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Business 100 Profiles  Cathleen
Black
Hearst Magazines
As president of Hearst Magazines, one of the world’s largest publishers
of magazines, Cathleen Black has four decades of experience in the media
business.
Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Good Housekeeping, Harper's BAZAAR, Marie Claire,
and Oprah’s O are among the 19 titles she manages, and she is in
charge of almost 200 international editions of those magazines in more
than 100 countries. Black began her career selling small ads for Holiday
magazine and in 1979 she became the first woman publisher of a weekly
consumer magazine: New York.
For eight years she made a name for herself as president and then publisher
of USA Today. In 1991 she became President and CEO of the Newspaper Association
of America, before joining Hearst.
She serves as a member of the boards of IBM and the Coca-Cola Company,
and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. A third-generation
Irish-American, Black is married and has two children.
Her new nook Basic Black, on how she has achieved both personal and
professional fulfillment, has just been released.
 Tim
Brosnan
Major League Baseball
As Executive Vice President, Business of Major League Baseball, Tim Brosnan
oversees all domestic and business functions of Major League Baseball’s
Office of the Commissioner, including licensing, sponsorship, domestic
and international broadcasting, special events and MLB Productions.
Tim joined Major League Baseball’s Office of the Commissioner in
1991 and was quickly promoted to Chief Operating Officer of Major League
Baseball International.
In his current position he oversees the multi-billion-dollar enterprise
that baseball advertising and promotion has become. Brosnan foresees the
day when countries including Ireland will play in the World Baseball Classic,
an equivalent to soccer’s World Cup.
A second- generation Irish-American whose grandparents immigrated from
counties Kerry and Sligo, Kevin has visited Ireland many times and even
taken in a game in Dublin where Peter O’Malley, former chairman
of the Dodgers, gifted a baseball field. Kevin says that he thinks that
an Irish player in the major leagues is a real possibility in the future.
 Kevin
Burke
Consolidated Edison, Inc.
As Chairman, President, and CEO of Consolidated Edison, Kevin Burke has
spent the last 34 years at the company in
varied capacities. From 2000 to 2005, Kevin was President and COO of the
company’s principal subsidiary, Consolidated Edison Company of New
York, Inc. Before that, he was President of Orange and Rockland Utilities,
Inc., a subsidiary of Consolidated Edison.
Kevin received a Bachelor’s of Engineering from Cooper Union,
a Master’s of Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
a Master’s of Science from Columbia University, and a Juris Doctorate
degree from Fordham University. He later won the Urban Visionary in Engineering
Award from his alma mater, Cooper Union.
A second-generation Irish-American with roots in Cork, Kevin says: “My
Irish heritage reminds me of the importance of family. In family we find
stability, a moral foundation, and a strong work ethic. I also consider
the many challenges hat Irish people have faced, and how they met those
challenges with perseverance.”
Kevin is married with two children.
 Brian
Burns
BF Enterprises, Inc.
Brian Burns is chairman and president of BF Enterprises, Inc., a publicly-owned
real estate and development company.
The driving force behind some 40 corporate mergers, Burns is a nationally
regarded business executive. Before forming BF Enterprises, Brian served
as the Chairman to the Executive Committee at the Coca-Cola Bottling Company
of New York.
With roots in County Kerry and a strong connection to Ireland, Brian
is the founder and principal benefactor of the John J. Burns Library of
Rare Books, named for his father, at Boston College. The library houses
more than 150,000 volumes – the largest research collection of Irish
books in the United States.
A graduate of Harvard Law School, Brian sits on the Taoiseach’s
Economic Advisory Board, and serves on the Trinity College Foundation
Board in Dublin. He was also a principal benefactor of the Irish Famine
Memorial in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Brian is married to Eileen, who shares his passion for Ireland.
 Patrick
Burns
Anheuser-Busch
As the director of Anheuser-Busch’s Bud.TV/Sports Entertainment
Marketing, Patrick Burns works with marketing teams in identifying opportunities
for Budweiser and coordinating the line production for Bud TV content.
