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Nikesh Arora

President,
Global Sales Operationsand Business Development, Google, Inc.

Nikesh Arora oversees all revenue and customer operations, as well as marketing and partnerships for Google. Since joining Google in 2004, he has held several positions with the company. Most recently, he led Google's global direct sales operations. He also developed and managed the company's operations in the European, Middle Eastern, and African markets and was responsible for creating and expanding strategic partnerships in those regions for the benefit of Google's growing number of users and advertisers. With a background as an analyst, Arora’s main areas of focus have been consulting, IT, marketing, and finance. Prior to joining Google, he was chief marketing officer and a member of the management board at T-Mobile. While there, he spearheaded all product development, terminals, brand and marketing activities of T-Mobile Europe. In 1999, he started working with Deutsche Telekom and founded T-Motion PLC, a mobile multimedia subsidiary of T-Mobile International. Prior to joining Deutsche Telekom, Arora held management positions at Putnam Investments and Fidelity Investments in Boston.

Carol Bartz

President and Chief Executive Officer
Yahoo!

Carol Bartz has served as Yahoo!’s chief executive officer and as a member of the board of directors since January 2009. She has also served as president since April 2009. Previously, Bartz served as the executive chairman of the board of Autodesk, Inc., a computer-aided design software provider, from May 2006 to February 2009, and as chairman, president, and chief executive officer of Autodesk from April 1992 to April 2006 and as a director of Autodesk from April 1992 to February 2009. From 1983 to April 1992, she served in a number of positions at Sun Microsystems, Inc., a provider of computer systems, software, and services (now a subsidiary of Oracle Corporation), including as vice president of worldwide field operations and as an executive officer. She has also served as a director of BEA Systems, Inc., a provider of database-related software (now a subsidiary of Oracle Corporation), Intel Corp., a semiconductor chip design and manufacturing company, and NetApp, Inc., a provider of data-storage and data-management tools. Currently, in addition to her roles at Yahoo!, Bartz is the lead director of Cisco Systems, Inc., a networking technology company, and a director of the National Medals of Science and Technology Foundation.

Jeffrey L. Bewkes

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Time Warner Inc.

Jeff Bewkes is chairman and chief executive officer of Time Warner Inc. He was elected chairman of the board of directors in January 2009, having served on the board since January 2007. He was elected chief executive officer of the company in January 2008. Prior to being named chairman and chief executive officer, Bewkes served as Time Warner's president and chief operations officer from January 2006 to December 2007 and as chairman of the entertainment and networks group from 2002 to 2005. Before joining the corporate management of Time Warner, Bewkes served as chairman and chief executive officer of HBO since 1995, and as president and chief operating officer of HBO from September 1991 to May 1995. Bewkes serves on the boards of Yale University, the Partnership for New York City, and on the advisory boards for Stanford Graduate School of Business, Yale School of Management, the American Museum of Natural History, The Creative Coalition, and The Paley Center for Media. Bewkes has a BA from Yale University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Philippe Dauman

President and Chief Executive Officer
Viacom Inc.

Philippe Dauman was named president and chief executive officer of Viacom Inc. in September 2006 and has served on the company’s board of directors since 1987. Viacom, consisting of BET Networks, MTV Networks, and Paramount Pictures, is the world’s leading entertainment content company. It engages audiences on television, motion picture, and digital platforms through many of the world’s best known entertainment brands, including MTV, VH1, CMT, Logo, Rock Band, Nickelodeon, Noggin, Nick at Nite, AddictingGames, COMEDY CENTRAL, Spike TV, TV Land, Atom, Gametrailers, BET, and Paramount Pictures. Viacom’s global reach includes more than 160 channels and 400 online properties in 160 countries and territories. Previously, Dauman was cochairman and chief executive officer of DND Capital Partners, LLC, a private equity firm specializing in media and telecommunications investments, from May 2000 until September 2006. Prior to cofounding DND Capital Partners, Dauman served in several positions at Viacom, including as a deputy chairman and executive vice president of Viacom Inc. Dauman is a director of National Amusements, Inc. and Lafarge SA, a world leader in building materials. He also serves on the board of trustees for The Paley Center for Media and the Dean’s Council of Columbia University Law School. He earned his bachelor's degree from Yale College in 1974 and his law degree from Columbia University Law School in 1978.

