Richard V. Hopple
President & CEO

Richard V. Hopple (Dick) joined Guideposts in April of 2007 as President and Chief Executive Officer, and a member of the Board of Trustees. Mr. Hopple is a highly respected and accomplished media and marketing executive. Prior to joining Guideposts, he was the Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Unicast, a company he built into a leading provider of “rich media” products and services on the Internet. Unicast was acquired by The Viewpoint Corporation at the end of 2004. In the mid-1990s, Mr. Hopple was President, North American Operations D’Arcy Masius Benton and Bowles (DMB&B), the flagship division of The MacManus Group, at that time the largest advertising network in North America. He also previously served as the Vice Chairman of the MacManus Group and before that President of the Wells Rich Greene agency.
 

Mr. Hopple lives with his wife Patty in New Canaan, Connecticut. He has three grown sons. He has previously served on the Boards of the American Rivers Foundation and the City Center of New York where he continues on the Advisory Board.

Amy Molinero
Vice-President, Publisher

Amy Molinero was appointed Vice-President, Publisher of Guideposts in 2008. As Publisher, Ms. Molinero oversees the advertising, marketing and advertising research initiatives for Guideposts magazine and leads the overall sales program for all national advertising efforts. Ms. Molinero previously served as Guideposts Associate Publisher and East Coast Sales Manager where she was instrumental in enabling Guideposts magazine to achieve significant levels of advertising sales growth year after year.
 
Ms. Molinero joined Guideposts in 2001 with over ten years of advertising sales experience in publishing, having previously worked for the Working Woman Network, where first she held the position of Special Sections Manager for Working Woman and Working Mother magazines and later served as the Advertising Director of Working Woman.
 
Ms. Molinero holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Florida State University and resides with her husband, Ed, in Brooklyn, New York.

Edward Grinnan
Editor-in-Chief

Edward Grinnan joined the staff of Guideposts in 1986, and was named Editor-in-Chief in 1999. Mr. Grinnan was graduated from the University of Michigan in 1975, where he majored in English and Journalism, and was awarded the prestigious Hopwood Award in Playwriting. After graduation, Mr. Grinnan explored a number of career paths—including newspaper correspondent and artist-in-residence—before returning to academia to obtain a Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of Drama at Yale University.
 

Degree in hand, Mr. Grinnan pursued a career in New York theatre, before he joined Guideposts. He has written and edited scores of Guideposts stories for personalities as diverse as Nolan Ryan, Reba McEntire and Charles Osgood, and is a regular contributor to “Daily Guideposts,” the organization’s best-selling annual book of inspirational reflections. Mr. Grinnan’s work has also appeared in Condé Nast Traveler, TV Guide and Seventeen, where he co-wrote a pet column with his late cocker spaniel, Rudy.
 

Mr. Grinnan is married to actress and singer Julee Cruise (“Twin Peaks,” the B-52s), and divides his time between Manhattan and the Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts.

Rick Hamlin
Managing Editor

Rick Hamlin joined Guideposts in 1984, bringing with him a diverse background of editorial, entertainment and publishing expertise. As the magazine’s managing editor, Mr. Hamlin is responsible for ensuring the quality of the content in each issue of Guideposts, while he also oversees the printing and production of the magazine.
 

An accomplished author, Mr. Hamlin has published a history of the Rose Bowl and Rose Parade, “The Tournament of Roses” (McGraw-Hill); a spiritual memoir, "Finding God on the A Train" (HarperCollins) — also a "Book of the Month Club" alternate selection; and most recently a novel, "Mixed Blessings" (Bethany House).
 

Mr. Hamlin is also an accomplished actor and singer, who has worked in children’s theater, off-Broadway, summer stock, and in venues as diverse as Carnegie Hall and New York’s cabaret, “Don’t Tell Mama.” As the lead tenor, Mr. Hamlin recorded Fred Rich’s Hudson Oratorio for Albany Records.
 

Graduated cum laude graduate from Princeton University, where he majored in English Literature, Mr. Hamlin authored a thesis detailing the influence of John Ruskin on the pre-Raphaelite painters. After two years abroad in Florence, Italy, he also studied at the Manhattan School of Music.
 

Mr. Hamlin and his wife, novelist and writer Carol Wallace, live in upper Manhattan with their two sons.