Art Bushnell
SVP, Business Development
Art Bushnell is a seasoned media executive with experience in reporting, editing, sales and business development. As SVP of Business Development at Grab Networks, Bushnell heads the sales and business development teams, signing content partners and publishers to build the company’s distribution business.
Prior to Grab, Bushnell led the internet business development efforts at Thompson. Previously, he spent 11 years at Reuters, where he headed the Media Division in North America, leading a period of expansion of reporting and growing the company’s newspaper and broadcast business in the US. He was an internet pioneer, doing the first deals to place wire service print and photo content on-line, before spinning off the Reuters New Media division. Bushnell began his career as a reporter and editor for UPI before moving into sales and business development, where he eventually rose to deputy CEO and acting president of UPI. Bushnell attended the University of Oregon.