Mr. Genachowski brings to the Board extensive regulatory and government experience, digital, technology and media expertise, information security insight, a global perspective, and engagement with both consumer and enterprise companies through a career as a senior government official, senior business executive, investor and director at or with technology, media and communications companies. Mr. Genachowski also adds valuable financial knowledge through experience in private equity, at a large public operating company and on public audit committees.
Director since
June 2014
Age at Annual Meeting
61
Board committees
- Audit (chairperson)
- Human Resources and Compensation
- Risk
Current public company boards
- Mattel, Inc. (audit committee, governance and social responsibility committee)
- Sonos Inc. (board chair, audit committee, nominating and corporate governance committee)
Additional Positions
- Senior Advisor to Carlyle, a global investment firm; former Partner & Managing Director at Carlyle (2014-2023)
Previous experience
- Chairman, U.S. Federal Communications Commission (2009-2013)
- Other U.S. government roles, including former member, President’s Intelligence Advisory Board (U.S.), Congressional staff member for then-Representative Charles Schumer and for the joint select committee investigating the Iran-Contra affair; and law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter
- Several executive positions at IAC/InterActiveCorp (e-commerce and media/entertainment businesses), including Chief of Business Operations and General Counsel
Past public company boards
- AsiaSat
- Sprint Corporation