Jessica Sibley

Jessica Sibley (born circa 1969) is an American business executive.^[1] Currently CEO of TIME,^[2] she has previously held executive roles at the Wall Street Journal,^[1] Condé Nast,^[3] and BusinessWeek.^[1] She was publisher of The Week,^[4] and held roles at Forbes including chief sales officer, chief revenue officer,^[5] and chief operating officer.^[6] She was appointed TIME CEO in November 2022.^[7]

Born circa 1969,^[1][4] Jessica Sibley graduated from Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York.^[8]

Early in her career, Sibley worked at the Wall Street Journal as vice president of multimedia sales for New York, New England and Europe.^[1] She also held senior roles at the publisher Condé Nast,^[9] including executive director and associate publisher positions at Condé Nast titles The New Yorker and Teen Vogue.^[8] Sibley was named senior vice president and worldwide publisher of BusinessWeek^[1] in early 2008. She was hired as the news publisher of The Week on June 28, 2010.^[4]

In June 2014, Forbes appointed her VP of advertising sales for the Eastern Region.^[10] She subsequently served as the company's senior VP of US and Europe,^[9] as well as chief sales officer. She was appointed chief revenue officer in January 2020,^[5] then chief operating officer in January 2022.^[8] Along with revenue operations and sales, at Forbes she was responsible for the BrandVoice, Insights, and ForbesLive platforms.^[11] According to Forbes CEO Mike Federle, as CRO, she "led the sales organization to three consecutive years of record results."^[12]

On November 21, 2022, she was appointed the CEO of TIME^[9] by TIME owners Marc and Lynne Benioff,^[13] succeeding Edward Felsenthal.^[3] Stating that she intended for the company to be "cash flow positive" by 2025, she oversaw a number of immediate changes.^[2] According to Sibley, her first focus was pivoting the company away from business-to-consumer revenues to business-to-business revenues, resulting in TIME dropping its online paywall in June 2023.^[14] She also hired new executives, including new chief revenue officers in 2022,^[15] a new editor-in-chief in 2023,^[16] and a new chief strategy officer in 2024.^[17] She oversaw layoffs at TIME in 2024,^[18][19][2] calling them necessary to improve the company's financial position. The layoffs were criticized by The NewsGuild of New York and the Time Union.^[18]

In late 2024, she stated that the B2B revenue pivot was proving successful, with B2B advertising revenue up 18% from the year prior. TIME also partnered with ChatGPT that year,^[14] when she oversaw TIME signing a deal with OpenAI to give it access to the magazine's content archive. Espousing AI, she also oversaw a TIME AI podcast and various AI features on the TIME website.^[20] Sibley had overseen a significant increase in the number of TIME100 lists by 2025, also increasing the number of TIME-hosted gala events with corporate sponsorships, from seven events in 2023 to thirty events by late 2024.^[2]

On October 15, 2025, Sibley interviewed Japanese rock star Yoshiki in a special presentation at Dreamforce 2025, discussing his self-created conversational AI avatar and the need for integrity and co-existence between artists and AI.^[21]

Sibley is a member of The B Team, a business non-profit,^[22] and is on the board of the Ad Council.^[8] She has also been a board advisor of Her Campus Media, the Business Marketing Association,^[8] the International Advertising Association,^[11] Chief, and Prota Fiori. Sibley was co-chair of IAB's CRO Council.^[8]  

She accepted a "We the Peoples Global Leadership Award" on behalf of TIME from the United Nations Foundation in 2024.^[23]

Sibley lives in New York City^[8] with her husband and two children.^[11]