Longtime CEO of Institutional Investor is stepping down

Diane Alfano

Diane Alfano, the CEO of Institutional Investor — which controls the Institutional Investor media brand along with global events and research businesses — is stepping down effective June 30.

Editor in chief Kip McDaniel writes, “Alfano has worked for Institutional Investor since 1984. She was named chairman and CEO of the company’s non-publishing businesses in 2010, adding the publishing group to her responsibilities in 2017.

“Her resignation comes as Euromoney, Institutional Investor’s publicly-traded parent company, moves to combine Institutional Investor with sister companies BCA Research and NDR into a new asset management division.

“The incoming CEO of the combined unit has yet to be named. A search is being conducted by executive recruiting firm Korn Ferry.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.