Kim Kelleher is President and Chief Commercial Officer for AMC Global Media, responsible for all commercial revenue across the company’s advertising, distribution and content sales organizations spanning a robust distribution ecosystem that includes streaming services, linear television networks and CTV/FAST.
Under Kelleher’s leadership, AMC Global Media has pioneered key advances in advertising technology, including the most widespread addressable capabilities of any content company, spanning both linear and digital platforms, and was the first programmer to offer programmatic buying on linear television. The company’s technological leadership, high-quality and popular content and a proven ability to build and serve engaged and passionate fan communities has set it apart during a period of change and evolution in the entertainment and media industry.
Kelleher’s career in media, marketing and advertising spans three decades. Prior to joining AMC Global Media (then AMC Networks) in 2019, she was the chief business officer of GQ, GQ Style, Golf Digest, Golf World, Pitchfork, and Wired Media Group, which includes Wired and Ars Technica.
Prior to that, she was chief business officer of Allure, Brides, Glamour, Self, and Teen Vogue and the chief revenue officer of Wired Media Group.
Before joining Wired Media Group, Kelleher was president of Say Media, where she oversaw the company’s business strategy including global sales, marketing, production, communications, media solutions, and content operations.
Prior to Say Media, Kelleher served as worldwide publisher of Time. During her tenure she was named Advertising Age’s Publisher of the Year in 2011. Before that, she was vice president, publisher of Sports Illustrated, where she was the first female executive to lead Sports Illustrated advertising sales in the history of the brand.
Previously, Kelleher spent six years at Self where she was named Condé Nast’s Publisher of the Year in 2008. She also served as vice president and publisher of Condé Nast’s Golf for Women, which was named to Adweek’s Hot List in 2005. Additionally, she has represented Mademoiselle, Elle, Elle Décor, Mirabella, Teen, and others.
Kelleher is a 2007 inductee into the American Advertising Federation’s Advertising Hall of Achievement, the industry’s premier award for outstanding advertising professionals. She has been featured in Advertising Age’s “40 Under Forty,” “Leading Women” and “Media Mavens,” the Adweek 50, CFX’s “100” and “Most Powerful Women,” as well as Folio’s “Industry Influencers.” In 2018, Kelleher received the prestigious Matrix Award from New York Women in Communications and was inducted into the Hall of Mentorship for the IRTS Foundation.
In addition to her professional success, Kelleher has been involved with numerous philanthropic initiatives. She is an active board member with the American Advertising Federation; Cancer and Careers, the charitable arm of Cosmetic Executive Women (CEW); New York Women in Communications; University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communications; Ad Council and the International Radio & Television Society (IRTS) Foundation.
Kelleher is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and resides in New York with her husband and two sons.