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PBS Board of Directors
William F. Baker (2008) ** back
Director since 2002. As of February 2008, President Emeritus, and former CEO & President from 1987-2007, Educational Broadcasting Corporation, licensee of Thirteen/WNET and WLIW21, New York. With a career that spans more than 30 years in the industry, William F. Baker has taken a leading role in helping to shape American broadcasting in both the commercial and public sectors. Author, lecturer and recipient of many honors and awards, he is a sought-after expert in the field and a well-known advocate for the educational potential of television. Dr. Baker previously served a dual role as President of Westinghouse Television, Inc. (from 1979) and Chairman of Group W Satellite Communications (from 1981). Dr. Baker has held a variety of programming and general management positions in radio and television in Cleveland, Baltimore, Los Angeles, and New York. Dr. Baker was honored with the 1987 Trustees Emmy Award of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. He has received two Gabriel Awards, two duPont Columbia Journalism Awards, and numerous other awards - including seven Emmy Awards - for his work as a producer. In 2004 he was inducted into the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame, and in 2005 the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and in 2007 the NATAS Management Hall of Fame. Former President of the New York Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Dr. Baker also serves on the boards of Freedom Communications, Rodale Press, Grey Island Systems, BAFTA East Coast and International Council of NATAS. He was recently appointed as Chairman of the National Park System Advisory Board. Dr. Baker received his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Case Western Reserve University, and he is the recipient of honorary degrees from St. John's University, College of St. Elizabeth, Long Island University, New School University, Seton Hall University, and Fordham University. Dr. Baker served as a PBS Director from 1991-97. He currently serves on the PBS Finance Committee and has served on the Task Force for More Effective Governance, Strategic Planning Advisory Group, Executive, Nominating and Corporate Governance and Business committees.
Fred Berens (2010) * back
Director since 2007. As Managing Director - Investments at Wachovia Securities, LLC in Miami, Mr. Berens is a high-level investment manager with vast entrepreneurial expertise. In addition to his position at Wachovia Securities LLC, he sits on the Board of Directors of Elizabeth Arden, Inc., and was one of the founders of French Fragrances Inc. which became Elizabeth Arden after acquiring this company from Unilever.
Mr. Berens is a veteran member of the Board of Directors of Community Television Foundation of South Florida, Inc., the licensee of WPBT. He is a former board chair of the Foundation and was the long-time chair of its Executive Committee. For WPBT, Mr. Berens was visionary in the creation of the station's endowment through the WPBT Communications Foundation, Inc. (WCFI), which he chairs. Under his leadership, WCFI's assets have grown to $33 million. Mr. Berens holds a BBA in Economics and an MBA in Finance from the University of Miami. He sits on the Board of Trustees of the University of Miami, the Board of Directors of the Carnival Performing Arts Center Foundation, and the Orange Bowl Committee. He has been a member of the Dade County Health Facilities Authority since 1979 and served as its Chairman for several years. Mr. Berens serves on the PBS Finance Committee and Investment Subcommittee.
Mary G. F. Bitterman (2009) ** back
Director since 2002. Chair of the Board from 2005-2007 and Vice Chair from 2003-2005. Mary G. F. Bitterman is President and Trustee of The Bernard Osher Foundation, headquartered in San Francisco, California. The Foundation provides scholarship funding nationally to selected colleges and universities and arts and humanities grants to non-profit organizations principally in the Greater Bay Area and the State of Maine. The Foundation also supports integrative medicine centers at Harvard University, the University of California at San Francisco, and the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm as well as a growing network of lifelong learning institutes for seasoned adults located at more than 100 colleges and universities from Maine to Hawaii. Previously, Ms. Bitterman served as President and CEO of The James Irvine Foundation, an independent grant-making foundation serving Californians, and before that was President and CEO of KQED, one of the leading public broadcasting centers in the United States. She has served also as Executive Director of the Hawaii Public Broadcasting Authority, director of the Voice of America, director of the Hawaii State Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, and director of the East-West Center's Institute of Culture and Communication. Ms. Bitterman currently is a director of the Bank of Hawaii, Barclays Global Investors, the Bay Area Economic Forum, and the Commonwealth Club of California. In addition, she sits on the Advisory Councils of Pacific Forum/CSIS and the Stanford Institute on Economic Policy Research. She has produced several documentaries for public television and has written on telecommunications development and the role of media in developing societies. She is an Honorary Member of the National Presswomen's Federation and a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration. Ms. Bitterman received her B.A. from Santa Clara University and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Bryn Mawr College. She holds honorary doctorates from Dominican University of California and Santa Clara University. Ms. Bitterman is Vice Chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and is a member of the Finance Committee and Strategic Planning Advisory Group. She formerly chaired the PBS Executive Committee and was a member of the Investment Subcommittee, the Diversity Task Force, and the PBS Foundation Board. She also previously served on the Audit and Compensation committees, the Task Force for More Effective Governance, the CEO Search Committee, the Real Estate Task Force and the APTS/PBS Joint Board Task Force.
Donald K. Boswell (2008) *** back
Director since 2006. President and CEO of the Western New York Public Broadcasting Association (WNED-TV/AM/FM; ThinkBright-TV).
