Topic: John Malone
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We have to look at it, not in a traditional way but in a quite exceptional way, perhaps with partners, perhaps in ways we'd not regard a normal cable company
Malone may bid on Britain's Virgin Media Jul 30, 2007
Our airline has been managed to the brink of bankruptcy, and the Delta pilots had to decide between two bad choices
Delta pilots accept big pay cut Nov 12, 2004
This merger of two industry leaders will give Chase access to additional technical, product development and marketing resources to more rapidly expand its markets and potentially broaden its product line by leveraging the combined skills and technologies of both Chase's rod and Olin's strip businesses
Executive Business Briefing May 08, 2002
John C. Malone (born March 7, 1941) is the current chairman of Liberty Media and CEO of Discovery Holding Company. He was the interim CEO of Liberty Media until succeeded by former Oracle CFO Greg Maffei.
Malone was born in Milford, Connecticut. He graduated with the class of 1959 from Hopkins School in New Haven, Connecticut. He was a Phi Beta Kappa and merit scholar at Yale University where he obtained a B.A. in Electrical Engineering and Economics in 1963. He also received a Master of Science in Industrial Management from Johns Hopkins University in 1964 and a Ph.D. in Operations Research from Johns Hopkins in 1967. Malone was also Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of TCI. Previous to that, from 1973 to 1996, Dr. Malone served as President and CEO of Tele-Communications Inc. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Bank of New York, the Cato Institute, Expedia and the Colorado Chapter of The Nature Conservancy. Additionally, Dr. Malone is Chairman Emeritus of the Board for Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. and Chairman of Liberty Global, Inc., and the DirecTV Group.
Malone began his career in 1963 at Bell Telephone Laboratories/AT&T in economic planning and research and development. In 1968, he joined McKinsey & Company and in 1970 he became Group Vice President at General Instrument Corporation (GI). He was later named President of Jerrold Electronics, a GI subsidiary.
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