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Dawn Bridges
Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications
Dawn Bridges is a senior corporate communications professional with over two decades of global experience in entertainment industry media relations, crisis communications, mergers and acquisitions, integration, investor relations, public policy, internal communications, consumer publicity, special events, senior management meetings, community affairs and third-party marketing. She has worked in the publishing, music and film industries as well as on special theatrical and live events.
Bridges is senior vice president of corporate communications for Time Inc., a division of Time Warner and the world's largest magazine publisher. At Time Inc., she is in charge of media strategy, media relations and handling all speaking engagements for the chairman and editor-in-chief. She is responsible for special events, community affairs, internal meetings and Time Inc. University, the company's professional development program. She serves as Time Inc.'s trade organization communications representative and as a public affairs liaison and investor relations liaison with Time Warner. She also oversees public relations strategy for many of the division's titles, conferences and events.
Before working at Time Inc. she served as the executive vice president of corporate communications for the Warner Music Group (WMG), formerly a division of Time Warner. She was there for four years, where she worked for Chairman and CEO Roger Ames and was responsible for all communications activities, public affairs, trade organization representation, artist relations and special events. During this period, she was in charge of external and internal communications for the billion-dollar sale of the manufacturing business and ultimately the sale of the entire company. She handled the potential merger scenarios in all areas of communication with both BMG and EMI and showcased the increase in the company's market share performance from fourth place to second place. She oversaw communications for a radical restructuring and cost-saving program. She also worked with the Apple Computer public relations team on the successful introduction of the iTunes digital download store and worked with the Recording Industry Association of America in having WMG take a leading role in the industry's anti-piracy campaign from an educational, strategic and litigation public relations standpoint.
As part of her role at WMG, Bridges was also responsible for all Time Warner inter-divisional initiatives involving music. Additionally she worked with corporate partners to develop third-party marketing programs involving WMG and its artists.
Bridges left Warner Music early in 2004 after Time Warner's sale of the company to a private equity group.
Prior to that, for two years, she held a senior role at EMI, a publicly listed, London-based music company, where she was in charge of all corporate communications and investor relations. Bridges started her career at PolyGram (now Universal). She spent 11 years there beginning in product publicity and rising within a year to head the U.S. artist publicity department working with music acts including Bon Jovi, Vanessa Williams, Kiss, INXS, Lionel Richie, John Mellencamp and Luciano Pavarotti. After two years, she was promoted to senior vice president of corporate communications when the company was taken public and listed on the New York Stock Exchange. She was responsible for all media coverage of PolyGram's acquisitions of A&M Records, Island Records and Motown, as well as the formation of its film studio. PolyGram Filmed Entertainment produced and distributed films including "Four Weddings and a Funeral," "Dead Man Walking" and "Notting Hill." She managed a variety of situations in 75 countries, including the IPO, record profits, management changes, restructuring, lawsuits, profit warnings, acquisitions and joint ventures.
Bridges earned a B.A. in communications studies from the University of California at Los Angeles, where she graduated with Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude honors. She currently sits on the board of the UCLA Communications School. She also attended Columbia University's graduate program in finance for non-financial executives.
