Jim Nelson has been editor-in-chief of GQ since March 2003. Nelson joined the magazine as a senior editor in 1997, editing the work of such writers as Andrew Corsello, Elizabeth Gilbert, Charles Bowden, and Michael Paterniti.

Working under then editor-in-chief Art Cooper, he became executive editor in 2002 and was named editor-in-chief when Cooper retired. Under his direction, the magazine has been nominated for sixty-two National Magazine Awards and has won for feature writing, reporting, design, photography, and general excellence, the highest honor in the industry. During his tenure at the magazine, Nelson has worked as both a writer and an editor, and his own writing for GQ was cited in The Best American Sports Writing 2001.

From 1994 to 1997 Nelson was an editor at Harper’s, where he was responsible for the magazine’s Readings section. His writing has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Gourmet, and Food & Wine. Prior to his magazine career, Mr. Nelson worked as a writer/producer for CNN in Washington, D.C., and as a writer’s assistant on various sitcoms in Hollywood.

Nelson graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a B.A. in American Studies.

Howard Mittman has been publisher and chief revenue officer of GQ and GQ Style since September 2014.

Mittman was previously vice president and publisher of Wired, which, under his oversight, was named to both Advertising Age’s A-List and Adweek’s Hot List numerous times. In 2013, Wired was named Marketing Team of the Year by Media Industry News.

Mittman launched several successful new brand extensions at Wired including the development of the Wired Business Conference, the Wired Café at Comic-Con and the Wired Data | Life Conference. Mittman led the highly successful launch of Wired on the tablet and also oversaw several retail partnership development programs including in-store retail partnerships at Target stores nationwide and in 2013 oversaw the launch of a large scale e-commerce program with MasterCard blending digital and analog commerce.

Previously, Mittman served as the acting publisher at Time Inc.’s Popular Science and as an account executive at Time Inc.’s Mutual Funds, New York Magazine and Financial Planning Magazine.

Mittman is a graduate of The Ohio State University.