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Leo Hindery
Leo Joseph Hindery Jr. (October 31, 1947 – September 17 or 18, 2025) was an American businessman, fund manager, public-company chairman and CEO, author, political activist and philanthropist.
Hindery was born in Springfield, Illinois, on October 31, 1947, and was brought up in Tacoma, Washington. He earned a bachelor's degree from Seattle University and a Master's in Business Administration from Stanford University.
Hindery began his business career San Francisco. In 1988, he founded and ran as managing partner InterMedia Partners, a series of media industry investment funds. In November 1999, Hindery was named chairman and CEO of GlobalCenter Inc., a major Internet services company which fourteen months later merged into Exodus Communications, Inc.
He served as chairman and CEO of Trine Acquisition Corp., a NYSE-listed SPAC which went public in March 2019 and went effective with its merger with Desktop Metal, Inc. (NYSE: DM) in early 2021, and of a follow-on NYSE-listed SPAC under the Trine name that went public in the third quarter of 2021 and returned funds to its public investors in the second quarter of 2023.
Following this merger, until October 2004, he was the founding chairman and CEO of The YES Network, the regional television home of the New York Yankees, after which he reconstituted and ran InterMedia Partners until the founding of Trine.
In February 1997 he was named president and CEO of Tele-Communications, Inc. (TCI), then the world's largest cable television system operator. In March 1999, TCI merged into AT&T Corporation and Hindery became president and CEO of AT&T Broadband.
He was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He was a member of the Hall of Fame of the Minority Media & Telecommunications Council, co-chair of the Task Force on Jobs Creation and was the founder of Jobs First 2012. He was also a director of Hemisphere Media Group, Inc.
Hindery was a member of the Cable Industry Hall of Fame, was formerly chairman of the National Cable Television Association and of C-SPAN, and has been recognized as one of the cable industry's "25 Most Influential Executives Over the Past 25 Years".
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Leo Hindery
Leo Joseph Hindery Jr. (October 31, 1947 – September 17 or 18, 2025) was an American businessman, fund manager, public-company chairman and CEO, author, political activist and philanthropist.
Hindery was born in Springfield, Illinois, on October 31, 1947, and was brought up in Tacoma, Washington. He earned a bachelor's degree from Seattle University and a Master's in Business Administration from Stanford University.
Hindery began his business career San Francisco. In 1988, he founded and ran as managing partner InterMedia Partners, a series of media industry investment funds. In November 1999, Hindery was named chairman and CEO of GlobalCenter Inc., a major Internet services company which fourteen months later merged into Exodus Communications, Inc.
He served as chairman and CEO of Trine Acquisition Corp., a NYSE-listed SPAC which went public in March 2019 and went effective with its merger with Desktop Metal, Inc. (NYSE: DM) in early 2021, and of a follow-on NYSE-listed SPAC under the Trine name that went public in the third quarter of 2021 and returned funds to its public investors in the second quarter of 2023.
Following this merger, until October 2004, he was the founding chairman and CEO of The YES Network, the regional television home of the New York Yankees, after which he reconstituted and ran InterMedia Partners until the founding of Trine.
In February 1997 he was named president and CEO of Tele-Communications, Inc. (TCI), then the world's largest cable television system operator. In March 1999, TCI merged into AT&T Corporation and Hindery became president and CEO of AT&T Broadband.
He was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He was a member of the Hall of Fame of the Minority Media & Telecommunications Council, co-chair of the Task Force on Jobs Creation and was the founder of Jobs First 2012. He was also a director of Hemisphere Media Group, Inc.
Hindery was a member of the Cable Industry Hall of Fame, was formerly chairman of the National Cable Television Association and of C-SPAN, and has been recognized as one of the cable industry's "25 Most Influential Executives Over the Past 25 Years".
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