Erica is the Founder/President of Erica Gruen Consulting and a Principal with Quantum Media Associates, pioneering digital transformation for the world’s largest entertainment/media companies to generate profit, reduce expense, and adapt to change. As Senior Advisor to Oaklins, the world’s largest mid-market M+A advisory, she also advises, mentors, and invests in early-stage technology companies in food, advertising, marketing, education, and clean energy.

Immediately prior, Erica was president/CEO of Food Network, masterminding one of television’s biggest brands and the #1 food website. Working with one of the smallest programming budgets in the TV industry, and no consumer marketing budget, she took Food Network from a tiny start-up to a huge hit, making Food Network the only basic cable network in history to achieve profitability on advertising revenue alone. In 1998, she successfully completed the sale of the network to E.W. Scripps.