Robert Edward Turner IV

Teddy Turner formerly taught high school economics at the Charleston Collegiate School in Charleston, South Carolina. Teddy served in numerous business capacities including promotions manager at Turner Home Entertainment, as well as project manager at Turner Broadcasting Systems, Inc. After spending two years at CNN's Moscow bureau as a cameraman and editor, Teddy went on to develop and produce various programs involved in TBS's Soviet Union relations, including the Goodwill Games, the international athletic competition event created by Ted Turner to ease tensions during the Cold War through friendly sports competition between nations. Between June 1989 and June 1993, Teddy was president and skipper of Challenge America, Ltd., a campaign for the Whitbread "Around the World" sailboat race. Turner earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina, in 1985.