Full Name
Rajiv Pant
Job Title
Chief Technology And Product Officer For Magazines Unit, CDS Global
DCN Member Organization
Hearst Magazines
Speaker Bio
Rajiv Pant is a well-respected product, design, and engineering executive and entrepreneur. As Chief Technology And Product Officer, he leads product, design, engineering, and technology operations for Hearst Magazines, Hearst Autos, and CDS Global, Inc.
Previously, he was Senior Advisor to McKinsey & Company. He served as Chief Product & Technology Officer of The Wall Street Journal, responsible for Product, Design, and Engineering where he reported jointly to the WSJ editor-in-chief and to Dow Jones corporate. He was then promoted to Deputy CTO of News Corp, parent company of WSJ and several other global brands.
Pant has also served as CTO at The New York Times; President of Digital Technology at Conde Nast; CTO at COXnet (now Cox Media Group), a division of Cox, one of the nation’s leading media and communications companies; and a decade at Knight Ridder including as the Vice President of Technology at Knight Ridder Digital.
Previously, he was Senior Advisor to McKinsey & Company. He served as Chief Product & Technology Officer of The Wall Street Journal, responsible for Product, Design, and Engineering where he reported jointly to the WSJ editor-in-chief and to Dow Jones corporate. He was then promoted to Deputy CTO of News Corp, parent company of WSJ and several other global brands.
Pant has also served as CTO at The New York Times; President of Digital Technology at Conde Nast; CTO at COXnet (now Cox Media Group), a division of Cox, one of the nation’s leading media and communications companies; and a decade at Knight Ridder including as the Vice President of Technology at Knight Ridder Digital.
