Board of Directors
- John S. Hendricks
Founder and Chairman
Discovery Communications - Robert R. Beck
Independent Financial Consultant - Robert R. Bennett
Managing Director
Hilltop Investments - Paul A. Gould
Managing Director
Allen & Company, LLC - Lawrence "Larry" S. Kramer
Senior Advisor
Polaris Venture Partners - Dr. John C. Malone
Chairman
Liberty Media Corporation and Liberty Global, Inc. - Robert J. Miron
Chairman
Advance/Newhouse Communications - Steven A. Miron
CEO
Bright House Networks - M. LaVoy Robison
Executive Director
The Anschutz Foundation - J. David Wargo
President
Wargo & Company, Inc. - David M. Zaslav
President and CEO
Discovery Communications
Corporate Management
- David M. Zaslav
President and CEO
Discovery Communications - Mark Hollinger
Chief Operating Officer
Discovery Communications - Adria Alpert Romm
Senior Executive Vice President
Human Resources - Joe Abruzzese
President
Advertising Sales - Bruce Campbell
President
Digital Media and Corporate Development - Bill Goodwyn
President
Domestic Distribution and Enterprises - Joseph A. LaSala, Jr.
Senior Executive Vice President
General Counsel and Secretary - Brad Singer
Senior Executive Vice President
Chief Financial Officer
Business & Brand Management
- John Ford
President and GM
Discovery Channel - Eileen O’Neill
President and GM
TLC - Marjorie Kaplan
President and GM
Animal Planet Media Enterprises - W. Clark Bunting
President and GM
Emerging Networks - Laura Michalchyshyn
President and GM
Planet Green - Deborah Myers
EVP and GM
Science Channel - Christina Norman
Chief Executive Officer
OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network - Henry Schleiff
President and GM
Investigation Discovery - Luis Silberwasser
SVP and GM
U.S. Hispanic Networks - Carole Tomko
President and GM
Discovery Studios, Discovery
Health Media and Discovery Kids - Steven Sidel
Managing Director
Antenna Audio
International Management
- Greg Ricca
President and CEO
Discovery Networks
International - Sahar Elhabashi
Chief Operating Officer
Discovery Networks
International - Arthur Bastings
EVP and Managing Director
Discovery Networks
Europe, Middle East, Africa - Tom Keaveny
EVP and Managing Director
Discovery Networks
Asia-Pacific - Enrique R. Martínez
EVP and Managing Director
Discovery Networks
Latin America/U.S. Hispanic
Lawrence "Larry" S. Kramer
Senior Advisor
Polaris Venture Partners
Larry Kramer is senior advisor at Polaris Venture Partners, a national venture capital firm with over $3 billion under management that invests in seed, early stage and growth equity businesses in the technology, life science, digital media, enertech and consumer sectors.
Prior Professional Experience:
- Advisor to CBS - 2006 to 2008
- President, CBS Digital Media - 2005 to 2006 (first president, reporting directly to CBS President and CEO Leslie Moonves)
- CEO and Founder, MarketWatch, Inc. - 1997 to 2005 (when it was sold to Dow Jones)
- Vice President, Data Broadcasting Corp. - 1994 to 1997 (until founding of MarketWatch)
- Founder, President and Executive Editor, DataSport Inc. - 1991 to 1994 (until acquisition by Data Broadcasting Corp.)
- Mr. Kramer also spent more than 20 years as a reporter and editor, serving as a reporter and executive editor for the San Francisco Examiner, a financial reporter, assistant to the executive editor and assistant managing editor and metro editor for the Washington Post, and executive editor of the Trenton (N.J.) Times.
Company Directorship:
- Mr. Kramer is a director of Discovery Communications and a member of the Audit and Nominating Committees.
Other Directorships:
- Mr. Kramer serves on the boards of Answers.com, Xinhua Finance Media (XFML), BlackArrow, Inc. (chairman), CreditCard.com, and Harvard Business School Publishing. He also serves on the advisory boards to the Newhouse School of Communications at Syracuse University and Jib Jab Media Inc.
Education:
- Mr. Kramer holds an MBA from Harvard University and a bachelor's degree in journalism and political science from Syracuse University.
Awards:
- Mr. Kramer is the recipient of several awards for reporting, including the National Press Club Award and The Gerald Loeb award for business reporting. His staffs also won two Pulitzer Prizes. He has been a guest lecturer at the Harvard Business School, Syracuse University, University of Pennsylvania, UC Berkeley, NYU, Emory, and served a two-year term as a Pulitzer Prize juror.