Leo Joseph Hindery Jr. (October 31, 1947 – September 17 or 18, He earned a bachelor's degree from Seattle University and a Master's in Business Administration from Stanford University.
He served as chairman and CEO of Trine Acquisition Corp., a NYSE-listed SPAC which went public in March 2019 and went effective with its merger with Desktop Metal, Inc. (NYSE: DM) in early 2021, and of a follow-on NYSE-listed SPAC under the Trine name that went public in the third quarter of 2021 and returned funds to its public investors in the second quarter of 2023.
Following this merger, until October 2004, he was the founding chairman and CEO of The YES Network, the regional television home of the New York Yankees, after which he reconstituted and ran InterMedia Partners until the founding of Trine.
In February 1997 he was named president and CEO of Tele-Communications, Inc. (TCI), then the world's largest cable television system operator. In March 1999, TCI merged into AT&T Corporation and Hindery became president and CEO of AT&T Broadband.
He was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He was a member of the Hall of Fame of the Minority Media & Telecommunications Council, co-chair of the Task Force on Jobs Creation and was the founder of Jobs First 2012. He was also a director of Hemisphere Media Group, Inc.
Hindery was a member of the Cable Industry Hall of Fame, was formerly chairman of the National Cable Television Association and of C-SPAN, and has been recognized as one of the cable industry's "25 Most Influential Executives Over the Past 25 Years".
He was co-founder along with Russian Federation Council Chairman Sergey Mironov of Transatlantic Partners Against AIDS (TPAA) and recipient of the Asia Society's Founders Award for his efforts in the international fight against AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. From 2005 through 2007, Hindery was Democrat-appointed vice chair of the Presidential & Congressional HELP Commission which made recommendations to Congress for the reform of U.S. foreign assistance.
Personal life and death
Family
Hindery's first two marriages, to Mary Hermann and Deborah Bailey, ended in divorce.
A retired race car driver, Hindery's racing résumé included a Class win at the 24 Hours of Le Mans (24 Heures du Mans) in 2005 and a Class second-place finish in 2003. He is a member of the NASCAR Winston West Hall of Fame.
Politics
Hindery was active in the Democratic Party.
Hindery endorsed Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Death
Hindery suffered from chronic pain in later years, and died by assisted suicide in Zurich, Switzerland, in September 2025, at the age of 77. Hindery’s chronic pain was thought to be caused by many unsuccessful surgeries.
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Awards
- Hindery was inducted in the West Coast Stock Car Hall of Fame in 2021.
Books
- It Takes a CEO
- The Biggest Game of All .