Mr Boswell is a public broadcasting veteran of nearly 30 years. Before his appointment at WNED, he was Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for North Texas Public Broadcasting Inc. (KERA-TV & FM and KDTN-TV) in Dallas, where he also served as Acting President, Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Development, and Vice President of Development. He has also served as Vice President of Development at KCTS in Seattle, Washington; and has held positions in corporate underwriting, community relations, and production at WVIA-TV/FM in Pittston, Pennsylvania. The Pittsburgh native is the recipient of numerous professional awards including: National Conference for Community & Justice Media Award (2005), the Penn State Leadership and Service Award (2004), Canadian Consulate General Ambassador Award (2001), four national program Emmy's, and over a dozen PBS underwriting and development awards (1982-1995). He was elected by his peers to serve on PBS's Development Advisory Committee from 1988-1990. Mr. Boswell serves as a board member of National Conference for Community and Justice, HSBC Bank USA, HealthNow NY, Inc. and the AAA. He continues his long history of community service including membership on the boards of the Market Arcade Film and Arts Centre, Greater Buffalo Visitors and Convention Bureau, Darwin Martin House Restoration Corporation, and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Mr. Boswell holds degrees in Communications, Community Development and Education from The Pennsylvania State University. He also earned a Management Development Certificate from The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Boswell is Vice Chair of the Finance Committee. He also serves on the Executive Committee and the Strategic Planning Advisory Group and co-chairs the Task Force on Corporate Support. He has served on the Station Services Committee.
Molly Corbett Broad (2010) * back
Director since 2007. A leading spokesperson for American higher education, Molly Corbett Broad became the twelfth president of the American Council on Education (ACE) on May 1, 2008. She is the first woman to lead the organization since its founding in 1918. Ms. Broad came to ACE from the University of North Carolina (UNC), where she served as president from 1997 to 2006, leading UNC through a period of unprecedented enrollment growth. Due in large part to the success of the Focused Growth Initiative, minority enrollment at UNC grew at more than double the rate of the overall student body during her tenure. She also spearheaded the creation of a need-based financial aid program for in-state undergraduates and the creation of the College Foundation of North Carolina. Ms. Broad held a number of administrative and executive positions at several universities prior to her tenure at UNC. At the California State University system, she served as senior vice chancellor for administration and finance from 1992-93, and as executive vice chancellor and chief operating officer from 1993 until her election as UNC president. Earlier in her career, Ms. Broad served as the chief executive officer for Arizona's three-campus university system (1985-92) and in a succession of administrative posts at Syracuse University (1971-85). Ms. Broad has written and spoken widely on strategic planning for higher education, K-16 partnerships, information technology, globalization and biotechnology. In addition to the PBS Board she currently sits on the board of the Parsons Corporation. She is past chair of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC), past chair of the Internet 2 board of trustees and past president of the International Council for Distance Education. She has served on the boards and executive committees of the Business-Higher Education Forum; Council on Competitiveness; National Association of University System Heads; and the Centenary Committee for Fudan University in Shanghai, China. Ms. Broad earned a General Motors Scholarship to Syracuse University, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a baccalaureate degree in economics from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. She holds a master's degree in the field from The Ohio State University. Ms. Broad serves on the PBS Finance and National Policy Advisory Committees.
Ernest Bromley (2010) *** back
Paula Castadio (2011) * back
John S. Domaschko (2008) * back
Director since February 2006. Mr. Domaschko is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati with degrees in Economics and Accounting. In the November 1974 Uniform CPA Exam, he earned the highest score in the states of Kentucky, Ohio, and Indiana, and also earned the Elijah Watts Sells award for earning one of the highest scores in the United States. After becoming a CPA in 1975, he was Senior Managing Partner of his own CPA firm for over fifteen years, during which time his firm grew to one of the largest locally owned CPA firms in the Cincinnati area. In 1991, Mr. Domaschko sold his accounting firm and started a consulting firm, MC Squared, Inc. In his capacity as President of MC Squared, he provided business consulting services for companies ranging from start up endeavors to publicly owned corporations until his retirement in 2006. His business experience includes management consulting for growing companies, contract negotiation, acquisition of financing and government sponsored tax incentives, business plan development, capital acquisition and entrepreneurial problem-solving. Mr. Domaschko's involvement in his community has been extensive. As long ago as 1988 he was recognized by the University of Cincinnati as one of its twentieth century alumni who had made significant contributions to the city in which they live or work. In 2006, he was co-recipient (with his wife) of the Northern Kentucky University Lincoln Award which honors individuals who have had a tremendous positive influence on their community and who exemplify the qualities of outstanding citizenship, notable achievement and distinguished service in their professions. Also in 2006 he received the Distinguished Philanthropist Award from the Association of Healthcare Philanthropy, Midwest Region. He is currently Chairman of the St. Elizabeth Medical Center and is a former Chairman of the Kenton County Airport Board (which operates the Cincinnati/ Northern Kentucky International Airport), the St. Elizabeth Medical Center Foundation, the Kentucky Authority for Educational Television and the KET Foundation. He currently serves on various other boards of directors, including Rumpke Consolidated Companies, the University of Cincinnati Foundation, and the Thomas More College Foundation.
Mr. Domaschko is currently Chair of the PBS Audit Committee and serves on the Executive and Station Services committees. He has also served on the PBS Content Policy Committee and on the Strategic Planning Advisory Group.
