By Kevin McCauley
Peter Liguori, who was COO of Discovery Communications, has joined the Carlyle Group as consultant in its telecommunications and media team.
Liguori |
He is to advise Carlyle executives on investments from “sourcing to acquisition to exit,” according to the announcement from the $159B asset management giant. Liquori also will counsel managers at acquired companies on operational and growth strategies.
Liguori served at Discovery from 2009 to the end of 2011. He spent 13 years at Fox Entertainment as president and chairman from 2005-09, handling program development and marketing. Prior to that, he was CEO of News Corp.’s FX Networks and VP-consumer marketing executive at HBO.
James Attwood is Carlyle’s managing director of the telecom and media group, which has received more than $8B in investments since 2001.
Those investments include Nielsen Co., AMC Entertainment, Genesis Cable, Neptune Communications-Pacific Telecom and Prime Communications. |