Eason Jordan is the founder and CEO of Oryx Strategies, a New York-based strategic planning, communications and media consulting company.

An award-winning entrepreneur and executive, he helped launch and lead CNN, NowThis and the Malala Fund.

At CNN, he rose through the ranks to become the network's chief news executive and president of newsgathering and international networks, overseeing CNN's news coverage and international outlets, expansion and relations.

Jordan later served as the founding general manager of NowThis, a groundbreaking millennial-focused mobile, social video news service.

More recently, as the first director at the girls' education-focused Malala Fund, he worked as the closest adviser to Malala Yousafzai, the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and UN Messenger of Peace.


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