New Additions to NATPE Board of Directors

LOS ANGELES: The National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE) has elected ten entertainment and media industry execs to its board of directors, effective immediately.

The new board members are Jack Bamberger, the senior VP and global head of agency development at AOL; Nicole Bernard, the executive VP of audience strategy for The Fox Group; Charlie Corwin, co-chairman and co-CEO of Endemol Shine North America; Mark Greenberg, the president and CEO of EPIX; Keli Lee, the executive VP of talent and casting at ABC Entertainment Group; Armando Nuñez, the president and CEO of CBS Global Distribution Group; Eric Rovner, agent at WME (International Focus); Luis Silberwasser, the president of Telemundo Network; Simon Sutton, the president of HBO international and content distribution; and Marta Voda, the West Coast talent acquisition director at Viacom. The new appointees will serve a term of two years.

NATPE also revealed the newly constituted executive committee, which comprises Rod Perth, the president and CEO of NATPE; Andy Kaplan, the president of worldwide networks at Sony Pictures Television; Kevin Beggs, the chairman of Lionsgate Television Group; Deborah Bradley, the executive VP of networks optimization, content strategy and commercialization at Turner Broadcasting System; Emerson Coleman, the VP of programming at Hearst Television; Robert Friedman, the CEO of Bungalow Media + Entertainment; Philip Gurin, the president of The Gurin Company; Jordan Levin, the chief content officer for NFL; Dick Lippin, the chairman and CEO of The Lippin Group; Bruce David Klein, president and executive producer at Atlas Media Corp.; and Lew Klein, the president of the Educational Foundation for NATPE.

"The new board members represent a very talented and experienced group of executives who will make our board even more diverse and whose counsel will be of great value to our organization," said Kaplan, NATPE's chairman of the board.

"The selection process was a difficult one given the number of terrific people who expressed interest in serving on the NATPE board," added Perth. "The interest is a testimonial to the important role NATPE plays in our industry both domestically and internationally, and this board continues to reflect our commitment to virtually every sector of our incredibly diverse business."