Ava Seave is a Principal of Quantum Media, the New York City based consulting firm focused on marketing and strategic planning for media and entertainment companies as well as nonprofits. As a Quantum Media Principal, she has led consulting engagements since 1998 in a broad range of assignments. Before founding Quantum Media with four others in 1998, she was a general manager at Scholastic Inc., The Village Voice and at TVSM (the country's largest cable listings magazine.) Seave has been an Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School and at Columbia Journalism School since 2003. She has written numerous business teaching cases and co-authored several books including: "The Revenue Roadmap: a guidebook to diversifying revenue and editorial innovation" (Powell and Seave); “The Story So Far: What We Know About the Business of Digital Journalism” (Grueskin, Seave, Graves); and “The Curse of the Mogul: What’s Wrong with the World’s Leading Media Companies” (Greenwald, Knee, Seave). Seave is currently on the non-profit boards of the American Poetry Review and De La Salle Academy and on the Board of Advisors for The Sustainable Media Center and Columbia University Press. She graduated from Brown University with an A.B. (Phi Beta Kappa) and Harvard Business School with an M.B.A