Douglas A. Lee

Douglas A. Lee is an American media executive with over 25 years of experience as a senior executive in the global entertainment business. His career has emphasized new business and strategic growth including new media, international expansion, and technological advances. Mr. Lee has worked closely with prominent media figures including Rupert Murdoch Rupert Murdoch, Harry Sloan and "Cops" creator John Langley John Langley.
Most recently, Mr. Lee served as Executive Vice President of Worldwide Digital Media at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. (MGM). He created the division in early 2006 when he was hired by MGM Chairman and CEO, Harry Sloan . Mr. Lee was the studio’s chief new media strategist and oversaw all MGM’s digital businesses including EST, VOD and Mobile. Upon beginning the division, Mr. Lee quickly secured distribution for the MGM library through Apple, Amazon, YouTube, Microsoft and others.
In 2007, Mr. Lee developed and launched MGM HD, a high definition movie channel. MGM HD found immediate success, garnering distribution deals with the top MSOs and operators including DIRECTV, Dish, Time Warner, Comcast, Verizon FIOS and ATT, among others. The launch of MGM HD, accomplished in the first 18 months of Mr. Lee’s tenure at MGM, represented the realization of MGM’s decades-long ambition to launch a domestic linear channel. MGM HD is currently the fastest growing channel in recent U.S. cable history.
Mr. Lee also serves as a consultant to major media companies. His clients have included Comcast, Court TV, Cablevision and The Hinduja Group, the largest multiple-system operator in India.
Other career highlights include the launch of the HD Cinema channels for VOOM; the creation of Noggin (the first educational children’s network and a joint venture between Sesame Workshop and Nickelodeon), the founding of CRIME (a broadband platform sold to USA Cable) and the spearheading of News Corp.’s acquisition of Star-TV (the leading satellite platform in Asia).
While an executive at Universal Television, Mr. Lee served as General Manager and Head of CRIME, the first 24-hour cable network dedicated to the crime genre. CRIME was a broadband extension of CRIME.COM, a company Mr. Lee founded with John Langley, the Executive Producer and Creator of the long-running Fox television series, “Cops.”
Mr. Lee also worked at 20th Century Fox Film Corporation, where he initially served as Vice President of Pay Television Worldwide and then held several senior executive positions at the film studio, on the Fox Corporate Staff and the parent company, News Corporation. In 1991, Mr. Lee took charge of Fox International and spearheaded News Corp.’s entry into the satellite television business in Asia and Latin America. Mr. Lee was involved in the creation of other News Corp owned cable networks and satellite platforms including FX (U.S.), Canal Fox (Latin America) and Sky Movies (U.K.). . He also headed his own television production company for Fox Television.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Lee spent several years at HBO in New York where he served as a Programming and New Business Development executive specializing in the creation and launching of several cable television networks including Cinemax, Festival and The Comedy Channel (now Comedy Central.) He began his television career at WNYW-TV, Fox Television, where he worked as an Associate Producer/Assignment Editor/Newswriter on “The 10 O’Clock News.”
Lee has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from the University of California, Berkeley and a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. A frequent traveler, Mr. Lee lives in his birthplace, New York City, with his wife and daughter.

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