Dany Levy

Business owner, journalist and savvy cultural observer, Dany Levy brings a sense of intensity, vision and creative voice to all her endeavors.

After graduation from Brown University with a BA in English with honors in creative writing, Levy began her career in 1994 at New York magazine. There, she revamped and edited the Sales and Bargains section in 1996, and subsequently created the magazine's GothamStyle section in 1998.

After a brief stint at Lucky magazine, Levy created DailyCandy.com in 2000 - starting it out of her West Village apartment. In a little more than 10 years, Levy has built DailyCandy from an upstart web site for fashion and cultural cognoscenti into a diversifying media property, delivering over 3 million emails daily. The core site remains the ultimate insider's guide to what's hot, fun, and undiscovered-a free e-mail that's everything you want to know about what's going on: the dish on the new restaurant everyone's talking about. The site has not only an uncanny prescience for trends and picks, but also an extraordinary ability to mobilize its burgeoning audience of curious, motivated consumers. It's not uncommon for books DailyCandy reviews to shoot up bestseller lists, restaurants it previews to quickly establish waiting lists for reservations, and designers she recommends to sell out of boutiques.

The company now publishes editions in eleven cities: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Dallas, London, Washington DC, Atlanta, Miami, Philadelphia and Seattle -- as well as for national editions: DailyCandy Kids, DailyCandy Everywhere, DailyCandy Travel and DailyCandy Deals.

The company was sold to Comcast in 2008 for an undisclosed sum.

Levy has written articles for The New York Times, Elle, Vanity Fair, Time Out New York and Martha Stewart Living, and is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. She has hosted segments on WNBC in New York, KABC, KTTV, and KTLA in Los Angeles and others on E!, Good Morning America, CBS, CNN, CNBC, Fox, Style, and Oxygen.