CFO and senior executive vice president, Viacom (effective May 1, 2001)
Mr. Bressler will succeed Fred Reynolds as Viacom CFO. He has been executive vice president of AOL Time Warner and CEO of AOL Time Warner Investments, and he was executive vice president and CFO of Time Warner from 1995 to 1999. He was senior vice president of finance at Time Warner beginning in 1995. He joined Time in 1988 as an assistant controller and had worked since 1979 at Ernst & Young, where he became one of the youngest partners in the firm’s history. He graduated summa cum laude from Adelphia College in 1979.