Head Honcho

Jared Grusd ’06BUS, one of the “coolest, most inspiring people in the New York tech industry,” according to Business Insider, was recently named CEO of the Huffington Post. The lawyer-turned-tech-executive who once worked as an associate at Skadden, Arps has held senior leadership positions at Google, AOL, and Spotify and has taught at Columbia Business School, where he also serves as a member of the Eugene Lang Entrepreneurship Center’s advisory board. Under Grusd’s leadership, the Huffington Post recently expanded into China — the fifteenth country to have its own edition. According to the Wall Street Journal, Grusd will oversee the launch of a new international edition every seven to eight weeks, to reach a total of fifty by 2020.