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As Senior Vice President, Product for Video at Gracenote, Trent Wheeler leads teams that turn the company’s industry-leading entertainment metadata and connected IDs into cutting-edge content search, discovery and navigation solutions. In 2017, Trent oversaw the successful launch of Gracenote Global Video Data which empowers MVPDs, CE device makers and streaming services to deliver breakthrough cross-media experiences bridging Video, Sports and Music and offer advanced features such as voice search and personalized recommendations.

Trent came to Gracenote in 2014 through its integration with Tribune Media Services (TMS), the global leader in Video data and original creator of the TMS Unique ID, the entertainment industry’s standard content identifier enabling universal search across platforms and services. He possesses more than 15 years of experience in Product Management working with the biggest and most innovative digital entertainment brands

Vince Muscarella has been at the forefront of digital distribution. After having built and run a digital distribution operation for a leading independent in the earliest days of EST/TVOD, Vince made the transition to measurement and insights at Comscore helping Major Studios, Networks, and Indies alike track the evolution of content consumption. At Whip Media, Vince combines his knowledge of content distribution and measurement to bring the company’s market-leading enterprise software, FAST performance reporting capabilities, and transformational audience data to clients who need new solutions in a rapidly-evolving D2C reality.

Honoring Transformative Achievements in Broadcast Television, The Iconic IRIS AWARDS Luncheon to Headline Station Group Summit as part of NATPE Miami 2022 — Live from the Fontainebleau in Miami on January 19th, 2022.

The Iris Awards ceremony will take place as part of NATPE Miami, live and in-person on Wednesday, January 19th, 2022 from 12pm until 1:30pm. Hosted by Soledad O’Brien (journalist and CEO of Soledad O’Brien Productions), the luncheon event will cap off a full slate of programming dedicated to the most pressing topics concerning the station group community.

The 2022 Iris Award honorees are:

• Lew Klein Award for Leadership: Valari Dobson Staab, President, NBCUniversal Local
• NATPE Chairman Award for Lifetime Achievement: Emerson Coleman, Senior Vice President, Programming, Hearst Television
• Award for Excellence, Global Content and Branding: Wolf Entertainment (the iconic creators of the Law & Order, Chicago, and FBI brands)
• NATPE Enterprise Award: Alex Paen, Founder & President, Telco Productions, Inc.
• Award for Excellence, Television Program, Special or Series: Inside Edition, (the #1 syndicated newsmagazine, produced and distributed by CBS Media Ventures)

In attendance to present, or accept the awards are:

• George Cheeks, CEO & President, CBS Entertainment Group
• Tamron Hall, Host and Executive Producer, The Tamron Hall Show
• Mario Lopez, Actor and Host of Access Hollywood and Access Daily
• Deborah Norville, Anchor, Inside Edition)
• Elliot Wolf, EVP Digital, Wolf Entertainment)
• Zeeko Zaki, Actor, FBI

For more information on reserving tables and congratulatory ads, contact admin@natpe.org or call 609.802.2766.

Kevin Parks is a senior media technology executive with over 20 years of experience developing and deploying solutions for major media companies including Comcast, Disney, Viacom and others. Mr. Parks leads the Zixi Field Engineering team as part of Zixi’s Customer Success organization that maintains best-in-class service for Zixi customers. Prior to joining Zixi, Mr. Parks lead sales engineering teams at Comcast Technology Solutions, at Disney Streaming Services and at Vubiquity. 

Brian Doherty serves as The CW Network’s Senior Vice President, Multi-Platform National Sales, where he oversees all national advertising sales efforts for The CW across all of the company’s programming platforms, including linear, streaming and on-demand.  Under his guidance, The CW has emerged as an industry pioneer in transitioning from a predominantly broadcast television network into a fully integrated multi-platform AVOD programming service. 

Doherty was promoted to this role in 2010, while continuing to manage the sales teams in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, and serving as the primary liaison for advertisers, agencies and clients.    

Prior to transitioning to The CW at its launch in 2006, Doherty had served as Vice President of Sales at The WB Network.   He joined The WB in 1999 as an account executive.

Doherty began his career in advertising on the client side of the industry, first as an assistant media buyer for the DDB Needham ad agency.  He then moved to Anheuser-Busch, Inc., where he was responsible for their sports-related media buying.  Doherty transitioned to network sales in 1998 when he joined CBS Cable/TNN as an account executive.

Doherty earned his undergraduate degree in marketing from Saint Bonaventure University in Olean, New York.

Aaron Hart is the Head of TV & Film at Wondery, spearheading the development of Wondery’s podcasts into film and TV series. Wondery has had great success with transitioning its podcasts into television and has optioned 22 scripted projects to studios, networks and streamers.  Four of which are being released in 2021-22, including the recent hit Dr. Death nominated for three Critics Choice Awards and AppleTV’s Shrink Next Door starring Will Ferrell and Paul Rudd.  WeCrashed starring Anne Hathaway and Jared Leto, and Joe Exotic starring John Cameron Mitchell and Kate McKinnon are set for release in 2022. Before joining Wondery, Hart primarily served as a motion picture literary agent at William Morris, UTA and Verve.

Rodrigo Mazon is Executive Vice President, General Manager of SVOD (Subscription Video on Demand) at Univision Communications Inc., the leading Spanish-language media and content company in the United States. Mazon is responsible for all elements of Univision’s global SVOD service, which is slated to launch in 2022. He oversees content and programming strategy, original content production, talent relations, content acquisitions, subscriber growth and retention. He reports directly to Pierluigi Gazzolo, President and Chief Transformation Officer at Univision.

With over two decades of entertainment industry experience, including 10 years in streaming, Mazon is a seasoned content executive specializing in programming strategy, TV/film productions and acquisitions for audiences in Latin America, Spain and the U.S. Hispanic market. He spent the last 6 years at Netflix, most recently serving as VP of Content, where he and his team acquired or produced hit series such as “La Casa de Papel,” “Luis Miguel, La Serie,” as well as “El Chapo,” a co-production with Univision. Before joining Netflix, Mazon was Director of Content Acquisition at Hulu, where he launched Hulu Latino early in his tenure. He started his career in 2001 at MGM Studios, when he worked in corporate development managing the film greenlight process.

Originally from San Diego, Mazon studied undergrad at Dartmouth College, and received his MBA at Stanford University. He is based in Los Angeles with his wife and two children.

Jorge Fiterre has been in the Pay TV industry for over 30 years. During his tenure in the cable industry, he has coordinated franchising efforts for cable companies; helped create and launch the first basic Spanish language cable network; developed and managed cable advertising department and was instrumental in the creation of Miami/Ft. Lauderdale Interconnect, a partnership of all major cable operators in the area.  He served as Chairman of Board of Directors of the cable advertising interconnect for over four years.

