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Carol Smith

Senior Vice President, Chief Brand Officer, ELLE Group

Carol Smith was named Senior Vice President, Chief Brand Officer, ELLE Group in March of 2009. Working to expand the brand and ensure continuity across all platforms, Smith oversees the advertising sales, editorial and digital departments of the brand extensions of both ELLE and ELLE DECOR.

Roberta Myers

VP, Editor-in-Chief/ Brand Content

Roberta Myers was named editor-in-chief of ELLE in May 2000. Since taking the position, Myers has directed ELLE into a new era of success, giving readers the best in fashion, beauty, culture, arts, and news coverage with visual and exceptional writing, building ELLE’s reputation as a magazine for women that delivers both style and substance. In 2008 the magazine had 2,573 Publishers Information Bureau pages—the highest in ELLE’s history. Under Myers’ direction, ELLE was honored in Advertising Age’s 2008 A-List for the third year in a row.

Anne Welch

Vice President/ Brand Publisher, ELLE

Anne Welch is Vice President/Brand Publisher of ELLE, a division of Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S. where she has been since 2002. Anne’s previous positions at ELLE include VP/Associate Publisher and Advertising Business Director. Anne’s publishing background encompasses senior level positions with titles such as Vibe and Spin where she was Co-CEO/Vibe-Spin Ventures, Parenting and BabyTalk as Executive VP/The Parenting Group, and various roles at Time Inc. including General Manager, Time Inc. Ventures and Business Manager, Entertainment Weekly, where she was part of the launch team. Anne also served as Chief Operation Officer for the start-up phase of American Town Network, LLC which operates a network of hyper-local community websites. A Certified Public Accountant by original trade, Anne lives in Albany, NY with her husband, three children, and two dogs.

Joe Zee

Creative Director

Joe Zee was appointed ELLE’s Creative Director in January 2007 to “build on ELLE’s continued success by enhancing the magazine’s look and style,” said Editor-in-Chief Roberta Myers. The move to ELLE followed many successful years as Fashion Director at W and as Contributing Fashion Editor at Details and House & Garden. He was also Editor-in-Chief of both the men’s and women’s editions of Vitals.
As a fashion stylist, Zee collaborated on Vanity Fair’s March 2006 Hollywood Issue with designer Tom Ford and photographer Annie Leibovitz. Zee has worked with many of the world’s leading fashion photographers, including Bruce Weber, Carter Smith, Alexei Hay, Juergen Teller, and Patrick Demarchelier, to name only a few.