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Suzanne Balaban
President

Suzanne Balaban 🇬🇧 was Vice President, Director of Publicity for Scribner, a division of Simon & Schuster Publishers Inc. and Associate Director of Publicity for William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Inc.   While at Scribner, she was responsible for the greatest number of simultaneous New York Times Best Sellers in company history, and worked with Stephen King, Frank McCourt, Annie Proulx, Temple Grandin, Howell Raines, Jeannette Walls, Carole Radziwill and Dr. Mark Hyman.  At William Morrow/HarperCollins Publishers, she worked with Juan Williams, Gail Collins, Neil Stephenson and Michael Deaver among others.

Television credits include series producer/director and features editor for the Discovery Channel/TLC, the BBC and Channel 4 Television.  From 1991 to 1997 Suzanne was a director, producer and journalist with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in London, and in 1998 became Director of Community Development at VCIX where she helped launch early online communities.   

Suzanne holds undergraduate and masters degrees from Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge University and a Diploma in Broadcast Journalism from the City University in London. She is a graduate of the BBC Television News & Current Affairs Trainee Scheme and winner of the Lord Hartwell Prize for Journalism. As Features Editor of the Big Breakfast, Channel 4, UK, she was part of the team awarded the 1996 TRIC Award. 

Elliot Balaban
Chairman & CEO

Elliot Balaban 🇺🇸 was Creative Director and Director of Advanced Business Development for NBC Universal where he executive produced the world premier of NBC.com and evaluated digital media investments worldwide. This included championing GE’s first venture capital partnership in Israel and performing diligence on NBC’s $420 million deal with Microsoft to launch MSNBC. 

Backed by Peter Thiel, in 2013 Elliot co-founded emBooks, a publisher of long-form, article-length books built around British opinion celebrity, Melanie Phillips. Based in London and New York, emBooks was the first direct-to-consumer, ebook-first, publishing company in Britain. Its authors included Douglas Murray, Frederic Rafael and editor-in-chief Phillips.

An ASCAP Award winning composer, lyricist and librettist, Elliot was represented in the theater by the late Flora Roberts. He studied piano and composition with George Pappastavrou, David Weiner and Sanford Gold, composition with Lehman Engel, and orchestration with Manny Albam.  A mentee of musical theater legend, John Kander, his compositions have been performed at Lincoln Center, reviewed in the New York Times by John Rockwell, and featured on Sesame Street. 

Elliot's doctoral work focused on the neurobiology of learning.  He attended the MIT Media Laboratory (Composer Fellow), Princeton University (Spencer Fellow), Eastman School of Music and The Bronx High School of Science (Hackett Medal for Oratory.)