Lindsay Gardner

Background

About Lindsay Gardner

Lindsay Gardner’s 25 years of executive management and entrepreneurial leadership in media, entertainment and telecom includes a combination of powerhouse television brands and media technology start-ups. He has an unrivaled record of accomplishment in content acquisition, packaging and distribution, the cornerstones of every successful media strategy. Gardner was Chief Content Officer of T-Mobile, helping lead the wireless carrier's pivot to video content for two-and-a-half years following T-Mobile's purchase of Layer3 TV. As Chief Content Officer for Layer3 TV, Gardner launched the first MVPD in ten years, recruiting and leading the company's programming, legal, business development, PR, content operations and marketing teams. Previously, he was President, Distribution for Fox Networks where, over eight years he built Fox's channel portfolio into one of the industry's largest, most diverse and most profitable, launching more than a dozen channels, including three that surpassed 20 million subscribers in their first year of operation. He has worked with many of the industry's highest-profile companies, including Miramax, where Gardner executed the studio's digital strategy; Tribune Media, where Gardner negotiated major deals and recruited the CEO; Discovery Networks, Universal Music Group and AMC Networks. Gardner co-founded several new media companies: Porto Media (transferring full-length movies to thumb drives in seconds), China-based Reach Media, and Channel Islands, which sells digital ad insertion systems to cable operators.