JOHN KILCULLEN
President & Publisher, Billboard Information Group
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John joined VNU in March, 2003 and is responsible for its music, radio and literary publishing properties including Billboard, Airplay Monitor, Bookseller and Kirkus Reviews.

John Kilcullen graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in Communications from Fordham College in New York. Before joining IDG Books Worldwide, he spent nine years in various sales and marketing management positions at publishing industry leaders Prentice-Hall, the Bantam/Doubleday/Dell Publishing Group and computer book publisher Que. Mr. Kilcullen has been profiled in the Investor's Business Daily, The New York Times, People Magazine, and USA Today and has been seen in CNBC, CNN, and CNNfn. Most recently, John was named one of Irish American's Business 100 of 2003.

In 1987, over dinner with a friend, John was kicking around some new ideas for computer books. He kept coming back to a remark made by a customer in a Software Etc. store who requested a book in the DOS operating system. The customer said that he needed a simple, basic book because he didn't know anything about computers. "Something," he suggested, "like DOS for dummies." The rest, as they say, is history with more than 100 million Dummies® books in print and of 750 different For Dummies titles on technology and general reference topics.

By 1998, IDG Books had grown to sales of $200 million and Kilcullen took the venture public in a successful IPO. Kilcullen used IPO proceeds to later acquire the company which published Cliff Notes, Macmillan General Reference, and Hungry Minds, an internet start-up which billed itself as a one-stop online learning marketplace for adults, students and companies. Hungry Minds offered courses on a variety of academic subjects, as well as for those simply looking for new skills or certification. Kilcullen later rebranded IDG Books into Hungry Minds Inc.

Hungry Minds Inc. was acquired in 2001 by educational publisher John Wiley & Sons Inc. in a deal valued at $182.5 million, including assumed debt.

Kilcullen is a frequent lecturer on corporate entrepreneurship at Babson College's School for Executive Education and on publishing at the Stanford Professional Publishing Course. He is also a board member of Kindermusik International.

Kilcullen resides in New York City with his wife, Jessica, and is father to two sons: Sean and new arrival, Conor.