STAR Appoints Ad Sales VP for Japan

HONG KONG/TOKYO, August 7:
Hiromu Iwamoto has been named STAR’s VP of advertising sales for Japan, where he will oversee
advertising sales activities for the company’s regional office in Tokyo.

Prior to joining STAR in
July, Iwamoto served as the deputy director of the marketing division and the
general manager of the ad sales department for Jupiter TV, a multichannel
pay-TV broadcaster based in Tokyo.

Jonathan
Ellis, the senior VP of advertising sales for STAR and to whom Iwamoto will
report, said: “We
are delighted to have Hiromu join us, leading our ad sales efforts in Japan.
Hiromu comes to us with a wealth of experience in generating creative solutions
for a great variety of clients in Japan and the U.K. In his role with us, he
will work closely with many of our Japan-based
clients, helping them to reach the hundreds of millions of devoted STAR viewers
across the region.”

—By Jackie Stewart