Some Information about Petfinder dot com
Some of you may be surprised to find out that the Petfinder.com website is registerd to Discovery Communications, Inc., One Discovery Place, Silver Spring, MD 20910.
Related domains held by the Discovery conglomerate include: Ahn dot com (digital news for a global world), AKamai (global internet platform), Animal Planet and a host of Discovery channel websites including DiscoveryEducation, DiscoveryEducatorNetwork, DiscoveryHealthConnection, DiscoveryHolding, DiscoveryHoldingCompany (DHC is a holding company for its wholly-owned subsidiary, Ascent Media Group, Inc., and 50%-owned Discovery Communications, Inc.), DiscoveryHospital, DiscoveryKids, DiscoveryLearningConnection, DiscoveryScience, DiscoveryTv as well as Hawaii.edu, PanCanal.com, TheHumanBodyFilm.com and WindowsMedia.com and TreeHugger. Partners of the Discovery Global Education (sometimes called Fund) organization include Coca Cola, Chevron, Mars, Inc.(Mars manufactures Pedigree and Whiskas brand pet foods. Also see Mars Veterinary), Motorola, Allstate Insurance, Bank of America, AT&T and CBS Corporation. See the website for the entire list.
Click this link for all of the Discovery Corporate and International Management bios
John S. Hendricks is the Founder and Chairman of Discovery Communications. Hendricks created Discovery Channel in 1985 as the first cable network in the U.S. designed to provide high quality documentary programming. Discovery's current global operations include more than 170 countries and territories with more than 1.5 billion cumulative subscribers. Discovery encompasses more than 100 networks representing 27 entertainment brands including TLC, Animal Planet, Science Channel and HD Theater. Discovery’s other properties include Discovery Education and Discovery Commerce.
The Ark Trust (aka HSUS Hollywood) named him a recipient of the Genesis Award for lifetime achievement for his efforts in raising awareness around the globe about animal issues. Hendricks serves on the board of directors of a number of non-profit organizations including the United States Olympic Committee and the National Forest Foundation.
Jack Fields, a Texan who was born in Humble (now Kingwood) in 1952, is also on the Discovery BOD. He is best known for serving the eighth district of Texas 1981-1997 and being considered for the Senate seat that Kay Bailey Hutchison eventually won.
He received his Juris Doctor in 1977 from Baylor University and was admitted to the Texas Bar after graduating. Fields then began working as a lawyer and was vice president of his family's business, the Rosewood Memorial Park and Funeral Home.
After retiring from Congress, Fields joined Administaff, Inc. as a director in January 1997. At that time Fields also started
the Twenty-First Century Group, Inc. The company is based in Washington, D.C. and calls itself "a bipartisan consulting
Fields currently serves on the board of directors of AIM Mutual Funds, Administaff, and the Discovery Channel Global Education Fund. He served as a trustee of Baylor University for nine years.
Willard O. Freeman has more than 25 years experience in representing numerous developers, corporations, law firms and government agencies in complex real estate transactions. He successfully completed the leasing of 800 Ninth Street, SW to the General Services Administration; the acquisition, development and project management of the 550,000 square-foot Discovery Communications Headquarters in Silver Spring , MD ; and the relocation of City offices to make way for development of the MCI Center in the East End of downtown Washington .
Willard is co-founder Freeman Group which now operates as the Washington DC area office of Concordis Advisors. Willard's managerial expertise includes serving as Regional President for the Galbreath Company of Ohio , an organization absorbed into the company now operating as Jones Lang LaSalle. Throughout his career, Willard has been consistently recognized as one of the top ten brokers in the Washington DC area.
Donald M. Payne (D- NJ) US House of Rep. Appointed in 2003 and 2005 to serve as a Congressional delegate to the United Nations. In this role, he has met with the U.N. Secretary General, the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. and regularly attended sessions of the U.N. General Assembly and other high level meetings. In the 110th Congress, Speaker Nancy Pelosi appointed Congressman Payne to serve on the House Democracy Assistance Commission, which provides procedural, technical, and material assistance to legislatures and their members in developing democracies around the world. Representative Payne co-founded the Malaria Caucus which was launched at an event with First Lady Laura Bush. He successfully secured $50 million for prevention, control and treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis. The Congressman also helped secure passage of a bill authorizing $50 billion for HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria. He is also a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, where he serves as Chairman of the Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health and as a member of the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere and the Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights, and Oversight.
Johnathan Rodgers is President and CEO, TV One. TV One is a venture of Radio One, Inc., the largest radio broadcaster primarily targeting African American and urban listeners, and Comcast Corporation, the largest cable operator in the country, along with Bear Stearns, Constellation Ventures, Syndicated Communications and Opportunity Capital Partners.
Prior to joining Discovery Communications, Inc. in 1996, Rodgers had a successful 20-year career at CBS, Inc., where he held a variety of executive positions including serving as the President of CBS’ highly profitable television stations division. During his career at CBS television, Rodgers also served as an award-winning News Director and General Manager, and as an Executive Producer for CBS News.
Rodgers began his professional career as a print journalist working as a Writer-Reporter for Sports Illustrated; he later worked for Newsweek magazine as an Associate Editor. He received his undergraduate degree in journalistic studies from the University of California at Berkeley, and his Masters in Communications from Stanford University.
William Asiko is the Kenyan Director of Public Affairs and Communications for The Coca-Cola Company in Africa. William Asiko started his career with The Coca-Cola Company in 1995 as in house corporate attorney in his home country, Kenya. In this role, William held various positions of increasing responsibility in a number of countries including the United States, Morocco and the United Kingdom, rising to the position of General Counsel for Africa in 2001.
William has served on the boards of The Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Egypt and The Equatorial Coca-Cola Bottling Company in Barcelona, Spain and currently serves on the board of Beverage Services Kenya. He is also the President of The Coca-Cola Africa Foundation (See also Coca-Cola Foundation, Inc.) and chairs the Coca-Cola East & Central Africa Limited Staff Provident Fund board of Trustees. Prior to joining The Coca-Cola Company, William served 5 years as State Counsel in the Office of the Attorney General for Kenya and 2 years as a partner in the law firm of Hamilton Harrison & Mathews in Nairobi, Kenya.
William was educated in Kenya, where he earned a law degree from the University of Nairobi and in the United States, where he graduated with an MBA from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School. He is also admitted to the Kenya Bar.
Gail Ifshin is the President of the Global Education Fund. She has worked in the international arena in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors for many years, serving as chief economist for the Hungarian-American Enterprise Fund and as program director for the Institute for Democracy in Vietnam. She also has worked in the White House for the Council of Economic Advisers and was later appointed to the US Department of Agriculture's Advisory Committee on Emerging Democracies. She is the widow of David Ifshin who was an anti-Viet Nam War activist.
Several of the BOD of the non-profit "Global Fund" are also on the BOD of Discovery Communications, et al. Check out their fourth quarter 2009 financial highlights. (Nasdaq: DISCA, DISCB, DISCK)
Their revenues increased 2% to $3.52 billion; their free cash flow increased 18% to $1.46 billion dollars; fourth quarter revenues of $964 million increased $60 million, and the net income available to Discovery stockholders increased to $552 million. Business is obviously GOOD.
2008 net income also included $128 million of minority interest primarily associated with the Advanced Newhouse ownership prior to the transaction that resulted in Discovery Communications, Inc. becoming a public company.
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