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“Every day is a learning experience”: A conversation with the new IDW CEO Davidi Jonas
As IDW undergoes a "reset", we talk to the person who pressed the reset button: new IDW CEO Davidi Jonas
Even in an industry with a flair for theatrics, Davidi Jonas’s arrival as CEO of IDW Media Holdings (the parent company of IDW Publishing and IDW Entertinmant) could be called dramatic, and not for the reasons he may have intended. The announcement on April 27 that Jonas was replacing outgoing CEO Allan Grafman came amid a blitz of layoffs at the financially embattled company, with some 39% of the staff removed over the course of a single day, and the company’s stock de-listed from publicly-traded exchanges. It was an inauspicious debut for a figure that few comic readers had heard of prior to his new role.
Jonas came to IDW by way of IDT Corporation, a company founded by his father Howard Jonas which purchased a majority stake in IDW in 2007 prior to spinning it back off into an independent
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