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Corporation for Public Broadcasting
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Board of Directors
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Ernest J. Wilson III - Chair
Ernest J. Wilson III is the longest serving member of the current CPB Board, first appointed by President Bill Clinton in September 2000 and re-appointed by President George W. Bush in November 2004. He chairs the Board’s ‘New Media’ Committee, and previously helped launch and chair its ‘Public Awareness’ Committee.
Dr. Wilson holds the Walter H. Annenberg Chair in Communication, and serves as Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. He was educated at Harvard College and the University of California, Berkeley.
Wilson has extensive experience in communications and communications policy. He has served in senior positions in the White House, the U.S. Information Agency [defunct: 1953-99] , the private sector and the academy. On the National Security Council his portfolio included reforms of VOA, Radio Free Europe and other broadcast services. In 1994 he helped create and was Deputy Director of the Global Information Infrastructure Commission [http://www.giic.org/], a private-public partnership led by senior corporate executives from around the world. He also served as Director of Policy and Planning at the USIA. He has been a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Pacific Council on International Policy where he is conducting a study of “Google’s Foreign Policy.”
A widely published author, his current book project is “Sustainable Innovation in the Digital Age,” which includes patterns of innovation in public service media. Wilson is the author most recently of The Information Revolution and Developing Countries (MIT), and co-editor of Negotiating the Net in Africa: the Politics of Internet Diffusion in Africa (Lynne Rienner); Governing Global Electronic Networks; and National Information Infrastructure Initiatives (both MIT). He is Founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Information Technologies and International Development, and co-edits the MIT Press series “Information Revolution and World Power.” His essay “Hard Power, Soft Power, Smart Power” appears in The Annals (2008).
Dr. Wilson has been a frequent consultant on IT to the World Bank, the UN, USAID, private firms, and has advised governments in Nigeria, the Peoples Republic of China, and South Africa on communications matters. A Fellow of the Center for Global Communications (Japan), he has lectured in France, India, Germany, Malaysia, and the UK. He is a member of the Carnegie-Knight Commission on Journalism. He has appeared on or written for the New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, Market Place, ABC, CNN, CNN International, Radio Canada, TPMCafe, and other media.
Professor Wilson previously taught at the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Michigan, and University of Maryland, where he was director of the Center for International Development and Conflict Management. He is married to Francille Rusan Wilson, Ph.D, and the father of two sons. His term expires in 2010.
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Beth Courtney - Vice-Chair
…married to Bob Courtney, President of Courtney Communications, Baton Rouge, LA. She has one daughter, Julia, an attorney.
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Chris Boskin - Member
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Patricia Cahill - Member
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Gay Hart Gaines - Member
…Gaines resides in Palm Beach, Florida, with her husband, Stanley. They have four married children and eleven grandchildren.
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Lori Gilbert - Member
Loretta Sutliff is her real name (click the link if you wish to see). …married to Dr. John Patrick Rice, an administrative officer at Great Basin College. They have a daughter, Olivia.
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David Pryor - Member
David Pryor, who joined the CPB Board in November 2006, has had a distinguished career in public service, most notably as state legislator, congressman, governor, and United States Senator from Arkansas.
Mr. Pryor first won election in 1960 to the Arkansas Legislature, where he served until his election to the United States Congress in 1966. He served three full terms in the House before returning to Arkansas. Elected Governor in 1975, he served four years before being elected to the United States Senate in 1978. Mr. Pryor was reelected in 1984 and 1990, serving three full terms before his retirement in January, 1997. He was chairman of the Special Committee on Aging during the 101st through 103rd Congresses.
Before entering politics, Mr. Pryor practiced law in his home town of Camden, Arkansas, where he also founded and published the Ouachita Citizen. Following his retirement from the Senate, he returned to Arkansas and served as dean of the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service at the University of Arkansas in Little Rock from 2004 to 2006. For two years, he was Director of the John F. Kennedy School of Government’s Institute of Politics at Harvard University.
Mr. Pryor is a graduate of the University of Arkansas and the University of Arkansas Law School. He resides in Little Rock with his wife Barbara. His term expires in 2014.
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Bruce M. Ramer - Member
Bruce M. Ramer was appointed to the CPB board by President George W. Bush and confirmed by the Senate in October 2008.
He is an attorney and partner at Gang, Tyre, Ramer & Brown, a firm specializing in entertainment and media matters.
Ramer has been active in public television since joining the board of KCET in Los Angeles in 1992. He served as chair from 2001 to 2003.
He is a member of the board of trustees of the University of Southern California (USC). He is chairman of the USC Institute on Entertainment Law and Business and a member of the board of councilors of the USC Annenberg School for Communication, the USC Gould School of Law and the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education.
Ramer is founding chairman and member of the board of trustees of the Geffen Playhouse and a board member of the Pacific Council on International Policy, the Southern California Committee for the Olympic Games and the Herrhausen Institute for International Dialogue.
