Regan Hofmann, Editor-in-Chief, POZ
As the editor-in-chief of POZ magazine and POZ.com, the leading HIV/ AIDS magazine in the United States and one of the leading international websites for those living with and those affected by HIV/AIDS, Regan Hofmann is responsible for the editorial direction of the award-winning publication and website. Her vision and goals for POZ include: raising HIV/AIDS awareness, highlighting how the profile of the epidemic has changed dramatically to include women, youth and people of color and continuing to fight the stigma that has not dissipated in a quarter of a century since the disease was first identified in 1981.

Hofmann has an extensive professional background in the media communications field. After graduating in 1989 from Trinity College, in Hartford, CT, with a B.A. in creative writing, she worked as a research assistant for CBS News' "60 Minutes." Hofmann carried her creative talents to account management and copy-editing positions at top-tier advertising agencies, including: Young and Rubicam, Saatchi & Saatchi and Cliff Freeman and Partners. In 1995 Hofmann branched out on her own, founding and publishing an arts and entertainment magazine entitled Poets, Artists and Madmen. From 1996 to 1998, Hofmann worked as a freelance journalist for various publications including Departures and Hamptons magazines. In 1998, Hofmann was hired to assist in the launch of New Jersey Life, a lifestyle and home design magazine where she became editor-in-chief. She joined POZ magazine in January of 2006 as editor-in-chief. She is now also editorial director for POZ's parent company, Smart+Strong.

Prior to taking the editor-in-chief post at POZ, Hofmann penned the publication's Anonymous column for four years. In the column, she explored the notion of disclosure (something she had not done except to a small group of close family and friends) telling a new person for each column. After joining the POZ editorial team in January of 2006, Hofmann decided to appear on the April 2006 cover of POZ, where she disclosed her HIV status publicly for the first time since her 1996 diagnosis. The decision to come out publicly resulted from her belief that AIDS awareness is at an all-time low and that there is significant need for leadership by positive people in order to fight the spread of the pandemic. Hofmann believes that combating stigma is key to fighting AIDS because the fear caused by stigma prevents people from talking about HIV/AIDS, which, in turn, hampers education and prevention efforts and compromises the level of care people living with the disease may receive.

In addition to her editorial role at the magazine, which now includes editorial directorship of all three of her company's publications (POZ, Real Health and Tu Salud), Hofmann is a spokesperson for POZ magazine and poz.com. She is a board member of amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research and The Names Project (the group in charge of the AIDS Memorial Quilt). She was named by MIN magazine "One of the Top 21 Most Intriguing People of 2006." She has had professional media training and frequently participates as a keynote speaker and/pr panelist at various conferences (including the international Positive Leadership Summit, the U.S.-based HIV-positive Leadership Summit International AIDS Conference and the United States Conference on AIDS) and conventions as a keynote speaker. She has spoken at high schools and universities around the country, emceed AIDS fundraisers and has hosted charity events. She has appeared on ABC's Good Morning America with Diane Sawyer, The Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN's Paula Zahn Now, NBC's Your Total Health, NPR and Australia Talks, a national radio show in Australia. She has been featured in numerous national and international publications including: The New York Times, Vogue, New York Magazine, The London Daily Telegraph, British Marie Claire, Australia's Madison Magazine, The Taipei Times and The China Post. She also appears in a Cable Positive documentary Women and HIV with E.R. actress Gloria Rueben. She was also featured in Kenneth Cole's spring 2008 fashion advertising campaign that appeared in WWD, the New York Times and New York magazine. In 2008, she served on the United States' delegation to the United Nation's High Level Meeting on HIV/AIDS and has traveled internationally on behalf of the U.S. Department of State and with the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation to speak about fighting AIDS stigma.

Regan is a native of Princeton, New Jersey. She currently resides on a farm in Hunterdon County, New Jersey where she enjoys riding her horses.

Sean O. Strub, Founder and Advisory Editor, POZ
Sean Strub is well known as an activist, writer and entrepreneur. Sean has founded many successful fundraising, publishing and marketing organizations, virtually all in support of progressive social change efforts. He founded POZ in 1994. Strub's companies have also launched POZ en Español, Mamm (for women impacted by breast and gynecological cancers) and Milford Magazine (a regional title distributed in the Delaware River Highlands area of northeast Pennsylvania).

He has written extensively on corporate social responsibility, smart growth and land development issues, direct marketing and AIDS, among other topics. Sean co-authored, with Dan Baker and Bill Henning, Cracking The Corporate Closet, (Harper Business, 1995) and co- authored, with Steve Lydenberg and Alice Tepper Marlin, the seminal guide to corporate social responsibility, Rating America's Corporate Conscience, (Addison-Wesley, 1987).

Sean's involvement in the social responsibility and ethical investment movements dates to the early 1980's, when he worked with Alumni Against Apartheid and the Harvard Endowment for Divestiture through his direct marketing firm which specialized in social change and mass marketed fundraising techniques. Direct mail campaigns created by Sean have been labeled "slick" by The Wall Street Journal, "highly sophisticated" by The New York Times, and "inventive and unusual" by Business Week.

