January 2005

JOSIE THOMAS
(Senior Vice President, Diversity, CBS Television)

Josie Thomas was named to the position of Senior Vice President, Diversity, CBS Television, in April 2000. She reports to Leslie Moonves, Co-President and Co-Chief Operating Officer, Viacom, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, CBS.

Thomas works to enhance the Company's record of diversity both inside and outside the organization. Working with senior managers from all areas of CBS, she creates initiatives designed to improve outreach to diverse vendors, professional service suppliers and talent in front of and behind the camera. In August 2003, she launched the CBS Diversity Institute adding a diversity Writers Mentoring Program and Directing Initiative to the previously launched diversity focused Actor Showcases. She also works with senior managers to insure internal diversity in management and non-management positions at CBS. In addition, Thomas is responsible for overseeing aspects of the diversity efforts at UPN.

Thomas had been Vice President, Business Affairs, CBS News, since 1995. Prior to that, she served as Director of Business Affairs, CBS News (1989-95) and director of legal affairs for New York-based Trans World International, where she managed the legal aspects of program distribution, event broadcasting and production related contracts (1987-89).

From 1986 to 1987, she was Broadcast Counsel for the Law Department of CBS Inc., where she worked with the Entertainment, Sports and News divisions of the Company on all aspects of structuring development, employment and distribution agreements. She also advised those divisions on copyright and trademark matters. She began her career as a litigation associate at Anderson, Russell, Kill and Olick and was later associated with Weiss, Dawid, Fross, Zelnick & Lehrman.

Thomas is a graduate of Harvard College (B.A., cum laude, history) and Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley (J.D., 1983) and was admitted to the New York State Bar in 1984. She serves as a member of the American Institute for Managing Diversity's Outreach Advisory Council. She is also on the Board of Trustees of the Robey Theatre Company, the Institute for Advanced Journalism Studies and the National Association of Latino Independent Producers. ?

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