London-based Avanti Communications has a new sales and customer services executive, Libby Barr, as COO/Customer. Barr will also sit on Avanti’s Executive Committee, effective immediately. Barr joins from BT where she was MD/Customer Care. In a newly created role, Barr will report to Group CEO, Kyle Whitehill, and will be responsible for managing the execution […]
Discovery has announced the promotion of veteran lifestyle programmers Loren Ruch, Betsy Ayala and Lynn Sadofsky within its HGTV and Food Network brands. Ruch is promoted to Group SVP of Production & Development for HGTV based in New York, while Ayala is promoted to SVP of Production & Development for HGTV based in Knoxville, both […]
Howard Lance, CEO at Maxar Technologies, which owns Space Systems/Loral as well as the DigitalGlobe mapping and Earth observation business, is stepping down unexpectedly. He had been in post just 32 months. Maxar has been under extreme pressure these past months because of the downturn in orders from the geostationary sector and had already announced […]
Liberty Global is to decentralise as it adjusts to its reduced scale after the Vodafone deal, and one of the first to go is Diederik Karsten, chief commercial officer. Karsten has been with the company since 2004 as MD of its Dutch operation and EVP of European broadband operations. The company said that its broader […]
Intelsat’s CFO, Jacques Kerrest, plans to retire. He will continue in his role through the spring until a successor is appointed to ensure a smooth transition of duties. Since joining Intelsat in February 2016, Kerrest played an instrumental role in successfully completing $15.5 billion in debt and equity transactions, achieving an improved capital structure for […]
A+E Networks’ UK head Heather Jones has been elected chair of the Commercial Broadcasters Association (COBA), the industry body for multichannel broadcasters. As chair, Jones will lead COBA’s board in setting the strategy of the association and overseeing the work of its executive. She will serve as chair of COBA for a two-year period and […]
Zappware has appointed Pierre Hunter to its commercial team. Patrick Vos, CEO of Zappware, explains: “We firmly believe that Zappware’s product portfolio is ready to address a substantially larger customer base. Not only in Europe, but we target to further develop our business in the LATAM, Middle-East and APAC regions. We have anticipated this and […]
A+E Networks UK has announced the promotion of Berry Liu to the position of Director of Ad Sales, leading the ad sales operations in the UK and international markets. In her new role, Liu will be responsible for shaping the company’s strategy for ad sales growth across TV, digital and brand partnerships. She will also […]
Channel 4 has announced that Pete Andrews will be its new Head of Sport. Andrews is a Royal Television Society award winner and has more than 20 years’ experience of working in sports production covering top sporting events. He will lead on all of Channel 4’s sports coverage which includes the 2020 Summer Paralympics from […]
Deluxe Entertainment Services Group has confirmed the appointment of Andrew Bell to Managing Director of its EMEA Distribution Business. Bell, who for the past 15 months has led the company’s distribution operations and technology arm in EMEA, consolidated Deluxe’s theatrical, broadcast and OTT operations and established the company’s new state-of-the-art facility in West London, Deluxe […]