Mary Ellen Egan is a journalist with more than 25 years of experience in business and investigative journalism. She has been a staff writer and editor at Forbes, The American Lawyer, First Amendment Watch and American Banker. She has freelanced for Bloomberg, Bloomberg Law, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Stanford Graduate School of Business and Thomson Reuters. She is currently an adjunct professor of journalism at New York University.

Brad Bava is the Senior Vice President, Marketing Services Group at Arizent, leading the media and conference sales team across the business. He is focused on connecting our marketing services clients with our audiences through valuable experience that build strong relationships.

Brad joined Arizent in 2017, helping industry-leading brands like IBM, OneSpan, Tata Consultancy, and Temenos connect with our banking community. Brad then became the publisher of American Banker and National Mortgage News before being tapped to lead sales across our seven communities. Prior to Arizent, Brad spent 10 years at IKON Office Solutions where his outstanding sales performance was recognized with four straight President’s Circle awards. His successes culminated in his leadership of the NYC market across sales and operations. 

Brad is an accomplished athlete and coach.  He leads several youth athletic programs across a variety of sports and spends much of his free time mentoring the athletes in those programs. He graduated from Montclair State University with a B.A. in History.

Jon Moore is Arizent’s Executive Vice President of Events and Live Media, leading the company’s portfolio of world-class events.  The portfolio consists of 20+ events across top brands including American Banker, Bond Buyer, National Mortgage News, Accounting Today, Financial Planning and Employee Benefits News. He is also part of the company’s Executive leadership team.

Previously, Jon served as EVP of Events for Bonnier corp. He has also held leadership roles at Summit Business Media, Family Media and Source Media.  He has had the opportunity to run events of all sizes across a wide spectrum of content and has operated events in North America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. 

Jon holds a BA from SUNY Plattsburgh and lives with his wife and two daughters in Long Island NY.