management team

William R. Fitzgerald

Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Ascent Capital Group, Inc.

Bill Fitzgerald has served as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Ascent Capital Group, Inc., since September 2008. He was named Chairman of Ascent Media Group, the predecessor company, in August 2000.He also served as Senior Vice President of Liberty Media Corporation from 2000 through 2012. While with Liberty Media, Bill served to evaluate media and technology related investment and acquisition opportunities in addition to overseeing several of its assests. Most recently he served as a director of Expedia,Inc., from 2006 through 2012, TripAdvisor,Inc.,from 2011 until 2013,and previously served as Chairman of On Command Corporation, and as a director of Game Show Network, True Position,and Cablevision Systems Corp.

Bill was previously Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for AT&T; Broadband, formerly known as Tele-Communications,Inc. (TCI), where he oversaw the company's broadband services operations. Before that he was Executive Vice President of Corporate Development and Partnership Relations for TCI, where he managed the company's M&A; strategies and transactions, as well as the company's cable partnership and joint ventures. Bill joined TCI in March of 1996 as Senior Vice President and head of Corporate Development.

Prior to TCI, Bill was a Senior Vice President and partner at Daniels & Associates, an investment banking firm to the communications industry. He began his career at The First National Bank of Chicago as a commercial banker.

Bill received an undergraduate degree from Indiana University School of Business and a master's degree in finance and marketing from the Kellogg School of Business at Northwestern University.