JD Diaz brings over 35 years of Marketing and Management experience to Green Cloud Capital. A career in new business development, news publishing, product marketing and account management offers a wealth of experience.

As founder of numerous start-ups, JD has successfully developed, managed, grown, and ultimately sold, countless businesses in the publishing industry. He has a proven track record of finding and filling unmet market niches, building asset value, streamlining business operations, and preparing these assets for sale.

JD is a graduate of the D’Amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University in Boston, MA. His Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Management focused on Marketing Management, with a minor in International Finance. He also studied at the Knight-Ridder Institute of Newspaper Management at The Miami Herald.

His company, Stony Creek Media, publishes and/or manages a number of publications focused on Sports, Lifestyles, and Tourism. One of these is the community newspaper in the tourist town of Jim Thorpe, PA (The Jim Thorpe Current) where he keeps a home. JD also owns and operates Golf Vacations Magazine, a publication he started over 19 years ago.

Based on his success at the Tribune Company, managing Advertising Sales in the Music/Movie/Entertainment Division of The Daily News of Los Angeles, JD moved to Chicago to manage and ultimately became Publisher of the Leader/Post Community Newspaper Group on Chicago’s North Side. Instituting an aggressive growth strategy of purchasing additional area publishing assets, founding new titles and streamlining business operations initiated his entrance to the world of entrepreneurship and fueled a lifelong passion for start-ups.

Returning to the Southern California area, JD joined Rancho Mirage based M.L. Weiner & Associates, a Product Development/Placement Marketing firm. His skill-set included Product Sourcing, Global Marketing, Branding, Packaging, Retail Placement, Shipping and Fulfillment. He excelled at the evaluation of potential partner companies and their operations.

JD has since gone on to start publications across the US, from California to Colorado, South Florida to Pennsylvania. Titles started and/or sold include Southern California Golf, The Delray Beach/Boca Raton (FL) Pineapple, Spa Living Magazine, Today’s Yoga Magazine, and The South Metro (Denver) Business Ledger.