Fran Hauser - 2008 Fellow

FRAN HAUSER
President
People Digital

Fran Hauser serves as president for PEOPLE Digital, overseeing all business, sales, product development and production functions for the PEOPLE brand’s digital products, most notably People.com. She joined PEOPLE Digital as its General Manager in February 2006.

People.com is the leading online celebrity news destination for women. In November 2007, People.com scored 8.1 million unique visitors, the highest in the site’s history, and 401 million page views. (Source: Comscore Media Metrix, November 2007) In addition, in March 2007, the site was nominated for an ASME for General Excellence Online.

Prior to joining the PEOPLE Group, Hauser was the General Manager for Time Inc. Interactive (TII), the centralized online publishing group for Time Inc. Before joining Time Inc. in January 2003, Fran was a Vice President in the Programming group at AOL where she ran AOL Teens and served as a liaison between AOL and TII, developing opportunities for the two divisions to work more closely together.

Hauser spent 4 years at Moviefone, where she played a key role in the sale of Moviefone to AOL. Shortly after the sale, Fran was appointed VP, General Manager of Moviefone and AOL Movies. Before joining Moviefone, Fran worked at Coca-Cola Enterprises, Ernst & Young and Price Waterhouse.

Hauser graduated Summa Cum Laude from Pace University where she concurrently received a BBA and MBA degree.