Hary Tanoesoedibjo holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) from Carleton University and an MBA from Ottawa University, both in Canada. He is the founder and Executive Chairman of MNC Group, an investment group focused on Media & Entertainment, Financial Services, and Tourism & Hospitality. In media and entertainment, MNC Group owns three free-to-air TV stations—RCTI, MNCTV, and GTV—with a combined 38.2% prime time audience share, as well as two pay TV platforms, Indovision and K-Vision, serving over 14 million subscribers. The Group also operates global short dramas app V+Shorts and some of Indonesia’s largest digital media platforms, including RCTI+, Vision+, reaching 110 million monthly active users and 5 million subscribers. It has the nation’s largest social media presence, generating 1.5 billion monthly views across diverse platforms and owns iNews Media Group, the country’s largest news, business, sports, and lifestyle network. MNC Group produces over 20,000 hours of new content annually, holds a library of more than 300,000 hours, manages over 400 artists and 200 influencers, and operates Movieland, a 21-hectare integrated production facility near Jakarta. Beyond media, MNC Group’s financial services portfolio covers traditional and digital banking, capital markets, and insurance. Its tourism and hospitality assets include the 1,040-hectare MNC Lido City Special Economic Zone, Trump International Golf Club, Park Hyatt Jakarta, and The Westin Resort Nusa Dua, Bali. As an entrepreneur, Tanoesoedibjo also advises the government and parliament on economic matters, speaks at national and international forums, has lectured at more than 180 universities on entrepreneurship and strategic management, and supports social impact initiatives through the MNC Peduli Charitable Foundation.