Henry McGee is President of HBO Video, for Home Box Office.  He is responsible for the management of the network’s DVD and video marketing division.  The company’s extensive catalog includes hundreds of titles ranging from HBO’s critically-acclaimed and groundbreaking series “The Sopranos” and “Sex and the City” to the epic HBO original miniseries, “Band of Brothers” to theatrical features such as “My Big Fat Greek Wedding,” the number one romantic comedy of all time. He was named to this position in March 1995.

Under McGee’s direction the company was one of the first in the video industry to use the Internet to expand its marketing campaign beyond traditional vehicles.  In 1995 HBO launched its first website, hbohomevideo.com and in 1998 added hbodvd.com to market its releases in the DVD format. 

McGee initiated an expansion of the division’s international activities in 2003 with the start up of an HBO Video label in the United Kingdom. Now, HBO Video’s reach has expanded to over 90 countries worldwide.

In November 2004 McGee was elected to the board of directors of AmerisourceBergen (NYSE: ABC), one of the nation’s leading pharmaceutical services companies and number 23 on the Fortune 500 list of the country’s biggest corporations.

McGee is president of the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater Foundation, the nation’s largest modern dance organization.  He also serves on the boards of the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the Sundance Institute, the Black Filmmaker Foundation, and the Harvard Club of New York City. In October 1990, McGee was appointed by  the governor of New York to the board of  The New 42nd Street, the organization overseeing the revitalization and management of seven historic theaters in Times Square. McGee is a member of the New York Council of Human Rights Watch, the largest human rights organization based in the United States.  In the past, he has served as a trustee of Radcliffe College, a member of the Communications Advisory Council of the National Audubon Society and a member of the board of directors of the Studio Museum in Harlem.

McGee is the recipient of numerous awards and honors.  In 1997 he was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the National Association of Minorities in Communications.  In 1998 he was named   one   of   New  York's  top  100  minority  executives  by  Crain's  New  York    Business.

That same year he was also elected a fellow of England's RSA (Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacturers & Commerce).  In May 2002, McGee received the “Industry Giant” award from the Vision Fund of America and in December of that year Black Enterprise magazine named McGee one of the 50 most powerful African Americans in the entertainment industry.  In 2004 the Harvard Business School African Alumni Association honored McGee with its Professional Achievement Award.

McGee is a member of several professional associations including the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.

McGee joined HBO in July 1979 as manager of Film Acquisitions.  A year later, he transferred to the company’s sister division, Time-Life Television, where he was promoted to director and placed in charge of acquiring foreign and domestic television distribution rights to theatrical features, series and movies-of-the-week.  In 1981, he returned to HBO to oversee program budgeting and planning for the company’s newly-launched Cinemax service.
In 1982, he was given the additional assignment of managing HBO’s Family Programming department.  In October 1983, McGee became director of HBO Enterprises, responsible for international co-productions and new business planning and was involved in the start-up of Thorn EMI/HBO Video (now HBO Video). He was named vice president of the home video division in July 1985 and was promoted to senior vice president, Programming, HBO Home Video in March 1988.

Before joining HBO, McGee worked for three years as a reporter for Newsweek magazine in its New York and Washington, DC bureaus.  He covered stories in the fields of politics, foreign affairs, education and entertainment and also served as an on-camera reporter for Newsweek Broadcasting.

McGee has a BA from Harvard University, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude.  He also has an MBA from the Harvard Business School.