the very model of a modern media manager - stand up air purifier

John Billock, second command of AOL Time Warner
The cable equipment, can't forget that he and Jeff bikes tried to drive 20-
It was a few miles from Martha's Vineyard to Nantucket Island, when they were executives at HBO.
They set out on a small boat with no motor or compass.
Five hours of fighting.
Bewkes said, "Look, we're only half way through.
We can move on, but the chance is 50-
We will die.
He laughed and added: "How unusual is it if we can't make it ? "
The two men sailed for 10 hours and never reached the island.
Early the next morning they returned to safety. -
Bikes is still laughing.
This is retro, says bilock.
"He doesn't see himself and his obstacles as serious.
"The unusual composure was one of the gifts that brought Jeffrey bikes from HBO's relatively safe place, and he spent almost £ 26
As the head of AOL Time Warner's vast entertainment and networking group, he is at the top of a dangerous career in acting.
Now, the self-contained executive has to prove that he can really navigate the danger, first of all, when shareholders vent angrily at the company's annual meeting today at Va Landsdowne.
Whether he can overcome threats such as digital piracy, changing competition and pressure to cut debt will determine the AOL--
Maybe the whole industry ---
Led by a new generation of company managers, they are rapidly replacing the last wave of entrepreneurs and builders.
Bikes "has all my abilities" Richard Parsons 55, who will be the chairman of the AOL conference, capping a year of executive turnover and a loss of $100 billion.
Born on the East Coast elite, bikes of MBA-
Equipment and corporate loyalty are a novelty in the entertainment industry.
Strict discipline
His personality is orderly and he has enough talent to succeed in an industry that is sometimes unruly.
He is likely to represent the new "organizer"-
Such people are more likely to run future media companies than Hollywood --
Players trained by Walt Disney
Tycoon Michael Eisner or Viacom
It's Samantha Redstone.
"He's a good model in modern times --
"The day-to-day manager of the entertainment department," said Tom Freston, head of MTV Networks at Viacom.
Tall, gray and whip
In 5th day of this month, 1-year-old thin Bewkes was barely known to the public who loved the show ---
Including the underworld family and sex and the City-
Born in seven years as president of HBO.
But his promotion in July made him one of the most influential people in the entertainment industry, including properties such as Warner Brothers.
Warner Music Group and CNN.
Bewkes declined to be interviewed.
This is because his position is delicate because AOL is trying to get rid of the rough internal politics of the past, says Associates, at the same time, problems including the Securities and Exchange Commission's investigation of possible accounting violations were not supervised in the company's online department bewkes.
Bikes can be stiff-
Almost to the point of self
Destruction, as he was said to have suggested at the time --
Boss Gerald Levin gave up Time Warner. 's still-
Unfinished merger with AOL
More than two years ago
Still, Bewkes uses humor to eliminate confrontation and embarrassment.
There is a story like this, when he was caught by dog poop during an interview at Stanford Business School, he simply said: "I think that's what my investment banking career is like.
* While cautious Steve rarely shows his ambition, bikes has been careful to take care of his career ---
There may be excessive caution.
Was asked to run the cable empire of AOL, or to consider leading Warner Brothers, based on some accounts.
Instead, he chose the known path and relatively guaranteed profits of HBO he joined in 1979.
He also missed a chance to move fast.
Before the merger, he developed the United States online and the job was handed over to Bob Pittman.
Bewkes, as a casual visitor, walked into the entertainment circle from a charming life.
At the age of 20, he briefly worked as a gofer of television producer Leonard Stern, working as a driver for Diana Rigg of The Avengers.
Stern said that thanks to his merchant father, Eugene garlitt Bekes, Bekes was given the position
He owns a stake in Stern.
Old bikes is a senior executive at Norton Simon.
In his 1970 s, he later became chairman of the American bakery company.
His father, Eugene Garrett bikes
He was a professor of philosophy at Colgate University and later a saint.
University of Lawrence
Jeff bikes, like his brother, investment banker Eugene Garritt bikes III, attended the Deerfield Academy;
Then he went to Yale.
Media expert Steve Brier, who was two years earlier at Deerfield and Yale than Jeff, said of the family: "They were loaded . ".
At Yale, Bewkes was very rebellious. he took a film class and he claimed to let the students sleep in the slaughterhouse documentary.
But he cut his long hair and entered Stanford University in 1975, where the Ford Motor Company oversees business projects.
"Prodigy" Aje Miller attaches great importance to team values and analytical rigor.
"He's as cool as Danny Zuko in gray," said Gene O'Kelly, a classmate at KPMG's current head.
Peter Kreisky, a classmate and friend, said Bewkes has the "magic" ability to attract people and the innate sense of entitlement.
Kreisky, a media analyst in New York, said: "He is very clear about what influence Stanford business school will bring him to get his father's position.
Headquartered at Kreisky Media Consulting.
After school, bikes came to the Sonoma vineyard winery, where the owner worked with Norton Simon and his father.
A year later, Bewkes moved to Citibank, where he was involved in shipping loans.
He then joined HBO, an obscure company owned by Time Inc. , a magazine giant.
Some will soon see Kim Tong as the future CEO of the parent company.
"I saw him running the whole thing in 1981," Curt Viebranz said . " Curt Viebranz is a group of people who later run the HBO international business.
Twenty years later, associates is free to guess whether Bewkes will eventually run the media giant created by Time Warner Communications, the Turner Broadcasting System and the subsequent combination of AOL.
