Jon Steinberg

Jon Steinberg is a Managing Director in the Media, Entertainment, and Sports Group at Lazard.

He was most recently the CEO of Future Plc.

Previously, he was the President of Altice USA News & Advertising.

Prior to Altice USA, he founded Cheddar News in 2016, which was then acquired by Altice USA in June of 2019.

Prior to Cheddar, Steinberg was the Chief Executive Officer of DailyMail.com North America. Steinberg grew U.S. revenue 45% while at Daily Mail and doubled direct advertising revenue.

He joined DailyMail.com from BuzzFeed where he was President & Chief Operating Officer, responsible for business management, company operations, finance, and social advertising operations from 2010 to 2014. Under his leadership, BuzzFeed became a global and profitable social advertising business working with over half of the top 100 brands. He grew the company from 15 employees to over 500. Steinberg was named one of Advertising Age’s Media Mavens and 40 Under 40.

Steinberg was previously a Strategic Partner Development Manager on Google’s SMB (small medium business) partnerships team.

As a high schooler, he was an intern in Walt Disney Imagineering’s research and development group.

Steinberg is a graduate of Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (Senior Thesis) and holds an MBA from Columbia University.