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Leadership

Lisa Frazier

President & CEO

The Bay Area News Project

Prior to joining as CEO of The Bay Area News Project, Lisa was a partner at McKinsey & Company where she led the West Coast Media and Entertainment practice. During her close to nine years at McKinsey & Company, Lisa served several of the leading online, broadcast and cable TV, newspaper, and information companies on a variety of issues, including growth strategy, operations, and marketing and sales.

Lisa has also had the opportunity to support a number of non-profit organizations including the New York Fire Department post 9/11, the Robin Hood Foundation and others. Currently, Lisa is on the Board of Governors of The Commonwealth Club, the nation's oldest public forum. She is also an advisory board member to both The Texas Tribune, a Texas based non-profit public media organization, and Link TV, an organization focused on educating and activating the community about world events.

Before joining McKinsey & Company, Lisa spent nine years in the petroleum industry where she worked as a senior marketing representative for Akzo Nobel Chemicals and held operation and engineering positions with Mobil Oil Corporation.

Lisa holds an M.B.A. in strategy, marketing and finance from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, as well as a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Lisa resides in San Francisco with her husband and two and a half year old son.

Jonathan Weber

Editor-in-Chief

The Bay Area News Project

Prior to joining as Editor-in-Chief for The Bay Area News Project, Weber worked as reporter, editor and media entrepreneur for more than 20 years.

He most recently served as CEO and editor-in-chief of New West Publishing, the Missoula, Montana-based media company that he founded in 2005. New West's flagship product is NewWest.Net, an award-winning local and regional online publication about the Rocky Mountain West. One of the earliest experiments in creating a new, Web-centric model for high-quality journalism, NewWest.Net combines traditional reporting and writing with various forms of participatory journalism. Weber also served as the first T. Anthony Pollner Distinguished Visiting Professor of Journalism at the University of Montana, and remains a member of the Journalism School Advisory Council.

Before founding New West Publishing, Weber served as the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Industry Standard, the highly-regarded San Francisco-based newsweekly that chronicled the dot-com boom of the late 1990's. Weber built the editorial staff from scratch to a peak of more than 100 journalists. The Industry Standard – both in print and online – earned many awards and plaudits for its no-nonsense coverage of the Internet revolution.

Prior to the Industry Standard, Weber served eight years as a writer and editor at the Los Angeles Times, including three years as the Silicon Valley correspondent. He was also responsible for conceiving and launching "The Cutting Edge," the first technology section published by a major newspaper.

Weber began his journalism career with Fairchild Publications, and served in that company's Paris bureau, among other assignments. He was part of the launch team for Geneva-based World Link magazine, a publication of the World Economic Forum.

Weber earned a B.A in Philosophy from Wesleyan University. He is excited to be relocating back to the San Francisco Bay Area from Montana with his wife, Karen, their three children, and their two dogs and two cats.