CEO Roundtable at Kilkenny · August 24–26, 2027

Faculty

INMA’s initiative leads and researchers open each conversation with a story or an assignment. The room does the rest.

Gabriel Dorosz

Advertising Initiative Lead, INMA

Gabriel Dorosz is the lead for INMA’s Advertising Initiative, which aims to navigate and find paths forward through the challenges of the “post-traffic era” for news media digital advertising. Gabe is a strategist, researcher, and media industry leader with a career that has spanned nearly three decades at the intersections of digital media, advertising, brands, data, technology, experiences, and ideas. With nearly 30 years of experience in digital media and advertising — including seven years leading strategy and insights for advertising at The New York Times — he has witnessed first-hand the challenges of news media advertising. Prior to the Times, he held agency strategy roles at WPP, FCB, Cramer-Krasselt, and others.

Kerstin Hasse

Young Audiences Initiative Lead, INMA

Kerstin Hasse is a digital media leader specialising in newsroom innovation and user-centred storytelling. She brings diverse teams together to create journalism that informs and inspires. As managing editor at Tages-Anzeiger in Switzerland — the youngest woman in the role — she led cross-functional teams across audio, video, social, data storytelling, and product collaboration, while co-hosting the podcast “TagesAnzeigerin.” A 2024 Sulzberger alumna of Columbia University, she has developed innovative storytelling formats and built loyal communities around podcasts, newsletters, and participatory journalism. Her work explores how younger audiences engage with news, from creator-driven models to community-based approaches.

Jodie Hopperton

Product & Tech Initiative Lead, INMA

Jodie Hopperton is the lead for INMA’s Product & Tech Initiative and runs projects and study tours for the association. She is a British media executive based in Los Angeles whose career has featured corporate roles, technology start-ups, moderating events, authoring, and speaking at news industry events. She has served as interactive manager for Trinity Mirror, director of syndication and licensing for The New York Times, and as a consultant to media and tech start-ups focused on video distribution, VR, audio tech, and more. Prior to her work with INMA, Jodie’s work with press associations included the Global Editors Network (GEN) and WAN-Ifra.

Greg Piechota

Researcher-in-Residence and Readers First Initiative Lead, INMA

Greg Piechota is researcher-in-residence and lead of the Readers First Initiative for INMA. As an ex-fellow at Harvard and Oxford universities, Greg studies technology-enabled disruption patterns across industries with a focus on business model innovation in news media. He is a former media executive, beginning at Poland’s Gazeta Wyborcza as a reporter and rising to news editor and vice president of Agora Foundation. His research at Harvard Business School focused on digital business model innovations, while his project at Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism examined the impact of digital platforms on paid content models. Greg is the author of the 2019 book Unlocking the Customer Value Chain, co-written with Thales Teixeira, and of several INMA reports on subscriptions and data. He is based in Oxford in the United Kingdom.

Sonali Verma

Newsroom Innovation Initiative Lead, INMA

Sonali Verma leads INMA’s Newsroom Innovation Initiative, after two years of running the Generative AI Initiative. She is an executive media consultant who has worked as an AI coach for more than a dozen U.S. news publishers and is Learning Lead at the Lenfest Institute’s AI Fellowship. She previously worked at The Globe and Mail for 15 years, where she led a mind shift in getting journalists to understand how data and AI could make them more effective in attracting and retaining subscribers. She also collaborated with The Globe’s data science team to build Sophi.io, an award-winning machine-learning platform now used by media companies on five continents. She has worked as a journalist at Reuters, CNBC, and Bloomberg in Asia, North America, and Europe and was a Visiting Fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University.

Robert Whitehead

Digital Platform Initiative Lead, INMA

Robert Whitehead is the lead for INMA’s Digital Platform Initiative and runs projects and moderates for INMA events worldwide. He is an Australian media executive with a broad range of experience in editorial, marketing, and production who today advises and invests in start-ups. The bulk of Robert’s career was spent at Fairfax Media, where he was production director, group publishing director, editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, and head of marketing at the newspaper and group levels. A long-time member of INMA’s International Board of Directors, he also served as president and board member of the Pacific Area Newspaper Publishers Association and was a co-creator of The Newspaper Works.

Earl J. Wilkinson

Executive Director and CEO, INMA

Earl J. Wilkinson is executive director and CEO of the International News Media Association (INMA). During his career, Earl has written reports and books related to the future of media, marketing, and the strategic outlook for the news media industry. The Texas native is a frequent speaker at media industry conferences worldwide. His views on where news media companies fit into the emerging landscape are sought after by the world’s leading companies, and he is widely quoted in trade magazines, newspapers, industry Web sites, and more. During his more than three decades at INMA, he has helped transform the association into one of the world’s fastest-growing and most influential press associations. He has logged more than 5 million air miles visiting the leading media companies in 51 countries.

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