Daniel P. Kearney - Vice President & Market Manager, CMG Atlanta Radio

Dan started his broadcast career in 1986 on the programming side in roles ranging from an evening DJ, to news reporter, to sports anchor on WSIU-TV.  He entered the sales side of the industry in 1989 as an Account Executive for KSLY-FM in San Luis Obispo, CA.  Working his way down the California coast – he eventually joined Cox Radio in 1998 as the Local Sales Manager for KFI-AM.  After the sale of Cox Radio’s Los Angeles stations, he transferred to Cox Radio-Atlanta as the GSM for WSB-AM in 1999.  In the past 11 years, Dan has filled multiple General Manager positions in Atlanta before moving into his current role in April of 2009.

Tony Kidd - Vice President of Programming, CMG Atlanta Radio

Kidd’s broadcasting career spans more than 27 years.  His work began while at college in Jacksonville, FL as a board-op position.  Various promotions through the years led Kidd to Chicago and WVAZ-FM (V-103) where he successfully spearheaded the country’s first Black Adult Contemporary music format.  As the station’s Operations Manager for five years, Kidd further developed and fine-tuned the format. He left Chicago to join Cox Enterprises as Program Director for WHQT-FM.  Within a short period, Kidd moved to Miami to become General Manager of WTMI-FM.  Within another short period of time, Kidd was promoted to become Vice-President and General Manager of Cox Radio’s WALR-FM and WFOX Urban Stations in Atlanta, where he is currently serving today as Vice President of Programming of CMG Atlanta Radio.

Rob Babin – Vice President of Sales, CMG Atlanta Radio and General Sales Manager – AM 750 and NOW 95.5FM News/Talk WSB

Rob’s radio career began in college as a board operator and on air host of ‘The Swap Shop Show’ on a small A.M. radio station in Louisiana.  After college Rob began his radio sales career in Baton Rouge and then New Orleans.  Over the past 11 years Rob has been a radio General Sales Manager and has enjoyed recruiting coaching and maximizing talented sales professionals.  Rob’s Cox Radio career as a Sales Manager spans over the past 9 ½ years where he was recruited by Cox Radio Orlando in January 2001 and was  General Sales Manager for WWKA (K92FM) for 5 years. In January 2006 Rob was tapped to build a sales team and launch the sales effort for Cox Radio Atlanta’s WSRV (97.1 The River), and in March 2008  Rob was given the opportunity to become the General Sales Manager of WSB-AM (News Talk 750).  In September of 2010, Rob became Vice President of Sales.

Bill Hoffman – Vice President, Cox Media Group; Vice President & General Manager, WSB-TV

With the reorganization of Cox Television, Radio and Newspaper into Cox Media Group in 2009, Bill Hoffman added an additional role as vice president of Cox Media Group. Hoffman continues his primary role as vice president and general manager of WSB-TV. Within the mixed media company, Hoffman handles the role of “champion” for television, to ensure its perspective and expertise is included in corporate decisions. In that regard, he works closely with each of the Cox television stations to share and reinforce best practices in operations. He also coordinates syndicated programming for the television stations, oversees the Cox Washington Television Bureau and represents the Cox stations to the television industry. As vice president and general manager of WSB-TV in Atlanta, the position he assumed in 2006, Hoffman continues to operate and manage Atlanta’s number one television station. He joined Cox in 1979 as an account representative at TeleRep and has held a number of roles within the company. Those include vice president and general manager of WFTV in Orlando, local sales manager at WSB-TV, office manager at Atlanta’s TeleRep office and national sales manager at WPXI-TV in Pittsburgh. He also served as local and national sales manager of WCCO-TV in Minneapolis, Minn. Hoffman is an alumnus of Leadership Atlanta, Class of 2009, and serves on the Board of Directors, Anti-Defamation League Southeast Region. He also serves as the President of the ABC Board of Governors. Bill earned Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees from Michigan State. He and his wife, Joan, have a son, Douglas, an artist living in NYC. Their daughter, Teddie, is a graduate student in Philadelphia.

Deborah Denechaud – Director Of Sales, WSB-TV

Debbie Denechaud started her a career in television as a news reporter in 1976 At WKRG-TV in Mobile, Alabama. She then moved to a similar role at WHAS-TV in Louisville, Kentucky and WDSU-TV in New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1979 she switched from news to sales and spent six years at WGNO-TV and three years at WVUE-TV, both in New Orleans. In 1988 Debbie joined the Team at WSB-TV in Atlanta as an account executive. She was promoted to sales manager in 1992 and to general sales manager in 2007. Debbie is married to Tom Slimp, a broker with Morgan Stanley and they have three grown children. Stafford is an account executive with Cox Cross Media, Sheldon is a third year law student at Tulane University and Randall is a sophomore at the University of Alabama. Debbie currently serves as a member of the Sales Advisory Committee with TVB and is a member of the Board of Directors of Genesis Shelter in Atlanta.

Moya Neville – Senior Vice President, AJC Advertising Sales

Moya came to the AJC from the St. Petersburg Times, where she served as vice president and chief sales officer beginning in 2005. In this role, she lead the advertising and sales division for the St. Petersburg Times, tampabay.com, Tampa Bay Direct and their free daily entertainment publication, tbt*.

Before joining the St. Petersburg Times, Moya held several leadership positions at the Sarasota Herald Tribune, including director of advertising and marketing. She began her career at the Bradenton Herald as a classified outside sales representative, later gaining responsibility for all retail, national and co-op advertising at the daily newspaper.

Moya is active in both the Interactive Advisory and Sales Advisory Councils for the Newspaper National Network (NNN). In addition, Neville is past president of the Florida Newspaper Advertising Marketing Executives, past president of the Florida Newspaper Advertising Network and past vice president of the Newspaper Association of America Display Federation. She earned her bachelors degree in advertising from the University of Florida.

Eric Myers – Senior Director, AJC Advertising Sales – Major Accounts

Eric Myers oversees major accounts, recruitment, auto and real estate sales. He most recently served as the advertising director for the St. Petersburg Times. Eric joined the Times in June 1999 as an account executive. In 2002, he began managing the advertising team that launched the Brandon Times, an edition of the St. Petersburg Times. In 2007, Myers was named the advertising manager for the St. Petersburg Times, overseeing many regions and products of the Times, including national/major retail and tbt* Tampa Bay Times.

Before joining the Times, Eric worked for advertising agencies in Wisconsin and Chicago as well as newspaper and magazine publishing organizations in Colorado. He originates from the Chicago area and graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh with a bachelor's degree in Journalism.

Robert Lee – Senior Director, AJC Advertising Sales – Local Accounts

Rob Lee is responsible for all local outside sales and for the inside sales call center. He has significant senior leadership experience directing sales efforts for several multimedia organizations. His prior experience includes sales and business development at Gatehouse Media. Rob also spent time at the New York Times Regional Media Group, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune and other media companies.

BJ Sweeney – Director, AJC Advertising – Multi-Media Sales

BJ Sweeney leads a team responsible for selling digital solutions on ajc.com as well as other Cox Media Group websites with an Atlanta audience. BJ joined Cox Interactive Media in 2002 and later that year joined AJC. He has held various sales and management positions prior to assuming his current role in 2010. BJ sits on the Board of Advisors for CMGdigital and is an active member of Atlanta Interactive Marketing Association (AIMA). He has also held sales positions in Atlanta with CNN.com and Weather.com. He is a graduate of SUNY in Oswego, NY.