“The Enduring Power of Audio”

John von Brachel, SVP, Content Marketing Executive, manages Bank of America’s Content Center of Excellence. In this role, John oversees enterprise-wide content strategy, the integration of content programs across the company and the tracking and measurement of content marketing success. Prior to joining Bank of America, John was a Group Managing Editor at Time Inc. John joined Time Inc. from Individual Investor magazine and, prior to that, he lived in Europe as the Foreign Correspondent for Faulkner and Gray. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Poetry under David Smith at Virginia Commonwealth University, and is a graduate of New York University’s Master’s in Science Program in Publishing.

Patrick Ricci leads audio/video content production within Schwab’s Brand Journalism organization, which creates and distributes editorial content in various formats to help investors make more informed decisions about their portfolios and finances. His team has launched three podcasts and also consults on other shows. Patrick previously served as digital managing editor, overseeing the Insights & Ideas website, the Schwab Intelligent Portfolios® blog, and the firm’s YouTube channel. Prior to joining Schwab in 2015, he worked in content strategy roles at a large tech company and as an editor for an educational publisher, developing content for textbooks and related media. He received his bachelor’s in English and philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin and his master’s from St. Edward’s University.

Sam Dolnick is an assistant managing editor who oversees The New York Times’s audio report, its work in film and television, and other digital projects. He helped launch “The Daily,” one of the top podcasts in the country, as well as “The Weekly,” The Times’s television show on FX and Hulu, where he is an executive producer. Before that he helped introduce The Times’s early experiments in virtual reality and other mobile journalism initiatives. Before becoming an editor, Mr. Dolnick won the George Polk Award for Justice Reporting in 2013 for his yearlong investigation into dysfunction inside New Jersey's privately run halfway houses. Before joining the masthead, he worked as a deputy Sports editor overseeing investigative and feature stories about amateur cage-fighting, horse racing, and the Sochi Olympics. He joined The Times in 2009 as a metro reporter covering the Bronx and immigrant communities across the city. He has written features for the Sunday magazine, including a profile of the Sinaloa cartel's 90 year-old drug mule, and for Style, where he wrote about a man who decided to become the most ignorant person in President Trump’s America. Before joining The Times, Mr. Dolnick worked as a foreign correspondent for The Associated Press in New Delhi, where he covered India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal. He began his career as a reporter at The Staten Island Advance.