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Washington, DC-based National Geographic Society has Appointed Jonathan Young as Chief Technology Officer
About the Company
National Geographic Partners LLC, a joint venture between National Geographic Society and 21st Century Fox, combines National Geographic television channels with National Geographic`s media and consumer-oriented assets, including National Geographic magazines; National Geographic Studios; related digital and social media platforms; books; maps; children`s media; and ancillary activities that include travel, location-based entertainment, archival sales, catalog, licensing and e-commerce businesses. A portion of the proceeds from National Geographic Partners LLC will be used to fund science, exploration, conservation and education through significant ongoing contributions to the work of the National Geographic Society.
About the Person
Jonathan Young comes to National Geographic from Ancestry.com, where he was senior vice president of technology operations. In that role he was head of operations and overall technology platform and strategy, responsible for company uptime, performance and efficiency. Before that, he was vice president of development at Ancestry.com, leading a 140-person development and quality assurance team and directing architectural development of all custom systems that supported more than 1.7 million subscribers in multiple countries and languages.
Other positions he has held are vice president of development at Earthlink, responsible for all development and testing across multiple U.S. and offshore locations; and vice president of product development, digital media technology, at Time Warner, where he oversaw product management and development functions for all of Turner’s Internet properties, including CNN.com, TCM, Cartoon Network and NASCAR.com.; and vice president of technology at CNNfn.com, where he supervised all aspects of development, architecture and strategy and founded CNNfn.com’s London bureau, expanding coverage of international markets.
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