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Nancy Dubuc

b. 1997

American businesswoman

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Born 1997. Nancy Dubuc is an editor and vice Media.

Nancy Jean Dubuc (born December 10, 1968 ) is an American businesswoman who served as chief executive officer of the American-Canadian media company Vice Media.

Early life and education Dubuc is the daughter of Carol D. Smith and Robert H. Dubuc Jr. Her parents later separated and remarried, giving Dubuc step-parents. She was raised in Bristol, Rhode Island,

Career Dubuc briefly worked in NBC's publicity department before leaving to become a producer at The Christian Science Monitor and the Boston television station WGBH-TV. She later joined the History Channel and became the channel's director of historical programming. Part of her role involved overseeing the cable networks History, A&E, and Lifetime. Under her leadership, the company delved into offering reality shows such as Duck Dynasty and other shows garnered large ratings. In 2013, Bloomberg called her "the show picker with the hottest hand in cable television". That year, Fortune included her on its list of 50 Most Powerful Women in Business. She has also been named to The Hollywood Reporters annual Power 100 list four times, from 2011 to 2014.

In 2016, Dubuc was listed on Vanity Fair's New Establishment List, described as 100 "Silicon Valley hotshots, Hollywood moguls, Wall Street titans, and cultural icons." She is also a member of the Peabody Awards board of directors, which is presented by the University of Georgia's Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication.

In March 2018, Dubuc was named the new CEO of Vice Media one day after officially announcing her departure from A&E Networks. She succeeded Vice co-founder Shane Smith, who transitioned into the role of executive chairman. Dubuc left her position at A&E on April 16, 2018. She stepped down as CEO of Vice in February 2023.

In 2025, she joined Togethxr as Executive Chair.

Personal life In 1997, she married Michael Rashid Kizilbash, an Iranian-American copyeditor, in a Roman Catholic ceremony in Rhode Island. She has a son and a daughter.

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Boston University College of Communication

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American businesswoman

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