Thomas Gewecke

Thomas Gewecke has been the Chief Digital Officer and Executive Vice President of Strategy & Business Development at Warner Bros. Entertainment, a division of Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. since May 2013. Mr. Gewecke is responsible for driving the Studio’s worldwide digital growth and managing its global business strategy. Mr. Gewecke served as the President of Warner Bros. Digital Distribution at Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Inc. and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. since December 2007. Mr. Gewecke served as President of an Operating Unit of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group. Mr. Gewecke served as an Executive Vice President of Global Digital Business of Sony BMG Music Entertainment Downloads LLC and Sony Music Entertainment Inc. since April 2006. He served as an Executive Vice President of 550 Digital Media Ventures Inc., since July 2000. He oversaw the 550 Digital Media Venture’s more than 30 digital media properties, including the operation and growth of its fully-owned and incubated companies as well as the conception and development of new businesses. In directing 550 Digital Media Venture’s acquisition and investment activities, he was responsible for identifying new opportunities and business models in the digital media space. Mr. Gewecke served as Senior Vice President, New Technology and Business Development of Sony Music Entertainment Inc. (SME) since November 1999 and was responsible for helping develop new digital products and strategy. He has been involved in the development and operation of online and internet businesses for more than 8 years. Prior to joining SME in 1999, Mr. Gewecke was Publisher of the PC World Online Services Group at International Data Group (IDG) from 1995 to 1999. He held various positions at PC World Communications, a subsidiary of International Data Group, from 1991 to 1999. At IDG, as a Management Associate, he developed the business plan for and co-founded, PC World Online in 1992. As Publisher, he was directly responsible for managing and growing IDG’s largest internet division, which in 1999 included four major product lines: PC World Online, TipWorld, Games.Net, and WebShopper. Mr. Gewecke’s role at PC World / IDG included helping to develop overall internet strategies for PC World where he started and evaluating new ventures, and managing major internet partnerships. He served as Director of Intermix Media Inc., from October 18, 2001 to October 31, 2003. He served as Director of Google Earth. In 1995, he co-created a course for the U.C. Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism entitled “Journalism and the New Media,“ which he co–taught until 1998. Mr. Gewecke graduated from Harvard University in 1991 with a Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, in Social Studies, with his senior thesis on the political impact of the Internet and the effect of network morphology on the distribution of social power within online systems.