Gene Gable began his executive career in 1977 when he founded the Southern California monthly,
Sporting Times magazine, where he served as publisher and vice-president of a holding corporation, G&D Publishing. From 1980 to 1988, Gable worked for several ad agencies and ran a full-service typography, marketing and design service. Clients ranged from the Monterey Bay Aquarium to McGraw-Hill to the AT&T Pro-Am Golf Tournament and a number of non-profits.
In 1991 Gable joined Publish magazine where he rose to publisher and president of Integrated Media, Inc., a division of International Data Group, the worlds largest technology publisher. With nine international editions, Publish grew to become the leading circulation monthly in its category.
During his tenure, Gable launched
Publish RGB, an early entry into the Web-publishing market, undertook aggressive direct-mail marketing campaigns, launched the first
Publish event, and won several Maggie Awards, including Best Monthly Technology Publication. During his leadership, Integrated Media achieved record revenue and profit. Gable served on the Operational Review Boards of
PCWorld,
The Web,
PC Games and other IDG publications.
Gable joined Ziff-Davis, Inc. as a corporate vice president in 1999 and President of the Seybold Seminars and Publications division. At Seybold Gable oversaw conference, exhibition, publication and consulting activities to the design, Web and print-publishing industries. During his leadership, Seybold Seminars reached record attendance levels by attracting keynote speakers such as Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, Arthur Sulzberger Jr., Publisher of the
New York Times, Christie Heffner, CEO of Playboy Enterprises, Bruce Chizen, CEO of Adobe Systems, and many other industry luminaries and Web pioneers. The marketing of Seybold products drove 4-million pieces of direct marketing and creative advertising in over 75 periodicals each year. Over 45,000 people annually attended Seybold events.
As a public speaker and consultant, Gable has made appearances at events and conferences around the world, has written extensively for periodicals, is a contributing editor to several publications and helped author the book
Making it in the Media Professions, published by Simon and Schuster. He was an early advocate of Web and E-book delivery of information.
In his various executive roles Gable has dealt with all levels of finance, human resource, sales, fund-raising, marketing and other business challenges. He is a strong believer in research as the foundation of effective decision making and is well regarded by both employees and management. Gable has handled businesses during growth phase as well as shut-down and downsizing.
