Full Name Lindsay Gardner Significant other Ryan Atwood Occupation Media executive Creator Josh Schwartz | Nationality American Role Fictional Character Residence Los Angeles, CA Name Lindsay Gardner | |
Born June 3, 1960 New York, New York Alma mater Brandeis University
Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania Similar Ryan Atwood, Kirsten Cohen, Caleb Nichol, Hailey Nichol, Marissa Cooper | ||
Board member of IZEA, Courage Campaign | ||
Colleagues Remember Lindsay Gardner
Lindsay Gardner is an American media executive and strategist. He served in senior positions at Fox Networks and Cox Communications and as an advisor to media companies including Miramax, Tribune Media, and AMC Networks. He is the chief content officer at Layer3 TV. He is also a senior advisor to Oaktree Capital Management, an independent director of IZEA, and a co-owner of the Memphis Grizzlies.
Contents
- Colleagues Remember Lindsay Gardner
- Early life and education
- Career
- Philanthropy and personal life
- References
Early life and education
Gardner was born in New York to Harriet Modell Gardner, a writer, and Gerald Gardner, a television writer and producer. He attended Beverly Hills High School and later went on to attend Brandeis University, where he served as the editor of the college's newspaper, The Justice. Gardner graduated from Brandeis University in 1982.
Career
Gardner was recruited by Satellite News Channel (SNC), a 24-hour news channel, and joined the company at its launch in June 1982. After SNC went off the air in 1983 due to distribution issues, Gardner was hired to produce Eyewitness News for WWL-TV, the CBS affiliate in New Orleans. During Gardner’s four years at WWL, Eyewitness News won several awards, including an Edward R. Murrow Award for Best Newscast. Gardner left WWL in 1987 to attend Wharton.
In 1989, Gardner was hired by Viewer's Choice, (now iNDEMAND Networks). In 1993 he was named director of programming at Cox Communications, where he launched joint-venture channels with BBC World and BBC Prime. In 1999, Gardner joined Fox Networks, and in 2006 he was promoted to president of affiliate sales and marketing. At Fox, he launched networks such as Fox Sports Networks, National Geographic Channel, and Fox Reality. He left Fox in 2007 to become a partner at MediaTech Capital Partners where he co-founded digital media companies, including Channel Islands, Porto Media, and Beijing-based Reach Media.
From 2010 through 2013, Gardner served as strategic advisor to the CEO of Miramax, developing Miramax's digital distribution plan and its execution through agreements with Netflix and Hulu+. Since 2010, he has been a senior advisor to Oaktree Capital Management, a Los Angeles-based private equity firm. He was appointed an independent director of IZEA in 2013.
Gardner joined Layer3 TV in 2014 as its chief content officer. He coined the phrase "concierge cable" in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter when asked to characterize Layer3's focus on customer experience.
Philanthropy and personal life
Gardner is Chairman of the Board of the Courage Campaign Institute, a Los Angeles based non-profit which seeks to defend and extend human rights through leadership-development training, strategic research and public education. He was the National Finance Chairman of Rep. Harold Ford’s 2006 US Senate campaign and was a member of President Obama’s National Finance Committee and a trustee of the Economic Innovation Institute and Action Fund.
Gardner currently resides in Santa Monica, CA and has two children.