Joanne Hayes
Publisher & Founder
Joanne Hayes is a 3-decades veteran of the publishing industry, having worked for 12 years as an Account Executive for an award-winning Journal Register Company newspaper group, Southern Rhode Island Newspapers, and 3 years as the Marketing Director of SO Rhode Island, a publication of the award-winning magazine company Providence Media, prior to her move to Atlanta in 2009.
Simply Buckhead Magazine was conceived by her company, ValueStream Media Group, and began publication in 2010, with Joanne at the helm as Publisher, Founder and CEO. The publication quickly became the “must-read” publication for people who live, work, shop, dine, entertain, travel, have families, homes, and pets and participate in philanthropic efforts, and has literally been read online all over the world.
Simply Buckhead Magazine is a media partner and sponsor of CURE Childhood Cancer, The nsoro Educational Foundation, Open Hand Atlanta, and Emory Winship Cancer Institute.
