Jessica Sibley | |
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_(cropped).jpg) Sibley in 2025 | |
| Born | 1969 (age 56–57) |
| Alma mater | Hobart and William Smith Colleges |
| Occupation | Business executive |
| Organization | TIME |
| Title | CEO |
| Term | Nov. 21, 2022 - present |
| Predecessor | Edward Felsenthal |
| Board member of | The B Team,Ad Council |
Jessica Sibley (born circa 1969) is an American business executive.[1] Currently CEO ofTIME,[2] she has previously held executive roles at theWall Street Journal,[1]Condé Nast,[3] andBusinessWeek.[1] She was publisher ofThe Week,[4] and held roles atForbes includingchief sales officer,chief revenue officer,[5] andchief operating officer.[6] She was appointedTIME CEO in November 2022.[7]
Born circa 1969,[1][4] Jessica Sibley graduated fromHobart and William Smith Colleges inGeneva, New York.[8]
Early in her career, Sibley worked at theWall Street Journal as vice president of multimedia sales for New York, New England and Europe.[1] She also held senior roles at the publisherCondé Nast,[9] including executive director and associate publisher positions at Condé Nast titlesThe New Yorker andTeen Vogue.[8] Sibley was named senior vice president and worldwide publisher ofBusinessWeek[1] in early 2008. She was hired as the news publisher ofThe Week on June 28, 2010.[4]
In June 2014,Forbes appointed her VP of advertising sales for the Eastern Region.[10] She subsequently served as the company's senior VP of US and Europe,[9] as well aschief sales officer. She was appointedchief revenue officer in January 2020,[5] thenchief operating officer in January 2022.[8] Along with revenue operations and sales, atForbes she was responsible for the BrandVoice, Insights, and ForbesLive platforms.[11] According toForbes CEOMike Federle, as CRO, she "led the sales organization to three consecutive years of record results."[12]
On November 21, 2022, she was appointed the CEO ofTIME[9] byTIME ownersMarc and Lynne Benioff,[13] succeedingEdward Felsenthal.[3] Stating that she intended for the company to be "cash flow positive" by 2025, she oversaw a number of immediate changes.[2] According to Sibley, her first focus was pivoting the company away frombusiness-to-consumer revenues tobusiness-to-business revenues, resulting inTIME dropping its online paywall in June 2023.[14] She also hired new executives, including new chief revenue officers in 2022,[15] a new editor-in-chief in 2023,[16] and a new chief strategy officer in 2024.[17] She oversaw layoffs atTIME in 2024,[18][19][2] calling them necessary to improve the company's financial position. The layoffs were criticized by The NewsGuild of New York and the Time Union.[18]
In late 2024, she stated that the B2B revenue pivot was proving successful, with B2B advertising revenue up 18% from the year prior.TIME also partnered withChatGPT that year,[14] when she oversawTIME signing a deal withOpenAI to give it access to the magazine's content archive. Espousing AI, she also oversaw aTIMEAI podcast and various AI features on theTIME website.[20] Sibley had overseen a significant increase in the number ofTIME100 lists by 2025, also increasing the number ofTIME-hosted gala events with corporate sponsorships, from seven events in 2023 to thirty events by late 2024.[2]
On October 15, 2025, Sibley interviewed Japanese rock starYoshiki in a special presentation atDreamforce 2025, discussing his self-created conversationalAIavatar and the need for integrity and co-existence between artists and AI.[21]
Sibley is a member ofThe B Team, a business non-profit,[22] and is on the board of theAd Council.[8] She has also been a board advisor ofHer Campus Media, the Business Marketing Association,[8] theInternational Advertising Association,[11] Chief, and Prota Fiori. Sibley was co-chair of IAB's CRO Council.[8]
She accepted a "We the Peoples Global Leadership Award" on behalf ofTIME from theUnited Nations Foundation in 2024.[23]
Sibley lives in New York City[8] with her husband and two children.[11]