MUSO are delighted to welcome Joy Marcus as their new Chair. Joy brings a wealth of experience and knowledge in the digital content landscape with global brands including Condé Naste, Time Warner and BBC Maestro.
MUSO are delighted to welcome Joy Marcus as their new Chair. Joy brings a wealth of experience and knowledge in the digital content landscape with global brands including Condé Naste, Time Warner and BBC Maestro.
After an extensive global search, MUSO is excited that Joy Marcus has joined the team as chairperson. Joy has an impressive track record of leading companies, both start-up and enterprise, in the technology space.
Joy is Co-Founder and General Partner of The 98, an early-stage venture firm that invests in women-led, technology businesses. She is also a Lecturer at Princeton University’s School of Engineering, where she teaches the university’s foundational class on entrepreneurship, with a substantial waitlist every semester. Previously, Joy was Executive Vice President and General Manager of Digital Video at Condé Nast Entertainment, a subsidiary of Condé Nast, overseeing twenty properties including Vogue, The New Yorker and Vanity Fair.
Joy is an active and experienced Board Director. She is currently a Board Director, Chair of the Compensation Committee and member of the Audit Committee at publicly listed Perion (NASD: PERI), an ad tech conglomerate, and Chair of the Board of private equity-backed MUSO, a data company that specialises in audience measurement and content protection for the entertainment industry. She serves on the Board of private equity-backed BBC Maestro, and music technology company Qwire (where she was previously Chair), and as a Board Observer for Stratyfy, a SaaS platform in fintech. She has served previously on several additional private boards including Anyclip (video technology), ExpoTV (digital marketing) and Dailyworth (finance for women).
In her 25-year career in digital media and commerce, Joy has been a change agent adept at launching and growing digital businesses within large legacy companies and growing small digital-only companies into profitable enterprises. Joy was on the management team that took BarnesandNoble.com public (~$2.2B valuation). She also led French video site Dailymotion to its sale to Orange (France Telecom) for ~$200M. More recently, in her role as General Partner in an investment firm, Joy has worked extensively with young companies disrupting industries with SaaS platforms, including most recently with Stratyfy which provides an AI solution to credit risk analysis in the fintech industry.
In her role at Condé Nast, Joy led the newly formed division to triple-digit year-on-year growth and in 2016 achieved profitability for the first time since the division’s formation in 2014. She is widely considered an industry expert on digital video and speaks regularly on this and other topics related to digital content. She has been a digital media manager since 2007, serving in senior roles at Time Warner and MTV Networks and spending 3 years as a Managing Director and Venture Partner at Gotham Ventures, a Draper Fisher Jurvetson network fund.
Joy's work regularly receives public recognition. She was named in the Digital Power 50 by The Hollywood Reporter, Forty over Forty by Forbes, a Woman to Watch by Crain's Magazine and a Woman of Power and Influence by the National Organization for Women (NOW).
Joy is a Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Princeton University, received her law degree from New York University School of Law, and completed Columbia University’s Executive Program in Finance and Accounting. She is on the board of the non-profits New York Tech Alliance (promoting diversity in tech) and MOUSE (bringing tech education to public schools). She lives in Manhattan’s West Village and The Springs, East Hampton with her husband and has two young adult children who, happily, live nearby.