Chris Albrecht is chairman and chief executive officer for Home Box Office, responsible for the overall management of the world's largest premium television company, which operates multiple premium networks in the United States, Europe, Asia and Latin America, as well as HBO's many other lines of business. He was named to his current position in July 2002.

Mr. Albrecht, president of HBO Original Programming since 1995, also continues to direct all day-to-day operations of both West and East Coast original programming for HBO, Cinemax and HBO Independent Productions. With the addition of HBO Sports and HBO Film Programming, Mr. Albrecht oversees all programming for HBO and Cinemax services.

Serving from 1990-1995 as president of HBO Independent Productions, a business unit dedicated to developing and producing comedy series for distribution on HBO and the broadcast networks, Mr. Albrecht was responsible for "Martin," as well as "Everybody Loves Raymond," the critically acclaimed series currently on CBS.

Mr. Albrecht joined HBO in June 1985 as senior vice president, original programming, West Coast. He was responsible for overseeing all HBO West Coast original programming functions for HBO and Cinemax.

Before joining HBO, Albrecht worked for five years for International Creative Management (ICM), where he was instrumental in signing such talent as Jim Carrey, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Billy Crystal and Whoopi Goldberg.

From l975 to l980, he was co-owner of The Improvisation nightclub in New York City. During those years, he also served as a new talent management consultant for ABC in New York City.

Mr. Albrecht holds a BA degree in dramatic literature from Hofstra University in New York.