Brian Eule is FRONTLINE's managing director, where he oversees FRONTLINE’s business operations and strategic planning under the leadership of FRONTLINE editor-in-chief and executive producer Raney Aronson-Rath.

Eule has a background in philanthropy, having worked in program and strategic communication roles at multiple national foundations. Most recently, he served as the director of journalism and communications for the Heising-Simons Foundation for nearly a decade. In his work at Heising-Simons, he created and directed the foundation’s journalism grantmaking, which focused on journalism as a critical component of a healthy and diverse democracy, managing a portfolio of grants supporting investigative journalism and underrepresented voices in mass media. There, Eule created and directed the American Mosaic Journalism Prize, the largest journalism prize in the United States in which two freelance journalists were awarded $100,000 annually “for excellence in long-form, narrative, or deep reporting on stories about underrepresented and/or misrepresented groups in the present American landscape.”

Eule is a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and the author of the nonfiction book, Match Day: One Day and One Dramatic Year in the Lives of Three New Doctors. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Stanford University and a master’s from Columbia University. He resides with his wife and daughters in the San Francisco Bay Area.