Ronald J. Doerfler joined Hearst Corporation as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in February 1998 and was elected Senior Vice President in March 2000. He was elected to Hearst Corporation’s Board of Directors in June 2002. Hearst Corporation is one of the nation’s largest diversified communications companies, with interests in cable TV networks, magazine and newspaper publishing, television and radio stations, newspaper comics and features syndication, television production and syndication, and interactive media activities.

Prior to his position at Hearst, Doerfler was the Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of ABC, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company. Previously, he held the same position at Capital Cities/ABC, Inc. from 1986 to 1996. Doerfler played a major role in the merger of Capital Cities Communications and American Broadcasting Companies in 1986, and then again in 1995 with the Capital Cities/ABC, Inc. merger with The Walt Disney Company, as well as many other transactions, ranging from major broadcasting and publishing acquisitions and divestitures to international joint ventures.

Doerfler joined Capital Cities Communications in 1969 as Assistant Controller. He was then elected Treasurer in 1977, and Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in 1980. In 1983, Doerfler was named Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Capital Cities Communications, and then continued in that position following the merger of Capital Cities and ABC in 1986.

Doerfler began his business career in 1960 in public accounting and in 1966, joined International Telephone & Telegraph Corporation as a Senior Financial Analyst at its corporate headquarters.

In 1986, Doerfler was named one of “America’s Best Chief Financial Officers,” an honor awarded to 50 Chief Financial Officers by Institutional Investor magazine. He serves on the Boards of A&E Television Networks, Lifetime Entertainment Services, Lazard Ltd., the Museum of the Moving Image, and Fairleigh Dickinson University. He is a former Chairman of the Board of the Broadcast Cable Financial Management Association and is a member of the Financial Executives Institute.

Doerfler graduated from Fairleigh Dickinson University in 1965 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in accounting. He became a Certified Public Accountant in 1967, and in 1972 received a Masters of Business Administration degree magna cum laude from Fairleigh Dickinson.