeather, Inc., the global leader in weather information and digital media, announced today that the company's newly appointed Chief Financial Officer, Edward Van Saders, is a featured speaker at the “CFO Playbook for Private Companies Summit”. The theme of the summit "Strategies for a Profitable Future" is a perfect fit for Van Saders' presentation, 'The AccuWeather Forecast: Business & Weather".
“Since joining AccuWeather leadership, I have been struck by the incredible opportunities for rapid expansion that exist for media and content providers as a whole,” said Van Saders. “Exponential growth presents its own set of challenges, particularly the task of laying the foundation to allow a global leader such as AccuWeather to scale to the demands of a global audience, building on the company’s strong momentum. I’m glad to have the opportunity to share some best practices and insights we’ve developed from our unique perspective as a digital media leader.”
Since joining AccuWeather in September 2014, Van Saders has overseen all financial responsibilities and stewardship at AccuWeather, serving as a member of the enterprise’s executive committee to lead and guide global growth. He leverages more than 20 years of finance leadership experience to support AccuWeather’s continued rise as the global leader in weather data and media.
Van Saders has worked with global enterprises, media leaders, and venture-backed startups through all types of major changes, including acquisitions, mergers, and periods of global expansion. He was CFO at TV Management, an umbrella company overseeing a group of broadcast and cable television assets including WRNN (NY broadcast channel) and FiOS1 News (Verizon). Van Saders has also served as the CFO for the digital entertainment brand Heavy.com as well as EcoMedia, an environmentally focused media firm (now a part of CBS). He began his career in media finance with Jim Henson Productions and subsequent roles at the Fox News Channel and NBC-Universal.
The CFO Playbook for Private Companies Summit offers two days of finance and corporate learning event with intimate, expert-led workshops. Van Saders will present on the first day of the summit at 9:00 am on November 20th in the JW Marriott Hotel, Miami.
About AccuWeather, Inc. and AccuWeather.comEvery day over a billion people worldwide rely on AccuWeather to help them plan their lives, protect their businesses, and get more from their day. AccuWeather provides hourly and Minute by Minute™ forecasts with Superior Accuracy™ for any longitude/latitude on Earth, with customized content and engaging video presentations available on smart phones, tablets, free wired and mobile Internet sites, connected TVs, and Internet appliances, as well as via radio, television, and newspapers. Founded in 1962 by Dr. Joel N. Myers – a Fellow of the American Meteorological Society who was recognized as one of the top entrepreneurs in American history by Entrepreneur Magazine’s Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurs – AccuWeather also delivers a wide range of highly-customized enterprise solutions to media, business, government, and institutions, as well as news, weather content, and video for more than 180,000 third-party websites. AccuWeather's CEO, Barry Lee Myers, is an award-winning leader in global weather information issues and one of the world's most recognized advocates for cooperative relationships between government weather agencies and the weather industry. He is a leader in the digital weather information space.
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