Robert J. Flowers (2009) (Vice-Chair) * back
General Vice-Chair since 2007 and director since 2006. Robert Flowers retired from Washington Mutual in January 2005 where he served as Senior Vice President of Community Lending and Investment. In that capacity, he was responsible for managing the community lending and investment division, and external initiatives, bank wide. Prior to this appointment, Mr. Flowers served as President of the Community Investment and Development division, headquartered in Los Angeles. He joined Washington Mutual in 1970 in commercial real estate where he served in several positions before being promoted to Senior Vice President and Manager of Commercial Real Estate. Mr. Flowers has been active in public and community affairs on a national, regional and local basis. He is a founder and board member of Plaza Bank, serves on the board of AAA of Washington and on the Washington State Convention and Trade Center Board. Mr. Flowers is currently board Chair of KCTS Television. In addition, he serves on the several community boards including the Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center, the Seattle Sports Commission and the University of Washington Athletic Department's Tyee Advisory Board. He served as Co-Chair for the Plymouth Housing Group's successful $52 million capital campaign to provide housing for the homeless. While headquartered in Los Angeles, Mr. Flowers served on the boards of The Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, KCET Public Television, Las Virgenes Institute for Resource Management, the California Bankers Association, Los Angeles Urban League, and the California Business Roundtable. He also served on the Executive committee of the Central City Association in Los Angeles. Mr. Flowers earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Washington. He chairs the PBS Finance Committee, and serves on the Executive Committee, Investment Subcommittee, and the National Policy Advisory Committee.
Peter Frid (2010) (Vice-Chair) ** back
Professional Vice Chair since 2006 and Director since 2004. CEO and General Manager of New Hampshire Public Television since 1996, which serves all of New Hampshire, southern Maine, northeast Massachusetts, and eastern Vermont. Prior to joining NHPTV, Mr. Frid was President and General Manager of KEDT- FM & TV and KVRT-FM in Corpus Christi, Texas. In addition, he has been President and General Manager of KTOO-FM & TV in Juneau, Alaska, Acting President and General Manager/Director of Broadcasting, WLIW-TV, Long Island, New York, has held a number of production positions and was Director of Programming at WSBE-TV, Providence, Rhode Island. Currently he serves as Chair of NETA. In addition, he served as Co-Chair of the Organization of State Broadcast Executives (OSBE) and has been a panelist on several CPB committees and other advisory committees to the industry. He has also served as the President of The Alaska Television Network and President of The Texas Public Broadcasting Association. Mr. Frid is engaged in the New Hampshire community serving as a trustees of Riverwoods at Exeter, a continuing care community, a member of the Business and Industry Association Board of Directors, Chair for Television, NH Association of Broadcasters, and member of the Dartmouth - Hitchcock Medical Center Assembly of Overseers. He is a graduate of Leadership Corpus Christi (Texas) and Leadership New Hampshire. Mr. Frid currently serves on the PBS Executive, Station Services and National Policy Advisory committees. He also serves on the PBS Communications Advisory Committee. He has chaired the PBS Education Committee and DFI Task Force and has served on the Content Policy and Technology and Distribution committees.
DeAnne Hamilton (2010) * back
Director since 2007. General Manager of WKAR and Director of Michigan State University's (MSU's) Broadcasting Services. Ms. Hamilton directs the management of all operations of WKAR Radio and Television including WKAR digital, two non-commercial cable television channels, Interactive Video Services (IVS) which supports university instructional and research programs by connecting faculty and learners through the use of advanced technologies; and streaming services on wkar.org. Broadcasting Services offers life long learning services to the community through its Radio Talking Book reading service and through educational and community outreach. Prior to joining MSU in January 2004, Ms. Hamilton was vice-president and station manager of KQED Public Television in San Francisco. She joined KQED in 1990, as a senior producer. Ms. Hamilton quickly moved into the position of associate director of news and current affairs and in 1991 became executive producer of production. She was named vice president and television station manager in 1999 and oversaw the daily operations of programming, national and local production, creative services, audience services, and other related activities of the KQED television broadcasting division. Ms. Hamilton currently serves as Secretary to the Michigan Association of Public Broadcasters and on the Association of Public Television Stations (APTS) Board of Trustees, the NETA Board of Directors, and the Mid-Michigan Chapter of the American Red Cross. She previously served as Chair of the University Licensee Association, on the Affinity Group Coalition and on the board of Pacific Islanders in Communications. Her production work has garnered numerous awards. She began her career in broadcast journalism at KATU-TV (ABC) Portland, Oregon, and continued on to KPIX-TV (CBS) San Francisco prior to joining KQED-TV. Ms. Hamilton currently serves on the PBS Station Services Committee and on the Strategic Planning Advisory Group.
