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Victor F. Ganzi is President and Chief Executive Officer of The Hearst Corporation one of the nation's largest diversified communications companies. Mr. Ganzi assumed this post on June 1 2002. He is also a Director of The Hearst Corporation and a testamentary trustee of the trust established under the will of William Randolph Hearst.
Mr. Ganzi began his career at Hearst in 1990 as General Counsel and Vice President. In 1992 he was appointed Chief Financial and Legal Officer and elected Senior Vice President. He added the responsibilities of operating the Hearst Books/Business Publishing Group in 1995. He was elected Executive Vice President in 1997 and named Chief Operating Officer in 1998.
Prior to joining Hearst Mr. Ganzi was the Managing Partner at Rogers & Wells (now Clifford Chance) one of the world’s largest international law firms. He also practiced as a certified public accountant in taxation at a Big Four accounting firm in Denver.
Mr. Ganzi a native of New York graduated summa cum laude from Fordham University in 1968. He received a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School in 1971 and an L.L.M. in Taxation from New York University in 1981.
Mr. Ganzi is a Director of Hearst-Argyle Television Inc. and serves as that company's nonexecutive chairman. In addition to Wyeth he also sits on the boards of ESPN the PGA Tour Gentiva Health Services Inc. and Palm Management Corporation the entity that operates the various Palm Restaurants throughout the United States which has been 50%-owned by his family for the past 79 years. | 