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John C. Malone is the Chairman of the Board of Liberty Global, a position he has held since June, 2005. Malone is also Chairman of Liberty Media Corporation and Liberty Interactive Corporation, including their predecessors, since 1990. He also serves as Chairman of Liberty Broadband Corporation. From 1996 to March 1999, when Tele-Communications, Inc. (TCI) merged with AT&T Corporation, he was also Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of TCI.
Previous to that, from 1973 to 1996, Malone served as President and CEO of TCI. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for Charter Communications, Inc., Discovery Communications, Inc., Expedia, Inc., and Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. Additionally, Malone is Chairman Emeritus of the Board for Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.
Born March 7, 1941, in Milford, Connecticut, Malone was a Phi Beta Kappa and merit scholar at Yale University where he obtained a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Economics in 1963. He also received a Master of Science in Industrial Management from Johns Hopkins in 1964 and a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Operations Research from Johns Hopkins University in 1967. He has received two Honorary Degrees for Doctorate of Human Letters; the first from Denver University in 1992 and the second from Johns Hopkins University in 2012.
Malone began his career in 1963 at Bell Telephone Laboratories/AT&T in economic planning and research and development. In 1968, he joined McKinsey & Company and in 1970 he became Group Vice President at General Instrument Corporation (GI). He was later named President of Jerrold Electronics, a GI subsidiary.
He served as Director of the National Cable Television Association (NCTA) from 1974 to 1977 and again from 1980 to 1993. During the 1977-1978 term, Malone was the NCTA's Treasurer.
In 1983, Malone received the NCTA Vanguard Award, one of the highest honors in the cable television industry. He has received many other awards and honors which include: TVC Magazine Man of the Year Award - 1981; Wall Street Transcript's Gold Award for the cable industry's best Chief Executive Officer - 1982, 1985, 1986 and 1987; Wall Street Transcript’s Silver Award in 1984 and 1989; Women In Cable's Betsy Magness Fellowship Honoree; University of Pennsylvania Wharton School Sol C. Snider Entrepreneurial Center Award of Merit for Distinguished Entrepreneurship; American Jewish Committee Sherrill C. Corwin Human Relations Award; Communications Technology Magazine Service and Technology Award; Bronze Award - 1993 Financial World CEO of the Year Competition; The Hopkins Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1994 and in 2004 the Hopkins Medal, the school’s highest award. He is also recognized as a Yale Sterling Fellow (Harkness Circle).