The trade association has a head hunter searching for an EVP of technology who will be its "principal technologist and technology policy strategist," reporting directly to President Gordon Smith.
EXCLUSIVE
NAB Looking For New Top Tech Executive
The NAB is conducting a search to fill the newly created post of executive vice president, technology, TVNewsCheck has learned.
According to a four-page job description now being circulated by headhunter Russell Reynolds Associates, the new EVP will be “the principal technologist and technology policy strategist for the NAB, serving as a thought leader on the future of the evolving technology field and determining how to ensure that NAB and its members thrive in the future business environments.”
The new EVP will report directly to NAB President Gordon Smith, have a “seat at the executive table” and oversee the nine-person science and technology department, now headed by SVP Lynn Claudy. The creation of a new layer of management was perplexing to some in the tight-knit broadcast technology community. “I don’t know of any person in the broadcast business more respected by his peers than Lynn Claudy,” said one industry source.
The job description is mostly boilerplate, listing qualities an employer would want to see in any top executive. But it does call for one particular attribute: “Specific experience in digital communications, technology, computer sciences and related fields is strongly desired.”
The description does not mention salary, but, according to the NAB tax filings, executives VPs are paid well in excess of $300,000.
Comments (1)
Scott Broom says:
February 24, 2011 at 4:26 pm
With more than 40 years on the technical side of this business, I am shocked that NAB would initiate such a search. Lynn Claudy is widely and universally admired among technologists and managers alike as an ideal individual to be leading NAB’s Science and Technology efforts. His considerable political as well as technical skills serve the organization and the industry as a whole extremely well. If its not broken, Senator, please don’t fix it.