Gerald M. Levin
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Gerald M. Levin (b. 6 May, 1939, Pennsylvania, USA) is an American businessman. He attended Haverford College, where he is a member of the Board of Directors. He spent most of his career with Time Inc. (later Time Warner, then AOL Time Warner), starting as a programming executive for HBO and eventually becoming CEO of the corporation. Levin is probably most famous for having brokered the merger between AOL and Time Warner during the height of the internet boom, a merger which seemed to many to be less of a smart idea for Time Warner as the internet industry sunk into a deep decline during the early 2000s.
Personal life
Levin has been married twice and is the father of three children, one of whom, Jonathan, a 31-year-old high school English teacher, was murdered on May 31, 1997 by one of his own students.