Bob Pittman is the Chairman, CEO and cofounder of iHeartMedia, Inc., the leading audio company 
in America, including broadcast radio and podcasting. Pittman is a media innovator who has been 
at the forefront of change in the media business for his entire career – from pioneering the cable 
revolution as the leader of the team that created MTV and as CEO of MTV Networks, to leading the 
mass market adoption of the internet as COO of America Online (AOL) at a time when AOL had half 
of all internet traffic in the U.S., to leading the audio revolution at iHeartMedia. Pittman also led 
transformations as the CEO of Six Flags Theme Parks, Time Warner Enterprises and Century 21 Real 
Estate and as COO of AOL Time Warner, and was the cofounder of Casa Dragones Tequila. He is 
also the creator and host of the podcast “Math & Magic: Stories from the Frontiers of Marketing.”

Pittman has been inducted into the Advertising Hall of Fame, the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of 
Fame and the Cable Hall of Fame and received AdWeek’s first ‘Media Visionary’ award and the 
Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) Award, among many other honors. He’s also a 
committed philanthropist, and has served as Chairman of both the New York poverty-fighting Robin 
Hood Foundation and the New York Public Theater