Ed Coburn has worked in the specialized information/publishing field since 1982, with increasing responsibilities. He has worked in large and small organizations, consumer and business-to-business.
Mr. Coburn is Publishing Director at Harvard Health Publications, the consumer health publishing division of the Harvard Medical School. Harvard Health Publications (HHP) publishes a wide range of authoritative health information, in a variety of formats. HHP's newsletters, books, reports, syndicated columns, websites and other publishing activities reach millions of people each month, and millions more around the world through its licensing efforts.
Prior to moving to Harvard in the spring of 2001, Mr. Coburn was Managing Director and Publisher of Circadian Information which he co-founded in May, 1995 with Dr. Martin Moore-Ede, professor of physiology at Harvard Medical School and president of Circadian Technologies, Inc., a research and consulting firm.
Circadian Information publishes on the topic of health and safety for shiftworkers and managers in 24/7 operations. Mr. Coburn had full P&L responsibility and managed all strategic and operational issues of the company; marketing, product development, editorial, website/online services, customer service, production and fulfillment.
Mr. Coburn received his MBA, with honors, from the Babson College Graduate School of Management (Wellesley, Mass.). Babson's program is widely recognized for its strength in entrepreneurial studies, repeatedly being cited by a major business magazine as offering the best entrepreneurial studies program in the country.
Mr. Coburn has distinguished himself in the publishing industry through his activity in the Specialized Information Publishers Assocation (SIPA). He currently serves on its board of directors as Vice President. He has spoken frequentyly at industry conferences on numerous topics and chaired the 2008 Annual Meeting of the Specialized Information Publishers Association titled Profiting in the New Publishing Environment.
Mr. Coburn began his career in the Newsletter Center of Cahners Publishing Company (Newton, Mass.). In 1986 part of the Cahners Newsletter Center, including Mr. Coburn, spun off to begin Cutter Information Corp. (Arlington, Mass.), a business-to-business publisher. As a member of the Executive Committee, Mr. Coburn was involved in most operational aspects of the company Mr. Coburn served as Group Publisher for the Software Technologies and Oil Spill Information Services groups, which generated $2.5+ million in revenues.
Contact Ed Coburn at mail@EdCoburn.com
