Ypulse Youth Media Movers & Shakers
Posted by meredith on 05-03-2010
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 me.
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment (WBIE) unveils its new restructured sales organization with the promotions of Kevin Kebodeaux to SVP/Sales, Americas and Olivier Wolff to SVP/International, Games. (Cynopsis Kids)
Jayson Rodriguez has been named senior writer at MTV News. He had been contributing writer there. (Mediabistro, reg. required)
Alloy Media + Marketing is pleased to announce the hire of Andi Poch to SVP, Sales for Alloy Digital, a division of Alloy Media + Marketing. Andi will oversee the company’s digital focused sales organization and will be integral to the strategic development and implementation of Alloy’s digital sales and marketing efforts focused on the 12-24 demographic under the Alloy Digital Network. (iMedia Connection)
Holly Schomann has been named vice president of programming and artist relations at VEVO. She had been talent and label relations at SiriusXM. (Mediabistro, reg. required)
MTVN UK & Ireland and BSkyB appoint Tina McCann as the new SVP and MD, Nickelodeon UK. The position had been open since the top of the year when Howard Litton exited Nickelodeon UK after 15 years. McCann had been with Turner Broadcasting where she was Acting Chief Content Officer for kid-targeted entertainment brands, including Cartoon Network, Boomerang and Cartoonito, across EMEA. McCann takes up her new position from May 10, 2010, where she will be responsible for Nickelodeon UK’s operations and brands. She will report to the Board of Nickelodeon UK. (Cynopsis Kids)
After three and a half years delivering record ratings and ad sales growth for the History Channel, the network’s president-general manager, Nancy Dubuc, is being tapped by A&E Networks to do the same for sibling network Lifetime. Ms. Dubuc is adding Lifetime to her portfolio to become president-general manager of both networks, an appointment announced by AETN CEO Abbe Raven. (Ad Age, reg. required)
Sha Money XL has signed on to become the senior VP of A&R at Def Jam Records. The label has had such a rich history of Queens-bred fellas in the boardroom, from its founder Russell Simmons to Irv Gotti to one of Sha’s mentors, the late Jam Master Jay. XL is excited to plant his flag in the cherished hip-hop recording house. (MTV News)
Annemarie Conte has been named deputy editor at Seventeen. She had been senior editor at Woman’s Day. (Mediabistro, reg. required)
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