Gloria Scoby Senior vice president & group publisher Crain Communications, Inc Center Advisory Board

Gloria Scoby is senior vice president and group publisher for Crain Communications Inc. In that capacity, she oversees the publications Advertising Age, Advertising Age International, BtoB, Creativity, Electronic Media, Crain's New York Business, Crain's Chicago Business, Pensions & Investments and Investment News. She also oversees Crain Communications' radio stations in Florida.

Ms. Scoby joined Crain Communications Inc. in 1978 as a member of the start-up team that launched Crain's Chicago Business, the first of four Crain city business publications. Since then, she has held the offices of advertising director, associate publisher, publisher and was named group publisher in September 1995.

Prior to being named publisher of Crain's Chicago Business, Ms. Scoby spent two years in New York as publisher of Crain's New York Business. Under her guidance, Crain's New York Business achieved its first profitable month, October 1988, and received the AABP award for Best Business Publication in America in 1989.

Ms. Scoby returned to Chicago in late 1989 to assume the role of publisher at Crain's Chicago Business, where she presided over a redesign and refocus of the Chicago paper — a move that recaptured for Crain's Chicago Business the AABP's Best Publication award for 1990.

During the fall of 1994, Ms. Scoby initiated Crain Communications' first foray into online publishing, launching Crain's Chicago Business online via America On Line.

Tapped in 1995 to be Crain Communications group publisher, Ms. Scoby oversees in excess of $150 million in revenue and 500 employees in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, London and southern Florida.

Before joining Crain's, Ms. Scoby was a partner in Ruba House, a literary venture company which produced the nationally syndicated sports medicine column, Dr. Jock.