NBC Universal International Television Distribution Names New VP

UNIVERSAL
CITY, January 12: Vimish Gandesha has been named VP, sales liaison for
Scandinavia/Benelux, Israel and South Africa at NBC Universal International
Television Distribution.

Gandesha is responsible
for overseeing the free, pay and basic cable television sales of NBC Universal
programming throughout those markets,
reporting to Don McGregor, the SVP, sales liaison at the company. He will be
based in NBC Universal’s London office.

Gandesha most recently
served as a consultant to Hearst Corporation and advised on its international
channel rollout. Prior to this, he served for five years as general manager of
program acquisitions for Channel 4. Before joining Channel 4 Television, Gandesha held key business affairs posts at Five and
BSkyB.