Deborah Dugan

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Deborah Dugan
Known forFormer president and CEO of
(RED)
TitleCEO of Beyond Type 1
Term2019–2020
PredecessorNeil Portnow
SuccessorHarvey Mason Jr. (interim)
Children3

Deborah Dugan is an American

(RED) from 2011 to 2019. In April 2022, she became CEO of diabetes nonprofit Beyond Type 1.[1]

She has contributed to the

PBS News Hour, and NPR's All Things Considered, among other outlets. Dugan has been the co-chair of the storytelling nonprofit the Moth
since 2008.

Early life and career

Dugan grew up on

pro-bono work for Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts.[2]

Career

She transitioned to working at

executive vice president working with musicians like Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Tracy Chapman, and Joan Baez.[2][5] She then worked for Disney Publishing Worldwide for eight years, becoming its president in 2002,[4][6][3] where she oversaw 275 magazines, including Discover and Disney Magazine,[7] and published more than 4,000 new books, generating $1.8 billion in global retail sales.[5]

Dugan then worked for British media company

rebranded its school.[3]

CEO of (RED)

In 2011, Dugan started work as CEO of

Amazon. During this time the organization, with a team of 25 in New York, reached $660 million for the Global Fund[8]
and impacted the lives of more than 110 million.

From 2011 to 2015, Dugan also contributed to Huffington Post, in 2017 and 2018, to

Forbes.com.[6][14] In 2017 she was awarded PTTOW!'s Nelson Mandela Changemaker Award.[15][16]

Recording Academy presidency and settlement

In response to the outrage over the low female representation at the

2018 Grammys and then-CEO/President Neil Portnow's comment that women musicians needed to "step up" in order to achieve parity,[17] an 18-person task force led by Time's Up co-founder Tina Tchen was created to study the Recording Academy's problems and make recommendations.[4] After a search, on May 8, 2019, its board of trustees confirmed that Dugan would be its next president and CEO. She began her tenure on August 1, 2019, succeeding Portnow. Dugan was the first woman president of the $60M nonprofit,[17][18][19] and her contract was for three years.[20]

On January 16, 2020, Dugan was relieved of her duties and placed on

complicit in corruption, citing "voting irregularities, financial mismanagement, 'exorbitant and unnecessary' legal bills, and conflicts of interest involving members of the academy's board, executive committee and outside lawyers".[21][23] On March 2, 2020, the Recording Academy announced that it had officially fired her. A letter was sent to its members informing them of the action taken by its board of trustees.[24][25] The organization also tightened their conflict of interest rules that June.[26]

In April 2021, the Recording Academy eliminated its secret voting committees that existed for 28 years.[27] Within two months, it had settled with Dugan for an undisclosed amount.[28]

Awards

Board memberships and associations

Dugan is on the board of

board of advisors of CITYarts.[33]

Dugan is a member of

MPA – The Association of Magazine Media, and International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.[3]

External links

References

  1. ^ "Beyond Type 1 Names Deborah Dugan as New CEO" (Press release).
  2. ^ a b c d e Aswad, Jem (April 16, 2019). "Who Is Deborah Dugan, the New Boss of the Recording Academy?". Variety. Retrieved August 14, 2020.
  3. ^ a b c d e f "Deborah Dugan". Linked In. Retrieved August 18, 2020.
  4. ^ a b c Lewis, Randy (January 18, 2020). "Sexism? Cronyism? Mismanagement? After sudden ouster of Grammys chief, spin and finger-pointing begin". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved August 11, 2020.
  5. ^ a b c DeMott, Rick (May 16, 2007). "Dugan New Head of Entertainment Rights North America". Animation News Network.
  6. ^ a b "Contributor: Deborah Dugan". Huffington Post.
  7. ^ Bing, Jonathan (March 5, 2002). "U saddles up 'Seabiscuit'". Variety.
  8. ^
    PBS News Hour
    via Facebook. May 30, 2019.
  9. ^ a b "Deb Dugan: Chief Executive Officer (RED)". One.org. Archived from the original on April 6, 2013.
  10. ^ "(RED) CEO Deb Dugan: The Business Of Ending Disease | Mad Money | CNBC". CNBC via YouTube. October 11, 2016.
  11. ^ "COVID-19 Threatens to Destroy Progress in the Fight Against HIV/AIDS". Red.org. July 6, 2020.
  12. ^ "Part 1: Welcome and Corporate Overview — Salesforce World Tour New York Keynote 2016". Salesforce via YouTube. May 25, 2016.
  13. ^ Hutchins, Robert (June 8, 2017). "Nickelodeon and Red raise money for AIDS with SpongeBob Red". licensing.biz. Archived from the original on November 23, 2020. Retrieved August 14, 2020.
  14. ^ "Deborah Dugan: Contributor ForbesWomen". Forbes.com.
  15. ^ "Nelson Mandela Changemakers". PTTOW.com. Retrieved August 15, 2020.
  16. ^ "Deborah Dugan, CEO, (RED) @ WORLDZ 2017". WorldZ Tribe via YouTube. 2017.
  17. ^ a b Aswad, Jem; Halperin, Shirley (March 18, 2019). "Recording Academy Narrows Search to Replace Neil Portnow".
  18. ^ "BOARD OF TRUSTEES APPOINTS DEBORAH DUGAN AS PRESIDENT/CEO OF". GRAMMY.com. May 8, 2019. Retrieved January 26, 2020.
  19. ^ Newman, Melinda (September 20, 2019). "New Recording Academy CEO Deborah Dugan Pledges More Diversity, Inclusion: 'I'm In Awe of the Potential'". Billboard. Retrieved January 26, 2020.
  20. ^ a b Peck, Emily (January 24, 2020). "Deborah Dugan Tried To Fix The Grammys. Instead She Says She Was 'Ruined' By A Boys Club". Huffington Post.
  21. ^
    ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved January 25, 2020.
  22. ^ Lewis, Randy (January 17, 2020). "Ousted Grammys chief: 'We will expose what happens when you "step up" at the Recording Academy'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved January 26, 2020.
  23. ^ Ifeanyi, K. C. (January 23, 2020). "Ousted Recording Academy CEO punches back and claims the Grammys are fixed". Fast Company. Retrieved January 25, 2020.
  24. ^ France, Lisa Respers (March 2, 2020). "Recording Academy fires Deborah Dugan". CNN. Retrieved March 3, 2020.
  25. ^ Aswad, Jem (April 13, 2019). "Deborah Dugan to Succeed Neil Portnow as Recording Academy Chief". Retrieved April 23, 2019.
  26. ^ "Grammy Awards organizers tighten conflict of interest rules, say show to go ahead in January". Reuters.com. June 10, 2020.
  27. ^ Aswad, Jem (April 30, 2021). "Grammy Awards Eliminate 'Secret' Nominating Committees". Variety.
  28. ^ Newman, Melinda (June 25, 2021). "Recording Academy & Ousted CEO Deborah Dugan Reach Settlement". Billboard.
  29. ^ a b c d e "Board & Committees". The Moth.
  30. ^ Dugan, Deborah (February 26, 2018). "Purpose and Career: What Life's Patterns Reveal About What Really Matters". Forbes.com.
  31. ^ "Deborah Dugan". Girl Effect. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
  32. ^ "ontact Us". Girl Effect.
  33. ^ "CITYarts Board of Directors". CITYarts.
Cultural offices
Preceded by President of The Recording Academy
2019–2020 		Succeeded by
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