Leslie Moonves

President and Chief Executive Officer
CBS Corporation

Leslie Moonves is president and chief executive officer of CBS Corporation. In this role, he oversees all operations of the company, including the CBS Television Network, CBS Studios, CBS Television Distribution, Showtime, The CW (a joint venture between CBS Corporation and Warner Bros. Entertainment), CBS Television Stations, CBS Radio, CBS Outdoor, Simon & Schuster, CBS Interactive, CBS Consumer Products, CBS Home Entertainment, and CBS Films. Under Moonves's guidance, CBS has maintained its dominance as America’s number one TV network, while the Showtime pay cable network has significantly increased its viewership, subscription fees, and critical acclaim under his watch. The 2008 acquisition of CNET has made CBS one of the country’s top ten Internet companies, and Moonves has acted quickly to make CBS a leader in developing ways to distribute and monetize its vast library of content across new and emerging platforms. Additionally, his move to consolidate the company’s local TV and radio stations has helped the company become a leader in local media. Moonves also helped usher Simon & Schuster into the eBooks marketplace. Prior to the Viacom separation in 2005, Moonves served as copresident and cochief operating officer of Viacom and chairman of CBS, overseeing all of Viacom's domestic and international broadcast television operations, radio division, and outdoor advertising operations. Moonves was promoted to chairman and CEO of CBS in 2003, and prior to that, was president and chief executive officer, CBS Television, a position he was elevated to in April 1998. He joined CBS in July 1995 as president, CBS Entertainment. It was during this time CBS became America's most watched television network, going from last to first during Moonves's leadership. He joined CBS from Warner Bros. Television, where as president, he oversaw a television division that supplied the greatest number of programs to network television for nine consecutive years, culminating in a record-setting twenty-two series (including ER, Friends, and The Drew Carey Show) on the 1995-96 network schedules. Moonves is a member of the NCAA Leadership Advisory Board, the board of directors of the Los Angeles Free Clinic and the board of trustees of the Entertainment Industries Council. He is a trustee of the National Council for Families and Television and of the American Film Institute and is past president of the Hollywood Radio and Television Society. He is also co-chair of the Los Angeles Board of Governors of The Paley Center for Media. In March 2003, Moonves was honored by the International Radio and Television Society as the recipient of the Gold Medal Award, one of most prestigious honors in media and entertainment.

Rupert Murdoch

Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
News Corporation

Rupert Murdoch has been chief executive officer of News Corporation since 1979 and its chairman since 1991. He has been a director of News Limited since 1953, a director of News International Limited, the company's principal and wholly-owned subsidiary in the United Kingdom ('News International') since 1969, and a director of NAI since 1973. Murdoch has been a director of STAR since 1993. He has also been a director of FEG since 1985, its chairman since 1992 and its chief executive officer since 1995. He has served as a director of BSkyB since 1990 and as its chairman since 1999. He has served as a director of Gemstar-TV Guide and as chairman of The DIRECTV Group, Inc. ('DIRECTV') since 2003. Murdoch served as a director of China Netcom Group Corporation (Hong Kong) Limited from 2001 to 2005. He has served as a director of The Associated Press since April 2008.

