The Markkula Center for Applied Ethics would like to welcome Mark Stanich, Media and Hospitality industry executive, to the Ethics Center Advisory Board. The Advisory Board provides essential counseling and outside perspectives, assistance in fundraising and event planning, and external communications between the Ethics Center and its external constituencies.
Stanich is a strong veteran in the Media and Hospitality industries, including experience working domestically and internationally across multiple content information and lifestyle brands such as Time, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, Travel + Leisure, Food & Wine, and others. Stanich brings to his roles his passions for consumer data privacy rights, the evolving information/disinformation landscape, and ethical business stakeholder frameworks, and has contributed to the creation and implementation of related initiatives within various organizations.
Stanich has served as senior executive at both Fortune 500 companies, including American Express and WarnerMedia, and smaller venture and private equity backed companies. Additionally, he has worked across a range of functional areas, including as CEO, COO, CMO, CXO and President of various companies and divisions, with a strong focus on strategy, consumer and B2B marketing, and operational excellence.
He has worked with a number of non-profits over the years, including Venture for America and Harvard Community Partners, as well as served as a board member or advisor to small companies and start-ups. Stanich also served on industry boards including Digital Content Next and BPA Worldwide, the largest media-auditing organization in the world.
Stanich received a B.S. from U.C. Berkeley and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He currently sits on Markkula Center’s Journalism and Media Ethics Council.
Ethics Center Executive Director Don Heider and the rest of the Ethics Center Staff are thrilled to welcome Stanich to the Advisory Board.
“We got to know Mark Stanich through his son, Jackson Stanich ’23, who was a 2021-22 Hackworth Fellow and served on the Campus Ethics Team. Mark has been part of the Center's Journalism and Media Ethics Council and often offers valuable insights on media management,” said Heider.
The Ethics Center looks forward to having Stanich’s deep pool of expertise in the Media and Hospitality industries and his guidance for future Ethics Center work.
Grace Woidat ‘25, communications and French studies major and marketing and communications intern at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, contributed to this story.