Leslie Moonves
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Les Moonves at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival premiere of Woody Allen's film Whatever Works
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Leslie Roy Moonves October 6, 1949 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Bucknell University, Valley Stream Central High School |
| Occupation |
Chairman of the Board, President, and CEO of CBS Corporation Director at ZeniMax Media |
| Salary | $66.9 million (2013) (includes other compensation) |
| Spouse(s) | Nancy Wiesenfeld (1978–2004) Julie Chen (2004–present) |
| Relatives | Jon Moonves (brother) |
Leslie Roy Moonves (/ˈmuːnvɛz/; born October 6, 1949) is Chairman of the Board, President, and Chief Executive Officer of CBS Corporation.
Moonves served as Co-President and Co-Chief Operating Officer of Viacom, Inc., the predecessor to CBS Corporation, from 2004 until the company split on December 31, 2005. Prior to that, he had a series of executive positions at CBS, since July 1995. He has been a Director at ZeniMax Media since 1999. He became Chairman of CBS in February 2016.
Moonves was born to a Jewish family in New York City, the son of Josephine (Schleifer) and Herman Moonves, and grew up in Valley Stream, New York. He attended Valley Stream Central High School and went to Bucknell University, graduating in 1971. In his sophomore year he switched his major from pre-med to Spanish and acted in a few plays; following graduation in 1971 he moved to Manhattan to pursue a career as an actor, but after he played a few "forgettable" TV roles he decided to pursue the business side of television instead.
Moonves had upper management experience early in his business career. He was in charge of first-run syndication and pay/cable programming at 20th Century Fox Television. Also at 20th Century Fox Television he was vice president of movies and mini-series. Other positions included vice president of Development at Saul Ilson Productions (in association with Columbia Pictures Television) and development executive for Catalina Productions.
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