Hugh Panero

HUGH PANERO was named President and CEO of XM Satellite Radio Inc. in
June 1998. He is also a member of the XM Radio Board of Directors. Mr.
Panero is a veteran of building and managing major entertainment
distribution services. From 1993 until joining XM Radio, he served as
President and CEO of Request Television, a pay-per-view network owned by
TCI’s Liberty Media and Twentieth Century Fox. Previously, Mr. Panero
spent 10 years at Time Warner Cable of New York City, where he helped
build and grow the world’s largest cable system. In addition to his
broad responsibilities as Vice President of Marketing, he launched a
citywide, pay-per-view service, several ethnically focused channels and
was also instrumental in developing Time Warner’s Quantum System, the
cable industry’s first 150-channel ‘System of the Future,’ offering more
than 40 pay-per-view channels. Mr. Panero is an Honorary Chair of Cable
Positive, the cable industry’s non-profit AIDS awareness organization.
He serves on Mayor Anthony Williams’ Business Roundtable and was
recently awarded the DC Chamber of Commerce’s Business Leader of the
Year Award. Mr. Panero received his BA in Government and Sociology from
Clark University and has a Master’s degree in Business Administration
from Baruch College.