Jacqueline M. Welch is senior vice president of human resources for Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. (TBS, Inc.). In this capacity, Welch is responsible for leading Turner’s corporate-level global talent management, diversity and development functions. Welch’s management portfolio includes the company’s succession-planning, performance-management, diversity initiatives, learning & development and organizational-development activity, toward the larger goal of ensuring that Turner’s people resources are without peer and are positioned to support its business strategies. Welch joined TBS, Inc. after more than six years with RockTenn in Atlanta, where she was vice president of employee and organizational effectiveness. Earlier in her career, she was a senior manager at Accenture; an associate with Towers Perrin; and an internal consultant for Lord & Taylor, a division of The May Department Stores Company. Welch earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English at Syracuse University and a master’s degree in human resources management at Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy in New York. An alumna of Leadership Atlanta, her community involvement includes board membership in The United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta Alexis de Tocqueville Society, The Partnership Against Domestic Violence, The Children’s Museum of Atlanta and Zoo Atlanta. Additionally, Welch is Immediate Past Chair of the Woodruff Arts Center Global Firms Committee. Welch lives in the suburbs of Atlanta with her husband Tarik Welch and their two sons, James Oliver Welch and Jackson McLaine Welch. Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., a Time Warner company, creates and programs branded news, entertainment, animation and young adult media environments on television and other platforms for consumers around the world.