The Paley Center for Media has added to its board, appointing power players like eBay CEO Devin Wenig and Grupo Televisa's Alfonso de Angoitia to its board of trustees.Jay Penske, chairman and CEO of Penske Media Corp., which owns Variety was also appointed to the board."It is with great pleasure that we announce the remarkable individuals who will be joining the Paley Center board and lending their unprecedented skills," said Maureen J. Reidy, president and CEO of the Paley Center for...
LionTree LLC
Aryeh
Bourkoff
Chairman / CEO
Bourkoff has long been an omnipresent force in the media and telecommunications megadeals that have shaped the global digital economy. Since he and Ehren Stenzler founded the investment and merchant banking firm LionTree in 2012, it has advised on more than 220 transactions worth over $700 billion. In recent months, the company advised MGM on its $8.45 billion sale to Amazon, Apollo Funds on its $5 billion acquisition of Verizon Media, ViacomCBS on its $2.175 billion sale of Simon & Schuster to Penguin Random House and AT&T on its $45 billion transaction to combine WarnerMedia and Discovery and its $1.4 billion sale of Playdemic to Electronic Arts. LionTree also has its Kindred Media division, which produces the weekly “Take a Break” newsletter and the biweekly podcast KindredCast, featuring interviews with industry leaders.