Jeff Bewkes led HBO and then all of Time Warner before becoming an investor at Alignment Growth, where he joins company boards, like Wheelhouse's in 2024, and focuses on media, entertainment, and gaming companies that can use his operating and dealmaking experience. He's known for viewing new distribution platforms like Netflix as partners rather than threats, for seeing media value as tied to distribution and data control, and for being seen as one of the more clear-eyed legacy-media executives when it came to recognizing and acting on industry change.