Jane Friedman is CEO and Co-Founder of Open Road Integrated Media.

Friedman served as President and Chief Executive Officer of HarperCollins Publishers Worldwide, one of the world's leading English-language publishers and a subsidiary of News Corporation, from November 1997 through June 2008. She oversaw HarperCollins book publishing including operations in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and India and initiated publishing relationships in China.

Friedman's decision to create a global digital warehouse, including digital files of its core backlist and future books, positioned the company as a leader in the industry and propelled HarperCollins into the 21st century of publishing.

Friedman, who earned a B.A. degree in English from New York University in 1967, came to HarperCollins from Random House, where she was Executive Vice President of Random House Inc., Executive Vice President of the Knopf Publishing Group, Publisher of Vintage Books, and Founder and President of Random House Audio Publishing.

She is Co-Chair of the Entertainment, Media and Communications Division of the UJA. She serves on the board of Literacy Partners, Yale University Press, and Poets & Writers, Inc. She is also a member of the American Advisory Committee of the Jerusalem International Book Fair and the Advisory Committee of the MFA program in creative writing at The New School.

Friedman has earned a myriad of awards and has been recognized by numerous international, national, and local organizations and publications. Among them, she was honored by Variety's 2007 Women's Impact Report and was chosen by the New York Post as one of New York's 50 Most Powerful Women. She was appointed Publishers Weekly's 2006 Person of the Year; named one of The Wall Street Journal's 50 Women to Watch; selected as one of Fast Company's Fast 50; and was featured in New York Magazine's The Influentials.

Friedman was also named one of New York's 100 Most Influential Business Leaders by Crain's New York Business; named one of America's 100 Most Important Women by Ladies Home Journal; was included on Vanity Fair's list of 200 Women Legends, Leaders and Trailblazers and was recognized for several years by Entertainment Weekly as one of the 101 Most Powerful People in Entertainment.

Jeff Sharp is President and Co-Founder of Open Road Integrated Media in New York City. In producing a series of Academy Award– and Golden Globe–winning films over the past ten years, he has distinguished himself in recognizing opportunities to better integrate the publishing and film industries in creating critically acclaimed commercial entertainment.

His credits include the Academy Award– and Golden Globe Award–winning film Boys Don’t Cry, and You Can Count on Me, which was nominated for two Academy Awards and two Golden Globes and won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival.

He also produced the Golden Globe–nominated movies Nicholas Nickleby and Proof, as well as other renowned adaptations, including A Home at the End of the World, The Night Listener, and Evening.

As part of Open Road’s mission to market its ebooks on all screens, Sharp and his team are currently overseeing the development and production of a slate of feature films and television and online series from Open Road properties, including: Lie Down in Darkness, based on the novel by William Styron, written and to be directed by Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart); Cocoa Beach, a television series adapted by Andre and Maria Jacquemetton (Mad Men) based on the life of NBC news reporter Jay Barbree’s recollections of the early days of the U.S. space program in Cape Canaveral, Florida; and soon-to-be-announced adaptations of future Open Road E-riginal, Publishing Partnership, and Author Branded Program projects.

Jeffrey Sharp holds an MFA from Columbia University and a BA from Colgate University. He serves on the board of Literacy Partners, the London Book Fair Film and Television Centre, the National Foundation for Facial Reconstruction and the board for the BookExpo of America. He is a member of BAFTA and chairs the advisory board of the Hamptons International Film Festival.

Sharp won an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature for You Can Count on Me, was nominated for a Golden Globe for Nicholas Nickleby, and was honored with the Andrew Sarris award in 2005 from the Columbia University School of the Arts for his contribution to independent film.

Luke Parker Bowles is Executive Vice President of Production for Open Road Integrated Media, a digital content company that publishes and markets ebooks by creating connections between authors and their audiences across all screens. Open Road Integrated Media builds upon its partners’ experience and relationships to reinvigorate works from past literary greats while introducing new talent to an expanding base of readers.

An established film industry executive in both the United Kingdom and the U.S., Luke Parker Bowles has developed and managed a diverse slate of films for both studios and independent film companies including Working Title Films, Hart Sharp Entertainment, and Sharp Independent at HarperCollins.

As part of Open Road’s mission to market its e-books on all screens, Founder and Producer Jeffrey Sharp and Parker Bowles are currently overseeing the development and production of a slate of feature films and television and online series from Open Road properties, including: Lie Down in Darkness, based on the novel by William Styron, written and to be directed by Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart); Cocoa Beach, a television series adapted by Andre and Maria Jacquemetton (Mad Men) based on the life of NBC news reporter Jay Barbree’s recollections
of the early days of the U.S. space program in Cape Canaveral, Florida; and
soon-to-be-announced adaptations of future Open Road E-riginal, Publishing
Partnership, and Author Branded Program projects.

