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FORTUNE Executive Editor

As one of FORTUNE's top editors, Steve Koepp supervises many print and online features including special issues like this year's FORTUNE 500 and America 's Most Admired Companies. Koepp arrived at FORTUNE in January 2007 from sister publication TIME, where as Deputy Managing Editor he oversaw a restructuring and redesign of TIME.com, the magazine's website, in 2005-06. During that time, the site's monthly unique visitors grew by nearly 90%, to 4.1 million, and TIME.com won the "Website of the Year" award for 2006 in the business & news category from the Magazine Publishers of America.

As an editor at TIME, Koepp developed two of the magazine's bestselling franchises: TIME's annual cover story on American history, which began with an issue on Lewis & Clark, and the annual Mind & Body issue, which anticipated the growing interest in alternative approaches to health care. Koepp also created the magazine's 80th anniversary special, called "80 Days That Changed the World," which later became a book, and top-edited the inaugural edition of its annual "TIME 100" issue on the world's most influential people. He also edited the work of investigative reporters Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, whose series on Money & Politics won a National Magazine Award in 2001 in the public interest category.

Koepp, a Wisconsin native, received a B.A. degree (journalism major, German minor) from the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire in 1978. After graduation he joined the Waukesha Freeman , a daily newspaper in Wisconsin , where he worked as a reporter and editor. He joined TIME as a correspondent in the magazine's Letters department, became a reporter in the business section later in the year and was promoted to staff writer in 1983 and senior editor in 1988. He wrote and edited cover stories on Ralph Lauren, the Walt Disney company, the buyout of RJR-Nabisco, the Simple Life, the Church of Scientology and the B.C.C.I. banking scandal. As editor of the Nation section and later its top editor, Koepp supervised coverage of the Clinton Administration, the rise and fall of Newt Gingrich, and the 2000 Presidential election.

With his brother David, he also co-wrote the 1994 motion picture The Paper . He lives in Brooklyn with his wife Lesley Alderman and two sons.

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