Ed Sussman

CEO

Ed Sussman, CEO of Buzzr, is the former president of Inc.com and FastCompany.com. He was EVP at Mansueto Ventures, the holding company for Fast Company and Inc. Magazines, leading digital, biz dev, and events. At Buzzr, Ed led the paid marketing campaign for Dance.com, making it the biggest dance website in the world in just three months. He has been executive editor at Inc. Magazine, senior editor at Worth and P.O.V., and a reporter at the Wall Street Journal Europe.

Inc.com & FastCompany.com (President); Mansueto Ventures (Executive VP of Fast Company & Inc. brands); Inc. Magazine (Executive Editor); Worth Magazine (Senior Editor) Written for WSJ, FT, Reader’s Digest`

CHRISTIANNE KLEIN

Director of Communications and Research Manager

Christianne heads the public relations and communications strategy offerings for clients of Buzzr.com. Christianne is an Emmy® and Edward R. Murrow award-winning national television journalist, best-selling author, executive producer, media strategist and trainer, communications executive, and former network anchor for ABC News and Good Morning America. She has anchored and reported for CBS, NBC, Fox, and ABC stations in Washington, D.C., Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, and throughout California. Christianne is also the Director of Communications for Buzzr.com, the parent company of WhiteHat WIki.com. She graduated from Wellesley College with a degree in Political Science, and the Executive Leadership Programme at the University of Oxford: Saïd Business School.

Emmy® and Edward R. Murrow award-winning national television journalist. Anchor for CBS, NBC, Fox, ABC and Good Morning America.

MARISA BRAMWELL

Director of Content & Research

Marisa Bramwell is an award-winning creative strategist, producer & writer with 15+ years’ experience in the strategic development and production of high level editorial and creative content. Former senior positions at ABC News, Nickelodeon. She has an MBA in Entrepreneurship and a Bachelors in Computer Science and Communications.

Senior Manager, Paramount (Nickelodeon); Assigning National Editor, ABC News

SARAH NARDI

Research Manager

Sarah is a journalist with nearly two decades of experience in print and radio, and a former news anchor for NPR affiliates. She spent five years as a features writer with the Chicago Reader. As a public radio journalist, Sarah earned an Edward R. Murrow award for her role in continuing coverage of an unsolved missing person case. She graduated from the University of Arizona with a degree in Media Studies, and studied philosophy at the University of Illinois Chicago.

MANUELA HOELTERHOFF

Editorial Strategist

Manuela Hoeltefhoff, Editorial Strategist, is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for cultural criticism. She ran the cultural coverage of the Wall Street Journal for almost two decades. Manuela then spent a decade at Bloomberg Media, where was the editor of Muse, covering the arts, culture, architecture, the built environment, cars and more.

Wall Street Journal (Arts + Culture Editor, winner of the Pulitzer Prize); Bloomberg News (Arts + Culture Editor). Founding editorial team of SmartMoney and Conde Nast Traveler.

Adam Schneider

Senior Consultant

Adam Schneider is a former academic who received a PhD in Anthropology from UC-San Diego and spent years as a postdoc researcher at the University of Colorado and Princeton University before he joined WhiteHatWiki as Director of Research in May 2021. He has taught courses at UC-San Diego, the University of Colorado, and Koc University in Istanbul, and given numerous invited public lectures at institutions around the world. At WHW, Adam has held roles as Director of Research, Director of Research and Education, and WHW Managing Director, and he now works with us as a Consultant for complex cases involving academic, legal, or contentious topics.