Hailing from London, Luke began his film industry career at International Creative Management (ICM) London in 1999, after obtaining his degree from the University of London. While at ICM, he worked under chairman Duncan Heath and was responsible for co-representing and managing top actor, director, and writer clients.

Mr. Parker Bowles joined Working Title Films’ creative department in 2001. At Working Title, he was involved in the development of such hit films as Chris and Paul Weitz’s About a Boy, Beeban Kidron’s Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Joe Wright’s Pride and Prejudice and Atonement, Shekhar Kapur’s Elizabeth: The Golden Age, and Richard Curtis’s Love Actually.

In the fall of 2003, he moved to New York and began working with producer Jeff Sharp at Harp Sharp Entertainment. As Vice President of Production, he co-produced Lajos Koltai’s Evening, starring Claire Danes, Toni Collette, Vanessa Redgrave, Meryl Streep, and Glenn Close for Focus Features.

Luke serves on the board of the British Garden in Hanover Square, New York, and on the advisory boards for the Hamptons Film Festival and the Montclair Film Festival. He is a weekly contributor to Tina Brown’s The Daily Beast and is a member of BAFTA, the Pilgrims, and the St. George’s Society.

In addition to the University of London, Mr. Parker Bowles also studied at Yale University and Carnegie Mellon University.

Rachel Chou is the Chief Marketing Officer for Open Road Integrated Media. In this role she bridges the traditional world of book marketing with the dynamic, fast-paced world of digital media. Chou is guiding the development of the company's web marketing platform, which fuels Open Road's content syndication and publishing presence on the web and on mobile devices.

Chou is leveraging the worlds of social media, viral distribution and emerging technologies to market Open Road and its publishing partners' ebooks and syndicate Open Road's premium marketing content. She is using traditional and digital platforms to connect authors directly with their readers and to give them access to data related to their marketing and sales efforts.

Chou has more than 15 years of experience in online content and product development. Over the course of her career, she has led teams in the areas of search, content management, creation and syndication.

Prior to Open Road, Chou was Vice President, Online Product Development for HarperCollins Publishers. She worked across divisions on digital strategy and on the creation of new digital publishing businesses. Under Chou's direction, HarperCollins launched AuthorAssistant, a proprietary digital toolset that enables authors to deliver multimedia content to corporate and partner websites, designed the first book marketing campaigns to make use of 2D barcode technology, and led its direct-to-consumer ecommerce efforts.

Chou's past positions include Executive Producer at R/GA where she conceived and produced online tools and games for educational organizations and websites and Director of Shared Services for Scholastic.com where she helped lead the strategic planning of various online initiatives.

Chou has a B.S. from the University of Maryland and an M.S. from Bank Street College of Education.

Chris Davis is the Chief Operating Officer for Open Road Integrated Media, a digital publisher and multimedia content company that creates connections between authors and their audiences by marketing ebooks through a new proprietary online platform, which uses premium video content and social media.

Before joining Open Road Integrated Media, Davis was the Senior Vice President of Business Operations for The AOL Huffington Post Media Group. During his tenure at AOL, he assisted with the integration of The Huffington Post into AOL and the development of financial and business operational processes for the news organization within AOL.

Prior to the acquisition of The Huffington Post by AOL, Davis was the Senior Vice President of Finance and Operations for The Huffington Post, where he managed the accounting, finance, human resources, legal, operations, and analytics departments.

During his tenure, the company grew from eight employees to more than 250; revenue was on track to increase from less than $1 million to more than $60 million; and traffic to the site grew from less than one million unique monthly visitors to more than fifty million unique monthly visitors. In addition, Davis managed three venture capital equity rounds and one venture capital debt round. He played an integral role during the eventual sale of the company to AOL for $315 million.

Davis has served in a senior finance role at a number of start-ups in New York City. He was the Vice President of Finance and Operations for Exhale, a high-end spa and exercise studio with multiple locations through the US. While at Exhale, Davis reorganized its accounting and finance departments, assisted with the launch of all new locations, and completed the acquisition and conversion of two competitors.  

Prior to his tenure with Exhale, Davis served as the CFO/COO for Madstone, a film production, distribution, and exhibition company.

When Davis joined Madstone, its business model was in its incubation period, and Davis assisted the founders with the design and implementation of the strategy and business model. He also managed all of the finance and operations of the company through its expansion to theatrical film production, and the opening of nine movie theaters in the US market.  

