C.J. Kettler

C.J. Kettler is the President of King Features, a division of Hearst Newspapers, and serves as a HearstLab Scout and Advisory Board Member. Kettler joined Hearst in 2017 and is leading the evolution of King Features, which boasts a portfolio of world-class IP including comics and pop culture brand franchises such as Popeye, The Phantom, Mandrake, Flash Gordon, and Cuphead. She is focused on digital transformation, entertainment, merchandising/licensing and direct-to-consumer businesses. The Cuphead Show!, an Emmy nominated animated series of 1930s-inspired cartoons, debuted on Netflix in 2022.

In prior roles, CJ was EVP, Consumer Brands & Strategy at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt until 2017, where she launched Curious World, a content subscription service for millennial families and produced the remake of the Emmy nominated Carmen Sandiego TV series which premiered on Netflix in 2019.

CJ was a founding member of the Oxygen Media management team, serving as President of Sales and Marketing; President of Travelzoo (NASDAQ: TZOO), a publicly held consumer internet company, Founder and CEO of LIME, the first multichannel wellness lifestyle brand funded by Steve Case’s Revolution, LLC and Founding Partner at Sunbow Entertainment, a top ranked independent program supplier, where, as President and CEO, she negotiated the sale of the company to Sony Music Entertainment in 1999.

Kettler holds a B.A. degree from Smith College, and serves as a Board Director on the NorthSouth Productions Board, All3D (both Hearst investments) as well as the Environmental Working Group (EWG).