He worked previously in the broadcast industry, primarily management Hispanic stations.  In 1999, he founded CONDISTA.

Jorge’s commitment to the Hispanic market extends further than his professional life. For over three decades, he has been a member of the Kiwanis Club of Little Havana that organizes Carnival Miami, Calle Ocho (the world largest street party) and has numerable charitable projects in the South Florida.

Elaine Frontain Bryant is Executive Vice President and Head of Programming at A&E Network, a position she has held since March 2015. She manages the A&E programming team and is responsible for overseeing the development, creation and execution of all programming for the network. She is also charged with integrating new programming with digital initiatives and developing ways to expand the brand across multiple platforms. She reports to Rob Sharenow, President, Programming, A+E Networks.

Under Frontain Bryant, the A&E programming team has developed a bold and critically acclaimed non-fiction programming slate, garnering her numerous Emmy Awards®.  Frontain Bryant launched the groundbreaking series, Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath, winner of the 2017 Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Series or Special and the 2020 Emmy Award for Outstanding Hosted Nonfiction Series or Special.  She launched The Day I Picked My Parents, which won the 2020 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Class Series, and the 2016 Emmy Award winner for Outstanding Unstructured Reality Programming and recipient of a 2016 Television Academy Honors, Born This Way.  She developed the cutting-edge live documentary series Live PD, and the network’s second live franchise Live Rescue.  She also developed the network’s most recent hit series, Court Cam.

Frontain Bryant led the relaunch of the acclaimed Biography series and spearheaded the relaunch of two acclaimed A&E franchises, the Emmy Award-winning Intervention and the Emmy Award-nominated Cold Case Files.  She also served as Executive Producer on The Clinton Affair, a six-part documentary series from award winning producer Alex Gibney and director Blair Foster, as well as several documentary features from the A&E IndieFilms theatrical slate including City of Ghosts from Emmy Award winner Matthew Heineman and Erik Nelson’s A Gray State, and the Emmy Award-nominated Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes from award winning director/producer Alexis Bloom.

Frontain Bryant was previously Senior Vice President of Programming and Development at HISTORY where she oversaw series including The Curse of Oak Island, Forged in Fire, Alone and Hunting Hitler, and worked on development of scripted fair including Texas Rising and Sons of Liberty.  Prior to joining HISTORY, Frontain Bryant served as Senior Vice President of Non-Fiction & Alternative Programming for A&E Network, responsible for such hits as Wahlburgers, Duck Dynasty and Storage Wars.

Earlier in her career, Frontain Bryant served as Vice President, Creative Development and Production at Magna Global Entertainment, overseeing the creation and production of original television programming, including the Emmy Award-nominated film, The Wool Cap, starring William H. Macy. Before that, she directed and produced two seasons of the non-scripted series Girls vs Boys, and produced more than 15 episodes of the Peabody Award-winning A Walk in Your Shoes.  

Frontain Bryant also produced the independent film The Farmhouse. She served as director of creative affairs for Fred Berner Films and associate-produced the Emmy-nominated special About Us: The Dignity of Children.

Frontain Bryant is a graduate of Texas Christian University and lives in New York with her husband and daughters.

Dade Hayes is Business Editor at Deadline, covering a range of financial news along with film, television and technology. He is co-author, with Dawn Chmielewski, of the forthcoming William Morrow/HarperCollins book BINGE TIMES, a first-hand account of the streaming boom. Dade has written two previous books, OPEN WIDE and ANYTIME PLAYDATE, and his writing has appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Entertainment Weekly. He has also contributed original scripts to the popular Wondery podcast Business Wars.

Anna Carugati is responsible for World Screen‘s overall editorial direction. She conducts the group’s signature interviews with the industry’s top executives, show creators and stars, and can be found moderating panels and keynotes at key industry events throughout the year. Anna has been a reporter throughout her professional life, having worked at CBS in Chicago and Mediaset in Italy, as well as for trade journals such as The Hollywood Reporter and Electronic Media. Fluent in English, French and Italian, Anna is also the recipient of an Emmy award for journalism, a duPont Columbia honorable mention and the Associated Press award for editorial excellence. She has been with World Screen since 1996.

Marco Nobili is the Senior Vice President of Marketing, Data & Analytics for ViacomCBS Networks International’s (VCNI’s) streaming division.

Nobili oversees VCNI’s marketing strategy and operations for streaming products and platforms across all markets. Nobili leads VCNI’s international brand strategy, growth strategy, marketing execution and data and analytics for the company’s portfolio of streaming services including Paramount+, Pluto TV and Noggin. In this role, Nobili is focused on driving brand awareness for VCNI’s streaming products across international markets, as well as reaching subscriber acquisition targets and driving direct to consumer revenue.

Nobili joined VCNI in 2020 as Head of Emerging Business in Latin America. Before joining ViacomCBS, Nobili was Director of Product Innovation & Originals Launch Strategy for Netflix in Spain and Latin America, where he identified long-term opportunities and oversaw the launch strategy for new content. Prior to joining Netflix, Nobili held several critical positions at Amazon, including Regional General Manager for Amazon Prime Video, where he launched and oversaw the market strategy for Prime Video in Mexico and Spanish-speaking Latin America. He also held the position of Marketing and Product Management Lead for Marketplace. Nobili also held several leadership positions and oversaw new product launches at Microsoft, particularly with Xbox in the entertainment space.

Nobili holds a Master of Business Administration from SDA Bocconi in Milan, Italy and a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from Università Degli Studi Di Bologna in Bologna, Italy.

Greg Barnard serves as the Director of Content Acquisitions at VIZIO, a prominent CTV platform and OEM with over 100MM TVs sold in the US. At VIZIO, Greg leads all acquisition strategies for VIZIO’s ad-supported content product, providing analysis and guidance for both syndication and exclusive content valuations, and contract negotiations with all content partners. Prior to VIZIO, Greg worked with the Content Acquisition and Corporate Development teams at Roku where he was focused on acquiring content for Roku’s app platform and its O&O app, The Roku Channel. Greg also led various projects focused on new business initiatives and revenue diversification. Prior to Roku, Greg worked as the Director of Content Acquisitions at ION Media, a broadcast network in more than 100MM homes. In his time at ION, the network has risen into the top 5 among all cable networks in its key demos of A25-54 and W25-54 and has launched an originals and co-productions business which saw five series premiere. Prior to ION, Greg held roles in finance at Showtime, Simon & Schuster, and CIT Group. Greg is a founding member on the Board of Directors for HRTS Associates NYC and mentors regularly through the T. Howard Foundation and Ghetto Film School. He lectures regularly at industry conferences and universities, and is on the Board of Advisors for BWG Strategy, a market intelligence firm. Greg received a B.A. in Economics from NYU and currently lives with his wife, Brooke, in New York City.

