NVCP Reshuffles Senior Management Team

NEW YORK/LONDON, June 11:
As part of its global expansion effort, Nickelodeon & Viacom Consumer
Products (NVCP) has restructured its senior management team, with NVCP Asia’s
Indra Suharjono and NVCP Europe’s Jean Philippe Randisi named to managing
director roles, among other new appointments.

Suharjono, formerly the
senior VP of NVCP Asia, has been promoted to senior VP and managing director
for licensing operations in Asia and the Middle East, and oversight of NVCP’s
global publishing business. Based in Singapore, she was appointed to the newly
created position of VP of consumer products Asia in 2005.

Randisi, formerly the
senior VP and managing director of NVCP Europe, has been upped to senior VP and
managing director for NVCP in Europe, Canada and Latin America. He joined NVCP
in 2003, where he established the London office that has grown to include four
dedicated offices across Europe and has become NVCP’s largest division.

In other new appointments,
Manuel Torres, previously the senior VP of NVCP Latin America, is now NVCP’s
senior VP of toys, interactive and consumer electronics. Currently based in
Miami, he came to NVCP in 2004 as the VP of consumer products in Latin America.

Sherice
Torres, the senior VP of hard goods, will take on a new role as the new senior
VP of global entertainment, where she will oversee NVCP’s global music and
home-entertainment business. She came to Nickelodeon in 1999 as the director of
licensing for interactive, home entertainment and consumer electronics. And Hal
Snik, the senior VP of soft goods, will now direct all of NVCP’s U.S. licensing
businesses. He joined Nickelodeon in 1998 as the manager of apparel licensing. Both
Torres and Snik are based in New York.

The NVCP senior management
team, which also includes Jim Davey, the senior VP of worldwide marketing and
retail development, and Gary Bonilla, the senior VP of creative strategy, will
align all consumer-product activities to drive new business initiatives, share
best practices in operations, product development and distribution around
NVCP’s portfolio of properties, including the franchises Dora the Explorer, Go, Diego, Go!, SpongeBob SquarePants and South Park. The group will work hand-in-hand with leaders at
MTVN's brands and business units, including a globally dedicated
consumer-products marketing team. NVCP will actively pursue opportunities to
grow their roster of partners across such categories as healthy foods,
interactive, music and gaming.

The senior management team
reports to Leigh
Anne Brodsky, the president of NVCP.

Brodsky commented: “I am
incredibly pleased to have this level of dedicated talent and leadership
shaping the next phase of our growth.
NVCP is strongly positioned to tap into MTVN’s multiplatform global
presence to extend integral partnerships, create the safest and most innovative
products and deepen our connection with consumers, no matter where they are.”

She continued: “Indra,
Jean Philippe, Manuel and the entire NVCP division understands what it takes to
create successful long-term partnerships and at the same time, build value
around our properties. Their
extensive knowledge of the licensing nuances of international markets is
requisite in today’s industry and will continue our global momentum.”

—By Irene Lew