Thrive Global Nabs Refinery29 Executive for Partnership Push

Arianna Huffington is plenty ambitious about the future of Thrive Global and is expanding its executive ranks to catch up with her plans To fill the role of Thrive’s first global chief business officer, Huffington has lured Ashley Miles away from her six years at Refinery29, where she was most recently chief client officer and head of advertising. In her new position, which she takes up later this month, Miles will lead all of Thrive’s sales and marketing efforts and oversee this year’s rollout of a new “product suite” aimed at changing behaviors that feed into professional stress and burnout, which it’s Thrive’s stated mission to combat. Huffington has also just hired Lars Bengston, publisher of Vice, to lead an expansion of branded content, as well as Laura Casing from Inverse as vice president of client solutions. Huffington has previously mined more established media brands to make big hires, last year bringing on Anne Sachs as chief content officer from her tenure at Condé Nast and leading digital for W magazine, as well as Marina Khidekel as editorial director from Meredith’s Women’s Health. Recent and upcoming products, which are essentially corporate programs designed by Thrive and strategic partners, include maternity and fertility, technology

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