Rafael Urbina-Quintero. General Manager and Executive Vice President of AVOD Streaming, Univision Communications Inc., and Chief Executive Officer, VIX

Rafael Urbina-Quintero is the General Manager and Executive Vice President of AVOD Streaming at Univision Communications Inc., the leading Spanish-language content and media company in the U.S., and Chief Executive Officer of VIX. In this role, Urbina oversees the company’s broader streaming and digital portfolio, including all owned and operated consumer-facing properties such as PrendeTV and VIX as well as its slate of digital and social media offerings, including Univision.com.

Under Urbina’s leadership, Univision accelerated the launch of PrendeTV, the first and only streaming channels-based and VOD service created specifically for U.S. Hispanic audiences. In addition, Urbina continues to oversee VIX, the largest VOD streaming service for U.S. Hispanic and Latin American consumers. As CEO of VIX, Urbina led the acquisition of VIX by Univision in January of 2021.

Urbina began his career in media at Multicanal-TPS where he spearheaded the introduction of multiple pay-TV channels in Spain and Portugal. In 1999, Rafael launched Planeta Networks, a pioneer in digital video. As Chairman and CEO, he successfully oversaw a series of acquisitions and negotiated multiple rounds of funding for Batanga Media, making it one of the largest independent digital media and content companies for Hispanic consumers in the U.S., Latin America, and Brazil. In 2017, Urbina led the strategic corporate and consumer rebrand of Batanga Media to VIX and closed a strategic investment with Discovery Communications. Rafael forged VIX’s entry into the OTT market in 2019 by securing the acquisition of Pongalo, a Spanish-language streaming service, giving VIX control of one of the largest IP libraries of Latino-focused films and TV shows in the world.

Rafael is a University of Miami School of Business MBA graduate and lives in Miami with his wife and children.

Bakori Davis is Managing Director and Head of International for Curiosity Stream, where he leads the company’s expansion across global markets, with oversight of all business development and international partnership efforts.  Functional areas include channel and app distribution, ad sales, marketing, and content licensing.

In prior roles, Davis was Partner and Managing Director of international media services firm, Niche Media Global (NMG), a firm he co-founded which provides global distribution services for pay TV channels and content owners. Davis was also Vice President of Commercial Operations at A+E Networks UK. Based in London, he oversaw the organization’s growth and revenue functions across Europe, Middle East, and Africa, for their leading global pay television channels including HISTORY, Lifetime, H2 and Crime & Investigation.

Before joining A+E Networks UK, Davis served as Vice President of Content Distribution at Viacom Media Networks in New York, responsible for growing distribution of the company’s portfolio of 24 cable networks such as MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and BET. With over 20 years of media industry experience as part of global entertainment companies, Davis also previously worked for Discovery Networks and the National Cable Television Association (NCTA).

Davis earned an MBA from New York University, specializing in Media and Entertainment with a focus in Global Business, following a BA from Hampton University in Virginia.

Marianne Vita serves as Senior Vice President, Director of Integrated Strategy & Marketing at VAB. In her role, Marianne has authored marketer’s guides and insights reports on a variety of critical industry topics including viewer engagement, OTT/streaming, cord-cutting, time-shifted viewing, and brand safety. In addition to her Strategic Insights responsibilities, Marianne managed the television industry’s first video ad campaign which featured the founders of two successful data-driven, digital-native companies detailing the impact TV advertising had on their businesses.

Prior to joining VAB, she spent nearly 20 years working within advertising agencies developing integrated media strategies across several product categories, target audiences and brand business models. She has worked with high-profile marketers such as The Coca-Cola Company, Heineken USA, Kraft Nabisco, Lowe’s Home Improvement, L’Oreal, Maytag and Dell. Her brand strategy responsibilities were end-to-end; identifying consumer insights, establishing brand portfolio management strategies, allocating budgets, crafting media strategies and creating consumer activation programs. Among her achievements was the national launch of the highly successful Dos Equis “Most Interesting Man in the World” campaign.

The experience of working directly with marketers and brand leaders informs her point of view when developing insights reports and guides, ensuring all VAB content is relevant, clear and actionable.

Marianne is a recipient of the Universal McCann Truth Well Told Award. Additionally, she has trained teams on management skills, leadership and the art of storytelling for business. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Barnard College of Columbia University. Marianne resides in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter.

Nick is the Founder and CEO of The Insights Family. Our purpose is to provide kids, parents, and families with a voice to shape their world. The Insights Family are the global leader in kids, parents, and families market intelligence and have become the business-critical tool for some of the world’s biggest brands.

Nick himself has become a go-to-expert, who is a regular speaker at industry events across the US, Europe, and Asia-Pacific, with the business operating its Kids Insights and Parents Insights services across 18 countries.

Nick is a Manchester Metropolitan and University of Bolton graduate, and has previously worked in senior marketing and strategy roles for companies such as Exxon Mobil, Hilton Hotels and PennWell. Nick returned to Manchester in 2017 to setup The Insights Family.

Nick lives in South Manchester with his wife, one daughter and two dogs. He is a keen tennis player, United fan, and a frustrated racing driver. He is a proud Mancunian and hopes one day to drive around the world.

Kim Parker is Vice President & Chief Financial Officer for Graham Media Group.  She has held this position since 2018. In her role, she is responsible for all aspects of the company’s finance and traffic business operations for the company’s corporate office, 7 television stations, Graham Media Digital, and Social News Desk.

Parker started her GMG career in 2007 at WJXT (Independent) and WCWJ, (CW affiliate) in Jacksonville, FL as the Business Manager. She began her broadcasting career in 1996 working for broadcast software companies Enterprise Systems Group and Marketron. She began as a training and implementation specialist and was promoted to Senior Manager of Product Delivery. She later became a Regional Controller at Media General for their Jacksonville and Columbus, GA properties. 

Parker is actively involved in the broadcast industry holding the position of the Treasurer of Pearl, a partnership of broadcast companies with shared interest in exploring forward-looking opportunities, including innovative ways of promoting local TV content and developing digital media and wireless platforms. 

Kim also holds a position on the board of the Media Financial Management Association (MFM) and is a graduate of the NAB Broadcast Leadership Training Program Class of 2021.

A Colorado native, Parker is a proud graduate of University of Colorado and holds her BS in Accounting.  She spends her time Jacksonville with her two daughters, Hayden, and Aubrey.  

