John C. Malone

Chairman, Liberty Media Corporation

Dr. John C. Malone is Chairman of Liberty Media Corporation, a position he has held since 1990. From 1996 to March, 1999, when Tele-Communications, Inc., (TCI) merged with AT&T Corp., he was also Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of TCI. Previous to that, from 1973 to 1996, Dr. Malone served as President and CEO of TCI. He is a Director of AT&T Corp., and also serves on the Board of Directors for the Bank of New York, the CATO Institute, Discovery Communications, Inc., BET Holdings II, Inc., At Home Corporation and USANi, LLC. Additionally, Dr. Malone is Chairman Emeritus of the Board for Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.

Born March 7, 1941, in Milford, Connecticut, Dr. Malone was a Phi Beta Kappa and merit scholar at Yale University where he obtained a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Economics in 1963. He also received a Master of Science in Industrial Management from Johns Hopkins in 1964 and a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Operations Research from Johns Hopkins in 1967.

Dr. Malone began his career in 1963 at Bell Telephone Laboratories/AT&T in economic planning and research and development. In 1968, he joined McKinsey & Company and in 1970 he became Group Vice President at General Instrument Corporation (GI). He was later named President of Jerrold Electronics, a GI subsidiary.

He served as Director of the National Cable Television Association (NCTA) from 1974 to 1977 and again from 1980 to 1993. During the 1977-1978 term, Dr. Malone was the NCTA's Treasurer.

In 1983, Dr. Malone received the NCTA Vanguard Award, one of the highest honors in the cable television industry. He has received many other awards and honors which include: TVC Magazine Man of the Year Award – 1981; Wall Street Transcript's Gold Award for the cable industry's best Chief Executive Officer – 1982, 1985, 1986 and 1987; Wall Street's Transcript Silver Award in 1984 and 1989; Women in Cable's Betsy Magness Fellowship Honoree; University of Pennsylvania Wharton School Sol C. Snider Entrepreneurial Center Award of Merit for Distinguished Entrepreneurship; American Jewish Committee Sherrill C. Corwin Human Relations Award; Denver University Honorary Degree for Doctorate of Human Letters - 1992; Communications Technology Magazine Service and Technology award; Bronze Award – 1993 Financial World CEO of the Year Competition; and 1994 Hopkins Distinguished Alumnus Award.