Patrick, a native of St. Louis, Missouri, earned a BS in Business Administration
from the University of Evansville. He began his career with Merchants
Bank in Deposit Products Administration, and moved to Anheuser-Busch Companies
in 1990.
His first job with Anheuser was as a Line Foreman but he soon rose through
the ranks occupying a number of positions over the years, including Wholesaler
Inventory Coordinator, Marketing Project Manager, International Sports
Marketing Manager, Geographic Marketing Manager, Senior Sports Marketing
Manager and Director.
A third-generation Irish-American with roots in County Carlow, Patrick
says of his Irish heritage: “The Dooleys and Burnses have handed
down values that have allowed me to look at each day with a little curiosity
that behind every situation you can find some humor.”
 Timothy
P. Cahill
Massachusetts State Treasury
Timothy P. Cahill serves as Massachusetts State Treasurer and Receiver
General. He was sworn in for his second term on January 17, 2007. As the
Commonwealth’s Chief Financial Officer, Tim brings a business-minded
approach to managing the state’s finances and has implemented better
business practices in the Treasury Department and affiliated agencies.
In 2005, Tim launched the first ever online auction of tangible property
in Massachusetts, and has returned over $4.6 billion of Lottery aid to
cities and towns across the state.
Prior to his election in 2002, Tim served as Norfolk County Treasurer
from 1997-2002, as a Quincy City Councilor from 1987-2003, and was a successful
small business owner and the author of a book about local businessmen.
He graduated from Boston University in 1981with a bachelor’s degree
in political science and was a recipient of the 2007 Eisenhower Fellowship.
Tim lives in Quincy with his wife, Tina, and their four daughters. He
is a third-generation Irish-American with roots in counties Wexford and
Dublin.
 Timothy
J. Cambias
Massey-Fair and MacSource
One of the South’s most successful businessmen, Timothy J. Cambias
is a majority shareholder in Massey-Fair, an industrial food brokerage
business with offices in Dallas, Nashville, Charlotte, Ocala and St. Louis,
and MacSource, a distributor of raw material to food manufacturers throughout
the Southeast.
He is also the founder and past president of National Industrial Marketing
Specialists.
Tim, who enjoys a Spanish surname, has both paternal and maternal roots
in Ireland. He was born in New Orleans, attended Jesuit High School and
graduated with honors from the University of Lafayette, Louisiana.
After college, Tim began his business career, in 1965, working for the
American Can Company. He joined Massey-Fair in 1972.
Tim and his wife, Mary Jane Moore, have been married since 1967. They
have three children, Kelly, Timothy and Katie, and three grandchildren,
Sarah, Patrick and Charles.
He has served as Secretary, Sergeant at Arms of the Atlanta Rotary Club
and is a current board member. He also supports St. Joseph’s Hospital,
St. Joseph’s Mercy Foundation, and The Marist School in Atlanta.
 Charles
P. Carey
CME Group
Charles P. Carey is Vice Chairman CME Group, the company which formed
when the Chicago Board of Trade and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange merged
in July 2007.
In his capacity as Chairman of the Chicago Board of Trade, a position
he was appointed to in 2003, Charles and his friend Terry Duffy, Chairman
of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, were the key players behind the historic
merger.
Peter grew up on Chicago’s South Side but then moved to the west
suburbs to attend Fenwick Franciscan High School. He transferred to Oak
Park-River Forest High School to play football as a middle guard.
After graduating from Western Illinois, he took a union job installing
electrical conduit in the underground downtown tunnels that would become
the site of the Great Chicago Flood of 1992 – not the typical route
for someone aspiring to become chairman of the Chicago Board of Trade.
He is a third-generation Irish-American, whose great-grandfather Simon
Carey, a blacksmith, came to Chicago from County Clare. It was there he
met and married Mary O’Brien from Roscommon. On his mother’s
side, Peter traces his roots to County Monaghan.
