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Jeff Bewkes was named Chief Executive Officer of Home Box Office in May 1995. He is responsible for the overall management of the world's largest premium television company, which operates multiple premium networks in the United States, Europe, Asia and Latin America, as well as HBO's many other lines of business.
In addition, Bewkes serves on the boards of the Comedy Central network, The Creative Coalition, the American Museum of the Moving Image and St. Vincent's Services. He is a Trustee of the Walter Kaitz Foundation, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the Advisory Councils of the American Museum of Natural History and Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Prior to becoming CEO, Bewkes had been president and chief operating off icer of Home Box Office since 1991. For the preceding five years, he had been chief financial officer of the company. Bewkes joined HBO in June 1979 in the sales and marketing department.
Before joining HBO, Bewkes served for two years as an account officer for Citibank, NA in New York. Prior to that, he was operations director for Sonoma Vineyards, Inc., in Healdsburg, CA.
Bewkes has a BA degree from Yale University and an MBA degree from Stanford Graduate School of Business.