Peter Hero (2008) ** back
Director since 2002. Senior Advisor and former President of Community Foundation Silicon Valley. Recently, the Foundation, with assets of $1.1 billion, has focused its programming on neighborhood revitalization, early childhood literacy, and broadening cultural participation. This year, the Foundation led the creation of the $20 million Housing Trust Fund, designed to demonstrate new approaches to the region's housing crisis. Prior to this position, Mr. Hero was President of the Maine College of Art, a 4-year college of art and design. He has also worked in government and in corporate marketing. In 1991, he was appointed by President George Bush to a 6-year term on the National Council on the Arts. In 2003, G.W. Bush appointed him to the National Museum Services Board. Since 1996, he has consulted in central Europe, under the auspices of a consortium of major U.S. private foundations, to strengthen the independent sector and build a more civil society through the development of a regional network of community foundations. Recent recognition includes the 2001 John Gardner Leadership Award (by The American Leadership Forum), the 1998 Excellence in Civic Leadership Award (by The Tech Museum of Innovation & Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce), and Lifetime Achievement in the Arts (by Arts Council Silicon Valley). Last year, the San Jose Mercury News named him as "one of the 40 most influential leaders in Silicon Valley in the last decade." Currently he serves on the Board of Directors of Stanford University's Haas Center for Public Service, American India Foundation, The E-bay Foundation and the Skoll Foundation. Mr. Hero is Founding Chair of the PBS Foundation Board. He also serves on the PBS Audit Committee and on the Investment Subcommittee. He has served as Vice Chair of the Investment Committee and has also served on the Diversity Task Force, Task Force for More Effective Governance, and Finance, Business, Education and Nominating and Corporate Governance committees.
M Howard Jacobson (2009) * back
Director since 2006. M Howard Jacobson is the former President, Treasurer and a director of Idle Wild Foods Inc., the family business from which he retired when the Fortune 500 Company was sold in 1986. He also served as Senior Advisor to Prudential-Bache Capital Funding (1989-1991) and to Bankers Trust (1991-2001). Mr. Jacobson's professional and community affiliations include: Vice Chairman, Board of Trustees, WGBH/Boston; Director of New England Board of Higher Education; Director of the Education Resources Institute; Director of Polar Corp.; Trustee for UMASS Memorial Healthcare and Director and past Chairman of UMASS Memorial Foundation; Director and past board Chair, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Vice Chairman, Board of Governors, Greater Worcester 32° Masonic Learning Center for Children; member, Harvard Overseers' Committee on University Resources, and member of the Harvard University, Boston Major Gifts Steering Committee; Trustee Emeritus, Worcester Art Museum; and Trustee Emeritus and past President Board of Trustees, Worcester Academy. Previously, Mr. Jacobson served on the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Board of Higher Education; the Harvard Overseers' Visiting Committee, Graduate School of Education, Marine Biological Laboratory, Worcester Foundation for Biomedical Research and the Chief Executives Organization; and as a past Councilor, American Antiquarian Society. He is a recipient of the National Conference for Community and Justice Leadership Award, and the Philanthropist of the Year Award, New England Association for Health Care Philanthropy. A graduate of Harvard College and the Columbia Graduate School of Business, Mr. Jacobson resides in Westborough, Massachusetts. He is Chair of the PBS Investment Subcommittee and serves on the Audit Committee. He also co-chairs the Task Force on Corporate Support.
Al Jerome (2009) *** back
Director since 2007. President & CEO, KCET/Los Angeles since 1996. Mr. Jerome spent the first twenty-six years of his career in commercial television, with NBC, CBS, and ABC, with a focus on news and public affairs. As news became less a mission and more a profit center with public service being sacrificed, Mr. Jerome left the station business to take on an entrepreneurial challenge in the hotel industry, as President and CEO of SpectraVision, which had developed technology and relationships with the movie studios in order to supply hotels with entertainment and information services. In 1996, he joined KCET, where he had the opportunity to revisit his passion for public service. Under his leadership, KCET has produced such programs as Peabody Award-winning, A Place of Our Own, Los Ninos en Su Casa, Tavis Smiley, PBS Hollywood Presents, Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State, Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil & The Presidency and Wired Science. He is a champion of regional and local programming, especially in the area of news and information. Under Mr. Jerome, KCET has produced an award-winning, nightly, public affairs series, Life & Times and, in partnership with KQED, KVIE, and KPBS, produced a weekly statewide newsmagazine, California Connected, which was a recipient of the 2007 Alfred I. Dupont-Columbia University Award for excellence in broadcast journalism. Mr. Jerome serves on the PBS Station Services and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committees.
Paula Kerger back
President and Chief Executive Officer. Paula Kerger joined Public Broadcasting Service in March 2006 as its sixth President and Chief Executive Officer. Ms. Kerger came to PBS from Educational Broadcasting Corporation (EBC), the parent company of Thirteen/WNET and WLIW New York, where since 2004 she served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer and a member of the Office of the President, a position carrying both internal and external responsibilities. In that role, Ms. Kerger managed the overall operations of the corporation, working closely with the President and Chairman on Board issues. In 2002, Ms. Kerger was promoted to Vice President and Station Manager of Thirteen/WNET. While in this position, Ms. Kerger directed the launch of four local digital channels: ThirteenHD, Kids Thirteen, World and Create. The latter, launched in January 2006 through a partnership with WGBH/Boston and American Public Television, is public television's first 24-hour lifestyle channel. Ms. Kerger joined EBC in 1993 as Vice President and Director of Development and Government Affairs for Thirteen/WNET. Under her stewardship, the station's "Campaign for Thirteen" - completed in 1997 - raised $79 million, the largest endowment campaign ever undertaken by a public television station. Before joining EBC, Ms. Kerger was Director of Principal Gifts for the Metropolitan Opera. She also served as Director of Development and Alumni Affairs for International House in New York, and as Program Development Officer for the U.S. Committee for UNICEF. In 2000, she received the Frances P. Schuman Award from the National Friends of Public Broadcasting. In 2001, she was named PBS Development Professional of the Year. Ms. Kerger was named in 2005 to the Women's Forum, an organization of 300 leading women in the professions, arts and business life of New York. In 2006 she was ranked one of the "Women in Entertainment Power 100" in the annual Hollywood Reporter survey of the industry's top female executives. Ms. Kerger serves on the PBS Executive, Nominating and Corporate Governance and Finance committees, the Diversity Task Force and on the PBS Foundation Board.
