Executive Team

Ronald A. Duncan – Mr. Duncan is CEO of GCI. He first came to Alaska in 1977 with some Alaskans he met at graduate school. He moved to North Pole, Alaska in 1978 where he lived while starting a cable television company in Fairbanks. In 1979 Ron moved to Anchorage where he and Bob Walp started GCI. GCI has grown to become the largest telecommunications provider in Alaska with approximately 1,900 employees. Ron is a board member and past chairman of the National Business Aviation Association. Additionally, he serves on the boards of the National Cable and Telecommunications Association and Cable Labs. He is a past chairman of the Anchorage Economic Development Corporation and the Alaska Science and Technology Foundation. Ron has an undergraduate degree in Economics from Johns Hopkins University and an MBA from Harvard. He is also a passionate pilot with more than 10,000 hours of flight time.

Brian J. Wendling – Mr. Wendling serves as Chief Accounting Officer and Principal Financial Officer of Liberty Media Corporation, GCI Liberty and Liberty Broadband Corporation. Mr. Wendling has held various positions with these companies and their predecessors since 1999. Prior to joining these companies, he worked in the assurance practice of the accounting firm, KPMG.

Mr. Wendling serves on the board of Comscore, Inc. and has previously served on the boards of Fun Technologies Inc. and CommerceHub, Inc. He also previously served on the board of Clothes to Kids of Colorado. Mr. Wendling received his Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from Indiana University.

Renee L. Wilm – Ms. Wilm serves as Chief Legal Officer and Chief Administrative Officer of Liberty Media Corporation, GCI Liberty and Liberty Broadband Corporation. Ms. Wilm is responsible for managing legal matters, providing strategic support across departments and supervising the day-to-day operations of our parent companies.

Previously, Ms. Wilm was a Senior Partner with the law firm Baker Botts L.L.P., where she represented Liberty and its predecessors for over twenty years, specializing in mergers and acquisitions, complex capital structures and shareholder arrangements, as well as securities offerings and matters of corporate governance and securities law compliance. At Baker Botts, Ms. Wilm was a member of the Executive Committee, the East Coast Corporate Department Chair and Partner-in-Charge of the New York office.

Ms. Wilm holds a Bachelor of Business Administration with High Honors in Finance from Hofstra University and a Juris Doctorate degree from St. John’s University School of Law, where she graduated summa cum laude and served as the Executive Articles Editor of the St. John’s Law Review. Ms. Wilm serves on the Board of Advisors for the Fashion, Arts, Media & Entertainment Law Center at Cardozo Law School.

Ben Oren – Mr. Oren serves as Executive Vice President and Treasurer of Liberty Media Corporation, GCI Liberty and Liberty Broadband Corporation. Mr. Oren spent the previous twenty years in various investment banking roles. Most recently, Mr. Oren was a Managing Director with Credit Suisse, where he advised companies across multiple sectors including Technology, Media and Telecom on a broad set of capital markets transactions. At Credit Suisse, Mr. Oren was a member of the Investment Banking Committee, Corporate Insights Advisory Counsel, Capital Markets Innovation Counsel, and Americas Head of Liability Management. Prior to Credit Suisse, Mr. Oren was an Executive Director at UBS Securities, LLC. Mr. Oren holds a BS in Economics from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.