New VP of Development for Towers Productions

CHICAGO, June 25: Peter
Marks has been named as the new VP of development at Towers Productions, with
oversight of all the company’s creative and business-development activities and
client relationships.

Continuing to report to
the company’s chairman and executive producer, Jonathan Towers, and its CEO,
William Fisher, Marks will also manage Towers’ development department staff. He
has served as the director of development at Tower since January 2007, and
previously produced a number of television documentaries for the company, most
recently Biography: Aaron Spelling.

Meanwhile, Melissa Cutlip,
the former director of development, has left the company to pursue other
interests.

Towers said: "Peter
is a seasoned and savvy executive who brings a keen business instinct to the
creative process. He is also one of those rare development execs who has had
extensive hands-on production experience. He has served as a key team member of
our creative team, and I am delighted that he will now contribute to our
success as a member of the management team."

—By Kristin
Brzoznowski