William Fitzgerald Elected to Piper Jaffray Companies Board of Directors
March 17 2014 - 5:16PM
Business Wire
Piper Jaffray (NYSE: PJC), a leading investment bank and asset
management firm, announced that William Fitzgerald joined its board
of directors, effective immediately.
Fitzgerald is currently the chairman and chief executive officer
of Ascent Capital Group, Inc., a NASDAQ-listed publicly traded
holding company whose business operations are conducted through its
wholly owned subsidiary, Monitronics, Inc., which is one of the
largest residential security alarm monitoring companies in the
United States.
“Bill’s experience as a CEO of a sector-leading, publicly traded
company, and the broad strategic and operating experience he has
from his 30 years in the media and telecommunications industries
will be of significant benefit to our Board and shareholders. We
are very pleased to have Bill as a director,” said Piper
Jaffray Companies chairman and CEO, Andrew Duff.
Fitzgerald has been the chairman and chief executive officer of
Ascent (formerly known as Ascent Media Group) since 2000. He
previously served as senior vice president of Liberty Media
Corporation from July 2000 to December 2012. Before that, he served
as executive vice president and chief operating officer for
AT&T Broadband (formerly known as Tele-Communications, Inc.)
from 1998 to 2000, and as executive vice president, corporate
development of TCI Communications, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary
of Tele-Communications, from 1996 to 1998. Mr. Fitzgerald was
previously an investment banking partner at Daniels &
Associates (now RBC Capital Markets), and he began his career at
The First National Bank of Chicago as a commercial banker.
Fitzgerald has previously served on the board of directors for
Expedia, Inc., TripAdvisor, Inc. and Cablevision Systems
Corporation.
Fitzgerald received a bachelor’s degree from Indiana
University Kelley School of Business and a master's degree in
finance and marketing from the Kellogg School of Business at
Northwestern University.
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