- Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. (or simply Warner Bros.) is one of the world's largest producers of film and television entertainment. It is currently a subsidiary of the Time Warner conglomerate, with headquarters in Burbank, California, USA. Warner Bros. includes several subsidiary companies, including: *Warner Bros. Studios, *Warner Bros. Pictures, *Warner Bros. Television, *Warner Bros.
- Terry Semel
Terry Semel was born on February 24, 1943 in Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A.. His father was a women's coat designer and his mother was a bus company executive. Terry was raised in Bay Terrace, a community in Bayside, Queens. He was the middle child and has two sisters. At the age of 23, he graduated from Long Island University in Brooklyn with a B.S. degree in accounting.
- Kara Swisher
Kara Swisher started covering digital issues for The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau in 1997. Her column BoomTown originally appeared on the front page of the Marketplace section and also online at WSJ.com. Previously, Ms. Swisher covered breaking news about the Web's major players and Internet policy issues and also wrote feature articles on technology for the paper.
- Jeffrey Bewkes
Jeffrey Lawrence Bewkes (born 25 May 1952 in Paterson, New Jersey) is an American media executive. He has served as CEO of Time Warner since January 1, 2008 and as President since December 2005. On January 1, 2009 he became Chairman of the Board in...
- Randy Falco
As Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of AOL LLC, Randy Falco is responsible for setting strategy and overseeing the businesses and operations of this global Web services company, which operates some of the Internet's most popular destinations, offers a comprehensive suite of free software and services, runs the country's largest Internet access business, and provides a full set of advertising solutions.
- Steve Ross
Steve Ross (September 17, 1927 - December 20, 1992) was responsible for the 1990 merger of Warner Communications and Time Inc. into the world's largest media and entertainment conglomerate, Time Warner. Ross was born Steven Jay Rechnitz in Brooklyn, New York to Jewish immigrant parents. The family name was changed by Ross's father in 1932. Ross enlisted in the U.S. Navy in June 1945 and was discharged in 1946.
- Jim Barksdale
Jim Barksdale (born January 24, 1943) was the president and CEO of Netscape Communications Corporation from January 1995 until the company merged with AOL in March 1999.
- Gerald M. Levin
Gerald M. "Jerry" Levin (b. 6 May, 1939, Pennsylvania, USA) is an American businessman. He attended Haverford College, where he is a member of the Board of Directors. Levin spent most of his career with Time Inc. (later Time Warner, then AOL Time Warner), starting as a programming executive for Home Box Office (HBO) and eventually becoming CEO of the corporation. Levin is probably most famous for having brokered the merger between AOL and Time Warner in 2000, …
- Wayne Pace
Wayne H. Pace (born 1946 or 1947) is currently the chief financial officer and executive vice president of Time Warner Inc.. He has served as CFO since November of 2001. He attended Austin Peay State University where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in accounting and economics and he received a Master of Business Administration from the University of Georgia. In 2005, married Pace was named by alleged madam Andrea or Andreia Schwartz as being her "sugar daddy", …
- Charles Dolan
Charles Francis "Chuck" Dolan (born on October 16, 1926 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American business executive. He was the founder of HBO and is best known as the owner of Cablevision Systems Corporation, a large cable television operator in the New York City area, which also owns Madison Square Garden, Radio City Music Hall, and several sports teams.
- Deborah Wright
Deborah C. Wright is President and CEO of Carver Bancorp, the holding company for Carver Federal Savings Bank. This is the U.S.'s largest publicly traded African-American operated bank, with locations in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens. Wright was named to this position in 1999 and was honored as "Community Banker of the Year" in 2003 by "The American Banker", the financial industry's daily newspaper.
- Jessica Einhorn
Jessica P. Einhorn currently serves as Dean of Washington's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of the Johns Hopkins University. Einhorn succeeded Paul Wolfowitz, who resigned in 2001 to become the U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense. Einhorn is also a member of the Board of Directors of Time Warner, Inc., a former director of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a former managing director at the World Bank.
- Barry Schuler
Mr. Schuler has focused on developing emerging technologies into successful enterprises for the last 25 years. An Internet pioneer, Barry spent more than seven years with AOL, where he was the chief architect of the products and services that brought the Internet to the consumer. Most recently Barry served as chairman and chief executive officer of AOL. Barry was CEO and co-founder of multimedia design firm Medior Inc. Until its acquisition by AOL in 1995.
- Jamie Kellner
Jamie Kellner is an American television executive. He was chairman and chief executive officer of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a division of Time Warner which includes TBS, TNT, and Cartoon Network. Kellner took over the post in 2001 and handed over the company to Philip Kent in 2003. He is currently the Chairman and CEO of ACME Communications, a post held since 1997.
