KEVIN MOWBRAY
President and Publisher

Phone: 314-340-8970

E-mail: kmowbray@post-dispatch.com

Responsible for: Overall direction of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Background: Mowbray began his career with Lee in 1986 as an advertising sales representative in his hometown of Kewanee, Ill. He advanced to sales positions in Helena, Butte and Billings, Montana, before moving to Chicago as Lee's national sales manager for corporate sales and marketing. In 1995, he joined the Lincoln Journal Star as advertising manager, where he served three years before becoming general manager at the Missoulian in Missoula, Montana, in 1998. In 2000, he advanced to publisher of The Bismarck Tribune in Bismarck, North Dakota, where he guided the newspaper to the 2001 Lee President's Award for Enterprise of the Year. In 2002, he was appointed vice president for sales and marketing, and in 2004 he became a vice president for publishing and publisher of The Times of Northwest Indiana, based in Munster and serving the southern suburban Chicago market. In 2005, Suburban Newspapers of America honored The Times as Newspaper of the Year.