About Us




Renewd is an open and free community with a lot of great and useful programs to help specialized subscription, membership, and event professionals succeed.  We run on a not-for-profit basis.  Renewd is run by the members for the members.

We named the community Renewd for 3 reasons:

  1. This is a community of professionals working with renewable business models – subscriptions, memberships, and events.
  2. Founded during the 2020 pandemic, Renewd is intended to be a source of renewed ideas and inspiration to help you maintain and grow your business.
  3. While industry associations are having a hard time attracting and retaining members, we believe the networking and learning benefits can be had through a renewed model where much of the community and programming is free and open to all.

Since our founding, we’ve grown to over 3,000 free members and dozens of premium member companies in North America. Our premium Leader Membership is reserved for media companies generating revenue from subscriptions, memberships, and events, and our premium Partner Membership is reserved for the suppliers, vendors and consultants who support them.

Renewd Europe

Renewd Europe is a regional branch of Renewd, formed with the purpose of bringing together Leaders based in the UK/Europe within specialised B2B information businesses. The main purpose of Renewd Europe is to host a valuable series of in-person events for peer-to-peer learning and networking so that Leaders can share and gain knowledge and ideas together - to help them run even better businesses.

Executive Committee

STEPHANIE WILLIFORD, CO-CHAIR, RENEWD

Stephanie is the CEO of EB Medicine, a world leader in evidence-based continuous education resources for physicians. She is the chief strategic planner for the company and has pioneered numerous innovations throughout the organization. Stephanie graduated summa cum laude from Georgia State University with a degree in Business Management. She is a very positive leader who encourages her team to utilize new tools and resources and to further their knowledge and education. Stephanie and her team are committed to rapid growth, and she is proud to lead a company that strives for excellence in creating products that improve the lives of thousands of physicians and their patients around the world.

ED COBURN, CO-CHAIR, RENEWD

Ed is CEO of investment advisory publisher Cabot Wealth Network and Executive Director of the Financial Freedom Federation which publishes Financial Freedom magazine. He has spent half his career in B2B publishing and half in B2C including running Harvard Health Publications. Ed also ran product groups at Cutter Information Corp., co-founded and ran Circadian Information, and was co-President of School Family Media. Ed has spoken at many publishing and media industry events and has served on the boards of the Specialized Information Publishers Association and the Software & Information Industry Association.

LINDSAY LEE, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, RENEWD NORTH AMERICA

ROBIN CRUMBY, DIRECTOR & CHAIR, RENEWD EUROPE

Robin is a serial entrepreneur with hands-on experience in starting, managing and advising high-growth subscription-based businesses via non-Exec Board roles, advisory positions or investment. Based in London, Robin is a regular speaker and writer on entrepreneurship and scaling businesses. He holds a BA Honours degree in French from Bristol University, a Diploma in European Business Administration from UWE and graduated from Cass Business School’s ‘Better Business Program’. Robin is the author of 'The Hurst Chronicles' book series, a long-distance runner, play and coach field hockey and enjoy tennis and messing around in boats.

HELEN COETZEE, DIRECTOR, RENEWD EUROPE

Helen is founder and CEO of MPG, a marketing consultancy and agency serving specialised B2B media and events businesses. Helen’s focus is on growth strategy, particularly analytical, digital and tech enabled initiatives that bring 'marketing as a science' to the fore.

JULIAN ROSE, DIRECTOR, RENEWD EUROPE

Julian is a founder of two specialist media businesses in the field of environment and sustainability - Chemical Watch and Environment Analyst - and he also works as a business advisor and investor in other businesses. He has hands-on experience of building enterprise membership platforms and in delivering excellent editorial, data and event products. With bootstrap finance, he built a team of more than 70 employees before making a successful, clean exit from Chemical Watch, selling the business to Enhesa, an international regulatory intelligence provider supported by private equity.

SUE STEVENS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, RENEWD EUROPE

Sue’s varied experience includes a senior, global marketing role in a large commercial B2B media/events business, marketing consultancy for some small founder-led businesses, and senior administrative roles in community-focused not-for-profit organisations. Sue combines big picture thinking, analytical and data-centric focus, creative problem-solving and attention to detail with her extensive experience in strategy and planning, stakeholder management and ‘hands on’ execution to managing Renewd Europe’s membership community.

DAVID FOSTER

David is the CEO of Business Valuation Resources, the leading data, training and research provider for the global business valuation profession. Much of BVR’s growth results from responses to the revolution in information industry business processes during the last decade. In addition to BVR, Foster was the co-founder of IOMA, Inc., a management publisher he sold to the Bureau of National Affairs in 1998. He has served on the Boards and/or Executive Committees of 14 information industry companies, as well as a number of non-profits such as Copyright Clearance Center and Bates College. He was SIPA President in 1999, won SIPA’s Hall of Fame Award 2000, and is now a co-founder and executive committee member of Renewd.net, the open community for information industry professionals.

DAN FINK

Dan Fink is the U.S. Managing Director of FT Specialist, the Financial Times’ specialized publishing division. With the help of over 150 staff and operations on three continents, Dan oversees the subscription, advertising, and events business related to 10 digital news services. Dan is a member of the FT’s senior management group, is the chairman of the FT’s 401k investment committee, is a member of the board of directors for Endpoints News and Renewd.net, and sits on the executive advisory board for MediaGrowth. Dan earned an MBA at Indiana University and was a national champion gymnast.

JENNIFER SCHWARTZ

Jennifer is responsible for the overall leadership and strategic business development efforts across AI’s Industry & Infrastructure group. Key brands include Chemical Engineering, Global Connected Aircraft Summit, P3C Media, Exchange Monitor, POWER, EXPERIENCE Power, SATELLITE, OR Manager, Avionics, Defense Daily and Exchange Monitor Publications & Forums. She has full P/L responsibilities and also evaluates and helps integrate key acquisition targets in the markets she serves. Jennifer has worked at Access Intelligence since 1997 and held previous publisher positions in the defense and energy groups. Jennifer successfully integrated the LDC Forum events into AI’s portfolio in 2006, Exchange Monitor Publications & Forums in 2015 and P3C Media events in 2018. Previously, Jennifer held sales and marketing positions in the telecom and banking industries. She has a BS degree in Marketing from the distinguished Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland. Jennifer also successfully completed ABM’s B-to-B Advanced Leadership Program at Northwestern University in 2012.

Renewd Europe Advisory Board

Carola York, Managing Director at Europe, FT Specialist

Ince Saleem, CRO at Global Fund Media

John Owen Waller, MD & Founder at Structured Credit Investor

Serena McMahon, Chief Commercial Officer at Haymarket Media Group

Victoria Rennie, Consultant

Victoria has more than 25 years’ experience working in B2B subscription, membership and events businesses. She has held a variety of leadership positions at Risk Waters Group, Terrapinn, Incisive Media and most recently Stylus, where she spent four years driving growth as COO before being appointed CEO in April 2022. Victoria has a wide range of experience in strategic business development across EMEA, the US and APAC, via product launches, acquisition integration, asset sales and change management. She is passionate about building inclusive cultures, developing high-performing teams, and employs a people-first approach to achieving business goals.

Committees

PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE

Ed Coburn (Chair)

Guy Clayton

David Foster

John Hitchcock

Angelique Mercurio

Jennifer Schwartz

Stephanie Williford

Bev Ouannass

 

2025 SUMMIT COMMITTEE

Elizabeth Petersen (Co-Chair)

Stacey Bailey (Co- Chair)

David Foster 

Dan Fink

Rafael Cardoso

Tara Taffera

Duane Stanford

Phyllis Abkin

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