Frédéric Bien

Frederic Bien is presently managing director of AdBuy, an online and television media buying company based in Atlanta, Georgia USA. From 2008 to 2010, Bien was a co-founder and president of Blinq Media, a social media advertising company. From 2003 to 2005, Bien was senior vice president of advanced media technology for Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. Bien was charged with leading the digital transition strategy for the company's cable networks and the integration of new technologies such as digital video recorders, VOD, broadband video, HDTV and network localization. In addition, he was a founding member and chairman of the Time Warner Media Asset Management Committee, which develops strategy and architecture and fosters creative alliances across the Time Warner portfolio of networks and businesses. Turner Broadcasting System, a Time Warner company, is a major producer of news and entertainment product around the world and the leading provider of programming to the basic cable industry. Previously, Bien was senior vice president of media technology for Turner Entertainment Networks. In this capacity, he oversaw long-range technology planning and technology capital budgeting for TBS Superstation, TNT, Turner Classic Movies, Cartoon Network and Boomerang, as well as the NASCAR.com and PGA.com businesses of Turner Sports, Inc. Bien joined Turner Broadcasting in 2000 from the online movie store BigStar Entertainment, where he was vice president of communities and marketing technology and later chief technology officer. He founded and continues to serve as a director of Belamo Corp., an Internet publisher which produced and marketed Flirt.com, as well as several other popular relationship websites. At Belamo, Bien managed the technology and business development teams that forged partnerships with Elle magazine and Roadrunner, among others. When Flirt.com was acquired by Playboy Enterprises Inc. in 1999, Bien joined that company as vice president of business development. From 1993 to 1997, Bien was CEO of Bien Logic, an Internet software company he founded and whose clients included Netscape, Oracle, Wal Mart, Xerox, Hewlett-Packard and the Smithsonian Institute. Bien Logic was the largest Web design agency in San Diego and Orange County, California when it was sold to SiteLab International, LLC, in 1997. The software division of Bien Logic was sold to Netrics, Inc., which later was sold to Tibco. Bien earned undergraduate degrees in mathematics and education at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium and a doctorate in mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was an assistant professor at Princeton University and a tenured associate professor of mathematics at the University of California at San Diego. He has published a book, D-Modules and Spherical Representations, and 13 papers in international mathematical journals; been honored with the President's Award for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton University; was named Presidential Young Investigator by the National Science Foundation; and received an Alfred Sloan Doctoral Research Fellowship.