Jaime Otero is a senior management executive and entrepreneur with more than two decades of international experience developing, financing, producing, licensing and distributing content with a broad network of international partners. He has successfully launched and grown transformative ventures in media, entertainment and technology, aligning vision with execution to consistently deliver results and increase stakeholder value. Otero is recognized for leading the adoption of online licensing platforms in a traditionally manual industry. 

At Whip Media, he leads the global expansion of the Whip Media Exchange, the company’s data and AI-powered content rights marketplace.

Prior to Whip Media, he served as Managing Director at RightsTrade. In that role, he designed and implemented the growth strategy of their online marketplace for film and television rights licensing, along with managing operations, content partnerships, marketing and sales. He also served as Chief of Staff in the Ministry of Culture of Spain, where he was in charge of revitalizing the European and Latin America film and TV industry. 

Jaime was born in Toronto, speaks six languages and holds an MBA from IE Business School and UCLA Anderson, as well as a Master in Film Production by the Superior School of Image and Sound of Madrid and a BA in Business and Economics by the University of Barcelona.  

Peter Markham is Chief Executive Officer of Estrella Media, Inc. and a member of the Company’s Board of Directors, having previously served as interim Chief Operating Officer. As CEO, Markham oversees all company operations across its television, radio, production and digital assets.

Jason Combs was promoted to CFO in January 2021. Previously, he was vice president of financial planning and analysis from April 2015 to January 2021. In that role, he led Scripps’ finance organization and oversaw all financial processes around budgeting, forecasting, corporate earnings guidance and analysis of potential investments.

Prior to joining Scripps in 2015, Combs spent 14 years at Convergys in a variety of leadership roles in corporate finance and treasury. He played a key finance role on several significant acquisitions, acted as the lead finance resource for one of the company’s divisions and oversaw a significant redesign of the corporate management structure.

A native of Cincinnati, Combs earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in business administration from Xavier University. 

He is a board member for the Corporation for Findlay Market and the St. Vincent DePaul Charitable Pharmacy in Cincinnati. He is a graduate of the Leadership Cincinnati program sponsored by the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber.

Marc Berman is the founder and Editor-in-Chief for Programming Insider, the online destination and daily email newsletter covering network, digital, cable, syndication and everything media related. Berman is also a senior contributor to Forbes, and has written for a wide range of publications (including CBS Watch, Broadcasting + Cable, Next TV, PromaxBDA, Newspro, Campaign US, Considerable.com, The New York Daily News, The New York Post, The Hollywood Reporter, Variety, Emmy Magazine, and C21 International).

Berman has appeared on “Entertainment Tonight,” “Extra,” “Access Hollywood,” “Inside Edition,” “The CBS Evening News,” E!, CNN, CNBC and MSNBC. And he is a member of The Television Critics Association and The Broadcast Journalists Television Association.

Berman began his career in marketing and research at Katz Media, and worked at Viacom and NBC before seguing into programming at QVC, and rep firm Seltel. He was employed at trade magazine Mediaweek (now Adweek) as the Senior Editor and “Mr. Television” from 1999 to 2011. More recently, Berman was the creator and Editor-in-Chief for online destination and daily email newsletter TV Media Insights at Cross MediaWorks.

Additionally, Berman put his TV historian hat for desk calendar Today in TV History, which he authored in 2013.

Brett is the Director of Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI) research at Variety Business Intelligence (VBI), the entertainment industry’s leading metadata provider for filmed content.

Under Brett’s guidance, VBI’s coverage of JEDI data expanded to over 1.5 million people, as well as an industry-leading approach to the collection of respectful, accurate and unbiased demographic data. The dataset includes ethnicity, country of origin, gender, LGBTQ+, and age. It is the only DEI dataset to identify ethnicities in multiethnic individuals, country of heritage,
languages spoken, and personal pronouns, among other attributes. The investment made by VBI in the JEDI space is driven by the team’s commitment to supporting a more equitable entertainment and media industry. VBI customers, including the leading streamers, networks, studios and agencies, are using JEDI data to advance representation, drive diverse hiring, meet inclusion content requirements, and evaluate their progress both internally and against peers.

Brett received his doctorate from USC; and in 2016 was awarded a prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Brett is also an accomplished violist and has played on countless films, television series and recordings.

Karsten Amlie is the Senior Vice President, Content Distribution & Business Development for Estrella Media, a leading Spanish language media and content company. He leads the distribution efforts for the company’s broadcast, streaming, and radio networks and platforms in his role.

Fabricio Ferrara is the International Business Director of Prensario International, a pioneering media group with more than 30 years covering the events of the global market. He has a degree in Social Communication and more than 15 years of experience working in the media industry. In his role, he has expanded the company’s presence in the international market with special emphasis on the Central and Eastern European, MENA and APAC regions. It has covered and participated in trade events such as Asia TV Forum, Dubai International Content Market and NATPE Budapest International, among others.

Paul Gilbert is currently Senior Vice President, International Formats for ViacomCBS Global Distribution Group.  Paul is responsible for the sales, production and acquisitions of the ViacomCBS library of scripted and non-scripted formats. The library of non-scripted formats includes juggernauts Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy!, Lip Sync Battle, Come Dance With Me, Drunk History, Carpool Karaoke, Tough as Nails, America’s Next Top Model and many more.  The scripted library includes The Good Wife, Dear Daddies, The Affair, Ray Donovan, Why Women Kill and more.

Prior to joining CBS, Paul was with Sony Pictures Television International where he had worldwide responsibility for Sony’s catalog of non-scripted formats which also included sales, production and acquisitions. He was a veteran of 11 years at Sony and was originally hired to get them into the format business which didn’t exist at the time.  When Paul began his career at Sony the studio had a vast library of shows on the shelf just waiting to be licensed.

Prior to joining Sony, Paul headed up International Program Development for King World Productions where he was responsible for hundreds of their local productions including Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy and Hollywood Squares.   He also doubled as a development executive for the U.S. television market.

Paul’s career began at Merv Griffin Productions where he worked for 13 years producing many shows including Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy and the classic hit show Dance Fever.  He was also the producer of CBS’ late night Pat Sajak Show.  Additionally, he worked for Guber/Peters Entertainment, Bob Stewart Productions, Welk Entertainment and Merrill Heatter Productions where he produced the syndicated game show hit High Rollers and ABC game show Bargain Hunters amongst others.

Prior to working in television Paul started his working career on Wall Street.  

Paul is one of the founding members of FRAPA along with David Lyle and Michel Rodrigue and was a member of its Steering Committee for 10 years.  He is also a card holding member of The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the Writers Guild of America.

Jessica Reif Ehrlich is senior media and entertainment analyst at BofA Securities, Inc. Global Research.  She joined the firm in 1994 as Managing Director and her primary coverage includes the cable/satellite, filmed entertainment, broadcasting and cable programming industries.

