Prior to coming back to the New York Times in February 2004, Heekin-Canedy served as The Times's senior vice president of circulation from 1999, after having served as vice president of strategic planning since 1997, and as group director since 1994. Before that, Mr. Heekin-Canedy served first as project manager and then as project director in strategic planning since 1993.

Mr. Heekin-Canedy left The Times in 1989 to hold positions as circulation accounting manager and financial planning manager at the Los Angeles Times, but returned in 1992 as an assistant manager in the financial planning department. Before leaving, he had been a circulation systems support manager since January 1989. He joined The New York Times in August 1987 as a circulation market planning analyst. Previously Mr. Heekin-Canedy held financial and corporate planning positions at Dow Jones and Doubleday.

Mr. Heekin-Canedy received a B.A. degree in political science from Williams College in 1974, a doctor of laws degree from Northeastern University School of Law in 1979, and an M.B.A. in marketing and finance from Columbia University in 1985.

(Source: New York Times)