John King (2010) * back
Director since 2007. President and CEO of Vermont Public Television, Vermont's Statewide Public Broadcasting Network and PBS member station, a position he has held since 1998. He holds the same position for the Public Television Association of Quebec, the Canadian affiliate organization for Vermont Public Television, based in Montreal, Quebec Canada. Mr. King joined Vermont Public Television in 1987 as the Chief Financial Officer and was promoted to Vice President - Finance & Administration in 1990 and to Senior Vice President & Chief Operating Officer in 1995. He is active and serves on many public broadcasting boards and taskforces. He is the immediate past Chair of the National Educational Telecommunications Association (NETA) and the former Chair of the Public Broadcasting Management Association (PBMA). He is a member of The Organization of State Broadcasting Executives (OSBE), the Affinity Group Coalition, and APTS. He has served on the recent CPB CSG Review Panel and on the CPB Future Fund Advisory Panel and the CPB Digital Innovation Panel. Mr. King serves as Chair of the Vermont Television Broadcasters Collocation Association, a member of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Assembly of Overseers, The United Way of Chittenden County Business Unit and The Vermont Business Roundtable. He holds a Masters Degree in Public Administration from Harvard University; a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration from Johnson State College; and an Associate's Degree in Business Administration from Champlain College. Mr. King serves on the PBS Finance and National Policy Advisory Committees. He also serves on the Task Force on Corporate Support.
Jennifer Lawson (2010) ** back
Professional Director since 2004. General Manager of Howard University Television - WHUT, Washington, D.C. since June 2004. Ms. Lawson has over 20 years experience in public broadcasting. In 2007, she co-produced Security versus Liberty: The Other War for America at a Crossroads and in 2001, she co-produced AFRICA, a nine-hour award-winning television series in association with WNET and National Geographic Television. She was also an executive consultant from 1996-2004, with WETA, CPB, CBS, Maryland Public Television, PBS, the Minority Consortia, and KERA among those on the client roster. From 1989 to 1995, Ms. Lawson was executive vice president, programming and promotion services at PBS. She was public television's first chief programming executive and her staff was responsible for the scheduling and promotional strategies that resulted in two of PBS's most successful series, Ken Burns' The Civil War and Baseball. She developed several highly regarded children's series including Barney & Friends and Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? Before joining PBS, she was director of the Television Program Fund at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Prior to CPB, she was CEO of The Film Fund, a New York foundation supporting independent filmmakers. The Hollywood Reporter named Ms. Lawson as one of the "Power 50," or fifty most influential women in entertainment in 1994, and Entertainment Weekly recognized her in 1990 as one of "the 101 Most Influential People in Entertainment." Ms. Lawson holds a master of fine arts degree in film from Columbia University, New York. She is chair of the board of American Public Television (APT); a member of the Senior Advisory Board, Washington Women in Film and Video; and a charter member of the Community Advisory Board of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Ms. Lawson currently Chairs the PBS Station Services Committee and serves on the Diversity Task Force and Executive Committee. She also served on the PBS CEO Search Committee.
Peter Morrill (2009) * back
Director since 2006. General Manager for Idaho Public Television since 1996. During his 30-year career in the media, Mr. Morrill has actively supported and defended the role of public broadcasting: to enlighten, to entertain and to serve those not otherwise served by mainstream media. His commitment to the principle of editorial integrity and to the mission of public television was demonstrated beginning in 1999. IdahoPTV's programming decisions were challenged by several Idaho policy-makers who questioned the broadcast of some nationally distributed programs. Mr. Morrill successfully defended these programming decisions throughout a lengthy publicly debated campaign that garnered national attention. Mr. Morrill's accomplishments include oversight of IdahoPTV's planning, fund-raising and implementation of the statewide network's $22 million conversion to digital television. Under his leadership, despite having one of the smallest budgets for a statewide network, the station has a robust local production effort that received more than 50 national and local awards of excellence including four regional Emmy awards, seven regional Emmy nominations and two New York Film Festival awards this past year. Mr. Morrill currently serves as the Secretary, and on the Executive Committee, of the National Educational Telecommunications Association (NETA). In October 2005, he concluded a two-year term as the Co-Chairman of the Organization of State Broadcast Executives (OSBE) during which he was a founding member of the Affinity Group Coalition (AGC). In addition, Mr. Morrill serves on the boards of the University of Idaho School of Journalism and Mass Media, the Secretary/Treasurer of the Idaho State Broadcasters Association and Anser Charter School, Inc. Mr. Morrill has been honored with awards of distinction including the Intellectual Freedom Award, American Civil Liberties Union of Idaho (2002); National Advocacy Award, America's Public Television Stations (2002); Grass Roots Award, America's Public Television Stations (1999); and the United Nations Human Rights Day Award, Idaho Voices of Faith (1999). Mr. Morrill was born and raised in Connecticut and attended Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, where he graduated in 1978 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications. He has worked in various production and management capacities for WBGU-TV, Bowling Green, Ohio (1978-1979); Idaho Public Television (1979-1986); WUFT-TV, Gainesville, Florida (1986-1989); and Idaho Public Television (1989-present). Mr. Morrill is Vice Chair of the PBS Station Services Committee and serves on the Executive and Interconnection Committees.
