John WilpersPrincipal, Katahdin Media Management
After 35 years as a writer, editor, and media executive, John Wilpers has consulted for the last 14 years with media companies around the world helping them transform from unprofitable, depressed, endangered print-centric operations into profitable, energized, multimedia, multi-platform, 24-7 content- and revenue-generation operations.
John's recent projects include: a multi-title Norwegian B2B publisher, a pan-Asian consumer magazine group, two major American B2B media companies, two South African media groups, an Italian multi-newspaper group, an Indian multi-magazine publisher, a Czech multimedia publisher, two American consumer magazines, and the University of Virginia.
From 2010-2021, John was the author of the annual "Innovations in Media World Report" published by the world association of magazines (FIPP).
Outside of media, John runs a global jazz blog (
GlobalRhythms.net). He also started and still runs a self-esteem-building soccer program for girls ages 2-6, graduating 5,000 girls since 1996 (
hotshotssoccer.org ). He is a long-board surfer, gardener, and was "Mother Ginger" in “The Nutcracker" in Boston for 22 years.