Andrea Wong
was the
Chief Executive Officer
and President of Lifetime Networks from April 2007 to February 2010. She oversaw Lifetime, Lifetime Movie Network, the myLifetime.com website and Lifetime???s public advocacy campaigns, among other areas of the company.
Wong came to Lifetime in 2007 from
ABC
where she was Executive Vice President of Alternative Programming, Specials and Late Night. In her tenure at ABC, she oversaw the development of
The Bachelor
as well as the U.S. versions of
Dancing With the Stars
and
.
Wong graduated
MIT in 1988 with a degree in electrical engineering and received an MBA from
Stanford University in 1993. Her interest in television began when she interned at
NBC News while in graduate school.
Wong first came to ABC in 1993 as a researcher for ABC News
PrimeTime Live
. Within a year, she became an executive assistant at the network. In 1997, Wong was named Vice President and Executive Assistant to the President, ABC, Inc. The following year, Wong was promoted to Vice President, Alternative Series and Specials.
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Official Hearst Corporation press release
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Profile in Stanford Alumni magazine