Technology >> CEO Interviews >> July 24, 2000

Jeffrey Stern – Numex Corporation (numx.ob)

JEFFREY A. STERN is CEO and Chairman of Numex Corporation, having merged his companies, JSA Publishing Group, into Numex in April 1999. Mr. Stern founded the JSA Publishing Group in 1990, and since that time he has been responsible for the creation of the publications Buy Rite, Rap Sheet, Mundo Deportivo, and Hogarama. Prior to JSA, Mr. Stern was President and Publisher of Details Magazine, where he worked with venture capitalist Alan Patricof. After leading the turnaround of Details, the publication was sold to Cond Nast. Prior to Details Magazine, Mr. Stern served as business manager for Newsweek magazine, where he founded Newsweek on Campus. Prior to Newsweek, Mr. Stern was employed at Ziff-Davis Publishing as General Manager of the Special Markets Group, running Unique Homes magazine and University Communications. Mr. Stern started his publishing career in 1980, when he founded the magazine City Limits in Boston, shortly after his graduation from Harvard College. Profile
TWST: Could you provide some background information on Numex

Corporation?

Mr. Stern: In April 1999, we merged JSA Publishing, which is a Spanish-

language publishing business, into Numex