Dyan Machan

Dyan Machan is a contributing editor at Barron's and a writer of CEO Spotlight, which features leaders of widely held public companies. In 2012, Machan won a National Headliner Award from The Press Club for her column Smart Ideas as well as a Best in Business award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers. Prior to Barron's, Machan was a senior writer at Smart Money magazine, contributor to SmartMoney.com and columnist of Smart Ideas since 2006. Before Smart Money Machan was a senior editor at Forbes for more than a decade. At Forbes, she developed a successful column called The Forbes Lunch that invited readers to share lunch with a mover and shaker of the moment. In 1999 while at Forbes, Machan won Business Journalist of the Year (Global Awards for Business Journalism). Prior to Forbes, Machan was an associate editor at Financial World magazine. She graduated cum laude from Kent State University School of Journalism. "Planet Earth" is her first film production project.