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The leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet including Websites, Interactive Advertising, Online Film & Video and Mobile content. In its 11th year, The Webby Awards is presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a 550-member body of leading Web experts, business figures, luminaries, and creative celebrities.

Team

Gerry Byrne

Vice Chairman, Recognition Media and IADAS

Gerry Byrne is the President of Gerry Byrne Media Partners LLC, founded in 2002, a full service media and marketing consultancy to the entertainment, communications and media industries. Parade Magazine, Washington Life Magazine, Reed Business Information (RBI) and Recognition Media are primary clients. Additionally, as Chairman and Founder of the Quills Literacy Foundation and Executive Chairman of de Plumen LLC, Mr. Byrne led the 2005 launch of "The Quills", a consumer-driven book awards program created with Reed Business Information and broadcast on the NBC/Universal Stations and affiliates.

Mr. Byrne joined Stagebill Media as President, Chief Executive Officer and partner in April 2000, a company sold to Playbill Inc. and the Manhattan Media Group in 2002. Prior to Stagebill, he was the Publisher of Variety and Daily Variety for 11 years. He joined Variety from Norman Lear's ACT III Publishing where he was Senior VP. Preceding Act III, while at Crain Communications, Mr. Byrne was the start-up publisher of both Electronic Media (now Television Week) and Crain's New York Business. At Advertising Age, also a Crain property, Mr. Byrne held positions first as the International Sales Director then as New York Sales Director. His career in publishing began at The New York Daily News in 1969.

Mr. Byrne is on several boards, including The Museum of the Moving Image, The Creative Coalition, The Fisher House Foundation, The Intrepid Museum Foundation, and The New York City Police Museum. A native New Yorker and a 1966 graduate of Fordham College, Mr. Byrne served as a United States Marine Corps Officer in Vietnam in 1968 and 1969.