14 Facts About Jason Kilar

Jason Kilar is a member of the boards of Wealthfront and Roblox, and was CEO of WarnerMedia, from May 2020 to April 2022.

Jason Kilar was previously a five-year board member of Opendoor and was an Amazon executive.

Jason Kilar's family moved to Boca Raton, Florida, during his junior year and ended up graduating from Spanish River Community High School in 1989.

Jason Kilar attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a member of Sigma Nu fraternity.

Jason Kilar graduated in 1993 and continued his education at Harvard Business School, earning an MBA in 1997.

Jason Kilar was an executive at Amazon from 1997 to 2006, including as the senior vice president of its worldwide application software division.

Jason Kilar helped found the streaming company Hulu in 2007 and became its CEO.

The next month, Jason Kilar joined the board of directors for DreamWorks Animation.

Jason Kilar was backed by investment firms Benchmark, Greylock Partners, and Bezos Expeditions, and then sold to Verizon Communications in 2016.

In March 2021, Jason Kilar drew more ire by claiming that the COVID-19 pandemic was "really good for ratings" in conversation with Fox Corporation's Lachlan Murdoch.

Jason Kilar later apologized for making this comment and added that "I would like nothing more than for this pandemic to be well behind us".

Jason Kilar announced on April 5,2022, that he would be stepping down as the WarnerMedia CEO, amid the merger of WarnerMedia and Discovery, Inc.

Jason Kilar is a member of the board of directors of Wealthfront, and joined the Roblox board in September 2023.

Jason Kilar has been a board member of DreamWorks Animation, which he'd joined in 2013, Univision, Habitat for Humanity, and Brighter.