Biography - Robert Leighton
Robert Leighton is Senior Vice President, Programming for Liberty Global, Inc., a position he has held since July 2007. In his current position, Mr. Leighton is an executive officer of Liberty Global and sits on the company’s Executive Management Committee.
Mr. Leighton is a 30 year veteran of the television industry. Prior to joining Liberty Global, he was a consultant on programming issues to Liberty Global, as well as Comcast Cable.
Prior to this, Mr. Leighton spent seven years with Starz Encore Group LLC (now known as Starz Entertainment) as Senior Vice President until 2004 when he was promoted to Executive Vice President. At Starz, he was responsible for all programming functions for 13 channels, including film acquisition, original program development, production, on-air promotion, and technical operations.
Mr. Leighton earlier spent 17 years at HBO in a variety of roles. From 1991, he was based in Eastern Europe for HBO and oversaw the earliest development, launch and operation of various pay and basic cable channels throughout the region. Previous assignments at HBO in New York during the 1980s included Director of Programming, Cinemax and Director of Audience Research. Mr. Leighton began his television career at Young & Rubicam where he bought advertising time on both broadcast networks and ad-supported cable channels.
Mr. Leighton holds a Masters of Business Administration from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard College.