Previous affiliation includes Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. where she was a Managing Director.  Reif Ehrlich is frequently quoted in trade and business media and is widely recognized as a leading media and entertainment analyst in Greenwich Research.  She has been recognized in Institutional Investor polls for cable, entertainment and broadcasting for over fifteen years, and has been number one in at least one category fourteen times and is now in the Institutional Investor Hall of Fame.

Reif Ehrlich is a member of The Paley Center for Media and is on the Executive Committee of the UJA Federation as well as Committee Co-Chair for Entertainment, Media & Communications Division which is made up of industry leaders throughout the media landscape.

She majored in marketing and received her BS from New York University where she was awarded Beta Gamma Sigma.  She also received her MBA from New York University majoring in finance and international business.

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Two-time Emmy® Award winner Deborah Norville is anchor of INSIDE EDITION, the nation’s number one daily newsmagazine. Ratings jumped 15% the week Norville joined the program and have remained high ever since. INSIDE EDITION is among the top five television shows in first-run syndication and reaches a daily audience of approximately 5 million viewers.

Norville, the longest serving anchor on American television, is a member of the Broadcasting & Cable Hall of Fame. She joined INSIDE EDITION in 1995 from CBS News where she was anchor and correspondent. Deborah is the former co-host of NBC’s “Today” and anchor of NBC “News at Sunrise.” During her career she has hosted the primetime “Deborah Norville Tonight” on MSNBC, the national “Deborah Norville Show” on the ABC Talk Radio Network and been an anchor and reporter for WMAQ-TV in Chicago. She began her reporting career at WAGA-TV in Atlanta, while still a student at the University of Georgia, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and graduated summa cum laude, First Honor Graduate with a perfect 4.0 GPA.

Norville is a best-selling author and lecturer. Among her books is “Thank You Power: Making the SCIENCE of Gratitude Work for YOU” (Thomas Nelson) which detailed the connection between gratitude and enhanced cognitive function and energy. “Thank You Power” was a New York Times best seller and a best seller in South Korea. It has been published in more than a dozen languages. Deborah is also a contributor to the popular “Chicken Soup for the Soul” series, and the author of several other self-help books as well as two best-selling children’s books and a
number of books featuring knit and crochet patterns.

Norville is on the board of the Broadcasters Foundation of America. She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Women Corporate Directors, and the New York Women’s Forum and is a past board member of the Girl Scout Council of Greater New York and the Rita Hayworth (Alzheimer’s) Steering Committee. She is married and the mother of three.

Kevin Mayer has spent decades leading, building and acquiring companies and brands in media and entertainment. He is currently Co-CEo of Aventine LLC, a newly formed media company backed by Blackstone to establish an independent, creator-friendly home for cutting-edge, high-quality, category-defining brands and franchises. In addition, he serves as Chairman of the Board of DAZN, a company specialized in sports streaming services. Kevin recently served as CEO of TikTok and COO of ByteDance.

Prior to TikTok, Kevin was Chairman of Disney Direct-to-Consumer and International, where he was responsible for launching Disney+, ESPN+ and Hulu and managed all International operations for Disney (excluding Parks). In that capacity he led global ad sales, content sales and channel sales, managed over 25,000 employees around the world and had responsibility for over 60% of Disney revenues. Prior to that, Kevin served as Chief Strategy Officer for Disney heading its M&A, investments and strategy. He led the acquisitions of Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm (Star Wars), BAMTech and 21st Century Fox, in addition to countless investments in smaller companies at various stages of development. He also launched and oversaw Disney Accelerator and VC investments. Kevin is widely acknowledged to have conceived and successfully advanced substantial strategic shifts in Disney’s global businesses. Kevin holds a BSME from MIT, an MSEE from San Diego State and an MBA from Harvard University.

Court Stroud is co-host of The Revolución and freelance writer with bylines in New York Times, Washington Post, and Forbes.

Court Stroud is co-host and executive producer of The Revolución, a podcast featuring interviews with newsmakers like Gloria Estefan, Edward James Olmos, and Maria Hinojosa. Court is also a writer and media strategy consultant who has worked at Univision, Telemundo, TV Azteca, CBS, and several startups. He founded The Cledor Group, a consulting practice that helps companies navigate today’s tumultuous media landscape. Past clients include firms such as Comcast, NBCUniversal (NBC, Telemundo, NBC Sports), Sony Entertainment Pictures, and BBC Studios. As an adjunct faculty member at Columbia and NYU, Stroud has designed courses like “Diversity in Media & Advertising.” He co-created a class about the fundamentals of digital advertising certified by the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB). His byline appears in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Forbes, where he’s a contributing writer. His writing received a 2019 New York Press Association First Place Award. The New York City resident holds undergraduate degrees from the University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

California native Donald Albright is an entrepreneur, producer, and co-founder of Atlanta-based content creation company, Tenderfoot TV.

Albright has spent the last 20 years working on a variety of music and entertainment projects with notable artists including Jay-Z, OutKast, Usher, DJ Khaled, and many more. In 2016, Albright joined friend and music video director Payne Lindsey to launch Tenderfoot TV, a content creation company that works with fellow creators to bring stories to life through an array of entertainment media — including podcasts, live shows, television, film, and other digital platforms.

Since its launch, Tenderfoot TV has released multiple successful podcast franchises including “Up and Vanished,” “Monster,” “Radio Rental,” and “To Live and Die in LA,” amassing over 600 million downloads in total in just four years. Through Tenderfoot TV, Albright has garnered partnerships with media companies including iHeartRadio, NBCUniversal, HBO, Audible, Netflix, Cadence13, and Issa Rae’s label Raedio, continuously collaborating on new podcasts.

As executive producer on all of Tenderfoot TV’s podcasts, Albright has made it a priority to ensure that Tenderfoot’s projects leave a lasting footprint beyond entertainment. An integral aspect of the company’s projects is that their true crime podcasts are not only entertaining, but also give authorities tools to uncover new leads and crack these cases that have gone under the radar for too long. “Up and Vanished” helped crack the case of missing schoolteacher and beauty queen Tara Grinstead. It was followed by “Atlanta Monster,” which helped renew interest in the 29 cases of Atlanta’s missing and murdered children, known as the Atlanta Child Murders. The city of Atlanta announced in March 2019 that after 40 years it would be re-examining evidence in these cases. Tenderfoot TV’s popular podcast “To Live and Die in LA,” has given authorities evidence that there was more than one person involved in the death of aspiring Hollywood actress Adea Shabani, and was named Associated Press’s Top Podcast of 2019.

