714: A Career Beneath the Headlines | Christian Lee, CFO, Transfix
In March of 2009, when the economy was still in the clutches of the global financial crisis, Time Warner spun out its subsidiary Time Warner Cable into an independent company.
“As we spun off, we paid a massive dividend to the parent of $18 billion, and our central thought became: ‘How do we survive? How do we survive as a newly public company with lots of debt?’” recalls Christian Lee, who at the time was a Time Warner Cable senior vice president and head of the company’s M&A strategy.
Over the next several years, Lee says, he experienced a fast ride of ups and downs that provided a string…
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