Ian Greenberg is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Astral Media Inc., one of Canada’s most dynamic and best-performing media companies with a strong presence in the country’s fastest-growing media platforms: specialty- and pay-TV, radio, outdoor advertising and interactive media.

Born in Montréal in 1942, he is a graduate of the Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program. Ian Greenberg is one of four brothers who founded Astral Media over 45 years ago. Beginning as a specialty photographic business, Astral Media evolved under his leadership to become a pure-play media company.

Since Mr. Greenberg was appointed as President and Chief Executive Officer of Astral Media in 1996, the company has an ongoing track record of over 12 consecutive years of profitable growth, achieved through a combination of financial discipline, thoughtful planning and rigorous operational practices.

Today, Astral Media is Canada’s largest operator of English and French specialty and pay television services, involved in 20 licensed properties; the country’s largest radio broadcaster with 82 stations in eight provinces, as well as a leading innovative outdoor advertising company with more than 7,500 faces in Québec and Ontario. The company also owns and operates over 100 websites, which attract millions unique visitors each month. Astral Media employs over 2,800 people at its facilities in Montréal, Toronto, and 44 other cities throughout Canada.

Ian Greenberg is considered by his peers as one of the innovative visionaries who transformed the Canadian broadcasting landscape to make it what it is today – a thriving and healthy expression of Canadian culture, and a vibrant contributor to the Canadian economy.

Mr. Greenberg has surrounded himself with a team of highly skilled professionals that share the same values of integrity and creativity, and a genuine passion to perform. Astral Media’s past, present and future successes rest upon the formulation and mobilization of these powerful fundamental values that bond its employees.

Active in supporting a number of industry and charitable associations, Mr. Greenberg and his brothers were awarded the Eleanor Roosevelt Humanities Award in 1993. In 2007, Mr. Greenberg received the prestigious Ted Rogers and Velma Rogers Graham Award for his unique contribution to the Canadian broadcasting system. In 2008, he was inducted into the Broadcasting Hall of Fame by the Canadian Association of Braodcasters (CAB). He is currently a member of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, as well as a governor of the Banff Television Festival and Montréal’s Jewish General Hospital.

Mr. Greenberg and his wife Linda reside in Montréal. They have three grown children and eight grandchildren.

André Bureau was born in Trois-Rivières, Québec. He received his Bachelor of Law degree from Université Laval and a post graduate diploma from the University of Paris' Institut de droit comparé.

Mr. Bureau, who has spent his professional career in the field of communications, is Counsel with the legal firm Heenan Blaikie LLP, as well as Chairman of Astral Media Inc.

Astral Media is the country's largest operator of English and French specialty, pay and pay-per-view television services, involved on its own or with partners, in 19 network licences. On the radio front, Astral owns sixteen FM stations in Québec, including the Énergie, RockDétente and Boom FM networks, and eight stations in the Maritimes.

Astral Television Networks operates four English and French pay and pay-per-view movie networks, The Movie Network, Mpix, Viewer's Choice Canada, Super Écran. Les Chaînes Télé Astral comprises eight French-language specialty channels, MusiquePlus, MusiMax VRAK.TV, Canal D, Canal Vie, Ztélé, Historia and Séries+ (Astral Media owns 50% of these last two services).  Astral Media also owns the English-language Family Channel premium service and is a 50% partner of the English and French TELETOON animation specialty networks. The Company also owns Astral Media TVPlus, a sales advertising agency that represents specialty television services, and Astral Media Outdoor, one of the most innovative outdoor advertising companies in Canada.

In 2002, the Canadian Film and Television Academy awarded him the "Grand Prix de l'Académie" for his exceptional contribution to the Canadian television industry. The following year he received the Gold Ribbon for broadcast excellence awarded by the Association of Canadian Broadcasters (ACR) and in November 2004, he was introduced into the Hall of Fame by the ACR for his outstanding achievements and contributions to the private broadcasting and to Canada.

Until 1989, André Bureau was Chairman of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission. Before his CRTC appointment, he was President and Chief Executive Officer of Cancom, a national (radio and television) satellite distribution. For many years, Mr. Bureau was associated with Québec-based Télémédia Communications inc., first as Executive President and later as President of this broad-based national communications company.

Earlier in his career, after having worked several years in private practice, Mr. Bureau occupied the position of Executive Vice-President of La Presse ltée, one of Québec's largest French-language daily newspapers.

In addition, Mr. Bureau is Director of The Guarantee Company of North America and of Maison Saint-Gabriel. He is currently Chairman of the Board of Viewer’s Choice Canada (VCC), Historia, Séries+, TELETOON and Great Lakes Hydro Fund.  He is a member of the Investment Committee of Fonds ID, SEC, of Fier ID and of Fonds Propulsion III, SEC.