Sasha Salama is an award-winning broadcast journalist and documentary producer with more than 25 years of experience in the U.S. and overseas. She has interviewed hundreds of CEOs and newsmakers as an on-camera anchor and correspondent for CNN, CNN International, CNN Headline News, CNBC, The Street.com, and Reuters TV. She moderates panel discussions and corporate events and coaches CEOs and senior executives to prepare them for media interviews and conferences. Ms. Salama received two awards from IndieFEST Film Awards and Best Shorts Competition for her documentary about a young girl's dramatic escape from Ukraine during WWII. She currently is a Professor of Business Communication at Yeshiva University’s Sy Syms School of Business where she is educating the next generation of business leaders about oral and written communication skills to help enhance their career development and success.

Ms. Salama was a key member of the launch teams of CNBC U.S. and CNBC Asia. In the U.S., she created CNBC's first global business news program, first mutual fund program and first election coverage from a financial perspective. As Managing Editor of CNBC Asia in Hong Kong, Ms. Salama hired and managed a newsroom of 75 people for what became the world’s first, global business news television network. Prior to her work in Hong Kong, Ms. Salama helped launch the region's first business news television network out of Singapore, Asia Business News. She returned to the U.S. and CNN where she covered financial news as an on-camera anchor and correspondent for 11 years. As Senior producer at Reuters Television, Ms. Salama helped launch an innovative, multimedia financial news product for institutional investors. Earlier in her career, Ms. Salama wrote for Charles Osgood when he anchored the CBS Morning News. She started in radio, anchoring and reporting in Providence, Rhode Island, where she received two awards from the Associated Press for her documentary work and election night coverage.

Ms. Salama holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Brown University and a Master of Science degree in Journalism from Columbia University. She lives in New York City with her husband and two children.