NATPE Elects 2011 Chairs, Board of Directors

LOS ANGELES: Shine’s Chris Grant and Jordan Levin of Generate have been named as co-chairs of NATPE 2011, which also has a number of newly elected members to its board of directors, including Venevision’s Cesar Diaz, FME’s David Ellender and eOne’s John Morayniss.

Grant, the president of Shine International, and Levin, the CEO of Generate, are to serve as co-chairs. “It’s only fitting that Chris and Jordan—both TV industry veterans and leaders in the modern content revolution—help oversee the growth of our organization as we move forward in Miami,” remarked Rick Feldman, the president and CEO of NATPE.

Said Grant: "Over the last year, the NATPE Board has attacked this market with renewed energy and enthusiasm, and we will truly be witnessing the results in Miami next week. As incoming co-chairman with Jordan, I’m excited to build on this momentum to cement NATPE as a must-attend event where business deals are actually made and you leave feeling quite a bit smarter than when you arrived,"

Added Levin: "I look forward to partnering with Chris, Rick and the NATPE board to continue evolving the organization into the world’s largest and most influential marketplace for premium content. As an unwavering advocate for content, NATPE occupies a critical place in the ongoing dialogue about where we’ve been, where we are and where we’re going as both an industry and culture."

Newly elected members to the 2011 board of directors are Rob Barnett, the founder and CEO of My Damn Channel; Cesar Diaz, the VP of sales at Venevision International; David Ellender, the global CEO of FremantleMedia Enterprises (FME); Bob Friedman, the president of media and entertainment at Radical Media; Greg Lipstone, the senior VP and head of international TV and media at ICM; John Morayniss, the CEO of Entertainment One (eOne) Television; Scott Sternberg, the president of Scott Sternberg Productions; and Elizabeth Tumulty, the executive VP of distribution at The CW Television Network.