James R. Pagliarini (2009) * back
Director since 2006. Jim Pagliarini joined Twin Cities Public Television (tpt) as its fifth President and CEO in September l997. He began his career in public broadcasting immediately after graduate school, in 1976, at KTEH in San Jose, California. Prior to joining Twin Cities Public Television, Mr. Pagliarini helped found public television station KNPB/Channel 5 in Reno, Nevada. He was its CEO and General Manager from 1982. Mr. Pagliarini previously served as a member of the Board of Directors of the PBS from 1992-1998 holding positions on the Board's Executive Committee, Nominating Committee, and as Vice Chair of the Board's Finance Committee. He has also served on numerous national task forces that explored, refined, and redefined the business of public television, including the National Task Force on Future Funding, the PBS Task Force on Pricing Policies and Programming, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's (CPB) Television Policy Committee. He is a past Chairman of the Pacific Mountain Network's Board of Directors; past President of the Nevada Broadcasters' Association, and served a two-year term as the National Coordinator of public television's Small Station Association. More recently, Mr. Pagliarini has served on CPB's Digital Funding and Digital Rights Task Force. During 2005-06, he took a half-time leave of absence from his position at tpt to lead a national strategic planning project for public television stations. Mr. Pagliarini has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Agency for Instructional Technology (AIT), a non-profit, Canadian-U.S. corporation devoted to the production and development of educational media for over 13 years. He currently serves on a number of local advisory and non-profit boards, among which is the Neighborhood House - an organization working to address the needs of new immigrants and diverse communities in Minnesota. Mr. Pagliarini received his undergraduate degree in biology from Princeton University and his master's degree in Education from Temple University. Mr. Pagliarini chairs the Strategic Planning Advisory Group and serves on the Station Services Committee.
John E. Porter (2009) Chair ** back
Chairman of the Board since 2007; Vice Chair 2005-2007. Director since 2001. The Honorable John Edward Porter is a partner in Hogan & Hartson's Washington, D.C. office and a member of the firm's Health, Legislative and Education Practice Groups. Prior to joining Hogan & Hartson, Mr. Porter served 21 years as Congressman from Illinois' 10th District. In Congress he served on the Appropriations Committee, and as chairman of the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education; as vice chairman of the Subcommittee on Foreign Operations; and as vice chairman of the Subcommittee on Military Construction. He has been honored by many organizations for his work to balance the federal budget, protect the environment, promote human rights and secure unprecedented funding increases for biomedical research through the National Institutes of Health. Mr. Porter was founder and co-chairman of the Congressional Human Rights Caucus, a voluntary association of more than 250 Members of Congress working to identify, monitor and end human rights violations worldwide. He sponsored the legislation creating Radio Free Asia. He served as Chairman of the Global Legislators Organized for a Balanced Environment (GLOBE USA), a part of a worldwide network of parliamentarians (GLOBE International) working to coordinate efforts to protect the environment. He also served for 10 years as a member of the Commission on Security and Co-operation in Europe (Helsinki Commission). Before his election to Congress, Mr. Porter served in the Illinois House of Representatives from 1973 through 1979. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received his undergraduate degree from Northwestern University. Following service in the U.S. Army, he graduated with distinction from the University of Michigan Law School, where he was an editor of the law review, and then went on to serve as an Honor Law Graduate Attorney with the U.S. Dept. of Justice during the Kennedy administration. From 1963 to 1980, Mr. Porter practiced law in Evanston, Illinois. Mr. Porter is a member of a number of other boards, including those Research!America (Chair), the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (Vice Chair), The Brookings Institution, J.S. Kemper Foundation, the Chicago Botanic Garden, the National Space Biomedical Research Institute, the RAND Corporation (Emeritus) and the Population Resource Center in Princeton, N.J. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, Council on Foreign Relations, the Bretton Woods Committee, the Inter-American Dialogue, a trustee emeritus of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and a former director of the American Heart Association. Mr. Porter Chairs the PBS Executive Committee and serves on the National Policy Advisory, Nominating and Corporate Governance, and Finance committees and on the Investment Subcommittee. He has served on the Education and Content Policy committees and on the APTS/PBS Joint Board Task Force, and previously chaired the Finance Committee.