Prannoy Roy

Chairman and Wholetime Director
New Delhi Television Limited (NDTV)

Prannoy Roy is chairman and wholetime director of New Delhi Television (NDTV), which includes responsibilities as editor in chief of NDTV 24x7 (twenty-four hour English news channel), NDTV India (twenty-four hour Hindi news channel), and NDTV Profit (twenty-four hour Business news channel). In April 2007, NDTV was rated as “India's most respected media company” by a leading business magazine. Roy is one of India's leading media figures. He specializes in covering elections, current affairs, and the Indian economy. He is also an economist, accountant, author, and psephologist. Roy was economic advisor at the finance ministry of India from 1986-1987. Before that he was associate professor, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University. His work included the development of a macroeconometric forecasting model for the Indian economy and a PhD in agricultural economics. Earlier he was a consultant at Pricewaterhouse, India from 1979-1983. As a psephologist, Roy has worked on several nationwide election opinion polls from 1980 - 95 and is the author of four books on Indian elections. Roy received a PhD in economics from Delhi School of Economics at Delhi University.

Radhika Roy

Managing Director
New Delhi Television Limited (NDTV)

Radhika Roy is owner and founder of India’s largest television news network called New Delhi Television (NDTV). NDTV, among its other programming, consists of three twenty four-hour nationwide news channels: an English news channel called NDTV 24x7; a Hindi news channel called NDTV India; and a Business news channel called NDTV Profit. NDTV’s twenty four-hour news channels are available all across India, the middle-east, Europe, South Africa and shortly in the USA. Radhika Roy has won several awards, including most recently, the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award 2003 (Information, Communication and Entertainment) for her pioneering work in NDTV and establishing two nationwide news channels. She has often been rated in news journals as amongst the top fifty most powerful people in India. She is widely known for her fierce independence, professionalism, and strong journalistic ethics. Roy has been a journalist for over twenty-five years and is now executive producer and managing director of NDTV. Roy has in the past been the producer of the program The World This Week, rated as one of the best five current affairs shows on Indian television in the last fifty years. She has broken new ground in Indian media: as producer of India’s first ever privately produced nightly news show called The News Tonight; as producer of India’s first twenty four-hour news channel called Star News. Roy has also been the producer of several live election and budget special programs. She produced the Star News channel for five years, which consisted of news bulletins alternatively in English and Hindi and was part of Rupert Murdoch owned Star TV bouquet of channels. In 2003 she went independent of Star TV and set up her own news channels NDTV 24x7 and NDTV India which together are now India’s leading news networks in terms of reach and viewers.

Ricardo Salinas Pliego

Founder and Chairman of the Board
Grupo Salinas

Ricardo B. Salinas Pliego is a corporate leader focused on increasing the value of businesses and their dynamic and efficient execution. As chairman of the board of Grupo Salinas, he supports competitive market structures, free trade, and deregulation. Salinas became chief executive officer of Elektra in 1987, when the company had less than sixty stores and was facing bankruptcy following the devaluation of the peso. Salinas directed Elektra to its basic products: appliances, electronics, and furniture. He reinstated credit sales with careful risk-management programs and began offering other financial products and services, including money transfers through an alliance with Western Union. Through organic expansion and purchases of other retail businesses, in just a few years, Salinas transformed Grupo Elektra into Mexico’s largest specialty retailer. He serves as chairman of Grupo Elektra, which currently has over 2,000 points of sale and operations in eight countries throughout the Americas. He also positioned Grupo Elektra as one of the largest financial services firms in the country, with the launch in 2002 of Banco Azteca and subsequent expansion in Mexico and Latin America. Financial services were expanded in 2003 with Afore Azteca pension fund management operations and later Seguros Azteca microinsurance. All of the financial services of Grupo Salinas are targeted toward bottom-of-the-pyramid consumers. Salinas is also chairman of TV Azteca, which was founded in 1993. Under his leadership, TV Azteca ended Mexico’s long-standing television monopoly through the successful nationwide positioning of Azteca 13 and Azteca 7 networks. In 2001, TV Azteca launched Azteca America, the fastest growing network in the United States. Salinas seeks value in high-growth industries, as well as highly recognized managers; and through Grupo Salinas, he generates synergies and shares strategies to achieve superior growth. Grupo Salinas companies generate wealth for employees and shareholders and value for consumers, while at the same time promoting cultural and community values.

