Tony Cook

Tony Cook has been a journalist, manager, and entrepreneur in the media business for more than 30 years. A graduate of Johns Hopkins University and the London School of Economics, he began his career as a financial reporter, writing for Forbes, Money, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times .  In 1996, Tony was recruited to manage a series of successful early-stage Internet companies, including search pioneer Excite where his team built the firm’s directory. Subsequently, he was managing editor and publisher of Intuit’s $40 million Quicken.com business and general manager of My Family.com, the leading portal for family history on the Web.

In 2003 Tony formed online marketing firm Cook Media, which provides small and medium-sized companies with a range of e-business strategy and marketing services. Tony also serves as president of the MacJannet Foundation, which provides scholarships, grants and awards for international education programs and co-sponsors the annual MacJannet Prize for Global Citizenship. He attended the MacJannet Camp in 1954, as did his father, Howard Cook, who was a student at the MacJannet Elms School in Paris in the 1920s and was a co-founder of the MacJanet Foundation. Tony lives in Sausalito, California with his wife of 33 years, journalist, broadcaster, novelist  and public speaker, Ciji Ware.