Strub has also produced theatre and large-scale fundraising events. In 1992, at the Perry Street Theatre in New York, he debuted his production of The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me, written by and starring David Drake. The Obie Award-winning hit became one of the longest running one-person Off-Broadway shows ever.

In 1990, Strub was a Democratic candidate for the US Congress from New York's 22nd congressional district, running as an openly (but incidentally) gay/HIV+ man. He was defeated by a former member of Congress by fewer than 600 votes.

He has received numerous awards and honors from AIDS organizations, community and professional groups, including the 1995 AIDS Action Foundation's National Leadership Award, the 1996 Cielo Latino Companero award from the Latino Commission on AIDS and Los Angeles-based Being Alive's Spirit of Hope award in 1997.

A native Iowan, Sean attended Georgetown and Columbia Universities. He lives in Milford, Pennsylvania and New York City.

Kate Ferguson, Editor-in-Chief, Real Health
Kate Ferguson joined Smart + Strong in June 2008. Her responsibilities also include being a senior editor for POZ magazine and POZ.com.

Previously, Kate was editor-in-chief of Today's Black Woman and the managing editor of Black Men magazine. She supervised the launch of the African-American lifestyle titles in 1995 and 1996, respectively.

For 10 years prior, Kate was the editor-in-chief of two teen entertainment magazines, namely, Word Up! and Rap Masters. She also served as editor-in-chief for Black Teen and Female Bodybuilding and was the entertainment news editor and on-camera talent for "The Video Zone," a local music program on cable television.

A graduate of Hunter College in New York City, with a B.A. in Mass Communications, Ferguson received her M.A. in Broadcast Journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia.

Oriol Gutierrez, Deputy Editor, POZ
Oriol Gutierrez brings to Smart + Strong over 12 years of magazine editorial and media experience along with his passion for advocacy on behalf of people with HIV. He was diagnosed with HIV in 1992.

His responsibilities also include serving as editor in chief of TuSalud, Smart + Strong's new bilingual Spanish/English magazine covering Latino health and wellness.

Since 2003, Gutierrez was managing editor of DiversityInc magazine, which covers diversity management in the workplace; executive director of the DiversityInc Foundation; and communications director for DiversityInc Media, LLC.

He co-founded LGNY Latino, the first bilingual Spanish/English LGBT U.S. periodical, as publisher and editor in chief in 2001. Earlier in his career, Gutierrez was executive editor of Pet Business magazine and business director of publications for the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

Gutierrez has previously freelanced for Smart + Strong, including work on several issues of POZ Focus and the first Spanish-language POZcast in 2007.

He is a graduate of New York University in New York City, with a B.A. in Print Journalism and an M.S. in Publishing. He also is vice president of print and new media for the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association.

Jeremy Grayzel, CEO, Smart + Strong and CDM Publishing LLC
With over 30+ years of business and publishing expertise, Jeremy Grayzel bought Smart + Strong in the fall of 2004. As CEO, he has spearheaded the redesign of POZ magazine and POZ.com. Prior to Smart + Strong, Jeremy served as president of VNU eMedia and headed a new division to web-enable VNU Business Media, the second largest B2B publisher and trade show operator in the country.

As founder and CEO of Facsimile Marketing, he developed broadcast fax and fax-on-demand technology and developed leading-edge custom publishing software. The company also became a website developer and hosted customized publishing services for third party publishers.

Jeremy's other experience includes a position as President and COO of Family Media Inc., as well as directorial roles at both Charter Publishing Company, where he served as general manager of Ladies' Home Journal, and RCA Global Communications, where he was responsible for financial planning of the domestic satellite communications business. He is on the board of directors of the Metro Chapter of the World Presidents' Organization and the past chairman of the Emerging Business Council of the Information Industry Association.

Jeremy earned his MBA at New York University's Graduate School of Business.

Ian Anderson, President, Smart + Strong
Ian Anderson joined Smart + Strong as Vice President/General Manager in June 2005 and was promoted to President/COO in January 2007. He has responsibility for all external and internal business management including technology and print production services, circulation and product development, edit, and business planning.

Previously, Ian spent six years at VNU eMedia (now known as Nielsen Business Media) as Director of Operations and then as Director of Product Development. Prior to VNU, he spent six years at Editor & Publisher magazine as Research Director and General Manager.

Ian earned his BA in Communications at Ramapo College, Mahwah, New Jersey.

Megan Strub, Publisher, Executive Vice President, Smart + Strong
Megan was part of the launch of POZ in the spring of 1994 and has been working with pharmaceutical companies and agencies focused on reaching the HIV community ever since. Early on, she demonstrated the value of direct to consumer advertising to people with HIV. Megan has continued to develop additional educational programs and publications including the POZ Life Expo, MAMM, InfoPack treatment newsletter, ComboCards and Real Health.

Prior to joining Smart + Strong, Megan was an account executive with The Caribiner Group (now owned by Jack Morton Wordwide), a multi-media production company specializing in corporate events, national sales meetings and product launches. Megan has over 16 years of sales experience and has been profiled in Sales & Marketing Management magazine, New York Magazine, and MIN, a trade publication for the magazine publishing industry.