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A conversation with CEO of Time Warner Richard Parsons
with Richard Parsons on Sep 20, 2005
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with Richard Parsons on Sep 20, 2005
Richard Dean Parsons is the chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Time Warner. He is also on the board of directors of Citigroup.
A liberal African-American Republican, Parsons served an internship at the New York State Legislature, at which time he was invited to work as a lawyer for the staff of the then New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller. When Rockefeller was appointed Vice President of the United States in 1974, Parsons followed him to Washington D.C., where he worked directly with President Gerald Ford. He also met a deputy attorney general, Harold R. Tyler, and one of his aides, a young Rudolph W. Giuliani, with whom he was to be closely associated, supporting him in his campaign for New York mayor and heading his transitional council.
In 1991, Parsons was invited to join Time Warner’s board. He subsequently became president of the company in 1995. He helped negotiate the company’s merger with America Online in 2000, creating a $165-billion media conglomerate. In December 2001, Parsons was selected as chief executive Gerald Levin’s successor. In 2001, United States President George W. Bush selected Parsons to co-chair a commission on Social Security. Parsons also worked on the transition team for Michael Bloomberg, who was elected Mayor of New York City in 2001. In 2006, Parsons was selected to co-chair the transition team for the incoming Governor of New York, Eliot Spitzer.
Source: Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Parsons
