THE HUM TEAM

Created by a former CNN executive with a team of seasoned and innovative technologists; veteran business, news, content and humanitarian executives, HUM is uniquely positioned to become the global one-stop information and media source.

Joy E. DiBenedetto | President/CEO - Joy DiBenedetto is the Founding Chair, CEO and Managing Director of the All-Nation content and information company (HUM): Human Unlimited Media, LLC; whose flagship agency HUMNEWS, is currently mass-casted across more than 60 social media accounts. An award-winning 25-year journalist she’s covered every major global event in successively senior positions, from the studio and in the field; domestically and internationally, as a producer, manager and entrepreneur.

She is the immediate past President/CEO of the venerable, Friendship Force International (FFI); an NGO founded by President Jimmy Carter in 1977, serving from July 2013-November 2015. (FFI) is a worldwide network of clubs and individuals who advance a mission of promoting global understanding across the barriers that separate people by conducting 400 cultural travel exchange programs in more than 70 countries each year. The organization was honored with a Nobel-peace prize nomination in 1992 and under her leadership transitioned to a new 3-year strategic plan. She launched the global `NextGen Youth Council’, and returned the organization to the Nobel arena with the largest children’s peace art exhibition displayed at the 2015 Barcelona, Spain `World Summit of Nobel Laureates’. 

Until March of 2008, she was the global vice president of network booking and research for the CNN News Group, where she oversaw daily and long-term guest coverage for CNN’s domestic and international news networks and platforms, managing a worldwide editorial staff.  Prior to this, DiBenedetto served as director of network booking for CNN’s domestic networks. 

While at CNN, she developed and managed the Newsource affiliate guest booking service called “GuestSource”; created the first internet interview programming for CNN.COM; and developed CNN's exclusive collaborative guest booking system. Before joining CNN, she worked in Turner Broadcasting's corporate finance division on M&A research; and was previously a Press Officer for Southeast Asia and Latin America for the international humanitarian organization CARE; as well as a caseworker handling senior citizens for New York City and working as a travel agent.

Her collective work throughout a broad and vast professional career spans both the media industry and a devotion to humanitarian interests, and international development non-profit work at both a high and grassroots level. These interests are reflected in a multitude of projects produced and designed to bring both of these passions together.

DiBenedetto is a graduate of Marymount Manhattan College with a bachelor’s degree in speech pathology/audiology. A recipient of a George Foster Peabody award, a DuPont, and a Jack Myers Media award for Innovation; she’s also a Marshall Memorial fellow and a UN Foundation `Global Health Press Fellow' who sits on numerous advisory and directorial boards.

She often speaks publicly about the media industry, international business strategy and the need for a more globalized geographic landscape. DiBenedetto believes that what unites us as a world community - can be beneficial to both business and individuals, helping all to progress.   You can read more about her work here:  http://linkedin/JOYDIBENEDETTO

Jill Brevda | Chief Marketing Officer - 25 years experience developing innovative programming and projects for television, CBS News/ABC News; as well as strategic marketing efforts for technology companies Intel, Archos and Olympus. Brevda sits at the juncture of  mass media and technology and has built a successful career at the intersection of some of the biggest brands in history. She currently works with clients as a Creative Marketing Consultant developing plans and business relationships joining innovation companies and content providers; creating new ways for consumers to get information and entertainment by devising products and campaigns for  all to extend their brand through the use of technology.  She has been able to use this power and reach to explain and showcase technology, seamlessly integrated products into television and films, presented quite regularly in real-life situations. Working with both small and large technology companies, and large content providers simultaneously including Archos and Olympus. Previously, Brevda was the first ever Broadcast Marketing Manager for Intel Corporation when the company initiated a marketing program for the Connected Products Division and other branded products groups focused on the integration of consumer-based technology products into television shows and movies.  She began her career at WABC-TV, N.Y. as the Segments Producer; spent five years with CBS NEWS: New York and Washington, D.C. as a Producer, Production Manager and Director for ad firms LINTAS and Sussan and Company; and the Full Moon Interactive Group.  She is a proud 1980 School of Speech graduate of Northwestern University where she discovered her passion for vegetarianism.    

Andrew B. Drooker ǀ Chief Digital Officer - 25 yrs technology experience as Systems Manager, CTO, VP of R&D for firms such as Turner Broadcasting, The Gallup Org., Weather Channel and large insurance firms.  Drooker began his `professional’ career at Georgia State University at the age of 15, writing SPSS procedures (FORTRAN) for government sponsored projects.  Upon graduating from high school, he continued studying Computer Science, Statistics and Political Science at Georgia State.  In 1986, he built the first LAN on campus for The Center for Public & Urban Research.  In 1989, Ted Turner hired him as the System Specialist/Project Manager to create an electronic inventory system to prevent overbooking for his networks ad management.  For the next 16 years, taking a year off from Turner to work for The Gallup Organization and then returning to Turner as VP of Research and Development, he again left in 2004 to become CTO of a regional insurance company.   Two years later, he returned to broadcasting at The Weather Channel where he as Director of Technology he directs all infrastructure and ad system projects.  As an innovator who builds systems for fun, he is always looking out for the next milestone in the media field.   Andy is also one of the world’s foremost collectors and historian of comic book art who has his own shop; and an extreme showbiz buff, he writes a regular entertainment blog.