Gerhard Zeiler is CEO of RTL Group, Europe’s largest broadcaster. 

From May 1 2012 Gerhard became the President of Turner Broadcasting Systems International, overseeing all activities of Turner Broadcasting System outside the US and Canada.

He joined RTL Group in November 1998 when he was appointed Chief Executive Officer (CEO)  of RTL Television in Cologne.

In his function as CEO of RTL Group, Gerhard Zeiler is a member of the Supervisory Boards of M6 in France and RTL Television in Germany and Chairman of the Board of M-RTL in Hungary. He is also a member of the Bertelsmann AG Executive Board.

Gerhard Zeiler began his career as a freelance journalist and then became press spokesman for the Austrian Minister for Education and the Arts, Dr. Fred Sinowatz, whom he eventually followed to the Federal Chancellor Office in 1983. Later he continued working in the same capacity for Federal Chancellor Dr. Franz Vranitzky. In 1986 he became Secretary-General of the Austrian public broadcaster "ORF" in Vienna. After a two-year period as CEO of Tele 5 and a further two-year period as CEO of RTL II, he was elected Chief Executive Officer of ORF in 1994 and stayed in this position until November 1998.