Lauren Zalaznick

Zalaznick received her B.A. degree from Brown University, and graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. She is currently a member of the boards of directors of The Nielsen Company (since April 2016), Shazam (since April 2014), and Penguin Random House (since May 2014) and she is a board observer of Refinery29 (since November 2017). In addition, she is currently a senior advisor to various content and tech start-ups including LifePosts and Medium.com. From 2004 through December 2013, Ms. Zalaznick held various roles of increasing responsibility within NBCUniversal, Inc. including Chairman, Entertainment & Digital Networks and Integrated Media where she had responsibility for the Bravo, Oxygen, Style, Telemundo and Mun2 networks and ran its digital portfolio. She was Executive Vice President at NBCUniversal, Inc. until departing the company in December 2013. She was named President, NBC Universal Women and Lifestyle Entertainment Networks in May 2008, when she added iVillage to her portfolio and announced the launch of Women@NBCU. Zalaznick was named president of Bravo in May 2004 and expanded her oversight in May 2007 when the network announced the formation of Bravo Media, a new multimedia global content company. Bravo Media, formerly The Bravo Company.