Linette S. Hwu
Vice President, Business & Legal Affairs
Scripps Networks Interactive
Linette S. Hwu is Vice President, Business & Legal Affairs at Scripps Networks Interactive (SNI). In her current capacity, she functions as SNI’s lead employment lawyer and partners with a department of 45 Human Resources professionals to support SNI’s business worldwide.
Previously, Ms. Hwu led the Business Affairs team at Travel Channel in the negotiation and management of the network’s programming and talent deals and business relationships with its production companies and talent. In early 2010, following her work on the December 2009 acquisition of Travel Channel by SNI, she co-chaired Travel Channel’s integration into the Scripps Networks.
Ms. Hwu has been honored by CableFAX as one of the cable industry’s Women on the Move (April 2009) and Most Influential Minorities (September 2010), by NAMIC as one of its 2010 Luminaries, and by the Washington DC/Baltimore chapter of Women in Cable Telecommunications (WICT) as an Emerging Leader (October 2012). She is currently serving as the Chapter Advisor for WICT Washington DC/Baltimore, as the First Vice President on the board of Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, D.C., and as the chair of Woolly’s Succession Task Force.
Prior to SNI, Ms. Hwu was Vice President, Legal/Commercial Affairs & Operations for Travel Channel Media and Vice President, Legal Affairs for Discovery Communications, Inc. She began her career as an associate at the law firm of Hogan & Hartson, LLP in Washington, D.C.
Ms. Hwu graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Yale University with a Bachelor of Arts in History and German Studies, and received her Juris Doctor with honors from The University of Chicago Law School. She has attended Boston University School of Management’s Pocket MBA for Lawyers program and London Business School’s Accelerated Development Programme, and she is a member of Class 30 of WICT’s Betsy Magness Leadership Institute. She is admitted to the State Bar of California and the District of Columbia Bar. In February 2013, she summited Mount Kilimanjaro.
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