Harmonic has announced the appointment of Lauren Ventura to its leadership team as vice president of channels. Ventura joins Harmonic with more than 20 years of experience driving new business, building channel business programmes, and executing overall marketing plans for global companies. As a consultant for Boston Consulting Group and Bain Capital, Ventura worked on […]
John Dillon has joined Rightster as Vice President of Marketing and will oversee the video distribution and monetisation specialist’s marketing functions and stakeholder communications as the company continues to expand its presence both in the UK and internationally. Dillon joins Rightster from Alcatel Lucent, where he led a global team responsible for marketing the company’s […]
Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes claims “cord cutting” is overstated and that the phenomenon is limited to a small segment of low income Americans. But he does see danger in “cord nevers,” younger people who never acquire cable in the first place. For them it is a question of different habits and expectations. Bewkes pointed […]
HBO Europe has appointed Will Harrison to the new position of Chief Operating Officer, based in the Budapest offices. He will join in January 2013 and report to HBO Europe CEO Linda Jensen. Harrison has eighteen years experience in international media, including senior roles at Disney, Time Warner, A&E Television Networks and Spectrum Strategy Consultants. […]
Sony Pictures Television has appointed former Shine Group chief counsel Richard Parsons as its senior vice president for corporate business and legal affairs of international production. Parsons will lead corporate business affairs for Sony’s portfolio of international indies including Gogglebox Entertainment, Left Bank Pictures and Silver River. He will also manage future acquisitions, joint ventures […]
BSkyB has appointed Dave Lewis to its board as an Independent Non-Executive Director following Jacques Nasser’s retirement from the Board after the annual general meeting on November 1st. Lewis is President, Personal Care for Unilever – a British–Dutch multinational consumer goods company – where he also sits on the Unilever Leadership Executive.
Caroline Thomson, the BBC’s former Chief Operating Officer, has been appointed the new chair of Digital UK. Thomson, who represented the BBC on the Digital UK board from 2006-2012, will take up the post on January 1st 2013. She will succeed Barry Cox who is retiring after seven years in the post. January 2013 will […]
Channel 5 has completed its senior management reshuffle with the appointment of Ben Frow as director of programmes. Frow previously worked at Channel 5 as controller of features and entertainment from 2004-2007. He will take over the programming and commissioning responsibilities previously handled by Jeff Ford, who resigned from the Richard Desmond-owned broadcaster in October. […]
Elemental Technologies, the leading supplier of video solutions for multiscreen content delivery, today announced the appointment of Sujal Patel to its board of directors. Patel is the founder of Isilon Systems, a leader in scale-out storage and a division of EMC, where he variously served as president, CEO and chief technology officer since its inception […]
The executive who runs Richard Desmond’s adult channels is to be handed responsibility for running Channel 5. Paul Dunthorne is the long-serving managing director of Portland TV, which operates 17 channels including Television X. He will now take over day-to-day management of Channel 5, whilst retaining his existing job. Dunthorne, who will take over responsibilty […]