Time Warner’s top corporate communications executive, Edward Adler, who has been with the company since college, will step down after a “transition period,” the company said today.
Adler, executive VP of corporate comms., has spent his entire career with the company and steps down after a challenging year which saw the company unravel its 2000 merger with AOL.
Adler told O’Dwyer’s via email that he doesn’t know his plans yet, but hopes for “another high level corporate” post.
Keith Cocozza, VP of corporate communications at TW, said there are no plans yet for a replacement.
“It was only because we are now on solid ground that, after discussing it with him, I reluctantly accepted Ed’s decision to look for new opportunities to apply his talents and capabilities,” chairman and CEO Jeff Bewkes said in a statement, thanking Adler for staying on for a transition.
Adler, who heads media relations, internal and external comms. for the media conglomerate, said he’s making a move that he’s wanted to make for “some time.”
He started out at TW in college and worked as a reporter for Time before moving on to HBO and later its corporate communications unit. He became VP of corporate comms. in 1997. |