{"id":6691,"date":"2015-12-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/leftfield-entertainment-shakes-up-exec-team\/"},"modified":"2016-01-28T11:31:11","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T16:31:11","slug":"leftfield-entertainment-shakes-up-exec-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvusa\/leftfield-entertainment-shakes-up-exec-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Leftfield Entertainment Shakes Up Exec Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: ITV America\u2019s Leftfield Entertainment has promoted four casting, programming and human resources executives.<\/p>\n<p>Head of talent Gretchen Palek has been elevated to senior VP of talent and casting at Leftfield Entertainment. Palek, who joined Leftfield in 2014 and reports to David George, the CEO of\u00a0Leftfield\u00a0Entertainment, will continue to work across all Leftfield Entertainment companies. She now adds the responsibility of overseeing all talent and casting\u00a0initiatives\u00a0for the company, in addition to managing the day-to-day\u00a0operations of talent\u00a0relations\u00a0across current series.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, executive producers Simon Thomas and Caroline Self have been promoted to the roles of VP of programming at Leftfield Pictures and Sirens Media, respectively. Thomas previously served as executive producer at Leftfield Pictures and will report to George. Self joined Sirens Media in 2009, and has served as an executive producer on the Bravo series\u00a0<em>Real Housewives of New Jersey<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Thicker Than Water<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Manzo\u2019d with Children<\/em>. She will report to Sirens Media\u2019s senior VP of programming and development, Lucilla D\u2019Agostino.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Genevieve Croteau was named VP of human resources at Sirens Media. After joining Sirens Media in 2009, Croteau began overseeing staffing, recruiting and HR for the company in 2013. She reports to co-presidents Rebecca Toth Diefenbach and Valerie Haselton.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLeftfield has always been focused on recognizing and rewarding outstanding talent, creativity and dedication,\u201d said George. \u201cPalek, Thomas, Self and Croteau all have been integral to Leftfield\u2019s success; we look forward to the leadership and ingenuity they\u2019ll bring as our production family continues to grow.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK: ITV America\u2019s Leftfield Entertainment has promoted four casting, programming and human resources executives. Head of talent Gretchen Palek has been elevated to senior VP of talent and casting at Leftfield Entertainment. Palek, who joined Leftfield in 2014 and reports to David George, the CEO of\u00a0Leftfield\u00a0Entertainment, will continue to work across all Leftfield Entertainment &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[166,165],"class_list":["post-6691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-top-stories","tag-itv-america","tag-leftfield-entertainment"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Leftfield Entertainment Shakes Up Exec Team<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Leftfield Entertainment Shakes Up Exec Team. NEW YORK, December 17: ITV America\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Leftfield Entertainment has promoted four casting, programming and human resources executives.. 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