From writers to designers to developers to marketers to managers to people who just make things work, The Gawker Media Group is a collective of over 150 exceptional people. Headquartered in New York City with contributors in offices as far away as Europe and beyond, the company is led by an expert team of four executives: 


Nick Denton
Founder & Publisher

Nick Denton is founder of Gawker Media. Before building a media business out of blogs, Nick founded two internet ventures in the late 1990s: Moreover Technologies, the news search provider, acquired by Verisign; and First Tuesday. Nick -- who is half-Hungarian -- began his media career as a reporter for the Economist and the Financial Times during the fall of communism in Eastern Europe. While the FT's investment banking correspondent he co-wrote All That Glitters, the account of the rogue trader who brought down Barings Bank.

Gaby Darbyshire
Chief Operating Officer

Gaby is the COO of Gawker Media, overseeing legal, finance, business development, HR and operations for the company. She has been largely involved in the new media world since moving to San Francisco from London in 1999. In prior lives, she was involved in strategy and legal affairs for a number of startups, started a wine company, was a management consultant, and many moons ago was a barrister in London, wig and all.

Andrew Gorenstein
Chief Advertising Officer

Andrew Gorenstein is the Chief Advertising Officer of Gawker Media.  In this capacity, Andrew manages Gawker's Sales, Marketing, Creative, and Ad Operations teams in addition to setting the company's go-to market strategy while also sitting on the company's Executive Management team. Prior to joining Gawker in July of 2011, Andrew was Senior Executive Director for the Conde Nast Media Group, overseeing day-to-day digital sales operations. Prior to that assignment, Andrew held several management roles as part of Conde Nast’s Business and Digital Group and was instrumental in the company’s digital turnaround. Andrew is a seasoned digital sales executive with over a decade of digital experience, which began back in 1999 at OgilvyOne. In 2000, he moved to the publishing world with United Business Media and then Forbes.com before joining Conde Nast in 2006. A graduate of Boston University with a BA in History, Andrew resides in Northern NJ with his wife, Daniela, and two sons, Nicolas & Julian.

Tom Plunkett
Chief Technology Officer

Thomas Plunkett is Gawker Media's Chief Technology Officer, overseeing Technology and Product development. Prior to joining Gawker Media in 2005, Thomas was CTO of Bolt Media, one of the first social networking sites, and spent several years in academia, co-founding sites focused on education and content in the fields of Archaeology and Anthropology. More recently he is the co-founder of SuperGlued, a social music event platform, and in the recent past co-founded a video management and sharing web site. He attended the University of Connecticut where he earned his Masters in Anthropology. When not working you will find him cycling and kayaking around and near New York City.