Marty Pompadur graduated from Williams College in 1955 with a BA Degree and from the University of Michigan Law School in 1958 with a LLB Degree. He began his career as a practicing attorney in Stamford, Connecticut in 1958 but quickly entered the media field when in 1960 he joined American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. (ABC, Inc). He remained at ABC,Inc for 17 years, culminating with his becoming the youngest person ever appointed a member of the ABC, Inc Board of Directors. While at ABC, Inc Mr. Pompadur held the positions of General Manager of the Television Network; Vice President of the Broadcast Division which included the radio and television networks, the radio and television stations, news, sports and engineering; President of the Leisure Activities Group, which included Magazine Publishing, Records, Music Publishing, Motion Picture Theaters, Record and Tape distribution, and Motion Picture Production; and Vice President of ABC, Inc.
Mr. Pompadur left ABC, Inc in 1977 and became President of Ziff Corporation, a position he held until 1982. Ziff Corporation then was the holding company for both Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, one of the world’s largest publishers of business publications and consumer special interest magazines, and Ziff-Davis Broadcasting Company, which operated six network affiliated television stations.
From 1982, until April 2007, Mr. Pompadur was chairman and Chief Executive Officer of RP Companies’ various private and public limited partnerships (including 2 public limited partnerships with Merrill Lynch), which operated 12 television stations, 25 radio stations and numerous cable television systems totalling 500,000 subscribers.
In 1985 Mr. Pompadur, as advisor to News Corporation, helped acquire for News Corporation the Metromedia television station group and wrote the business plan for the start-up of the Fox Television Network.
In June 1998, Mr. Pompadur became Executive Vice President of News Corporation, President of News Corporation Eastern and Central Europe, and a member of News Corporation’s Executive Management Committee. In January 2000, Mr. Pompadur was appointed Chairman of News Corporation Europe. In his decade with News Corporation, he was instrumental in negotiating the merger of Stream and Telepiu to create Sky Italia in Italy, now one of the world’s most successful Pay-TV businesses, and in creating and managing three successful businesses : a television station group in several emerging countries; a radio station group in Russia and Bulgaria; and News Outdoor, the leading outdoor advertising company in Russia and other emerging countries.
In November 2008, Mr. Pompadur stepped down as a full time employee of News Corporation to pursue other business interests. He then became a senior advisor to Oliver Wyman, consulting primarily in the Middle East. Mr Pompadur also became global vice chairman media and entertainment for Macquarie capital.
Mr Pompadur now is involved in many companies, as an investor, advisor and board member.
He currently is a board member of two public companies: Nexstar broadcasting group and Truli media group.
Previously he was a board member of many public and private companies including Imax Corporation, ABC. Inc, BSkyB, Sky Italia, Premier World, Fox Kids Europe, Metromedia International and Elong.