Graduated from Yale University in New Haven, CT, and earned his Masters of Business Adminstration from Columbia University in New York City in 2007.
Son of Dianne P. Avlon and John J. Avlon of Charleston, SC, and son-in-law of Jean W. Hoover and Andrew Hoover of Littleton, CO.
Is of three quarters Greek descent (his paternal grandmother was of Scottish and English ancestry). His Greek family is from Corfu and Samos in Greece, and Istanbul in Turkey.
In 2-17 he was made Editor-in-Chief of "The Daily Beast".