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3. TOP BID
Bonnie Hammer
Title: Chairman, NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment
Years in Cable: 28
Education: BA, Science, Boston University; MA, Boston University
Ebay has discovered what everyone else has known for quite some time: Hammer's
worth bidding on. In January, the online trading post announced that Hammer
was joining its board of directors. Hammer also joined the board of Barry Diller's
e-commerce company IAC. But she's most at home overseeing NBCU's Cable
Entertainment Group, where she continues to work her magic evolving networks
including Bravo, E!, Esquire, USA, Syfy, Oxygen and newest family member Sprout.
Hammer's portfolio continues to contribute strongly to NBCU's bottom line, and her
keen sense of industry and consumer trends remains invaluable to the company.
She no doubt had a strong say in NBCU Cable's recent change to Live+3 metrics, and let's not forget that she remains Cablefax's Most Powerful
Woman in Cable. ■
4. TWC's A-Team
Rob Marcus
Title: Chairman &
CEO, Time Warner
Cable
Years in Cable: 10
Education: BA,
Brown University;
JD,
Columbia Law
School
Best Advice in 7 Words or Less: Be yourself.
Dinni Jain
Title: COO,
Time Warner Cable
Years in Cable: 22
Education:
Princeton
Best Advice in 7
Words or Less:
Play small to win big.
Arthur (Artie)
Minson
Title: EVP & CFO,
Time Warner Cable
Years in Cable: 16
Education: BS,
Georgetown
University; MBA,
Columbia Business
School
Best Advice in 7 Words or Less:
Play hard. Play fair. Play to win.
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University
Best Advice in 7 Words or Less:
Wake up, do your best, sleep, repeat.
Even if the proposed Comcast merger doesn't close,
Time Warner Cable should be in good shape. And
that's why we're moving this can-do team to the #4
position this year. Indeed, Marcus & Co haven't taken
their foot off the gas during this limbo period, instituting
the TWC Maxx plan that's resulted in upgrades
and faster Internet speeds in N.Y., L.A. and other
markets. Marcus has the overall vision. Jain is the
day-to-day operations man. McKinnon's making sure
the i's are dotted as the merger winds its way through
the regulatory path, and Minson keeps a close watch
on the balance sheet. Together, they make a strong
leadership team that elicit a vote of confidence for
going it alone if the merger fails or dancing under the
limbo stick if Charter-now quite busy with its own
play for Bright House Networks-makes another go
for TWC. And if the merger happens... well, they can
all ride off into the sunset.
Marcus
I watch most programming on this device:
Samsung 65-inch TV
May 2015
Gail
MacKinnon
Title: EVP & Chief
Government Relations
Officer,
Time Warner Cable
Years in Cable:
21
Education: BSBA,
Georgetown
Favorite restaurant: Milos
Favorite vacation spot: Ixtapa
Beach or mountains: Beach
Jain
My favorite newfound hobby:
Biking (or walking) from one Time Warner Cable
office to another.
If Disney hired me to reboot Star Wars..
I would... indeed; I would.
Favorite vacation spot:
Biking anywhere with my family.
Desert island album:
Do we still have albums?
Minson
My favorite newfound hobby:
Waiting for merger approvals.
What's your favorite screen: Sunscreen
Favorite Cable Show memory:
My first one back in 2000 with Rainbow Media.
Favorite TV show as a kid: " Sesame Street "
My favorite business/motivational book:
Blue Ocean Strategy
MacKinnon
Apple iWatch or Rolex: Apple iWatch
I watch most programming on this device:
iPad
If my office produced a viral video, the background
music would be...
Taylor Swift's " Shake It Off "
My " Real Housewives " catch-phrase is...
" I call the shots in my life right now, and I have
good aim. "
Favorite TV show as a kid: " 60 Minutes " ■
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