Nancy Berger Cardone is Vice President and Publisher of Allure magazine, The Beauty Expert, which is read by 5.3 million readers each month.  Since she joined Allure in April 2001, the magazine has become one of the leading beauty/fashion magazines in the country. Under Cardone's leadership, Allure has experienced five consecutive, record-breaking years, increased advertising pages by 37 percent, and published the largest issue—both in size and number of advertising pages—in Allure's history. Allure has also won numerous awards under Cardone's tenure, including five appearances on Adweek's Hot List, Advertising Age Best Performer, a MIN Integrated Marketing Award, Capell's Circulation Report: Top 10 "Best Performers in Circulation" and Top 10 "Best Newsstand Performers of the Last Decade" and Circulation Management's Circulation Excellence Award.
 
Cardone began her impressive Condé Nast career as an Account Manager at Gourmet in 1989. Three years later, Cardone left to pursue a career in database marketing for the Cowles-Thomas Travel Group, where she served as Vice President, Marketing Director.

Cardone returned to Condé Nast in the spring of 1994 as Vanity Fair's Advertising Manager. At Vanity Fair, she advanced first to Advertising Director and subsequently to Associate Publisher. As Associate Publisher, Cardone oversaw the marketing and sales of Vanity Fair's special signature issues, and presided over a dramatic increase in business, doubling advertising pages from 1000 in 1994 to over 2000 in 2000.

Cardone resides in Scarsdale, NY with her husband, Richard, and her two sons.