Richard Plepler


Richard Plepler is the former chairman and chief executive officer of HBO, a subsidiary of AT&T's WarnerMedia. On February 28, 2019, it was announced that Plepler was leaving HBO.

Biography

Plepler was born in Manchester, Connecticut to a Jewish family. He is the elder of two brothers raised in Manchester. His parents were active in Democratic politics. His father was a trial lawyer. He attended the Loomis Chaffee School before graduating from Franklin & Marshall College.
Plepler studied government in college and then moved to Washington in 1981 and worked for Connecticut Senator Christopher Dodd.
Plepler later moved to New York City in 1984 where he opened a public relations firm and produced a series of interviews for The Atlantic magazine and a documentary on Israel and the Palestinian conflict. In 2007, he was appointed as co-president of HBO with Michael Lombardo during which HBO began production on Game of Thrones, True Blood, Boardwalk Empire, and The Newsroom and Strike Back.
Plepler initially joined Time Warner in 1992. In 2013, he was appointed as the chairman and CEO of HBO.
On February 28, 2019, it was announced that Plepler was leaving HBO. In his resignation memo, Plepler stated that he had been with the network for "nearly 28 years."
In January, 2020, The New York Times reported, "The gregarious executive, a quintessential New York power player who spent 27 years at HBO and left eight months after AT&T became its owner, is rebooting himself as a producer. And he will do it with Apple."

Personal life

In 2002, Plepler married Lisa Ruchlamer; they have one daughter, Eden.