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Barbara Friedmann

Vice President/Brand Publisher, Luxury Design Group, ELLE DECOR and Metropolitan Home

Barbara Friedmann is a magazine veteran with over thirty years of experience. Named Vice President/Brand Publisher, Luxury Design Group, ELLE DECOR and Metropolitan Home in March 2009, Barbara Friedmann is responsible for the magazine’s advertising sales and marketing. She previously held the position of Vice President/Publisher for ELLE DECOR and Vice President, Group Marketing, the ELLE Group where she helped guide ELLE magazine to five consecutive years of growth. Prior to joining ELLE in May 2002, Friedmann served as vice president, Corporate Marketing for Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S., overseeing the research, corporate creative services and integrated marketing departments. From 1989 to 1999, she oversaw marketing, research, and custom publishing for The Parenting Group, a division of Time Inc. Ventures, and from 1978 to 1989, held marketing positions at Star, USA Today, New Woman, Food & Wine, Architectural Digest, Bon Appetit and New York/New West magazines.