Before joining Madstone, Davis was the Financial Director for the independent film production company Good Machine, where he managed the finance and operations and assisted in the company’s expansion into the international sales market. Before his start-up experience commenced, Davis worked for Coopers & Lybrand Consulting.

Davis received his BS in Accounting from Pennsylvania State University and his MBA from the University of Southern California.

Rachel Chou is the Chief Marketing Officer for Open Road Integrated Media. In this role she bridges the traditional world of book marketing with the dynamic, fast-paced world of digital media. Chou is guiding the development of the company's web marketing platform, which fuels Open Road's content syndication and publishing presence on the web and on mobile devices.

Chou is leveraging the worlds of social media, viral distribution and emerging technologies to market Open Road and its publishing partners' ebooks and syndicate Open Road's premium marketing content. She is using traditional and digital platforms to connect authors directly with their readers and to give them access to data related to their marketing and sales efforts.

Chou has more than 15 years of experience in online content and product development. Over the course of her career, she has led teams in the areas of search, content management, creation and syndication.

Prior to Open Road, Chou was Vice President, Online Product Development for HarperCollins Publishers. She worked across divisions on digital strategy and on the creation of new digital publishing businesses. Under Chou's direction, HarperCollins launched AuthorAssistant, a proprietary digital toolset that enables authors to deliver multimedia content to corporate and partner websites, designed the first book marketing campaigns to make use of 2D barcode technology, and led its direct-to-consumer ecommerce efforts.

Chou's past positions include Executive Producer at R/GA where she conceived and produced online tools and games for educational organizations and websites and Director of Shared Services for Scholastic.com where she helped lead the strategic planning of various online initiatives.

Chou has a B.S. from the University of Maryland and an M.S. from Bank Street College of Education.

Chris Davis is the Chief Operating Officer for Open Road Integrated Media, a digital publisher and multimedia content company that creates connections between authors and their audiences by marketing ebooks through a new proprietary online platform, which uses premium video content and social media.

Before joining Open Road Integrated Media, Davis was the Senior Vice President of Business Operations for The AOL Huffington Post Media Group. During his tenure at AOL, he assisted with the integration of The Huffington Post into AOL and the development of financial and business operational processes for the news organization within AOL.

Prior to the acquisition of The Huffington Post by AOL, Davis was the Senior Vice President of Finance and Operations for The Huffington Post, where he managed the accounting, finance, human resources, legal, operations, and analytics departments.

During his tenure, the company grew from eight employees to more than 250; revenue was on track to increase from less than $1 million to more than $60 million; and traffic to the site grew from less than one million unique monthly visitors to more than fifty million unique monthly visitors. In addition, Davis managed three venture capital equity rounds and one venture capital debt round. He played an integral role during the eventual sale of the company to AOL for $315 million.

Davis has served in a senior finance role at a number of start-ups in New York City. He was the Vice President of Finance and Operations for Exhale, a high-end spa and exercise studio with multiple locations through the US. While at Exhale, Davis reorganized its accounting and finance departments, assisted with the launch of all new locations, and completed the acquisition and conversion of two competitors.  

Prior to his tenure with Exhale, Davis served as the CFO/COO for Madstone, a film production, distribution, and exhibition company.

When Davis joined Madstone, its business model was in its incubation period, and Davis assisted the founders with the design and implementation of the strategy and business model. He also managed all of the finance and operations of the company through its expansion to theatrical film production, and the opening of nine movie theaters in the US market.  

Before joining Madstone, Davis was the Financial Director for the independent film production company Good Machine, where he managed the finance and operations and assisted in the company’s expansion into the international sales market. Before his start-up experience commenced, Davis worked for Coopers & Lybrand Consulting.

Davis received his BS in Accounting from Pennsylvania State University and his MBA from the University of Southern California.

Luke Parker Bowles is Executive Vice President of Production for Open Road Integrated Media, a digital content company that publishes and markets ebooks by creating connections between authors and their audiences across all screens. Open Road Integrated Media builds upon its partners’ experience and relationships to reinvigorate works from past literary greats while introducing new talent to an expanding base of readers.

An established film industry executive in both the United Kingdom and the U.S., Luke Parker Bowles has developed and managed a diverse slate of films for both studios and independent film companies including Working Title Films, Hart Sharp Entertainment, and Sharp Independent at HarperCollins.