Albright scaled “Atlanta Monster” into the “Monster” franchise, launching other investigative hits throughout 2019-2020 including “Monster: The Zodiac Killer” and “Monster: DC Sniper.” He’s also behind the no. 1 true crime hit “Culpable,” and worked to put out season two of Payne Lindsey’s No. 1 horror anthology podcast, “Radio Rental.” Albright serves as executive producer on Tenderfoot TV’s “Up and Vanished” TV docu-series for Oxygen Networks that aired in 2020, and has a variety of television and film projects in development.

Most recently, in 2020, through a deal brokered by Albright, Tenderfoot partnered with Issa Rae’s label Raedio and HBO, to create a one-episode special podcast “Looking for LaToya,” based on Insecure’s show within a show of the same name. Tenderfoot also released “Somebody,” in partnership with the Invisible Institute, The Intercept, Topic Studios, and iHeartRadio, which investigates the death of a young black man in Chicago.

Continuing partnerships with iHeart and Cadence, Tenderfoot announced new podcast slates for 2020-2021 in The Hollywood Reporter and Deadline respectively.

Dubbed the “Podcast Kingmaker” by Atlanta Magazine, Albright’s success in the podcast industry has been widely acclaimed. Albright serves as Chairperson for The Podcast Academy and in 2020 he won both an Icon Award and the 2020 Audible Audio Pioneer Award. Fast Company also recognized Tenderfoot as a company that “knows how to keep listeners engaged,” and Albright plans to continue that mentality of entertainment with a purpose as he leads other forthcoming Tenderfoot projects, including podcasts and television series in development for the upcoming year.

Becky Rho is the Director of Podcasts & Digital Production, HBO Max and HBO, responsible for overseeing the development and production of podcast, audio and emerging technology strategy across HBO and HBO Max. In this role, Rho has executive produced a slate of podcasts including companion podcasts for programs, such as “Raised by Wolves” and “Plot Against America,” which have garnered more than a dozen Webby Awards. She and her team recently announced the podcast program’s expansion to include scripted audio originals like the highly anticipated “Batman: The Audio Adventures” podcast, brand podcasts like “HBO Max Movie Club,” look-back podcasts that pull from the streamer’s vast library of content and more.

Rebecca Jarvis is an Emmy-award winning journalist. She is ABC News’ Chief Business, Technology & Economics Correspondent; the host and creator of “The Dropout,” a top rated podcast which chronicles the rise and fall of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes; and the host and creator of the highly acclaimed “No Limits with Rebecca Jarvis” podcast, which features game changing women. As Chief Business, Technology & Economics Correspondent, Jarvis reports for all ABC News programs including Good Morning America, World News Tonight with David Muir, Nightline, 20/20, and This Week with George Stephanopoulos.

Jarvis has conducted news making interviews with the biggest names in business, including Warren Buffett, Richard Branson, Sheryl Sandberg, Jamie Dimon, Jessica Alba, Bill and Melinda Gates, Ursula Burns; the first African American woman to run a fortune 500 company and General Motor CEO Mary Barra, the first female to run a car company. She has conducted worldwide exclusive interviews with the likes of Apple CEO Tim Cook and was the first and only reporter to interview United CEO Oscar Munoz following the controversy surrounding the airline’s forceful removal of a passenger.

Jarvis has covered multiple presidential elections, the Madoff scandal, housing bubble, Great Recession, financial crisis and the fall of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers. The Alliance for Women in Media named Jarvis one of the top business journalists in the country with its Women in Numbers Award. Jarvis is also the recipient of a duPont Award for her work covering the Newtown tragedy. She is a recipient of the Edward R. Murrow Award for Overall Excellence in Television and Radio. Her podcast, The Dropout, is being made into an original series for Hulu. She is an Executive Producer on the project.

Before joining ABC News Jarvis was co-host of CBS This Morning: Saturday, and Business and Economics correspondent for CBS News. Prior to CBS News, Jarvis spent three years at CNBC reporting on market news from the New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ and the New York Mercantile Exchange. She contributed regularly to NBC News including the Today Show and Nightly News.

Jarvis began her journalism career writing for Crain’s Chicago Business and Business 2.0. She has also worked in investment banking and foreign currency trading.

A graduate of the University of Chicago, Jarvis holds a degree in Economics and Constitutional Law. A recipient of the University of Chicago Dean’s Grant, she studied European banking and financial markets and the formation of the European Union at the Université Sciences Po in Paris, France.

Jarvis received national recognition for her work with Colin Powell to empower children and improve communities and was named a “National Point of Light,” receiving accolades from Presidents Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush.

ALEX PAEN , founder and president of Telco Productions, Inc., is an award-winning journalist specializing in international news. Born in Greenwich, Connecticut, Paen was raised in Massachusetts and graduated from Grahm Junior College in Boston and from UCLA in Los Angeles, where he also began his journalism career at KMPC Radio in 1975. In 1979, Paen flew to Tehran, Iran to report on the American hostage crisis. There, he distinguished himself by gaining access to the occupied U.S. compound, obtaining interviews with the militants, and receiving the first recorded message from an American hostage. Paen also delivered more than four million Christmas cards and supportive letters to the captive Americans. Paen went on to anchor the weekend news on KTLA-TV in Los Angeles, joined KABC-TV in 1980 and most recently reported on world affairs for KCBS-TV.

Paen founded Telco Productions, Inc. in 1985, a multi-faceted communications company which produces and distributes quality programming.

In 1994, he became the host of the nationally syndicated television show “Emergency with Alex Paen.” Paen has created and hosts several national syndicated television shows which are currently broadcast, including “Animal Rescue” (since 1997); “Missing” (since 2003); “Dog Tales” (since 2007) and “Real Green” (since 2010). He also created “State Police” (1999) and “We the Jury” (2002). In 2012, he co-created and was Executive Producer of the weekly discussion program, “What America Thinks with Scott Rasmussen.”

In his reportorial career, Paen has interviewed numerous world leaders, from presidents to princes to dictators. He has reported on the school desegregation efforts from Boston to Los Angeles and covered politics and crime, including the infamous L.A. Hillside Strangler case. Internationally, Paen has reported on the civil war in El Salvador, the political upheavals in South Africa, the assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II, the Iran-Iraq War, the Persian Gulf War, the Middle East Peace talks, the Rio Environmental Summit, the famine and civil war in Somalia, the economic crisis in Cuba and the tragedy in the Balkans. Paen has garnered numerous awards, including an Emmy for his series on Papua New Guinea, two Golden Mikes for investigative reporting from the Southern California Radio and Television News Association, an Associated Press award for his Gulf War reporting and Emmy nominations for his television special, “AIDS: The Global Explosion” as well as for his weekly series, “Animal Rescue.” In addition to his news/broadcast career, Paen has authored “Love from America,” a true life account of his harrowing experiences in Iran, and is the publisher of The Telco Report, an international television program magazine.

