Jarl Mohn

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Mr. Jarl Mohn serves as a Trustee at the National Public Radio Foundation. He serves as a Strategic Advisor at Vobile. He also serves as a Board Member at Playdek. He serves as an Advisor at Glam.He served as a Board Member at Scripps Networks Interactive. He served as President and CEO of National Public Radio. He also served as a Board Member at comScore. He oversees NPR's global operations of more than a thousand public radio stations that serve over 30 million people who listen to NPR programming each week. He is an active corporate director and advisor to various media companies. He makes direct investments in digital media companies and technologies that support them and manages The Mohn Family Foundation, the philanthropic entity he and his wife created in 2000. Previously he was the founding President and Chief Executive Officer of Liberty Digital (Nasdaq: LDIG), a public company that invested in interactive television, cable networks, and internet enterprises. Before Liberty Digital, he created E! Entertainment Television serving as President and Chief Executive Officer from January 1990 to December 1998. He was formerly Executive Vice President and General Manager of MTV and VH1, from 1986 to 1990. He currently serves on the boards of directors of Scripps Network Interactive, ComScore SCOR, FanTV (private), Playdek (private), The Rubicon Project (private), Southern California Public Radio KPCC (Life Trustee), and USC Annenberg School for Communications and Journalism (Board of Councilors). Originally from Doylestown, Pennsylvania, he attended Philadelphia's Temple University where he studied mathematics and philosophy.