About

Lin Cherry is senior vice president – business and legal affairs and general counsel for HBO Latin America Group, distributor of the premium pay television services HBO, Max and Cinemax and a number of other pay television services including Sony Entertainment Television, Lifetime, The History Channel, and Telemundo. Cherry joined HBO Latin America Group in 2014 and has more than 20 years of experience advising on media and technology transactions, including 17 years spent in senior in-house positions in the media sector. She was previously senior vice president, general counsel and chief business development officer of DLA, a subsidiary of América Móvil which operates the ClaroVideo on demand service. Between 2006 and 2011 she was senior vice president and general counsel of MySpace, where she played a critical role in the launch of MySpace Music, an online platform allowing artists and record labels to promote and sell content online, by leading negotiations on joint venture agreements with Sony, Warner, Universal and EMI along with a number of smaller, independent labels. She had also held positions as general counsel of Tata Sky Limited – a joint venture between News Corp. owned Star Group and the Tata Group set up to provide DTH satellite television throughout India – and as vice president for business and legal affairs of satellite provider DIRECTV Latin America.