Ivan G. Seidenberg

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Verizon

Ivan Seidenberg is chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Verizon.Seidenberg has led Verizon since its inception in 2000, transforming the company into a premier global network company by building a nationwide wireless network, deploying high-speed fiber broadband direct to homes, and expanding its global Internet backbone network around the world. Under his leadership, Verizon has stayed at the cusp of technology innovation with its industry-leading FiOS fiber-optic network, its planned deployment of Long Term Evolution 4G wireless technology, and its various initiatives to stimulate the development of innovative products and applications for its broadband and wireless platforms. Verizon's leadership in network innovation has earned the company numerous citations and awards, including being named to Fortune’s 2010 “World’s Most Admired Companies” list as number one in the telecommunications sector. Before becoming Verizon’s CEO, Seidenberg was chairman and CEO of its predecessor companies, NYNEX and Bell Atlantic. In a period of massive industry transformation, he built Verizon by combining Bell Atlantic and NYNEX, GTE, and MCI; and created Verizon Wireless by merging Bell Atlantic Mobile, GTE Wireless, and portions of Vodafone AirTouch. Since his beginning as a cable splicer's assistant at New York Telephone, Seidenberg’s communications career has spanned more than forty years. Seidenberg has a long-standing commitment to using communications technology to address societal issues and improve education, healthcare, and the environment. The company’s signature philanthropic programs include Thinkfinity.org, an award-winning online educational resource, and HopeLine, a wireless recycling program whose proceeds go toward domestic violence prevention. Since 2009, Seidenberg has chaired the Business Roundtable, an influential association of CEOs of leading US companies. In June 2010, President Barack Obama appointed him to the President’s Export Council, which will advise the president on how to promote US exports, jobs and growth. In 2007 President George W. Bush named him to the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee, which provides counsel on communications issues related to national security. He is a member of the New York Academy of Sciences’ President's Council and serves on the board of trustees of the New York-Presbyterian Hospital, The New York Hall of Science, Pace University, and The Paley Center for Media. He is a former chairman of the board for the US Telecom Association and has been active in many other civic and educational organizations. A New York City native, he earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Lehman College, part of the City University of New York, and a master's degree in business administration and marketing from Pace University.

Blair Westlake

Corporate Vice President, Media and Entertainment Group
Microsoft Corporation

As corporate vice president of Microsoft’s media and entertainment group, Blair Westlake liaises for Microsoft with the media and entertainment industries, including Hollywood studios, global broadcasters, cable/satellite programmers and the music industry. He directs a group responsible for business development, policies and all content licensing for various services and products including Xbox, Zune, Windows PC, and Windows Phones. Westlake is a seasoned media and entertainment industry veteran, with more than twenty-five years of diverse experience encompassing home video, pay and free television distribution, video-on-demand and pay-per-view, non-theatrical content distribution (airlines, hotels, etc.), television production, physical studio operations, international thematic channels development and management, strategic planning for a global television business unit, magazine publishing, and theme parks. Before joining Microsoft, Westlake consulted for various media companies including Comcast Corp. and NBC Universal, and was corporate executive vice president of Gemstar-TV Guide International, Inc. Westlake was also an executive of Universal Studios, Inc. from 1982-2000, where he was chairman of Universal Television & Networks Group. Westlake is a member of the board of trustees of The Paley Center for Media, the executive branch of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (Academy Awards®), the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (Emmy Awards®), the executive committee of the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (iEmmy® Awards), and is a member of the board of directors of the Digital Entertainment Group and ContentGuard, Inc. Westlake is admitted and an active member of the California State Bar.