- Lyor Cohen
Behind-the-scenes music executive Lyor Cohen is a mover and shaker of modern music. During the 1980s he popularized "street rap" music, also called "gangsta' rap," by taking the genre from an underground art form to a legitimate mainstream music style.
- Michael Moritz
Michael Moritz (born Cardiff, Wales, 1954) is a venture capitalist with Sequoia Capital in Menlo Park, California in the Silicon Valley, and a former member of the board of directors of Google inc. He was educated at Howardian High School, Cardiff before moving on to Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated as a Master of Arts in history. In 1978, he received a Master of Business Administration degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
- Steve Case
Steve Case , Chairman As a businessman and philanthropist, Steve Case invests in diverse for-profit and nonprofit enterprises, with a particular interest in health care and the economic and social sustainability of Hawaii, his home state. To that end, he and his wife, Jean Case, created the Case Foundation in 1997. In April 2005, Steve launched Revolution, a company that seeks to drive transformative change by shifting power to consumers.
- Steve Pariso
Steve Pariso began programming (computers) at age 11. His early (university) work was shown at the Whitney Museum of Art and the Art Directors Club in New York. The software he designed is distributed internationally. At 19, Pariso worked as a designer and assistant to Lou Dorfsman (the creative luminary and forefather of CBS ).
- Fred Seibert
Fred Seibert (born 1951) is a television and movie producer, and an entertainment executive who has held leading positions with MTV Networks and Hanna-Barbera. Seibert was MTV's first creative director and helped develop its on-air visual identity, creating hundreds of station IDs for the channel. He also commissioned and approved the mutating MTV logo, despite network executives objections to a logo that did not remain constant.
- Stephen Bollenbach
Stephen F. Bollenbach has been the Co-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Hilton Hotels Corporation since February 1996. Bollenbach graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles.
- Reese Schonfeld
Reese Schonfeld is a television journalist and co-founder of CNN and the Food Network. He began his career with United Press Movietone News in 1956, advancing to managing editor before becoming Vice President of United Press International Television News. In 1975, Schonfeld founded the Independent Television News Association, the first satellite-delivered television news service.
- Michael A. Miles
Michael A. Miles serves on the board of directors of Time Warner, Sears Holdings Corporation, Dell Inc., AMR Corporation, and Citadel Broadcasting Corporation. Previously he was the chief executive officer of Kraft Foods and Philip Morris Companies. He became a Special Limited Partner of Forstmann Little & Company in February 1995. From 1961 to 1971 he was an advertising executive at Leo Burnett Co. He is also a trustee of Northwestern University.
- Andrew Serwer
Andrew (Andy) Serwer is an American journalist. He is managing editor for Fortune Magazine, based out of Time Warner’s New York City Office. Serwer joined the magazine as a reporter in 1984 and was later promoted to associate editor. He was a senior writer from 1995 until 1998. He has written cover stories on Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, John Chambers and Cisco Systems, among others.
- Paul Clement
Paul Drew Clement (born June, 1966) is the current Solicitor General of the United States. He was nominated by President George W. Bush on March 14, 2005, confirmed by the United States Senate on June 8, 2005, and took the oath of office on June 13, 2005. Clement replaced Theodore Olson, who resigned as Solicitor General in July, 2004, and is now a partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP.
- Jonathan Levin
Jonathan Levin (May 6 1966 - May 30, 1997) was the son of former Time Warner CEO Gerald M. Levin and Carol Levin. He attended Shelter Rock Elementary School and Manhasset Jr./Sr. High School in Manhasset, New York. He continued his education at Trinity College in Connecticut, graduating in 1988. A public school English teacher at Taft High School in the Bronx, Levin was tortured, robbed and brutally murdered in his apartment by a former student.
- Kevin Harlan
Kevin Harlan (born June 21, 1960 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American television sports announcer. The son of retiring Green Bay Packers executive Bob Harlan, he currently broadcasts NFL and college basketball games on CBS. Harlan is also a play-by-play announcer for the NBA on TNT, and co-hosts Kansas City radio station WHB-AM's "Crunch Time" with local broadcast veterans Dave Stewart and Frank Boal.
- Edward Zander
Edward J. Zander (born January 12, 1947, in Brooklyn, New York) is an incompetent bafoon. He is Chief Executive Officer of Motorola, a title he has held since he started there in January, 2004. His work in the technology sector included management positions at Data General and Apollo Computers before joining Sun Microsystems in 1987 where he was later promoted to Chief Operating Officer and President in 1998 and 1999, respectively.