 Brian
Cashman
New York Yankees
Brian Cashman has been a part of the Yankees family since he was nineteen,
working as an intern in the club’s Minor League and Scouting Department.
In 1998, at age thirty-one Cashman became the second-youngest General
Manager in baseball history. Now serving as both Senior Vice President
and General Manager, he is the longest-tenured GM under George Steinbrenner.
Although Brian has spent the last twenty-one seasons with the Yankees,
his first position in baseball was as bat boy for the Los Angeles Dodgers
in spring training in 1982.
Brian has received many accolades for his work with the Yankees. He was
named “Executive of the Year” three times – by the Boston
chapter of the BBWAA in 2000; and in 1999 and 2003 by the New Jersey Sportswriters
Association. In 2005 he was honored with the “Ossie Davis Award
for Inspirational Leadership.” Brian attended Catholic University
where he played intercollegiate baseball and received a Bachelor’s
degree in History.
 Kieran
Claffey
Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP
Kieran Claffey is a partner at Pricewaterhouse Coopers LLP (PwC), a member
firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited. After joining PwC
in 1985, Kieran spent over ten years in the assurance practice primarily
servicing multinational clients.
He then transferred to the firm’s national office to focus on major
litigation and regulatory related issues. He is PwC’s representative
on two professional committees of the American Institute of Certified
Public Accountants: the Professional Issues Task Force and the Technical
Standards Committee.
Kieran was a founding member and director of the Ireland Chamber of Commerce
in the United States and a director of the European-American Chamber of
Commerce. He is currently the national treasurer and board member of the
Ireland-U.S. Council of Commerce & Industry.
Born in Dublin, Kieran received his BA from University College Dublin.
He is also a chartered accountant and a CPA. He lives in Manhattan with
his wife Michelle and three sons, Ryan, CJ and Steven.
 Patricia
M. Cloherty
Delta Private Equity Partners
Chairman and Co-Managing Partner of Delta Private Equity Partners, LLC,
Patricia Cloherty is manager of the U.S. Russia Investment Fund and Delta
Russia Fund, L.P., two venture capital funds. Prior to that, she was Co-Chairman,
President and General Partner of Apax Partners, Inc., a $10 billion private
equity company.
Patricia is a past President and Chairman of the National Venture Capital
Association of the U.S. In 1981, she was the founding President of the
Committee of 200, a prestigious organization of the country’s leading
women entrepreneurs and corporate executives.
The American Chamber of Commerce in Russia named her Businessperson of
the Year 2004.
She is a director of Columbia University, The U.S.-Russia Business Council,
Vesch! (Russia) and DeltaLeasing (Russia). Patricia earned a B.A. from
the San Francisco College for Women, and an M.A. and M.I.A. from Columbia
University.
A first-generation Irish-American whose father came from Kilkieran, Connemara,
County Galway, Patricia served in the Peace Corps in Brazil from 1963
through 1965.
 Frank
Comerford
WNBC-TV
Frank Comerford is the President and General Manager of WNBC-TV. Prior
to his current position, he served as Executive Vice President of Sales
and Marketing for the NBC Television Stations division. Frank has worked
for WNBC since 1994 when he joined the company as President of Sales.
An active member of the community, Frank serves on the Advisory Boards
of the Committee of Hispanic Children and Families, and the Child Abuse
Prevention Program, as well as a member of Lutheran Medical Center, the
Association for a Better New York, the Executive Board of NYC and Co.,
the Archdiocese of New York Catholic Charity, Xavier High School and the
Executive Board of the Television Bureau of Advertising.
A graduate of Georgetown University, he holds a B.S. in Business Administration
and Finance. Frank is a member of the AIF and the Ireland U.S. Council.
A fourth-generation Irish-American, he traces his roots to Kilkenny. He
and wife Maura live in New York.
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