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34 Annual Leadership 100 Conference
Alexis Christoforous,
ABC News Award-Winning-Journalist,
to Address Forum on Saturday, February 22
Alexis
Christoforous
is a New Yorkbased anchor
and
correspondent
for ABC News.
An awardwinningjournalist, she
focuses
primarily on
business and
consumer
news, reporting across the ABC News platform including
for Good Morning America, World News Tonight,
GMA3, ABC News Live, ABC Radio Network, and over
200 ABC affiliate TV stations nationwide.
Christoforous is the creator and host of GMA3’s awardwinning series, Trailblazing Women, highlighting diverse
game changing women. She is also the creator and host
of “Ask Alexis,” a weekly segment on ABC News Live in
which Christoforous answers viewers' personal finance
questions.
Christoforous is a fill-in
anchor for ABC News Live,
ABC’s award-winning 24/7
streaming news channel; she also writes business related
articles for abcnews.com.
Christoforous has covered major business news events
including The World Economic Forum in Davos,
Switzerland, Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway annual
shareholder meeting, the Madoff scandal, the 9/11
attacks, the collapse of Lehman Brothers, The Great
Recession, the internet bubble and burst, the housing
bubble, and the crypto craze.
Christoforous has conducted news making interviews
with some of the biggest names in business and politics
including Mary Barra, Marc Benioff, Michael
Bloomberg, Richard Branson, Warren Buffett, Hillary
Clinton, Mark Cuban, Jack Dorsey, Arianna Huffington,
Sheryl Sandberg, Donald Trump, and Meg Whitman. In
addition to her business reporting, Christoforous has
also interviewed many top celebrities including Jennifer
Aniston, Tony Bennett, Matt Damon, Madonna, Sara
Jessica Parker, and Ringo Starr.
Prior to ABC News, Christoforous was an anchor and
correspondent for Yahoo Finance where she hosted a
daily two hour show interviewing market movers,
business leaders and CEOs of Fortune 500 companies.
She was also creator and host of the weekly podcast
“Electionomics.”
Before Yahoo Finance, Christoforous spent 15 years at
CBS News as an anchor and correspondent, reporting for
all shows including The CBS Evening News, CBS This
Morning and CBS Sunday Morning with Charles
Osgood. Christoforous also anchored the network news
programs CBS Morning News and CBS Up to the
Minute and was anchor and managing editor of the
nationally syndicated program CBS MarketWatch
Weekend.
Christoforous began her business news career at
Bloomberg Television and Radio where she helped
launch Bloomberg Television. She also anchored the
national PBS program “Bloomberg Morning News” and
was Bloomberg's first correspondent to report live from
the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.
A native New Yorker, Christoforous is a graduate of
Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and
Performing Arts and is an advocate of arts in education.
She graduated cum laude from New York University with
a BA in Broadcast Journalism and has served as an
adjunct professor at NYU. She resides in Manhattan with
her husband and their three children.
Full Video Coverage of the 34th Annual Leadership 100 Conference at www.L100.org and YouTube/TheLeadership100
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