Mehmet Ali Yalçindag

President and Chief Executive Officer
Dogan Yayin Holding, AS

Mehmet Ali Yalçindag is president and chief executive officer of Dogan Yayin Holding. He was born in Istanbul in 1964. He graduated with honors in 1989 from the American College in London. Yalçindag first joined the Dogan Group in 1990 as the assistant general manager of Dogan Dis Ticaret. In 1991, Yalçindag became a member of the executive committee of Dogan Holding. Then, in 1992, he was appointed assistant general manager of the Milliyet daily. In 1994, he assumed several responsibilities during the establishment of the Simge Group and began publishing four new newspapers including Posta, Fanatik, and Radikal. When the media companies of Dogan Group merged under DYH in 1996, he was appointed vice president of DYH’s executive committee.

David Zaslav

President and Chief Executive Officer
Discovery Communications

David Zaslav sets the strategy and oversees all operations of the world’s number one nonfiction media company that empowers people to explore their world and satisfy their curiosity. Discovery Communications’ 100-plus TV networks reach more than 1.5 billion cumulative subscribers in over 170 countries and its Web sites attract more than thirty-five million combined unique visitors per month. Since taking the helm at Discovery in January 2007, Zaslav has executed a number of initiatives that have focused the organization on growth, performance, and operational efficiency. He directed a strategic effort to clarify and strengthen Discovery’s world-class brands, highlighted by a partnership with Oprah Winfrey to launch OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, a multiplatform joint venture coming to sixty-seven million homes in early 2010 with a mission to empower, entertain, and uplift. He launched Planet Green, Discovery’s cross-company initiative committed to documenting, preserving, and celebrating the planet including the only twenty-four hour eco-lifestyle TV network. He also drove Discovery’s digital media strategy through the acquisitions of HowStuffWorks.com, the leading online source of high-quality, unbiased, and easy to understand explanations of how the world actually works, and Treehugger.com, the leading eco-lifestyle Web site.

Jeff Zucker

President and Chief Executive Officer
NBC Universal

Jeff Zucker is the president and chief executive officer of NBC Universal. He has held that position since February 2007. Zucker has spent his entire career at NBC Universal, joining NBC’s Olympic unit in 1986, straight out of Harvard. In his more than twenty-four years with the company, he has had a diversified career as an award-winning news producer, entertainment executive, and business leader. As chief executive officer, Zucker has diversified the company's portfolio with acquisitions such as Oxygen, the Weather Channel, and Sparrowhawk Media, expanded the brand globally, overseen the growth of NBCU's theme park business, and led its digital expansion, including his role as one of the architects of Hulu. Prior to his current role, he served as president of the NBC Universal Television Group from May 2004 until January 2007. Before that, he was president of the entertainment, news, and cable group and president of NBC Entertainment. During his tenure overseeing the company's television business, NBC Universal built a pre-eminent stable of cable news and entertainment channels, maximizing the cross-platform opportunities of its many television assets, NBC News remained the dominant source of America's news and information, and NBC Sports the leader in broadcast sports. Before taking the helm of NBC Entertainment in 2001, Zucker spent nearly eight years as the executive producer of NBC News’s Today. Under his leadership at Today, the program redefined morning television, becoming the nation’s most-watched morning news show and the most profitable program on television. Zucker was appointed executive producer of Today in January 1992 at age twenty-six, which made him the youngest executive producer in the history of the program. He produced every major news and political special for NBC News from 1992-2000. He also served as executive producer of NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw in February and March 1993, a post held concurrently with his role at Today. Zucker joined NBC in 1986 as a researcher for NBC Sports’s coverage of the 1988 Summer Olympics and joined NBC News as a field producer for Today in January 1989. A five-time Emmy Award winner, Zucker graduated from Harvard College in 1986 with a bachelor’s degree in American history. He served as president of the Harvard Crimson from 1985 to 1986. Zucker is a member of the board of directors of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Temple Emanu-El, the Robin Hood Foundation, the American Film Institute, The Paley Center for Media, and the Museum of the Moving Image.