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Jeffrey Lawrence Bewkes (born May 25, 1952) is a retired American media executive. He was CEO of Time Warner from January 1, 2008 to June 14, 2018, President from December 2005 to June 2018, and Chairman of the Board from January 1, 2009 to 2018.

Bewkes was born in Paterson, New Jersey, the middle son of Marjorie Louise and Eugene Garrett Bewkes Jr., an executive at Norton Simon. He is of Dutch and German ancestry, was raised in Darien, Connecticut, and is a graduate of Deerfield Academy.

In 1974, he graduated from Yale University with a bachelor’s degree in philosophy. According to college friend Gary Lucas, a guitarist who went on to collaborate with avant-garde acts like Captain Beefheart, at Yale in the early 1970s he fell in with “lunatic fringe types and free thinkers”. Bill Moseley, another college friend who went on to a career in horror movies like Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, stated, “I think of him as an artist first and foremost”.

Upon graduation, he “tried his hand at documentary work for NBC News” before going to Stanford University to earn his MBA. He sits on both his alma maters’ respective advisory boards. After school, he worked at a Sonoma vineyard winery and then took a job in New York City as a commercial banker in Citibank’s shipping lending unit.

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