Ramer received the American Jewish Committee Community Service Award in 1987 and the Learned Hand Award in 2005. He has also received the Beverly Hills Bar Association Entertainment Lawyer of the Year Award in 1996; the Commanders Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 2000; the Medal of Honor of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in 2001 and the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation Ambassador for Humanity Award in 2002.
He was named one of the 100 most powerful lawyers in California by California Business Lawyer and one of the top 100 lawyers in California by the Daily Journal.
Ramer is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Madeline. They have four children and five grandchildren. His term expires in 2012.
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Elizabeth Sembler - Member
Elizabeth Sembler was appointed to the CPB board by President George W. Bush and confirmed by the Senate in October 2008.
Sembler is a teacher and the director of Jewish Studies at the Pinellas County Jewish Day School in Clearwater, Florida. She has served on the board of WEDU-TV since 1993 and was the chair of its board from 2001-2003. In 2006, she joined the board of the Association of Public Television Stations, a nonprofit group which supports the continued growth and development of a strong and financially sound noncommercial television service.
Sembler is on the council of advisors of the Florida Orchestra and an executive board member of her synagogue, Congregation B’nai Israel. She received the Edward N. Ludin Young Leadership Award from the Pinellas County Jewish Federation in 2003. There, she served as campaign chair and women’s division chair of the group and on the United Jewish Communities National Young Leadership Cabinet in the 1990′s. In 2008, she and her husband were awarded the prestigious Tree of Life award from the Jewish National Fund.
She began her career as a staff writer for the St. Petersburg Times after earning her bachelor’s degree in newspaper journalism and political science from Syracuse University. She later earned master’s degree in English from the University of South Florida.
Sembler lives in Seminole, Florida, with her husband Greg, who is CEO of the Sembler Company, a shopping center development and management firm. They are the parents of four teenagers. Her term expires in 2014.
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CPB Leadership
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Corporate Officers
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Patricia de Stacy Harrison - President and Chief Executive Officer
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Vincent Curren - Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
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Michael Levy - Executive Vice President, Corporate and Public Affairs
Michael Levy, executive vice president, joined CPB in September 2005 as vice president, corporate and public affairs. Prior to coming to CPB, Mr. Levy served as Senior Advisor at the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs. There, he developed and executed pro-active media strategies and communications efforts to increase public awareness of and support for U.S. counternarcotics and law enforcement initiatives in over 100 countries. Previously, he served as chief of staff to the lieutenant governor of Oklahoma, and as a senior legislative aide to a member of Congress from Utah. Mr. Levy attended Emory University, University College London and Widener University School of Law.
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Westwood Smithers, Jr. - Senior Vice President, General Counsel
…resident of Richmond, Virginia.
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William P. Tayman, Jr. - Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer
Mr. William P. Tayman, Jr. was appointed May 15, 2006, as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Treasurer of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Tayman’s position entails the responsibility for the financial procedures at CPB as well as the direction of all administrative, human resources, and treasury functions within the organization. Mr. Tayman’s career of devoted public service and leadership has led him to his current role on the senior management team at CPB.
Tayman’s nearly 30-year track record of service at the United States Postal Service (USPS) precedes his position at CPB. Most recently, he was the Manager of Corporate Financial Planning at the USPS. Additionally, Tayman has fulfilled a variety of leadership capacities for the Postal Service. He directed the treasury operations for the USPS as the Acting Vice President of the Treasury. He served as Manager of Budget and Financial Analysis as well as Manager of Strategic and International Finance. Initially, he acted as the chief accountant for the USPS as the Director of the Office of Accounting.
In addition to Mr. Tayman’s career in finance at the USPS, he served as the Deputy Controller for the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. He started his career in finance as an accountant with Hoye, Graves, Bailey & Co., a medium-sized accounting firm.
Mr. Tayman holds a Masters of Science degree in Management from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was a Sloan Fellow. He completed his undergraduate work at the University of Maryland, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business and Public Administration. He is also a Certified Public Accountant. Tayman is originally from Washington, DC.
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Teresa Safon - Corporate Secretary
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Senior Vice Presidents
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Steven J. Altman - Senior Vice President, Business Affairs
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Mark Erstling - Senior Vice President, System Development and Media Strategy
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Tim Isgitt - Senior Vice President, Communications and Government Affairs
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John Prizer - Acting Senior Vice President, Television Programming
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Debra Tica Sanchez - Senior Vice President, Education and Children’s Content Operations
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Bruce Theriault - Senior Vice President, Radio
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Joseph Tovares - Senior Vice President for Diversity and Innovation
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Dr. Susan Zelman - Senior Vice President, Chief Advisor and System Consultant for Education Policy
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Vice Presidents
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Robert Bole - Vice President, Digital Media Strategy
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Terry Bryant – Vice President, Television Programming and Media Research
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Michael Fragale - Vice President, Educational Programming and Services
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Jackie Livesay – Vice President, Business Affairs
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Kevin E. Martin - Vice President, Station Grants and Television Station Initiatives
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Greg Schnirring - Vice President, Radio
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John Thornburg - Vice President and Controller
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Board Committees: http://www.cpb.org/aboutcpb/leadership/board/committees.html
