Jeff Bewkes
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Bewkes at the Time 100 gala, April 24, 2012
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| Born |
Jeffrey Lawrence Bewkes May 25, 1952 Paterson, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Education | Deerfield Academy |
| Alma mater |
Yale University Stanford University |
| Occupation | Chairman and CEO of Time Warner |
| Employer | Time Warner (2008–present) |
| Salary | $32.5 million FY 2013 |
| Spouse(s) |
Susan Kelley (m. 1982; div. 1993) Margaret Grim (m. 1993; div. 2014) |
| Children | 2 |
| Parent(s) | Eugene Bewkes Marjorie Klenk |
Jeffrey Lawrence "Jeff" Bewkes (born May 25, 1952) is an American media executive. He has been CEO of Time Warner since January 1, 2008, President since December 2005, and Chairman of the Board since January 1, 2009.
Bewkes was born in Paterson, New Jersey, the middle son of Marjorie Louise (née Klenk) and Eugene Garrett Bewkes, Jr., an executive at Norton Simon. He is of Dutch and German ancestry, was raised in Darien, Connecticut, and is a graduate of Deerfield Academy.
In 1974, he graduated from Yale University with a bachelor's degree in philosophy. According to college friend Gary Lucas, a guitarist who went on to collaborate with avant-garde acts like Captain Beefheart, said that at Yale in the early 1970s, he fell in with “lunatic fringe types and free thinkers”. Bill Moseley, another college friend who went on to a career in horror movies like Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, stated, “I think of him as an artist first and foremost”.
Upon graduation, he "tried his hand at documentary work for NBC News" before going to Stanford University to earn his MBA. He sits on both his alma maters' respective advisory boards. After school, he worked at a Sonoma vineyard winery and then took a job in New York City as a commercial banker in Citibank's shipping lending unit.
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