Tom Osenton

TOM OSENTON has more than 25 years of senior-level management experience at world-class companies such as the CapCities/ABC, The Sporting News, and Billboard Publications. He worked on three Olympic Games as an executive with the ABC Television Network, serving as network spokesman in 1984. As President and CEO of The Sporting News, he spearheaded a major turnaround that helped save the nation's oldest sports weekly, while pioneering an early move to the Web.

Tom is currently CEO of the Customer Share Group LLC—a leading management and marketing consultancy that advises some of the world's major companies and brands on developing customer share strategies. As a leading expert on strategic marketing and planning, he is a popular industry speaker and a frequent participant at industry seminars, conferences, and webinars.