Janet Balis is a Managing Director and Partner at BCG, focused on growth strategy at the intersection of the media, marketing and technology landscape. Previously, she led EY’s CMO Practice and their global consulting business for the Media and Entertainment industry.

She is an accomplished executive across the media industry, including serving as a Partner at Betaworks, Publisher of The Huffington Post, and leading Media Sales and Marketing for Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. She also spent over eight years at Time Warner and AOL.

Janet holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from Columbia College. She is on the global board of the MMA and co-chairs YPO’s Gotham chapter.

Janet was named in 2024 as a Top 25 Consultant in Sales and Marketing by Consulting Report, in 2018 as a Woman to Watch by Multichannel News, a 2017 Women of Excellence Award recipient by the National Association of Female Executives (NAFE), an Advertising Age 2010 Women to Watch, and a Crains Top 40 Under 40 in 2006.