management team

William R. Fitzgerald

Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Ascent Media Corporation

William R. Fitzgerald was named Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Ascent Media Corporation in September 2008, and Chairman of Ascent Media Group in August 2000 and interim CEO in June 2010. In addition, Bill holds the post of Senior Vice President of Liberty Media Corporation. At Liberty, Bill is involved with evaluating new investment opportunities and managing various assets in its content networks, technology, and content distribution businesses.

Bill was previously Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Operations Administration for AT&T Broadband, formerly known as Tele-Communications, Inc. (TCI), where he oversaw and directed the company's broadband operations strategies and managed the overall execution and administration of the corporate operating activities. Prior to that, he was Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of TCI, with responsibility for all corporate and field activities related to the company's broadband services operations, and before that was Executive Vice President of Corporate Development and Partnership Relations for TCI, where he managed the company's M&A transaction activities and strategies, including joint ventures and partnerships, primarily in conjunction with its cable television system assets. In addition, Bill was responsible for the company's cable television affiliate partnerships and joint ventures. Bill joined TCI in March of 1996 as Senior Vice President of Corporate Development.

Prior to his positions at TCI, Bill was a Senior Vice President and Partner at Daniels & Associates, a leading brokerage and investment banking firm to the communications industry. During his eight years at Daniels & Associates, Bill managed numerous cable television system acquisitions and divestitures, as well as financing transactions. He began his career at The First National Bank of Chicago, in the Communications Companies Division, as a commercial banker, managing client relationships with cable television and telecommunications companies.

In addition to Ascent Media Group, Bill serves on the boards of Expedia, Inc. and GSN - The Network for Games.

Bill received an undergraduate degree from Indiana University School of Business and a master's degree in finance and marketing from the Kellogg School of Business at Northwestern University. He is married, has three children, and resides in Castle Rock, Colorado.