Scott Tiessler
Title: Executive Vice President, Chief Technology Officer and Chief Digital Strategy Officer
  Scott Teissler is executive vice president, chief technology officer and chief digital strategy officer for Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (TBS, Inc.).  In this capacity, he has architectural oversight of support provided to the TBS, Inc. entertainment and news networks by the company’s various technology groups; is instrumental in technology strategy and policy development and implementation; and represents TBS, Inc. in technology matters involving parent company Time Warner Inc. and other Time Warner companies.  Teissler is based in Atlanta.

Previously, Teissler was senior vice president of new media strategy and chief technology officer for CNN, and chief information officer and vice president of information technology infrastructure for TBS, Inc.  He joined the company in 1993 from the University of Chicago, where since 1987 he had served as vice provost for technology and the institution’s chief technology strategist, also overseeing applications development, communications, computer retailing, research and instructional computing.

Earlier in his career, Teissler was responsible for engineering and management systems for PacTel Spectrum Services, a West Coast company specializing in wide-area network management.  He also was the assistant dean and director of computing services at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.

Teissler is a graduate of the University of California at Santa Cruz and the University of Chicago’s graduate school of business.  His degree specialties are in mathematics, economics, econometrics and finance.