David Zaslav, president and CEO of Discovery Communications, will present a keynote address on Tuesday, April 9, as part of MIPTV’s Media Mastermind keynotes series. Organised by Reed MIDEM, MIPTV will take place in Cannes from April 8-11, 2013.
David Zaslav sets the strategy and oversees all the operations of Discovery, which reaches more than 1.8 billion cumulative subscribers in nearly 220 countries and territories. The company owns more than 150 worldwide television networks and a portfolio of digital media properties that attract approximately 25 million unique visitors per month.
At MIPTV, David Zaslav will discuss the global content environment, recent international mergers and acquisitions activity and his strategy for continued growth at the world’s largest pay-TV programmer.
Prior to Discovery, Zaslav had a distinguished career at NBC Universal. Under David Zaslav’s leadership, in September 2008, Discovery began trading as a public company on the Nasdaq stock exchange and has since delivered average double-digit profit growth over the past five years.
