BRENDA M. HYDE, CEO Promoting and supporting families is something Brenda Hyde has found to be both personally and professionally rewarding. It all started in 1991 after Hyde became frustrated in her search for a good shoe store for her young daughter. She soon realized that the Washington metropolitan area lacked a good resource for busy stay-at-home mothers as well as busy professional women with children. Thus, in 1992, Washington FAMILY Magazine was born in the basement of Hyde’s home with a circulation of 18,000. Today, with a monthly circulation of 100,000, Washington FAMILY Magazine is the largest parenting publication in the Mid-Atlantic region and the third largest in the United States. Washington FAMILY Magazine has won many design awards and has proven to be a showcase of resources, articles and information to help parents raise their children in the hectic and sometimes chaotic Washington region. Hyde started a second publication, Jacksonville FAMILY Magazine, which serves the Jacksonville, Florida region. FAMILY Magazine will begin offering FAMILY Magazine Franchise Systems for the magazine in September of 2006. Hyde also serves as the Chairman of the Board for the Children’s Museum of Northern Virginia. Finally, Hyde conducts regular speaking engagements, is active in six local chambers of commerce, and is the mother of four children.