Richard Landry is the founder and CEO of richmedium. A senior executive with more than twenty years of experience leading emerging organizations through periods of transformative change, Landry is a thought leader on the convergence of media, information technology, and social values, and has been at the forefront of new ways to fund and grow media startups and social enterprises.
Landry began his career in the early 1980s as managing editor of Computer magazine, one of the first in a new generation of periodicals aimed at covering the nascent world of digital technology. He later became editor-in-chief and associate publisher of PC World, the first consumer magazine to appeal to a burgeoning new crossover group of professionals who used personal computers both at work and at home, for business, education, and personal entertainment. Landry was later appointed publishing director at PCW Communications, responsible for conceiving new media specifically targeting the emerging consumer digital lifestyle.
In 1992, Landry joined HyperMedia Communications, a Silicon Valley venture-funded media startup. In little more than a year, HyperMedia’s flagship property, NewMedia magazine, became one of the hottest titles in high-tech publishing, and HyperMedia launched a successful IPO on the NASDAQ, making it a pioneer in the public financing of media startups—an achievement later recognized by Folio magazine. As its chairman and CEO, Landry turned HyperMedia into one of the first examples of a true cross-platform digital media company, and in the process anticipated several major media business trends.
In 2003, Landry became executive director of the non-profit Independent Press Association, and developed and implemented a social-enterprise strategy to strengthen and grow the independent media sector through innovative partnerships with private enterprise and public philanthropy.
Throughout his career, Landry has been a frequent speaker at digital technology and media business conferences. He currently serves on the board of directors of the Social Venture Network, and served on the Ad:Tech Conferences advisory board and the guest faculty of the Institute for Media and Communication Management at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. He holds degrees from the University of Notre Dame and Stanford University.
