Lessons from Leaders Speaker Series: Eddy Hartenstein

4 p.m., Indian Wells Theater

Open to the public, no RSVP required.

Parking will be enforced at $6 per vehicle. Purchase parking permit at drive-up kiosk.

Eddy Hartenstein Publisher and CEO, LA Times, and Satellite Television Innovator

Eddy W. Hartenstein has served as a director of Tribune Publishing since August 2014 and was Non-Executive Chairman until February 2016. Previously, Hartenstein served as Publisher and Chief Executive Officer of the Los Angeles Times Media Group. Hartenstein joined the Company in 2008 and was responsible for all aspects of print, digital, and mobile operations of the country’s largest metropolitan daily news organization, as well as those of the Los Angeles Times Media Group’s portfolio. Prior to the company’s January 2013 change of ownership, he was also President and Chief Executive Officer of Tribune Media Company. Previously, Hartenstein presided over the birth and growth of the satellite television industry. As a Vice President of Hughes Communications in 1981, he expanded Hughes’ acquisition and deployment of commercial communications satellites which served the broadcast and cable programming industries. In 1990, he was named President of a Hughes-owned subsidiary founded to develop direct-to-home satellite TV service. Hartenstein then transformed the concept into one of the most successful new product launches in consumer electronics history – DirecTV, serving as Chairman and CEO through 2004, when the company was sold to News Corp. Currently Hartenstein is a board member at Sirius XM Holdings Inc., Broadcom Limited, TiVo Corporation, and City of Hope. In 2008 he was inducted into the Consumer Electronics Association Hall of Fame and in 2007 he received an Emmy® from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for Lifetime Achievement. He was inducted into the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame in 2002 and the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in 2001.

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