Jean Clifton

Ms. Jean Clifton has been appointed as Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice President of Dial Global, Inc., with effect from June 25, 2012. She is a founder of Platinum Strategic Partners, LLC, an advisory services and investment company which handles matters as diverse as finance, M&A, operations, strategic planning, sales, marketing, process re-engineering and executive recruitment. Since October 2010, she has been involved in several projects with the owners of Penton Media on various portfolio companies and in connection therewith has served as Interim CFO of Jones & Frank and as Interim CFO and Chief Administrative Officer of Olympus Media. From May 2008 to October 2010, she served as EVP and Chief Financial Officer of Penton Media, Inc., a diversified multimedia B2B media and business services company. She was SVP and CFO of Reader’s Digest Association from August 2007 to April 2008 and prior thereto, spent twenty years at Journal Register Company in various capacities, including President and Chief Operating Officer (2005-06) and EVP, CFO and Treasurer from 1989 to 2005. Ms. Clifton has a B.B.A. from the University of Michigan.