Asked if it was possible for Bewkes to lead the company, Roger Ames, chairman of Warner Music Group, said: "Yes.
I think, in my opinion, he has the perfect skills to run a large media entertainment company.
"When taking over HBO, bikes sneered at the creative skeptics. "He's a hybrid.
"Sex and City" star Sarah Jessica Parker said he took advantage of both sides of the brain and she commemorated bewks's latest promotions by buying AOL shares.
Bewkes fans are talking about less achievement than what they call superior personal qualities, which will only enhance his aura as AOL Time Warner enters the post-eramerger turmoil.
Independent, he became a representative who expressed opposition to the "new media" type on the US internet,-
A lot of people are leaving now. -
Like Warner Bros. , micro questions give lectures to Time Warner's "old media" manager
Handled the Author relationship
With Parsons's clever encouragement, Bewkes stood on HBO's profit record and used the "committee" of the head of the media giant's Department to counter such a powerful newcomer at the time --
US online chairman Steve Case and United
Chief operating officer Bob Pittman
Others tell about bewkes's contact with his subordinates.
"This is a company that everyone claims to have done.
He makes you feel like you did it, "says Sheila Nevins, who is in charge of the HBO documentary.
Nevins loyalty to Bewkes in one
She used to do propaganda for her work.
When bikes understood the purpose of the meeting, he called Vince and asked him to sit down.
For Jim White, president of William Morris, bikes is a rare "straight gunner" who lacks destructive self ".
The executive, who knew that Wiatt was suffering from Elevator anxiety and was unable to easily climb the 29 flights to the bewkes AOL office, recently went to the agent's New York suite ---
Walk with William Murray on the 18 th floor.
* In the face of new ads, some people are waiting to see if bikes can put up with bigger problems than any of the problems he faces at HBO, where he has long been sheltered by his parents in rough terms, and was defeated by Michael forth, his talented but unstable boss.
Sometimes frustrated by Becks calm, Fox reminded him in the negotiations: "You are an advocate. Not a judge.
"Despite the difficult decision that was made later as CEO, Bewkes enjoyed the growth, which was based on a philosophy that was basically in place and got DirecTV and EchoStar etc.
"Jeff hasn't been tested yet," said one competitor . ".
"Jeff has never experienced adversity in the business he is in charge.
Admirers challenge this view.
They say that HBO's expansion to about 27 million users is not inevitable, but depends on bewkes's willingness to take risks. -
For example, investment in the original project has tripled
Forkes and HBO have their own series against big networks.
During his tenure, profit margins soared from 8% per year to 18% to 20%.
On a personal level, the partner said that one of bewkes's biggest trials was divorce from his first wife, a trust lawyer.
Bewkes later married Margaret Brim, who met Margaret Brim at Yale and had a son in each marriage.
Some say American Online's political culture has tried the courage of executives.
At the HBO farewell meeting at bewkes, friends gave him a clearer image of the air purifier, hinting at his slight reproductive phobia and toxic corporate atmosphere.
"Breathe freely," they said . "
There was a purifier at his desk.
According to one insider, Levin, now
The retired CEO of AOL Time Warner has never forgiven Bewkes for avoiding the challenge of running Warner Bros.
When Bob Daley, the company's longtime president, and Terry Semel left in 1999. (
Others questioned whether Bewkes had been invited by the Warner Post. )
Levin bypassed beix in search of his successor, but he was unable to reach him.
Maybe because of his edge.
During the combined turmoil, Bewkes was impatient with those who violated his sense of order.
In at least two cases, the impact has been undermining those who seem to mimic bewkes's own candor, but are also seen as productive managers who have crossed the line, Associates said.
After Bewkes took office in July, warner production director Lorenzo Di Bonaventura has helped secure billions of dollars in conflict with Warner president Alan Horn by nurturing franchises such as "Matrix" and "Harry Potter.
Spent some time in New York.
At the premiere of the summer film, DiBona Ventura visited beix.
After returning to Los Angeles, with the consent of Becks, Barry Meyer, chairman of Horn and Warner, kicked him out of the company.
Now producer DiBona Ventura declined to comment on his departure, as did Meyer.
A few months later, Meyer fired Warren Lieberfarb, Warner's director of home video, a legend and a difficult figure.
Lieberfarb had to re-organize the studio in order to unify drama, video, DVD and pay strategyper-view releases.
He was driven out of office in the resulting friction, while bikes was largely blocked.
Lieberfarb and Meyer declined to comment.
While focusing on strategy, the new entertainment chairman relaxed control over department heads ---
For example, by developing a static
The digital program will guide his business from piracy to the electronic future.
As for CNN's competition with Fox, music sales were eroded after The Matrix and Lord of the Rings, or about the next scene in his studio, "He left these questions to the operations executive, who described themselves as colleagues in bikes rather than subordinates.
HBO programmer Vince found that this is consistent with the beer she appreciates.
"He admitted you," she explained . "
But she added: "I don't know if it helps a man win a game. "*(
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Portfolio Jeffrey bikes, chairman of AOL Time Warner Entertainment and networking, is responsible for one of the largest businesses in the entertainment industry, including: * film and television production: Warner Bros.
Entertainment New Line Cinema * Music: Warner Music Group * cable channel: HBOCNNTBSTNTTurner classic movie Cartoon Network * Broadcast Network: WB (
Partial interest)