Consumer >> CEO Interviews >> July 31, 2000
JEROME H. KERN is Chairman and CEO of On Command Corporation. An
acknowledged mega-deal maker in complicated, multi-party transactions,
Mr. Kern served as Vice Chairman and a member of the Board of Directors
of Tele-communications, Inc. (TCI). He was the architect of the AT&T/TCI
merger and TCI's representative in a number of other high-profile
mergers and acquisitions, including the Time Warner/Turner Broadcasting
merger. Prior to TCI, Mr. Kern was a senior partner of Baker & Botts,
L.L.P., where he was the senior corporate lawyer in the New York office.
For over twenty years, he was the principal outside legal counsel to TCI
and Liberty Media, and is currently serving on Liberty Media's Board of
Directors. Mr. Kern graduated from the New York University School of Law
(L.L., 1960, Cum Laude) where he was a Root Tilden Scholar and Managing
Editor of the New York University Law Review (1959 to 1960); he was
named to the Order of the Coif. He also holds a Bachelor's degree from
Columbia University (A.B. 1957). Mr. Kern is a member of the Board of
Trustees of the New York University Law Center Foundation and serves as
a Director on the Boards of Volunteers of America (Colorado Chapter),
City Meals-on-Wheels in New York, the Colorado Symphony Foundation, and
the Institute for Children's Mental Disorders. Profile
Command?
Mr. Kern: For about 10 years, On Command has been the leading hotel in-
room provider of video on demand,
