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Cincinnati Bell Elects New Board Member Martin J. YudkovitzCincinnati Bell (News - Alert) Inc. (NYSE: CBB) today announced the election of Martin J. Yudkovitz as a director of the Company. Until his recent retirement, Mr. Yudkovitz, 61, led The Walt Disney (News - Alert) Company Strategic Innovation Group, which identifies and develops new businesses for Disney across all of its business lines and manages the corporate-wide process for strategic business innovation. Prior to that role, Mr. Yudkovitz served as Senior Vice President for Corporate Strategy and Business Development at Disney, starting in June 2005. Prior to joining Disney, Mr. Yudkovitz was President of TiVo (News - Alert), the pioneering DVR innovator. Mr. Yudkovitz was previously a long-time senior executive at NBC, working in virtually all areas of the business and on almost all of NBC's major strategic projects during his 20 years at the company. Among the positions he held at NBC were President of NBC Business Development, Founder and President of NBC Digital Media, and Executive Vice President of NBC, Inc. He was among the small initial team that developed and launched CNBC, NBC's first cable network. Mr. Yudkovitz wa also the primary designer of the innovative partnership with Microsoft (News - Alert) that formed MSNBC, NBC's second cable network. Mr. Yudkovitz joined NBC in 1983, briefly serving as Senior Counsel in the Law Department, before moving to NBC Sports, where he led business affairs for both the Seoul and Barcelona Olympics, for which he won an Emmy. Mr. Yudkovitz is a Senior Fellow at Duke University's Fuqua/Coach K Center on Leadership and Ethics, a Dean's Fellow at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business and an Adjunct Professor of UVA's McIntire School of Commerce.
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