Harry T. Hawks is executive vice president and chief financial officer of Hearst-Argyle Television.

Hawks oversees all aspects of Hearst-Argyle’s financial, accounting, tax, risk management, investor relations, administrative, and compliance matters. In addition, he is actively engaged in various strategic initiatives including M&A, IT, digital media and minority investments.

Hawks has been with the Hearst-Argyle since the combination of Hearst Broadcasting and Argyle Television in August, 1997. He served in a similar capacity as a member of the founding management of Argyle Television and its related entities from 1992.

Prior to Argyle, Hawks was active in venture capital and merchant banking as co-founder of Cumberland Capital Corporation. Hawks has also held various corporate finance positions with Thomson McKinnon Securities and Bank of Montreal.

Hawks is a member of the National Association of Broadcasters, Financial Executives International, the Broadcast-Cable Financial Management Association, the National Association of Corporate Directors and the American Society of Corporate Secretaries. He also serves on the board of directors of Internet Broadcasting. Hawks is active in several community, educational, and religious not-for-profit organizations in New York and Connecticut.

A native of New Orleans, Hawks is a two-time alumnus of LSU, having earned his bachelor’s degree in business in 1975 and his MBA in 1977. He is a 1976 recipient of the Small Business Administration Regional Award for excellence in small business consulting. He was inducted into LSU’s E. J. Ourso College of Business Hall of Distinction in 2002 and serves on the E. J. Ourso College Dean’s Advisory Council.

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