In 2016, George Clooney’s Smokehouse Pictures and the National Football League Network produced “America’s Game & The Iran Hostage Crisis,” telling the true story of Alex reporting from Tehran and delivering Super Bowl XIV to the hostages in 1980.

JC Acosta was named President of ViacomCBS Networks International (VCNI) Southern Europe, Latin America, Middle East, & Africa in December 2021 and President of ViacomCBS International Studios in October 2020. Based in Miami, Acosta reports to, Raffaele Annecchino, President and Chief Executive Officer of ViacomCBS Networks International.

In his role as President of ViacomCBS International Studios, Acosta oversees the international operations for the production studios, which is a leading supplier of premium original content to Paramount+, the new ViacomCBS global streaming service, while continuing to serve as a supplier of scripted, comedy and reality series to VCNI’s free and pay TV networks as well as third party streamers and broadcasters.

Acosta is also responsible for the ViacomCBS Networks International operations for Southern Europe, Latin America, Middle East, & Africa. He is also charged with the ongoing expansion of the company’s portfolio and products in these regions, including its multiplatform business, content distribution and licensing efforts and television channels. This includes free-to-air broadcasters Telefe and Chilevisión, as well as Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central and Paramount Network, in addition to streaming services Paramount+ and Pluto TV, US Hispanic cable network Tr3s, and VidCon.

Previously, Acosta was President, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN) Americas. He oversaw VIMN’s extensive portfolio of brands including MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, and Paramount Channel in Latin America and Canada, Telefe in Argentina, Porta dos Fundos in Brazil, and Tr3s in the U.S. Hispanic market.

As COO, he had financial oversight of the entire VIMN Americas organization and oversaw the company’s revenue and multiplatform strategy as well as the business development division.

In his prior role, Acosta was SVP, CFO, and Executive-in-Charge of production, playing a key role in structuring multi-layered production deals and financials to include executing co-production agreements, negotiating distribution rights, integrating pro-social media partners, driving non-linear partnerships, and leveraging fiscal tax incentives. Acosta was instrumental in establishing the company’s co-production model utilizing investments from non-linear partners, distributors, NGOs and government ministries in key markets.

With expertise in studio production, distribution, consumer products, program sales, Acosta was formerly Director of Finance for NBCUniversal Telemundo, where he was responsible for the financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and compliance for the Telemundo Studios and its corporate entities. He also previously held positions at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and the Walt Disney Company.

A native of Miami, Acosta is a Certified Public Accountant for the State of Florida and holds a Bachelor of Accounting Degree and an MBA from Florida International University.

Mark is the President of Variety Business Intelligence (VBI) — The company is the entertainment industry’s premiere metadata provider for filmed content across the US and internationally. VBI oversees Variety Insight, the leading entertainment research and information platform, and a familiarity and appeal metric, Vscore. VBI was created when Variety acquired TVtracker, the leading research and data solution in the TV industry in 2011.  Formerly, Mark was CEO and founder of TVtracker.

Mark’s entrepreneurial ventures and technological insights have been covered by Fast Company, the New York Times, USA Today, Variety and Forbes, among others. His speaking engagements include MIT Media Lab, Harvard Alumni Network, USC School of Cinema, National Association of Television Production Executives, industry podcasts and more.  He earned his bachelor’s degree in History from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and attended graduate school at NYU. 

Beyond entertainment, Mark is well versed in ostrich ranching as he grew up on the largest of its kind on the west coast of the United States, Silver Oaks Ostrich Ranch.  Mark is also a founding board member of Team Fox Los Angeles, the grassroots fundraising arm of the Michael J Fox Parkinson’s Foundation in LA.

Matt Yazge serves as the VP, Head of Research for MRC Data where he leads commercial engagement and oversees MRC’s research offerings for endemic music, film, TV clients and brands. He has 9+ years of research and entertainment marketing experience helping leaders in global entertainment and partnership marketing with their music, film, gaming, fashion, and lifestyle marketing strategies.

Prior to MRC, Matt spent over 9 years at Nielsen, most recently leading the Sports Sponsorship and Esports practices. Throughout his career he has served as a diversity & inclusion advocate and LGBTQ+ research subject matter expert, authoring multiple articles and white papers on the power of the LGBTQ+ consumer.

Vicki Lins is an award-winning marketer with over 30 years of experience in the media, entertainment, technology and telecom sectors. Her expertise includes building and distinguishing brands, a strong track record of strategic market development and growth, demonstrated power leading consumer-centric initiatives to gain competitive advantage and an in-depth understanding of the transformational impact of technology on media, advertising and consumer engagement.

As president and CEO of CTAM, Vicki unites leaders in media, entertainment and technology to enrich consumers’ lives with exciting experiences, from what they watch to how they communicate, to the way they live and work. She oversees CTAM’s efforts to drive collaborative marketing and communications initiatives so member companies can achieve greater success by working together, and ultimately better serve the millions of people they engage every day.

Prior to CTAM, Vicki served the executive vice president and chief marketing officer of United Way Worldwide, where she led global brand strategy, integrated marketing and strategic communications. Previously, she was executive vice president and chief marketing officer of Clear Channel Outdoor.

Vicki serves on the board of the CTAM Educational Foundation, responsible for the hallmark Cable Executive Management at Harvard Business School program.

Vicki’s passion for learning and connecting with people inspired her to launch the Thinking Out Loud podcast in 2018. Ms. Lins hosts conversations with today’s media and entertainment leaders exploring various perspectives on strategy, creativity and marketing innovation.

Among her honors, Lins has been a longstanding recipient of the Cablefax Top 100 and Most Powerful Women awards, inducted into the Cable TV Pioneers, named a “Woman to Watch” by Multichannel News and featured as a First Mover by Adweek. A career-long champion of women and supporter of WICT (Women in Cable & Telecommunications), Vicki received one of their top honors, Woman to Watch, has served as a board member and is a graduate of their Betsy Magness Leadership Program. 

Vicki is also a member of the International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and the Paley Center for Media and holds an M.A. in Communication Management from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California.

Vicki resides in Westchester County, New York, with her husband, their teenage son and adopted shelter dog, Shadow. 

Laura Molen is President, Advertising & Partnerships, NBCUniversal. In this role, Molen leads strategic agency relationships and oversees many key advertising sales initiatives for NBCUniversal across Entertainment, Hispanic, News, Peacock, Direct-to-Scale, and Syndication. In addition, she actively helps lead and support the division’s efforts around Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Molen reports to Linda Yaccarino, Chairman, Global Advertising and Partnerships, NBCUniversal. 
 

