Fortune managing editor Andy Serwer sent out the following staff hire announcement on Monday afternoon:
We are delighted to annouce the arrival of two key employees to Fortune, Roland Jones and Scott DeCarlo. Both are highly talented and good people too. To paraphrase Dan Patrick over at SI, just our types.
Roland Jones will join Fortune.com as News Editor later this month. Before spending the past year as a Senior Editor for our own Time Inc. Content Solutions group, Roland spent 10 years at NBC News Digital in a variety of capacities, including editor of the financial and business news section for NBCNews.com, special projects editor, and a markets columnist. Born and raised in the United Kingdom, Roland got his B.A. at the University of Birmingham and his master’s in journalism at Columbia University. He’ll soon be graduating with a MBA from NYU’s Stern School of Business. Roland will hire and oversee reporters for our forthcoming breaking news desk. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Sandra.
Scott DeCarlo comes to Fortune this week as our new List Editor. For the next few months, Scott will be working alongside Mike Cacace, who is retiring later this summer after doing a brilliant job for the past 17-plus years of overseeing the Fortune 500, Global 500, World’s Most Admired, and other lists. Scott joins us from Forbes, where he spent more than 24 years in the statistics department and was most recently the editor of the wealth team. He has an enormous amount of experience at turning data into editorial content. In his time at Forbes, Scott has helped produce the Forbes 400 list of richest Americans, the Forbes 500 list of large companies, the Global 2000, the 400 Largest Private Companies list, and many more, including the current cover package on the World’s Billionaires. As we prepare for the re-launch of Fortune.com at the beginning of June, Scott will be working on new ways to highlight the list data that we produce digitally. Scott grew up just north of New York City, in Yonkers, and he always knew just about everybody in town. That’s because they all came in to Big Tony’s Jumbo Wedges, the deli that his grandfather, Big Tony, ran for years. (On top of his skill with databases, Scott makes a mean Italian combo hoagie.) After graduating from Iona College with a finance degree in 1989, Scott got his first job at Forbes as a temp in the stats department, requesting 10-Ks and 10-Qs from companies by fax or (gasp!) mail. Scott lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Alexandra Kirkman, and their ragdoll cat, Francis.
Please join us in welcoming Roland and Scott.
