Christopher M. Schroeder is CEO of HealthCentral, the highest quality collection of condition and wellness-specific interactive experiences focused on people finding and sharing real-life experiences related to their health needs.
HealthCentral also manages the leading condition-specific health online advertising network. The Company has partnerships with leading online health tools (such as Microsoft’s HealthVault) and with over 25 leading health non-profits (such as BreastCancer.org). HealthCentral’s sites reach over 11 million unique users each month. Backed by Polaris Ventures, Sequoia Capital, The Carlyle Group and Allen & Co., and IAC/Interactive Corp (IAC). IAC CEO Barry Diller serves on the company’s Board of Directors.
A veteran of online media, Schroeder served as CEO and Publisher of Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, which hosts washingtonpost.com and newsweek.msnbc.com, among other leading news sites. During his tenure, the Company more than quadrupled in revenue and audience, and reached profitability. Previously, Schroeder was CEO and President of LEGI-SLATE, INC, a leading online provider of information on federal and state legislation and regulation for businesses, law firms, government and other organizations. After implementing significant reorganization and operational improvements, Schroeder successfully negotiated the sale of LEGI-SLATE in 1999.
Prior to joining The Washington Post, Schroeder was a partner with Thayer Capital Partners, a leading private equity company in Washington, DC, and with the investment bank Salomon Brothers in New York, focusing on corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions projects for a wide range of Fortune 500 companies. Schroeder has also had extensive government experience, serving in leading management roles in President George Bush’s 1988 and 1992 election campaigns, and working on Secretary of State James A. Baker’s staff with then Under Secretary (and currently President of the World Bank) Robert Zoellick.
Schroeder was a co-founder, and served as Chairman, of the Online Publishers Association (OPA), a leading research and information organization comprised of the CEOs of top online quality content publishers (including MSNBC, The NY Times, Dow Jones, ESPN.) He has won numerous awards, including 2008 PharmaVOICE Top 100 Most Inspiring People in Life Sciences, was one of the first interactive executives named to the American Advertising (AAF) Hall of Achievement (a national annual award honoring the leading executives in advertising under the age of 40), and The Silver Medal Award from the AAF and Advertising Club of Metropolitan Washington. Schroeder was named one of the top 40 business executives to watch by Business Forward Magazine, and named among the top 50 most influential people in online media and interactive advertising by Media Magazine.
Schroeder is a member of The Council on Foreign Relations, serves on the board of the National Cathedral elementary school, and is active in several non-profits. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College and with honors from Harvard Business School. He is married to Alexandra Coburn, and has three children: Jack 12, Julia 10 and Ben 7.
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