Leo Hindery, Jr. Chairman, U.S. Economy/Smart Globalization Initiative, New America Foundation, New York, NY

Leo Hindery, Jr. is Managing Partner of InterMedia Partners, a series of media industry private equity funds that he founded in 1988 and ran continuously until February 1997. It was then that Mr. Hindery was elected President and CEO of Tele-Communications, Inc. (TCI) and Liberty Media, which at the time was the world’s largest combined cable television system operator and programming entity. In March 1999 TCI merged into AT&T (thereafter “AT&T Broadband”) in a transaction valued at $48 billion, and he stayed on as President and CEO until he resigned in November 1999.

In December 1999, Mr. Hindery was elected Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of GlobalCenter Inc., a major Internet services company, which in January 2001 merged into Exodus Communications, Inc. From 2001 until October 2004, Mr. Hindery was Chairman and CEO of The YES Network which he founded to be the television home of the New York Yankees; YES is now the nation’s largest regional sports network. In early 2005 he reconstituted InterMedia Partners – now fund number VII – with partners and colleagues from the earlier InterMedia funds, TCI, Liberty and YES.

Mr. Hindery is Chairman of the US Economy/Smart Globalization Initiative at the New America Foundation and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a member of the Board of Visitors of the Columbia School of Journalism and a Director of the Huffington Post Investigative Fund, the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR), the Paley Center for Media, and Teach for America. Previously, he was an economic and trade advisor to presidential candidate Barack Obama, after earlier serving as Senior Economic Policy Advisor for presidential candidate John Edwards. From 2005 through 2007, he was Vice Chairman of the Presidential and Congressional HELP Commission which in December 2007 made recommendations to Congress for the reform of U.S. foreign assistance.

Mr. Hindery is the author of “It Takes a CEO: It’s Time to Lead With Integrity” (Free Press, 2005) and “The Biggest Game of All” (Free Press, 2003). He has an MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business and is an undergraduate of Seattle University, and has received honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degrees from Emerson College and the Rabbinical College of America.