R.E. (Ted) Turner

R.E. (Ted) Turner is Chairman of the Board and President of Turner Broadcasting Systems (TBS). The Atlanta-based company is the leading supplier of entertainment and news programming for the cable television industry through its ownership of Cable News Network (CNN), CNN Headline News, CNN International, TBS Superstation, Turner Network Television (TNT), the Cartoon Network, SportSouth and TNT Latin America, which transmits programming simultaneously in three languages. Turner Broadcasting System also owns Turner Entertainment Corporation (TEC), which manages and markets a library of film and television properties, and the assets of Hanna-Barbera Productions.

In 1985, Ted Turner conceived the Goodwill Games, a quadrennial multi-sport international competition, in partnership with the former USSR. Currently, he is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Cable Television Association, the Martin Luther King Center for Nonviolent Change and the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. He is an active environmentalist and has received numerous civic and industry awards and honours, including being named Time Magazine's 1991 Man of the Year.

Ted Turner has designated Barbara Pyle, Vice President for Environmental Policy at Turner Broadcasting Systems, as his delegate.