Robert Warren "Bob" Pittman, is an American businessman. Currently Chairman and CEO of iHeartMedia, Inc., a global media and entertainment company, Pittman was the founder of MTV. Pittman joined Clear Channel in November 2010 as an investor and the company?s Chairman of Media and Entertainment Platforms, was named CEO of Clear Channel Communications in 2012 and was named Chairman in 2013. Clear Channel was rebranded as iHeartMedia, Inc. in September 2014. Pittman has also been the CEO of MTV Networks, AOL, Six Flags Theme Parks, Quantum Media, Century 21 Real Estate and Time Warner Enterprises, and COO of America Online, Inc. and AOL Time Warner. He has also been a radio and TV programmer, marketer, investor and media entrepreneur who has had multiple careers in a number of consumer-focused industries. According to Sean Parker, Pittman is the only media mogul who?s genuinely an entrepreneur. In giving him its first-ever 'Media Visionary" award, advertising publication Adweek referred to him as a "jack of all media" and former MTV executive Tom Freston referred to him as "the wonder boy of branding." 

December 28th, 1953 in Jackson (Age 70)