Time Inc.

Executive Team

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. She is responsible for media relations, special events, community affairs, internal communications 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 global corporate communications for the Warner Music Group (WMG), formerly a division of Time Warner. As part of her role at WMG, Bridges was also responsible for all Time Warner inter-divisional initiatives involving music. The division had operations in 50 countries and additionally she worked with corporate partners to develop third-party marketing programs involving WMG and its artists. She also worked on the industry introduction of the Apple iTunes store. 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, Lionel Richie, John Mellencamp and Luciano Pavarotti. After two years, she was promoted to senior vice president of corporate communications when the company was listed on the New York Stock Exchange. She was responsible for all media of the 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."

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 also attended Columbia University's graduate program in finance for non-financial executives.