Ava Seave

Ava Seave is a principal of Quantum Media (quantummedia.com), a New York City-based consulting firm focused on marketing and strategic planning for media, information and entertainment companies.

Before founding Quantum Media with four others in 1998, Seave was a general manager at three leading media companies: Scholastic Inc., The Village Voice and at TVSM. Seave taught “Strategic Management of Media” and currently teaches “Media Strategy: Analysis, Innovation and Implementation” at Columbia Business School, where she is currently an associate adjunct professor. She is the co-author (with Jonathan Knee and Bruce Greenwald) of "Curse of the Mogul: What’s Wrong with the World’s Leading Media Companies." Ava is on the Board of Davler Media and Magnify.net.

In May 2011, Seave, along with Bill Grueskin and Lucas Graves, co-authored "The Story So Far: What We Know About the Business of Digital Journalism," a report that examines online traffic and engagement patterns, emerging news platforms, paywalls, aggregation and new sources of revenue.

She graduated from Brown University with an A.B. (Phi Beta Kappa) and Harvard Business School with a M.B.A. She is also on three non-profit boards: DeLaSalle Academy, a middle school for academically gifted, financially challenged students; Archaeology Institute of America, serving as head of the Archaeology Magazine committee; and The American Poetry Review.