With extensive strategic advisory and investment banking
experience serving media and publishing companies, Kemp
has developed a particular expertise working with
for-profit companies in developing mission focus as well
as with not-for-profit companies determined to acquire
greater business discipline. He has been a key architect
in the launch of new strategic business initiatives for
not-for-profit organizations as diverse as the Academy
of American Poets, Children’s Television Workshop
(Sesame Workshop), The National Geographic Society,
National Geographic Maps, National Geographic School
Publishing, and Public Radio International.
Prior to joining Tucker in 1988, Kemp was Managing
Director of the International Capital Markets Group for
Republic National Bank of New York. He began with
Republic in London as a Eurobond dealer for Republic’s
UK subsidiary. In 1988, Kemp co-founded Collector’s
Reprints, Inc., a hard cover specialty publisher, and
currently serves as a director. He was Chairman of the
Board of Direct Medical Knowledge in San Francisco until
its sale in 1999 to WebMD. Kemp is currently a director
of ALL Species, an international collaboration of
scientists to catalog the world’s species, GenomeWeb, a
news and information provider to the genomics industry,
Birds of North America, a joint venture between the
Cornell Labs and the American Ornithologist’s Union
and
The Academy of American Poets. He was an advisory member
of the Association of Educational Publishers.
Kemp began his career in publishing as an editor and
later manager of subsidiary rights for Doubleday &
Company, Inc. He is the author of three books: Great
American Folklore, Hearts of Fire and The Flame Keepers,
a story of Stalag 17 published in 2004. He is an
occasional correspondent to NBC’s The Today Show for
pieces about American history. Kemp earned his AB from
Harvard College cum laude.
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