Youth Media And Marketing Movers & Shakers

Today we bring you another installment of Youth Media Movers and Shakers. We’ve culled through industry publications looking for the recent executive placements we think you should know about. If you have executive news that you want us to highlight in our next “Movers and Shakers,” email us.

Roger Mincheff is named President of MySpace Entertainment, a newly launched division of MySpace. He was formerly SVP of Branded Entertainment at Fox Filmed Entertainment. (Via Fishbowl LA)

Sal Maniaci is named SVP Event and Original Programming for Nickelodeon. He will oversee production of network franchise events, including the Kids’ Choice Awards, the TeenNick HALO Awards and Nickelodeon’s Worldwide Day of Play, as well as supervising current series for Nick at Nite’s family-targeted series, including the new telenovela, “Reach For A Star.” He was most recently SVP Development and Original Programming for TV Land. (Via Variety, reg required)

Scott Young becomes VP Video Sales for Alloy Digital. In his new role, Scott will manage sales of video inventory across the Alloy Digital Network, the largest media and advertising network of young adult targeted websites. Prior to joining Alloy, he was Senior Sales Director at YuMe and also spent time at VEOH in a senior sales management role. (Via release)

Denise Bennett has been named Senior Manager of Global Marketing Partnerships for the NBA. She had been Manager of Integrated Media, Women at NBCUniversal. (Via Mediabistro, reg required)

Juli Boylan becomes head of the new Consumer Products division for Vancouver-based Nerd Corps Entertainment. She was previously SVP/Global Licensing for Sony Consumer Products, managing franchises including Spider-Man and Ghostbusters. She also previously served with Warner Bros. Consumer Products working brands including Looney Tunes and the Batman films. (Via Cynopsis)

Krishan Bhatia is named EVP Digital Strategy and Operations for NBC Universal‘s Entertainment & Digital Networks and Integrated Media division. Most recently, he was SVP Advertising Strategy and Operations for Comcast Digital Entertainment. (Via Ad Age)

Annette Bourland is promoted to the newly created position of SVP and Publisher for Zondervan‘s Trade Group and Zonderkidz, its children’s division. Bourland joined Zondervan in 2007 as VP and Publisher for Zonderkidz and later joined the leadership team in developing corporate strategy. (Via Publisher’s Weekly)

Kids Can Press announces a few promotions: Yvette Ghione rises to Editorial Director and Karen Li moves up to Senior Editor. In addition, Allison MacLachlan has been named Assistant, Brands & New Business. (Via Publishers Lunch)