Dorian Benkoil has more than 20 years experience in the media business, more than a decade of that in digital media. He is founder, SVP and senior consultant at Teeming Media, a New York based strategic digital media business and editorial consultancy focused on helping content meet specific business objectives. He has helped clients increase audience and revenues by many multiples, drafted business plans that have helped secure millions in new revenues, and trained and directed staffs to create new efficiencies and improve workflows.

As editorial director for mediabistro.com, he created strategies that led to explosive growth in industry blogs, memberships, email newsletters, video and paid content. There and at ABCNews.com, Fairchild Publications, CNET.com and elsewhere, he led teams that created multiple new content and revenue streams across platforms, attracting and retaining millions of users. His social media, digital marketing, advertising and business plans and executions have led to millions of dollars in revenue.

Dorian is also an award-winning journalist who has been a reporter, editor and foreign correspondent for ABC News, Newsweek, and The Associated Press and who is an expert commentator on media and a regular contributor to the Poynter Institute’s e-media Tidbits. He blogs at mediaflect.com, writes for Bob Garfield’s The Chaos Scenario blog, and has written for Jack Myers Media Business Report, the Economist Intelligence Unit, PaidContent.org and been quoted widely in leading publications around the world. Dorian is an MBA honors graduate of Baruch College’s Zicklin School of Business, a former Fulbright Fellow in Japan (where he learned to speak Japanese) and a graduate of Stanford University.