Leo Hindery, Jr. has spent his career in senior leadership positions in the media industry.  He is currently Managing Partner of InterMedia Partners, which makes mid- to large-size private equity media company investments.  Mr. Hindery is an Executive-in-Residence at Columbia Business School and a member of the Board of Advisors at Columbia School of Journalism, and he is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Until October 2004 Mr. Hindery was Chairman (and until May 2004 CEO) of The YES Network, the nation’s premier regional sports network he founded in the summer of 2001 as the television home of the New York Yankees.  Earlier, Mr. Hindery was President and CEO of Tele-Communications, Inc. (TCI), then the world’s largest cable television distribution and programming entity, and in 1999 he became CEO of AT&T Broadband, which was formed by the merger of TCI into AT&T.  A former chairman of the National Cable Television Association and of C-SPAN, he was a strong proponent of the Telecommunications Act of 1996.

Mr. Hindery is an active board member for a wide range of philanthropic and political organizations, and he is the author of “It Takes a CEO” (Simon & Schuster, 2005) and of “The Biggest Game of All” (Simon & Schuster, 2003).  He is a graduate of Stanford Business School and of Seattle University, and he has honorary degrees from each of Emerson College and the Rabbinical College of America.