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Director
barletta@metrorisk.com
Joseph F. Barletta, a founding director of the company, is an attorney and business consultant with an extensive media and legal background. He is currently a director of several companies, both public and private, and has served on the boards of more than twenty commercial as well as not-for-profit corporations. Joe provides ongoing consultation to the management of METRO/RISK on matters of corporate governance.
Joe has served as either Chief Executive Officer or Chief Operating Officer of TV Guide magazine, San Francisco Newspaper Agency (San Francisco Chronicle and San Francisco Examiner), Thomson Newspapers, the New York Daily News, Freedom Communications, and Murdoch Magazines. At the time, these companies included the nation's largest metropolitan newspaper, the nation's largest weekly magazine, the nation's largest joint operating agency, and the nation's largest newspaper group by number of units. He has also been a vice president of the Chicago Tribune and an executive of The Wall Street Journal.
Joe first practiced law in Pennsylvania with his father. He later was a New York City partner in the firm of Seyfarth, Shaw, Fairweather & Geraldson and in recent years was of counsel in that firm's San Francisco Office. He has also served as a Public Utilities Commissioner of the City and County of San Francisco and as Advisory Counsel to Independent Counsels David Barrett and Donald Smaltz in Washington, D.C.
He resides in the Napa Valley with his wife Karen.
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