COMPANY

Spun off from CBS in 1973. In 1999, Viacom acquired CBS, but the merger was undone with a shuffling of assets in 2005 -- Viacom took the cable television properties and CBS the network television business.

Official Website:
http://www.viacom.com/

Industry:
Media

Ticker:
NYSE:VIA

Corporate headquarters:
New York City

Sales:
$13.4B (2005)

Employees:
10,000

EXECUTIVES

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Neil R. Austrian	Business	c. 1940		President of NFL, 1991-98
Frank Biondi	Business	9-Jan-1945		Former CEO, Viacom, Universal Studios
Philippe P. Dauman	Business	c. 1952		CEO of Viacom
Michael J. Dolan	Business	c. 1947		CEO of Young & Rubicam, 2001-03
Thomas E. Dooley	Business	c. 1957		CFO of Viacom
Jules Haimovitz	Business	c. 1949		Dick Clark Productions
Mel Karmazin	Business	24-Aug-1943		President and COO of Viacom, 2000-04
Les Moonves	Business	6-Oct-1949		CEO of CBS Television
Sumner Redstone	Business	27-May-1923		Chairman and CEO of Viacom
Frederic G. Reynolds	Business	c. 1957		CFO of CBS
James O. Robbins	Business	c. 1942	10-Oct-2007	President of Cox Communications, 1985-2005

CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
George S. Abrams	Attorney	c. 1932		Partner, Winer & Abrams
Philippe P. Dauman	Business	c. 1952		CEO of Viacom
Thomas E. Dooley	Business	c. 1957		CFO of Viacom
Alan C. Greenberg	Business	3-Sep-1927		CEO of Bear Stearns, 1978-93
Robert Kraft	Business	5-Jun-1941		Owner, New England Patriots
Blythe J. McGarvie	Business	c. 1957		CFO of Bic, 1999-2002
Charles E. Phillips, Jr.	Business	c. 1960		President of Oracle, 2003-10
Shari Redstone	Business	14-Apr-1954		President of National Amusements
Sumner Redstone	Business	27-May-1923		Chairman and CEO of Viacom
Frederic V. Salerno	Business	c. 1944		CFO of Verizon, 2000-02
William Schwartz	Business	6-May-1933		Dean of Boston University Law, 1980-88

PAST BOARD MEMBERS OR DIRECTORS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
David R. Andelman	Business	1940		Director of Viacom, CBS
Frank Biondi	Business	9-Jan-1945		Former CEO, Viacom, Universal Studios
Joseph Califano	Government	15-May-1931		Carter's HEW Secretary
William Cohen	Government	28-Aug-1940		US Secretary of Defense, 1997-01
George Conrades	Business	c. 1939		CEO of Akamai, 1999-2005
Ellen V. Futter	Educator	21-Sep-1949		President of Barnard College, 1980-93
William H. Gray	Politician	20-Aug-1941		Congressman from Pennsylvania, 1979-91
Jan Leschly	Business	?		CEO of SmithKline Beecham, 1994-2000
Patty Stonesifer	Business	1956		Co-Chair of Gates Foundation
Robert D. Walter	Business	c. 1944		CEO of Cardinal Health

EMPLOYMENT

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Sara Levinson	Business	c. 1950		President of NFL Properties, 1994-2000
Marc Summers	Talk Show Host	11-Nov-1951		Super Sloppy Double Dare

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