Sharon P. Rockefeller (2009) * back
Director since 2006. Sharon Percy Rockefeller has served the public broadcasting community for more than 30 years as a leader, innovator and advocate. As President and CEO of WETA, Washington, D.C. since 1989, Sharon heads a vibrant civic and cultural institution in the nation's capital and a major national television production center. WETA serves a diverse population that includes the Congress, White House, OMB and the FCC. WETA is a community licensee operating radio and television stations, HDTV and multicast digital channels, extensive web services, podcasts and an acclaimed Learning Media unit. The third largest producing station of programming for the system, WETA creates more than 350 hours of national programming annually, including The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, series by Ken Burns, Washington Week with Gwen Ifill and National Journal, A Capitol Fourth, In Performance at the White House, and The Kennedy Center Presents: The Mark Twain Prize for Humor. A leader in digital technologies, WETA is working with APTS and FEMA to test new digital emergency alert systems. In addition to previous service on the PBS Board, she served on the Board of the West Virginia Educational Broadcasting Authority for 10 years and as a member of the CPB Board for 12 years, including four years as Chairman. Sharon is active in a number of areas including education, fine arts, government and women's issues. She has received many awards for her work, including the Charles Frankel Prize by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the CINE Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Women of Vision Award. She serves on national boards, including the National Gallery of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, PepsiCo, Johns Hopkins Medicine and the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. She is married to Senator John D. "Jay" Rockefeller IV of West Virginia. Mrs. Rockefeller Chairs National Policy Advisory Committee.
Geoffrey Sands (2010) * back
Director since 2006. Geoffrey Sands is a Director of McKinsey & Company and heads its Global Media, Entertainment and Information Practice. He has 20 years of experience working with many of the leading marketing, media and entertainment companies. Mr. Sands helps senior management develop innovative growth strategies, improve performance and profitability, and re-design organization structures. His clientele spans a range of businesses that include: newspaper, magazine and book publishing; broadcast and cable television; recorded music; filmed entertainment; professional publishing; business information services; education; marketing services; video games; consumer electronics; and sports. He has been a longtime supporter of PBS, CPB and numerous stations. Before joining McKinsey, he was lead partner in the Media and Entertainment Practice at Booz Allen and Hamilton. Prior to that he was a Vice President at NW Ayer Inc., where he developed marketing strategies for clients in financial services, consumer products, and travel and leisure. He is a trustee of the Sundance Institute, the Educational Broadcasting Corporation and the Paley Center For Media. He is also Industry Advisor to the World Economic Forum's Media & Entertainment Governors' Meetings. Mr. Sands received his BA and MBA degrees from Yale University. Mr. Sands serves as Vice Chair of the Strategic Planning Advisory Group and serves on the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.
Richard Schneider (2009) ** back
Director since 2003. President and CEO of Community Television Foundation of South Florida, Inc. since June 2004. WPBT/Miami is a community-licensed station serving South Florida from Key West to the Treasure Coast, and produces Nightly Business Report for PBS. From 1998-2004, Mr. Schneider was President and General Manager of Channel 5 Public Broadcasting (KNPB), a community licensee serving Reno/Lake Tahoe. He previously served as News Director and then Station Manager at WUFT, the joint licensee at the University of Florida. He has chaired the Pacific Mountain Network and served on the PBS Interactive Station Working Group, the CPB Digital Funding Consultation Panel, and the Small Station Association Executive Board. He is a member of the Florida Public Broadcasting Board of Directors and the Public Television Major Market Group. Mr. Schneider holds a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a bachelor's degree from the University of Florida College of Journalism & Communication. His commercial broadcasting career included jobs as a reporter and anchor in Gainesville, West Palm Beach, and New York City, and as a Washington correspondent for Post-Newsweek Stations. Mr. Schneider is Chair of the PBS Nominating & Governance Committee and serves on the Executive and Station Services Committees. He previously served on the PBS CEO Search Committee and chaired the Compensation and Technology and Distribution Committees.
Donna A. Tanoue (2009) * back
Director since 2006. Donna Tanoue currently serves as Vice Chairman of Bank of Hawaii Corporation and Bank of Hawaii and also serves on the Bank of Hawaii Board of Directors, to which she was elected in October 2001. She is also President of Bank of Hawaii Charitable Foundation. Ms. Tanoue is the past Chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in Washington, D.C. As FDIC Chairman (1998 - 2001), she was responsible for the federal regulatory agency that supervises more than 5,000 banks and insures more than $3 trillion in bank and savings and loan deposits. Prior to becoming FDIC Chairman, Ms. Tanoue was a partner in the Hawaii law firm of Goodsill Anderson Quinn & Stifel, which she joined in 1987. From 1983 to 1987, Ms. Tanoue served as Commissioner of Financial Institutions for the State of Hawaii. Ms. Tanoue serves on the Board of Directors of Longs Drug Stores Corporation (NYSE: LDG), as well as the Board of Trustees of Kaneohe Ranch, which manages real estate owned by the family trusts of Harold K.L. Castle and Alice H. Castle. Ms. Tanoue received her B.A. degree from the University of Hawaii in 1977 and Juris Doctor degree from Georgetown University Law Center in 1981. Ms. Tanoue is Vice Chair of the PBS Audit Committee and serves on the National Policy Advisory Committee and Finance Committee.
