Dan Gaydou

Dan Gaydou is the President of the MLive Media Group, Michigan’s largest multi-media news and marketing solutions company which produces MLive.com on the web as well as newspapers: The Grand Rapids Press, The Flint Journal, the Kalamazoo Gazette, Jackson Citizen-Patriot, Muskegon Chronicle, Saginaw News, The Bay City Times and the Advance Weeklies.  Prior to his current position, Dan was President of Booth Newspapers and Publisher of the Grand Rapids Press.

Dan lives in Rockford and has served the community as Chairman of the Board for Spectrum Health, the Right Place Economic Development Corporation, the Gerald R. Ford Council of the Boy Scouts of America and the Michigan Colleges Foundation.  He most recently served as chairman of the board for the Public Museum of Grand Rapids.  He is a trustee of the Gerald R. Ford Foundation.

Mr. Gaydou is a graduate of the University of Michigan, is a Certified Public Accountant and has been awarded honorary doctorate degrees from Baker College of Flint and Hope College.  He has been married to his wife, Lou Ann for 43 years.  They have three children and seven grandchildren.