Jeffrey Bewkes

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Jeffrey Bewkes, a member of the board of directors at the Council on Foreign Relations, is "chairman of the Entertainment & Networks Group of AOL Time Warner, where he oversees HBO, Turner Networks, The WB, Warner Bros., and New Line Cinema. Before assuming his current position in July 2002, he was chief executive officer of Home Box Office since 1995. Mr. Bewkes joined HBO in 1979 and became its president and chief operating officer in 1991. Before joining HBO, he served for two years as an account officer for Citibank, and prior to that, he was operations director for Sonoma Vineyards in Healdsburg, CA. Mr. Bewkes serves on the boards of Thirteen/WNET, the Comedy Central network, the Creative Coalition, the American Museum of the Moving Image, and St. Vincent's Services. He is based in New York, NY."[1]