Allen Weatherly (2010) * back
Director since 2007. Executive Director of AETN (Arkansas Educational Telecommunications Network). Mr. Weatherly has been with AETN since 1993, seven years as Deputy Director before taking his current position in January 2001. AETN serves Arkansas from studios in Conway, Arkansas and six transmitters located throughout the state. He is also the Executive Director and a Board Member of the AETN Foundation. Prior to AETN, Mr. Weatherly worked with Ozarks Public Television (Springfield, Missouri) from 1980 to 1993, progressing from development associate to Senior Vice President/Director of Broadcasting. During his tenure, AETN has expanded education services, including video streamed lessons and video, free to every school in the state, a comprehensive professional development website and training program available free to Arkansas teachers and funded by the Arkansas Department of Education. AETN has also created an innovative web-based World War II oral history archive for Arkansas recently bringing forty-seven Arkansas World War II veterans to Washington for a tribute tour, and has accelerated Arkansas programming efforts, including a popular performance series and four full-time digital channels - one devoted exclusively to educational professional development. Mr. Weatherly is involved in leadership positions with OSBE, NETA, and the AGC and is active with PBS, APTS and CPB. In Arkansas, he serves on the Governor's Cabinet and is a board member of the Arkansas Leadership Academy. He serves as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Central Arkansas and teaches at least one broadcast management course each semester. A former newspaper columnist in both Missouri and Arkansas, Mr. Weatherly is a graduate of Missouri State University (Springfield, Missouri), with a degree in history. Married thirty years to Peggy, he is the proud father to Lauren (Savannah, GA), her husband Trey (currently deployed to Iraq), David (New York City) and grandson Logan (Savannah, GA). Mr. Weatherly is Vice Chair of the Interconnection Committee and serves on the Station Services Committee.
Eugene Williams (2009) ** back
Director since 2003. Mr. Williams is currently the Chief Executive Officer and General Manager of KTWU in Topeka, Kansas. His broadcasting career began at the Alabama Public Television Network with positions in program development and as Director of Production. He also directed news for the local NBC affiliate in Mobile, Alabama. Mr. Williams later became Associate Director/Executive Producer for the satellite services division of Western Illinois University, with public and private clients including ABC, NBC, FOX, The National Science Foundation and Department of Agriculture. Mr. Williams returned to his public television roots in 1995 as the Station Manager for WYCC-TV/20 in Chicago, Illinois. He has a degree in Broadcast & Film Communications; additional technical education in electronics, digital techniques and microprocessing; and an MBA, specializing in strategic planning and financial management. Mr. Williams has extensive teaching experience in broadcasting/mass media and management, and currently trains military officers in the MBA program of Webster University. Mr. Williams has served as Chairman of the Kansas Public Broadcasting Council. He has been the DTV Chairperson for the state of Kansas since 1998, managing an over $7 million digital project for radio and television digital conversion for the state of Kansas. Currently, Mr. Williams is Chair of the Kansas Association of Broadcasters, representing all commercial and public radio and television stations around the state of Kansas. Nationally, he is a recent past board member of the Small Station Association and serves on two CPB equipment funding committees. Mr. Williams is a recent graduate of the National Association of Broadcasters Management Development Seminar for Television Executives and is currently a fellow of NAB's Broadcast Leadership Training Program. Mr. Williams is Chair of the PBS Diversity Task Force and Vice Chair of the Investment Subcommittee. He serves on the Finance and Nominating and Corporate Governance committees. Previously, he was Chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and Vice Chair of the PBS Business Committee. He also served on the Task Force for More Effective Governance.
Thomas K. Williams (2008) * back
Director since 2005. Mr. Williams is Senior Tax & Royalty Counsel, BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc., where he provides professional legal advice regarding Alaska's taxes on the petroleum industry and their effect on BP and analysis and recommended strategy regarding proposed changes to Alaska's oil and gas tax statutes and regulations. Prior to joining BP in 1987, Mr. Williams was Vice President and General Counsel for Cook Inlet Region, Inc. (CIRI), one of 13 Alaska Native "regional corporations" established pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971. From 1983-1984 he was "Of Counsel" for the former Seattle law firm of Bogle & Gates, and from 1979-1982 he held the state cabinet office of Commissioner of Revenue for the State of Alaska. From 1973-1979 Mr. Williams held other positions with the State of Alaska, including Director of Petroleum Revenue and attorney in the Attorney General's Office. Mr. Williams served on the Board of Alaska Public Telecommunications, Inc. (KAKM-TV and KSKA-FM, Anchorage, Alaska) from 1997-2004, which he chaired for an unprecedented five terms. He also serves on the Board of the Anchorage Chamber of Commerce and on the Tax Committee of the Alaska Oil & Gas Association. Mr. Williams has received a number of awards and citations including: The 2003 Elaine Peterson Award, National Friends of Public Broadcasting; Anchorage Chamber "Gold Pan" Award for outstanding service (2006 and 2000, the only two-time recipient in the Chamber's 92-year history); "Friend of Education" for the Year 1997, Anchorage Education Association; citation from the Governor for outstanding contribution at the 1997 Alaska Education Summit. He was one of 55 Alaskans statewide chosen for a special "Council of Alaskans" convened in February 2004 by Governor Murkowski to provide advice about how the State of Alaska should balance its budget on a sustainable basis. Mr. Williams is a graduate of Princeton University and has an M.A. in history from Harvard University and a J.D. from Stanford Law School. He serves on the PBS Audit and Station Services committees and has served on the National Policy Advisory, Compensation, and Education committees.
Term expires at the October Organizational Meeting of the Board in the year shown in parentheses beside the name.
Note: *=First Term; **=Second Term; ***= Filled vacancy mid-term; eligible for two full subsequent terms.
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