Gerry Hartung is Co-CEO of Med-IQ, an accredited medical education company he started with Scott Weber, his business partner of 25 years.
Over the past 28 years, Mr. Hartung has started, acquired, merged and sold 14 various companies, most in the field of publishing. His experience ranges from tourism and entertainment publications to subscription based consumer magazines to trade and medical journals and most recently educational websites and programs for physicians. He has worked in all aspects of business from sales, marketing and editorial to production, delivery and finance. He considers himself a “serial entrepreneur” with a focus on building a strong corporate culture in the companies he owns with an emphasis on accountability, building value, innovation, profitability and hiring the right talent for the right job.
Highlights of his career include the start-up, development and sale of Baltimore’s leading tourism magazines to LIN Broadcasting, the privatization and restructuring of Maryland Magazine (from the state of Maryland) into a profitable publication, and the start-up and development of Physicians Practice, the nation’s leading practice management journal for physicians with a circulation of over 300,000 nationally. In 2007, Physicians Practice was sold to United Business Media, a publicly-traded international media company headquartered in England with a large medical portfolio.
Mr. Hartung serves on the Alumni and Founders boards of Towson University. He is a member of Vistage, an international CEO membership organization and has consulted with various entrepreneurial businesses.
