Toffler is the president of MTV Networks Music and Logo Group, which means he oversees the cable conglomerate's numerous music properties—MTV, MTV2, VH1, CMT—as well as gay channel Logo. As the president of MTV Films, he's also the man you can thank for Jackass and Napoleon Dynamite.

After graduating from UPenn's law school in 1983, Toffler put in some time at the law firm Kaye, Scholer, where he worked on several music-related transactions such as the sale of the Beatles catalog to Michael Jackson. Bored with life as a corporate lawyer, he wrote a letter to MTV expressing his interest in a job, landing one in the company's business affairs group in 1987. Toffler worked his way up the ladder over the next decade and he helped turn the channel into a reality TV powerhouse in the late '90s and early '00s with shows like Jackass, The Osbournes, Punk'd, and later Teen Mom and Jersey Shore. In 2000, Toffler moved up to president of MTV and MTV2; two years later he assumed control over the broader portfolio of MTV properties, including VH1 and CMT. He's also responsible for broadening the company's reach to the big screen with MTV Films, which has produced movies like the Jackass movies, Napoleon Dynamite, Hustle and Flow, and Blades of Glory. [Image via Getty]