NATPE Sets 2011 Chairs And Board

NATPE President-CEO Rick Feldman today announced the association’s newly elected 2011 co-chairs and board of directors. Chris Grant, President, Shine International, and Jordan Levin, CEO, Generate, will serve as co-chairs.

Newly elected members of the 2011 NATPE Board are Rob Barnett, Founder and CEO, My Damn Channel; Cesar O. Diaz, VP of sales, Venevision International; David Ellender, global CEO, FremantleMedia Enterprises; Bob Friedman, president, media and entertainment, Radical Media; Greg Lipstone, SVP-head of international TV and media, ICM; John Morayniss, CEO, Entertainment One Television; Scott Sternberg, president, Scott Sternberg Productions; and Elizabeth Tumulty, EVP, distribution, The CW Television Network.

Returning to the NATPE board are Lisa Berger, EVP, entertainment programming, E!, Comcast Entertainment Group, Los Angeles; Paul Buccieri, CEO, ITV Studios, Los Angeles; Nancy Dubuc, president-GM, Lifetime and History, A&E Television Networks, New York; Luis Fernandez, president, Entertainment & Univision Studios, Miami; Phil Gurin, president, The Gurin Co., Los Angeles; Gary Lico, CEO, CABLEready Corp., Connecticut; Neal Sabin, EVP, Weigel Broadcasting, Chicago; Hans Schiff, agent, Creative Artists Agency, Los Angeles; Eric Schotz, CEO, LMNO Productions, Los Angeles; Peter Tortorici, CEO, GroupM Entertainment Worldwide, Los Angeles.

The 2011 NATPE Executive Committee includes Feldman and Kevin Beggs, president, programming and production, Lionsgate, Los Angeles, along with member representatives Stephen J. Davis, president, Hasbro Studios, Los Angeles; Emerson Coleman, VP, programming, Hearst Television, New York; Bruce David Klein, president-executive producer, Atlas Media Corp., New York; Jim Packer, president, Worldwide TV Distribution, Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios, Los Angeles; Barry Wallach, president, NBC Universal Domestic Television Distribution, New York; and Eminence Gris Lew Klein, president, NATPE Educational Foundation, Pennsylvania.