Susan Mernit
Partner, 5ive
Blog: Navigating the Info Jungle
Susan Mernit has more than ten years of senior executive experience building profitable new brands and products. As an entrepreneurial, creative leader skilled in managing media brands and services through a full life cycle, she has led the development of leading consumer brands for Scholastic, Parade Magazine, Advance Publications, Netscape, and America Online. Mernit’s products have won industry awards from The Newspaper Association of America, Folio, and Clarion Women in Communications among others. Regarded as one of the most effective and experienced Internet/new media executives in the country, she served as Vice President, Programming, Design and Production at Netscape.com, transforming the site into the number 1 daytime work/home content destination on the Internet and tripling advertising, e-commerce and search revenues.



