Bio
Wenda Harris Millard is Vice Chairman of MediaLink, a strategic advisory firm that provides critical counsel to the media, marketing, technology and entertainment industries and those that intersect with them. She was named Vice Chairman in 2016, and in June 2017 relocated to London to launch MediaLink in Europe. She was previously Co-CEO of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc., Chief Sales Officer at Yahoo!, President of Ziff Davis Internet, and a founding member of the DoubleClick executive team. She spent 20 years as a magazine executive at Family Circle, New York Magazine and Adweek. In 2012, AdAge named Ms. Millard one of the “100 Most Influential Women in Advertising in the Last 100 Years.” Other awards include: 2015 Maker in AOL’s Makers: Women Who Make America; 2011 Springboard Oracle Award; 2009 ad:tech Lifetime Achievement Award; 2006 “Advertising Person of the Year”; AAF Silver Medal and 2005 Matrix Award for “Women Who Change the World.”
She serves on the boards of Caleres, Inc. a $3 billion global, publicly traded footwear company and Simulmedia, which leverages the power of digital for television buying. She also sits on the board of the James Beard Foundation. She served two terms as a Trustee of Trinity College in Hartford, CT. She holds a BA from Trinity and an MBA from Harvard University.
