NETA Consulting Team
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Meet Our Team
Skip Hinton served as the president of NETA and its predecessor, the Southern Educational Communications Association, from 1989 to 2017. In this role he also provided staff leadership for the public television Affinity Group Coalition, a policy and planning association that represents the interests and concerns of every public television licensee type. He served in a similar role for the Organization of State Broadcasting Executives (OSBE), an association of CEOs representing statewide public television networks and for SERC, the nationwide Satellite Educational Resources Consortium.
Prior to his association work, Hinton was the executive director of the statewide Alabama Public Television network.
During his tenure with NETA, Hinton established NETA Consulting as a service to support public media organizations in research, planning, and executive recruitment. NETA also established the NETA Business Center. The Business Center now provides outsource business services to dozens of public media licensees and other associated organizations.
Malcolm Brett is the emeritus director of Public Media - University of Wisconsin Madison overseeing Wisconsin Public Radio and PBS Wisconsin. Brett previously served as the executive director for Wisconsin Public Television.
During his 34 years at Wisconsin Public Media, Brett led a growing organization recognized programmatic innovation and accomplishment, building on extensive knowledge of public media including development, production management, strategic and capital planning, budgeting, and government relations. During his tenure, Wisconsin Public Media was known for its work in local programming, community engagement, practice of editorial integrity, educational services, and staff development.
Brett has been honored for his service to public media with the Pillar of Public Service award from America’s Public Television Stations and the Daniel K. Miller Leadership Award from PBS. Upon his retirement from the University of Wisconsin Madison, he was granted Emeritus status for his many contributions to Wisconsin Public Media and public broadcasting.
Robert Clauser is NETA’s vice president of professional services and director, NETA Business Center. Prior to joining NETA in 2024, he served as CFO for a major market public media station, produced programming for public media, and more recently, led explorations around artificial intelligence in a newsroom. He was the former lead partner, strategic services, media & entertainment, Accenture. He has experience in public media, financial management, and innovation in the nonprofit sector.
Clauser has served on numerous boards including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Association of Foreign Correspondents in the USA, and The Peace Studio. He holds an MBA in finance and marketing from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a BA in economics from the University of Michigan.
Milton Clipper is president emeritus of Public Broadcasting Atlanta (now WABE). He has more than 45 years of leadership in media. He began at Post-Newsweek stations and moved on to the Washington Post. After several years at the Post, he started his own national advertising agency. He later headed the marketing/development team at Howard University’s WHUT. In 2015 upon retirement at WABE, he established Clipper & Company.
Today, through his company and work with NETA Consulting, he helps organizations recruit executives and build cultures of innovation, financial sustainability, and long-term successes through his Collective Strategic Thinking (CST) framework. He has chaired and served on numerous national and community boards and contributed to international panels. He attended Montgomery College, the Corcoran School of Art, and holds a Cornell University Diversity and Inclusion Certificate.
Linda O’Bryon has more than 40 years’ experience in executive leadership at major public media stations, overseeing enterprises at the national and local level. Most recently, she was president and CEO of South Carolina ETV and Public Radio, the broadcast and digital network reaching throughout the state.
O'Bryon was the founding executive editor and co-anchor of Nightly Business Report (NBR), the pioneering national program that set the standard for business news on television. Later, as senior VP she oversaw editorial and business operations. KQED recruited O’Bryon as their chief content officer, where she headed TV, radio, interactive, education and engineering.
She is the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Emmy® in Business News Reporting and the highest civilian award in South Carolina, the Order of the Palmetto. A member of the PBS Board for five years, she now serves on the Board of American Public Television (APT), where she chairs the Finance Committee.
Tom Rieland has over four decades of executive leadership in public and commercial broadcasting. He served for 20 years as general manager of WOSU Public Media in Columbus. WOSU serves 2.5 million Ohioans through its PBS, NPR, and classical music stations. Rieland led a successful, community-based campaign that led to the opening of a new $32 million headquarters near the Ohio State campus.
Rieland has extensive experience in strategic planning, university strategies, creative collaborations, editorial integrity, and educational engagement. In 2019, the Ohio State Press published his history on the birth of educational broadcasting: Sparks Flew – WOSU’s Century on the Air.
Rieland served two terms on the PBS Board and chaired the NETA Board and the Public Media Affinity Group Coalition (AGC). Upon his retirement, Rieland was honored with Ohio State’s Distinguished Service Award given to those who have rendered exceptional service to the university.
Helping your organization harness the power of diversity, equity and inclusion.
A primary resource to organizational success is grounded in the understanding, recognition, and utilization of diversity, equity, and inclusion. These vital elements should be infused into every aspect of an organization’s operation and culture.
Our customized workshops provide a platform for your entire team to harness the power of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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Members of NETA receive a 5% discount.
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