Andrew Berman Joins TMS

October 9, 2006 World Screen

LOS ANGELES, October 9: Former IDT Entertainment Sales
executive Andrew Berman has been named as the executive VP and general manager
of TMS Entertainment USA, the U.S. arm of the SEGA-owned Japanese animation
producer and distributor.

Berman will oversee TMS’s North American operations, working
on the licensing of titles from the company’s library. He comes to TMS from IDT
Entertainment Sales (now Starz Media), where he was executive VP. Prior to that
he held distribution positions at MGM and New World Pictures. He also spent a
decade at TMS.

TMS was founded in 1964 and is one of the oldest and most
established animation studios in Japan.