As part of Open Road’s mission to market its e-books on all screens, Founder and Producer Jeffrey Sharp and Parker Bowles are currently overseeing the development and production of a slate of feature films and television and online series from Open Road properties, including: Lie Down in Darkness, based on the novel by William Styron, written and to be directed by Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart); Cocoa Beach, a television series adapted by Andre and Maria Jacquemetton (Mad Men) based on the life of NBC news reporter Jay Barbree’s recollections
of the early days of the U.S. space program in Cape Canaveral, Florida; and
soon-to-be-announced adaptations of future Open Road E-riginal, Publishing
Partnership, and Author Branded Program projects.

Hailing from London, Luke began his film industry career at International Creative Management (ICM) London in 1999, after obtaining his degree from the University of London. While at ICM, he worked under chairman Duncan Heath and was responsible for co-representing and managing top actor, director, and writer clients.

Mr. Parker Bowles joined Working Title Films’ creative department in 2001. At Working Title, he was involved in the development of such hit films as Chris and Paul Weitz’s About a Boy, Beeban Kidron’s Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Joe Wright’s Pride and Prejudice and Atonement, Shekhar Kapur’s Elizabeth: The Golden Age, and Richard Curtis’s Love Actually.

In the fall of 2003, he moved to New York and began working with producer Jeff Sharp at Harp Sharp Entertainment. As Vice President of Production, he co-produced Lajos Koltai’s Evening, starring Claire Danes, Toni Collette, Vanessa Redgrave, Meryl Streep, and Glenn Close for Focus Features.

Luke serves on the board of the British Garden in Hanover Square, New York, and on the advisory boards for the Hamptons Film Festival and the Montclair Film Festival. He is a weekly contributor to Tina Brown’s The Daily Beast and is a member of BAFTA, the Pilgrims, and the St. George’s Society.

In addition to the University of London, Mr. Parker Bowles also studied at Yale University and Carnegie Mellon University.

Tina Pohlman is the Publisher of Open Road Integrated Media. An experienced editor and publisher who has worked with a broad range of critically acclaimed and bestselling writers, Pohlman is focused on acquiring and developing new sources of content, expanding into new verticals, and pursuing new publishing partnerships for Open Road.

Pohlman was formerly Vice President & Publisher, Trade Paperbacks at the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc. She began her editorial career at Houghton Mifflin in 1993 and went on to work at Anchor Books, Carroll & Graf, Harcourt Trade Publishers, where she served as Editorial Director of Harvest Books, and Spiegel & Grau.

As a young editor at Anchor Books, Pohlman acquired both hardcovers and paperback originals, as well as paperback reprint rights, most notably Natalie Angier's New York Times bestselling Woman: An Intimate Geography. She also served as the in-house editor for Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, an annual prize collection first published in 1919, and spent many hours in the book room perusing Anchor's renowned backlist. Her experience at Anchor managing the backlists of literary luminaries such as Chinua Achebe and Naguib Mahfouz sparked an enduring appreciation for backlist publishing that eventually led her to Harvest Books, the paperback division of Harcourt Trade Publishers, prior to Houghton Mifflin's acquisition of Harcourt.

While at Harvest, where she served as Editorial Director, Pohlman managed a treasured backlist that included writers such as Virginia Woolf, Eudora Welty, Amos Oz, and Umberto Eco. She also acquired the paperback reprint rights to numerous noteworthy titles, including Temple Grandin's Animals in Translation, a New York Times bestseller, Christine Schutt's debut novel, Florida, a National Book Award finalist, and Kelly Link's story collection Magic for Beginners, a Time Best Book of the Year. During her time as Vice President & Publisher of Paperbacks at the Crown Publishing Group, Pohlman published the paperback edition of Rebecca Skloot's phenomenal New York Times bestseller The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, and managed a backlist that included beloved bestselling authors Max Brooks, Bill Bryson, Mitch Albom, and many others.

In addition to paperback reprint and backlist publishing, Pohlman has long been devoted to acquiring and editing new fiction writers, and she has published a number of notable debuts, including Colson Whitehead's contemporary classic, The Intuitionist, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award; Tony D'Souza's Whiteman, winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction; Alan Warner's Morvern Callar, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, and Paul Torday's Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction.

In 2009 Pohlman founded Moulinarn Mobile Books LLC, a digital publisher and software developer of literary content for sale in the iTunes App Store. MMB's apps include Great First Lines: Literature's Most Memorable First Sentences by Celina Spiegel and Peter Kupfer, Puzzle Love: Crosswords to Love for Lovers of Crosswords by David Levinson Wilk, and Fivers: Flash Fiction for the Phone edited by Andrew Foster Altschul and featuring stories by Lemony Snicket, Kaui Hart Hemmings, Anna North, Andrew Foster Altschul, and Joshua Furst.

Pohlman has a BA from the University of Pennsylvania and is a member of PEN American Center.