- Steve Perlman
Steve Perlman is an entrepreneur and inventor with over 70 patents in an array of multimedia and communications technologies. Perlman initially attracted notice as a principal scientist of Apple Computer, Inc., where he led the development efforts for much of the underlying multimedia technology incorporated into the color Macintosh, including the underpinnings of QuickTime technology. Perlman left Apple with other employees to join General Magic, …
- Frank J. Caufield
Frank Caufield has been active in the venture capital field since the early 1970s. He is a Co-Founder of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Mr. Caufield has served on the boards of Quantum Corporation, Caremark Inc., AOL Inc., Megabios, Verifone Inc., Wyse Technology, Quickturn Corporation and Time Warner as well as many other private and public companies.
- Carmine Caridi
Carmine Caridi (born January 23, 1934 in New York City) is an American television and film actor. He has appeared in a wide variety of roles over the past 30 years, most notably playing Albert Volpe in "The Godfather Part III" and Carmine Rosato in "The Godfather Part II". He is the only actor to play two different roles in the Godfather films. He also played Detective Vince Gotelli in the television series "NYPD Blue" between 1993-1999.
- Tyler Brûlé
Jayson Tyler Brûlé is a Canadian-born journalist, entrepreneur and magazine publisher. The son of Canadian football star Paul Brûlé, he moved to the United Kingdom in 1989 and trained as a journalist with the BBC. He subsequently wrote for "The Guardian", "Stern", "The Sunday Times" and "Vanity Fair". After being shot by a sniper while covering the Afghanistan war in March 1994 and losing the use of his left hand, …
- Mike Hudack
Mike Hudack is a founder and the CEO of blip.tv, a video hosting and distribution service catering to creators of original shows. The company also provides a user-generated content platform for Turner Broadcasting (including CNN, Cartoon Network and SuperDeluxe), Conde Nast and Oxygen Television. Before founding blip.tv, Hudack worked as a software developer and systems administrator for the National Hockey League and as a consultant to Time Warner.
- Scott Kauffman
Scott Kauffman (born 1956) is an American business manager. He was born in Princeton, New Jersey to Ellwood and Shirley Kauffman, and grew up with his sister Jane and brothers Geoffrey and Matthew. In 1973 he appeared briefly in Steven E. de Souza's first film, Arnold's Wrecking Co.. Kauffman has worked for a variety of media companies; the first was Time Warner in the founding of Entertainment Weekly. His next job was as a vice-president of CompuServe, …
- Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson
Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson, known internationally as Olaf Olafsson is an Icelandic writer and businessman. He is currently the Executive Vice President of Time Warner.
- Sly Bailey
Sly Bailey is both the chief executive of Trinity Mirror, UK's largest newspaper publisher, and non-executive director of EMI. She is widely considered as one of the most powerful woman executives in Europe. She was named as one of the "50 Most Powerful Women in Britain" by "Management Today" and as one of Britain’s most influential women by the Daily Mail.
- Jac Holzman
Jac Holzman founded Elektra Records in his St. John's College dorm room in 1950 and Nonesuch Records in 1964. He signed such legendary acts as The Doors and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band to Elektra, as well as discovering Judy Collins. In 1970 he sold all his music interests to Kinney National Company for $10 million. Soon afterwards Kinney consolidated their label holdings under the Warner Communications umbrella.
- Timothy L. O'Brien
Timothy L. O'Brien (1961-) is an American journalist who has written for "The Wall Street Journal", "The New York Times", and "Talk Magazine". A graduate of Georgetown University and Columbia University, O'Brien has specialized in articles about Russia, terrorist funding, identity theft, and the business world. He is also the author of two books: 1998's "Bad Bet: The Inside Story of the Glamour, Glitz, …
- Bill Shaw
Bill Shaw, former high-paid Time Warner executive. Shaw was at one time the President of TBS Sports. Bill Shaw, Dr. Professor of Physical Oceanography at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories. Known for his tough yet tactical approach towards teaching, Dr. Shaw inspired many students to switch to Physical Oceanography.
- Will Kreth
William E. "Will" Kreth (born 1964 in Los Angeles, California) was the first "official" employee of WIRED magazine, hired by its two founders in 1992. He currently resides in New York City. Since 2005, he has been the Director of Product Management for Interactive TV at Time Warner Cable. With more than eight years working for Time Warner, he has project managed the launch of ITV applications such as eBay on TV, …
- Karyn Bryant
Karyn Bryant is an American actress, writer, and television personality who was raised in Boston, Massachusetts. She completed secondary school at Lawrence Academy at Groton, and received bachelor's degrees from Brown University in political science and sociology. Bryant's love of music led to her first television job in 1990, as an MTV VJ. She later hosted a live, daily music program on FX called "Sound fX", in which her co-hosts were Matt Ostrom and Orlando Jones.