BOB PITTMAN

Bob Pittman is the Chairman, CEO and cofounder of iHeartMedia, Inc. 

Pittman is a media innovator who has been at the forefront of change in the media business for his entire career – from pioneering the cable revolution as the leader of the team that created MTV and as CEO of MTV Networks, to leading the mass market adoption of the internet as COO of America Online (AOL) at a time when AOL had half of all internet traffic in the U.S., to leading the audio revolution at iHeartMedia. Pittman also led transformations as the CEO of Six Flags Theme Parks, Time Warner Enterprises and Century 21 Real Estate and as COO of AOL Time Warner and was the cofounder of Casa Dragones Tequila.  He is also the creator and host of the podcast “Math & Magic: Stories from the Frontiers of Marketing.”

Pittman began his career on-air at age 15 in his native Mississippi and went on to on-air and programming roles in Milwaukee, Detroit, Pittsburgh and at NBC in Chicago and then WNBC in New York. He has been inducted into the Advertising Hall of Fame, the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame and the Cable Hall of Fame and received AdWeek’s first ‘Media Visionary’ award and the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) Award, among many other honors. He’s also a committed philanthropist and has served as Chairman of both the New York poverty-fighting Robin Hood Foundation and the New York Public Theater and served on the boards of The New York City Ballet and the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.