Joy Marcus brings over 20 years’ experience operating digital content businesses and leading them to successful exits as well as investment experience identifying and investing in trend-setting businesses. Joy is a full faculty member at Princeton University, where she teaches the foundational course on entrepreneurship in the School of Engineering and Applied Science and has served as a James Wei Visiting Professor. She is also a Venture Fellow at Jerusalem Venture Partners. Joy has decades of experience identifying, operating, scaling and selling venture businesses. She has held C-suite positions in large companies (AOL, Time Warner, Conde Nast) and in start-up and digital ventures (including as CEO of venture-backed Bloglovin). In those roles, she led both business and technology teams, grew businesses to scale (BarnesandNoble.com IPO), bought and sold businesses (Dailymotion to France Telecom) and launched business units (MTV International). Joy was also an M&A lawyer at Debevoise & Plimpton. Joy has been recognized for her leadership, including as one of Crain’s “New York’s Women to Watch in Tech” (2014), The Hollywood Reporter’s “Digital Power Fifty” (2009 & 2010), the National Organization for Women’s “Woman of Power and Influence” (2014) and Forbes’ “Forty over Forty” (2013). Joy sits on the boards of NASDAQ-listed Perion, an ad tech leader, and Qwire, a strategic leader in music technology as well as non- profits the New York Tech Alliance and Video Consortium. She is a graduate of the NYU School of Law and Princeton University.
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