Consumer >> CEO Interviews >> December 4, 2000
CHRISTIE HEFNER oversees policy, management and strategy in all areas of
Playboy Enterprises. She joined Playboy in 1975 and worked in a variety
of the company's businesses before being named President in 1982. In
1988, she was elected to her present position of Chairman and CEO with
the New York Stock Exchange-listed international media and entertainment
company. Besides directing Playboy Enterprises' operations, Ms. Hefner
is active in a number of local and national organizations. She was the
first woman elected to the Chicago chapter of the Young Presidents'
Organization. Ms. Hefner helped found the Committee of 200, an
international organization of preeminent women business owners and
executives. She serves on the Boards of the Magazine Publishers
Association, the Business Committee for the Arts, The Aaron Diamond AIDS
Research Center and Canyon Ranch Health Resort. Ms. Hefner is on the
Advisory Boards of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency, the
American Civil Liberties Union and The Creative Coalition, and she is a
General Trustee of Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center. She
serves on another corporate Board, Telocity, Inc., which is a leading
nationwide provider of broadband services to the residential market. She
also spent four years as Project Board Chairman for the CORE Center,
raising $30 million to build this innovative clinic and research
facility, which opened in Chicago in the summer of 1998. Ms. Hefner was
elected to Phi Beta Kappa in her junior year of college, graduated from
Brandeis University Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in
English and American Literature. She became a President's Councilor of
her alma mater. Profile
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Ms. Hefner: Playboy Enterprises began as a domestic magazine company
back in 1953. The magazine rapidly became
