Leo Hindery

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Leo Hindery, Jr. is an American businessman, political activist and philanthropist.

Hindery is Managing Partner of InterMedia Partners, a New York-based media industry private equity fund. Until 2004, he was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The YES Network, the nation’s largest regional sports network which he founded in 2001 as the television home of the New York Yankees.

He headed Tele-Communications, Inc. (TCI) before it was merged into AT&T in 1999, when he became CEO of AT&T Broadband. Later, he was briefly interim CEO of Global Crossing, a company that underwent bankruptcy recovery due to corporate abuse, although this took place after Hindery left.

In 2004, his name was floated as a possible successor to Terry McAuliffe as head of the Democratic National Committee.

Mr. Hindery served as Senior Economic Policy Advisor for presidential candidate Sen. John Edwards from December 2006 until February 2008. He is currently acting as an economic advisor to Senator and Democratic Presidential Nominee Barack Obama.

He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and from 2003 through December 2007 was Senate-appointed Vice Chair of the HELP Commission formed by an Act of Congress to improve U.S. foreign assistance. He is a Trustee of The New School University, a Director of the Library of Congress Trust Fund, the Minority Media & Telecommunications Council, The Paley Center for Media and Teach for America, and a member of the Board of Visitors of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Mr. Hindery currently lives in New York City.