Mr. Stephen Marcopoto

Former President and Managing Director, Turner Broadcasting System Asia Pacific, Inc.

Steve Marcopoto is the former President and Managing Director, Turner Broadcasting System Asia Pacific, Inc. Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.(TBS), a Time Warner company, is a major producer of news and entertainment product around the world and the leading provider of programming for the basic cable industry. Based in Hong Kong, Marcopoto had to oversee all programming, network development, advertising and distribution sales, marketing and promotion for Turner Broadcasting and its networks and internet services, including the CNN news group, Cartoon Network, Boomerang, Pogo, TCM and CETV in the Asia Pacific region. CNN International is the world’s leading global, 24-hour news network, and is available for over 186 million households around the world. Cartoon Network offers the best in animated entertainment featuring its own original animation under the Cartoon Cartoons banner as well as drawing from the world’s largest cartoon library of Warner Bros., MGM and Hanna-Barbera. Boomerang is a new animation channel from the Cartoon Network stable, which launched on FOXTEL and AUSTAR’s digital services in Australia on March 14, 2004. POGO, a multi-genre channel created exclusively for kids in India, launched successfully on January 1 2004 and is distributed by Zee Turner Ltd. CETV delivers the best of Asian, Chinese and international entertainment to Chinese audiences. TBS holds a 36% interest in CETV in partnership with the Tom Group. Marcopoto was instrumental in helping the channel become the first international channel to be granted official landing rights in the PRC. Previously, Marcopoto was president, Time Inc. Asia. Still earlier, he was vice president and publisher of TIME Asia and managing director of Fortune Asia where he worked on the launch of FORTUNE China and the 1st Fortune Global Forum. Marcopoto earned a BA from Seton Hall University and arrived in Asia in 1981 and has lived in both Hong Kong and Singapore. He has served as Chairman of the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA). Today he serves as a board member of the Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) and is on the Board of Governors of the American Club in Hong Kong. He is also the Chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong (Amcham).