SPTI Ups Ford to Oversee Australia/New Zealand

December 13, 2006 World Screen

SYDNEY, December 13: Sony Pictures Television International
(SPTI) has promoted Jack Ford to executive VP and managing director for its
business in Australia and New Zealand.

Ford reports to Michael
Grindon, the president of SPTI. He has been SPTI’s managing director for those
two territories since 1995. Based in Sydney, Ford heads all of SPTI’s
businesses in Australia and New Zealand, and serves on the boards of Premium
Movie Partnership and TV1, representing SPTI’s interests.