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Philippe P. Dauman
Viacom (VIAB)
2007 compensation: $20.6 million
YTD share performance: -63.14%
Net income, One-Year Growth: -6.86%
Dauman is struggling to manage the media conglomerate as cable network advertising revenues are in free-fall. Along with the rest of the industry, Viacom stock performance has been rapidly deteriorating in the past few months, and its chairman, Summer Redstone, is also bleeding money from Viacom's portfolio of investments and was forced to sell $233 million in stock in CBS and Viacom shares in October to pay creditors.
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