Miramax Makes Two New Hires

SANTA MONICA: Miramax has added Marna Grantham, the senior VP of domestic and Latin America sales, and Gloria Lee, the director of digital sales, to its international sales team today.

Grantham will be based in Santa Monica and report to Joe Patrick, the head of worldwide sales. She will oversee TV sales activity in the U.S., Canada and Latin America. She most recently worked as the VP of program planning and acquisitions at Turner Entertainment Networks.

Lee will also be based in Santa Monica and report to Beth Minehart, the head of global digital. Her responsibilities include licensing Miramax programming internationally and supporting the development of Miramax branded distribution platforms. Prior to joining Miramax, Lee was the director of distribution strategy and development at Fox Networks, and a consultant for Accenture.

“We are very pleased to welcome Marna as we continue to grow our sales team to reach a broad range of platforms in key territories, with high quality Miramax programming,” said Patrick. “Marna brings an impressive background in television sales and marketing, as well as a keen insight for licensing programming to emerging markets, in particular Latin America which we are very focused on.”

Minehart added: “This is an exciting time at Miramax as we continue to develop a strong and experienced organization dedicated to executing our strategy. We welcome Gloria to the digital team, as she adds impressive experience strategizing multiplatform content distribution. We look forward to working with her.”