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Barbara Friedmann

Vice President/Publisher, ELLE DECOR, and Managing Director, The Luxury Design Group

Named Vice President/Publisher for ELLE DECOR in July 2008, Barbara Friedmann is responsible for the magazine’s advertising sales, marketing and business development. She previously served as Vice President, Group Marketing, the ELLE Group, and helped guide ELLE magazine through the past five consecutive years of growth in both advertising and circulation. 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. Before joining Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S., Friedmann served as group marketing director of Miller Publishing; vice president, marketing at Time Inc.'s Parenting Group; marketing director at Star magazine; and various promotion positions at USA Today, Food & Wine, Architectural Digest, Bon Appetit and New West magazines.