Most recently, Molen was Executive Vice President, Lifestyle and Hispanic Advertising Sales, overseeing sales for broadcast network Telemundo, including its World Cup coverage, and leading cable networks Bravo, E! and Oxygen, among others. She joined the company in February 2013 as Executive Vice President, Cable Advertising Sales, NBCUniversal, overseeing sales of NBCUniversal’s impressive cable entertainment networks – including the No. 1 cable network USA, Syfy, E!, Esquire Network, Chiller, Cloo and WWE.  
 

From 2011-2013, Molen served as Executive Vice President of Network Sales for Univision Communications Inc. In this role, Molen led all advertising sales and marketing operations for Univision Network, TeleFuture Network and Univision Cable Networks, to an unprecedented approximately $2 billion in revenue. 

Prior to joining Univision, Molen served as Senior Vice President, Strategic Partnerships for VH1 Ad Sales and Marketing at MTV Networks, a unit of Viacom. In that role, she led the network’s sales organization into cross-platform solutions and spearheaded strategies to bring advertisers into original programming. In 2010, Molen led VH1’s rebranding to advertisers and audiences, which resulted in one of the most successful upfronts in the network’s history. Molen was a 16-year veteran of Viacom and held several positions at VH1, Spike TV, UPN and Paramount Domestic Television. 

Before Viacom, she held account executive positions at E! and Turner Broadcasting’s CNN/Headline News. She has also worked on the advertising agency side in buying roles at McCann Erickson and Grey Advertising.  

Molen is a passionate advocate for the accurate portrayal of women and girls in all media, and has done significant work around the ANA’s #SeeHer initiative since its inception. She also supports The Female Quotient, which supports advancing workplace equality and has served as an Advertising Women of New York mentor to many women in the industry throughout her career. Additionally, she mentors inner city youth in the Development School For Youth NYC where she has been honored for her work to break the cycle of poverty, and serves on the International Radio and Television Society (IRTS) Foundation board. Molen was named to Ad Age’s 2020 Women to Watch list which spotlights executives in media, marketing and advertising who are reshaping the marketing landscape and lighting the way for other women to succeed.  
 

Laura is a graduate of the S. I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.

Sean Cunningham is the president and CEO of VAB, marketer’s foremost industry source for insights-driven video research, intelligence and thought leadership in the U.S. With deep ad agency experience as a senior-level strategic advisor to marketers on all media formats, Sean is passionate about championing marketers in their quest to maximize outcomes, solve business challenges, build high-value brands and drive overall sales and profitability growth. The continual evolution of VAB reflects his belief in the perpetual drive to reinvent a successful company as a pillar advantage for all marketers.  

Most recently, VAB’s ascendency in the U.S. advertising conversation was heightened with the launch of the industry’s first, national video advertising campaign featuring the founders of visionary digital native, direct-to-consumer companies. The campaign was seen across VAB members’ multiscreen ad platforms.    

Prior to VAB, Sean was deeply involved in the advertising agency business marked by senior management positions with some of the most respected companies in the industry. Sean was executive vice president and managing director at Universal McCann in New York where he was integral to the agency’s unprecedented new business growth. His tenure culminated with Universal McCann being named 2002 “Agency of the Year” for its outstanding performance by leading industry trade publications Advertising Age and Adweek. 

Sean was also previously executive vice president and media director for Ammirati Puris Lintas in both the U.S. and Canada, including co-launching a new agency in Toronto with a full-service media operation built from the ground up. Additionally, he served as executive vice president and media director for Lowe, Lintas & Co. prior to joining Universal McCann. 

Known for his ability to deeply immerse himself in a brand’s business, Sean has considerable experience in many of the largest consumer product verticals including automotive, technology, consumer electronics, consumer product goods, retail, beer, distilled spirits, hard goods, as well as business-to-business marketing sectors.

He earned his Bachelor of Arts in English Communications from Boston College. An avid hockey player and coach, skier, fisherman, tennis player, voracious reader and automotive enthusiast, Sean and his wife, Jessica, have three children and live in Westchester County, N.Y. 

See Romina Rosado on Thursday, January 20th, 2022 during the Latin Summit

11:30 am ET
Content for Today’s Super-Streaming Hispanics: A Discussion Powered by Telemundo

Latinos are young, culture-first, media omnivores and consuming content across languages and screens. They’re super-streamers: 8 out of 10 Latinos have an SVOD subscription. Content producers and distributors can’t ignore them if they want to grow and future proof their business. Join Romina Rosado, Telemundo’s senior executive for Hispanic Streaming, and industry leaders to discuss how Telemundo is leveraging this untapped opportunity with new, fresh content for the full spectrum of today’s Hispanics.

Keynote: Romina Rosado, EVP and General Manager of Hispanic Streaming, NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises

Romina Rosado is the Executive Vice President and General Manager of Hispanic Streaming for NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises. In this newly created division Rosado is responsible for developing, producing and programming a robust content slate to super charge the growth of Latinos on Peacock and across all Telemundo and NBCUniversal streaming platforms. Rosado leads cross-company efforts and collaborates with Peacock’s leadership in the development of the service’s Latino content to effectively target and connect with this growing demographic of 200%ers – audiences who are 100% American and 100% Hispanic, hyperconnected, and media super consumers. She reports to Beau Ferrari, Chairman, NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises.

Rosado is experienced in creating content, building an audience, and driving monetization across linear and digital platforms. Most recently, she was Executive Vice President, Entertainment & Content Strategy for NBCUniversal Telemundo, where she oversaw the company’s omnichannel strategy with a focus on streaming, while ensuring that the network was providing audiences with a unified content and brand experience across all linear and non-linear distribution channels. Previously, she was Senior Vice President of Digital Media for NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises, where she oversaw the growth of Telemundo digital into a streaming powerhouse, tripling the Telemundo App usage in 2020 with record-breaking properties, including El Señor de los Cielos (Lord of the Skies) and Pasión Prohibida (Forbidden Passion). Rosado joined Telemundo in 2018 to develop the Noticias’ Telemundo digital strategy in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election.

Prior to that, Rosado was Senior Vice President of Global Content at NBCUniversal´s E! in Los Angeles, where she oversaw all content, news gathering, audience development, and product for the company’s news division. During her time at E! News, she helped to expand programming and grow the brand’s footprint to more than 1 billion engagements per month in over 160 countries, making E! News the largest multiplatform entertainment news and women’s lifestyle brand globally.

Earlier in her career, Rosado was Executive Producer at US Weekly, where she was responsible for launching and executing the company’s digital expansion. She also advised some of the world’s leading NGOs and government agencies on their digital strategies and was a consultant to the European Central Bank ahead of the introduction of the Euro.