Women to Watch

Ashley Walker -- Multichannel News, 1/21/2009 1:46:08 PM

 

Chief Marketing Officer
Univision Communications
Maryam Banikarim oversees marketing activities across Univision's areas of operation, including TV, radio and online. Before joining Univision in 2002 as senior vice president of strategic marketing, she provided management and marketing consulting services to a variety of clients including Time Warner, Deutsche Bank and Bacardi Ltd. Previous roles include publisher at Macmillan Publishing and general manager and marketing director for Citysearch. She was also a member of the first integrated marketing solutions group at Turner Broadcasting.

Executive Vice President and General Manager
IFC
Named to her current post in June 2008, Jennifer Caserta oversees day-to-day operations of the IFC network and directs program development, production, scheduling and marketing efforts. She had previously been IFC's executive vice president of marketing, communications, scheduling and alternative programming. She has re-launched the IFC.com Web site, served as executive producer for a number of IFC productions and spearheaded the launch of IFC's first on-demand offering. Earlier, she served as executive vice president and general manager of the music network Fuse. She has also held posts at Court TV, Oxygen Media and Food Network.

 

Executive Vice President, Distribution
Lifetime Networks
Lori Conkling is responsible for the overall distribution strategy at Lifetime Networks across multiple platforms, including linear, on demand and mobile. She also supervises the expansion of new and existing product platforms such as Lifetime On Demand, Lifetime HD, LMN On Demand, Lifetime Movie Network HD and Lifetime Movie Network Español On Demand. She joined Lifetime from Disney and ESPN Media Networks.

 

 

Vice President, Product Development and Management
Cox Business
Kristine Faulkner's team drives the definition, development and implementation of commercial products for Cox Business' customers, as well as ongoing product lifecycle management. Prior to joining Cox in 2000 as a senior product manager of Web hosting services, she served as general manager and director of Internet publishing for the Daily Press in Newport News, VA. She began her career in the newspaper industry and spent 10 years with the Tribune Company.

 

Senior Vice President, Programming and Video Services
Insight Communications
Melani Griffith is responsible for the management and strategy of the video product as well as negotiating all of Insight Communications' programming deals. With over 14 years of marketing and programming experience in the cable industry, she has also worked in advertising sales at Fox Cable Networks as well as affiliate sales at AMC Networks and at Discovery Communications. She earned a bachelor's degree in communications from the University of California at Los Angeles and a master's degree in business administration from Columbia Business School.

 

Chief Operating Officer
Telemundo Communications Group
Jacqueline Hernández was named to her newly-created post at Telemundo in April 2008. She oversees all domestic revenue and marketing; digital media and emerging platforms; Telemundo's Latino-youth cable network mun2; affiliate relations; and all research functions. Previously, she was publisher of People en Español. Before joining People en Español, she was vice president of global account development at Turner International. She joined Turner Broadcasting in March 2000 as director of interactive sales, where she headed up the global interactive sales team for CNN International and Cartoon Network.

 

President, Programming
BET
Loretha Jones oversees original programming, news, development, planning and acquisitions for BET Networks, which she joined in November 2008. Previously, she was executive vice president of MTV Films/Paramount Pictures since July 2007. Before that, she was senior vice president of MTV Films/MTV Home Entertainment, after being a consultant and producer for MTV Films. Before her career as a producer, she was an attorney with the law firm of Frankfurt, Garbus, Klein & Selz.

 

Senior Vice President, Original Programming
TV One
Toni Judkins was named to her current role overseeing TV One's original programming strategy in the fall of 2008. She joined the network in 2007 as vice president of programming and production. Before joining TV One, she most recently was a production executive at VH-1. An MTV Networks veteran of twelve years, she supervised production for several original series and specials. Her knowledge of music and music history also landed her an on-air spot as a host on VH1 Classic from 2004-2006. Judkins has also produced independent feature films and various other film and music projects.

President
MediaFLO USA
Gina Lombardi provides strategic direction and manages operations for MediaFLO USA, the Qualcomm subsidiary that delivers its FLO TV mobile entertainment service to mobile phones via a dedicated nationwide multicast network. She steered MediaFLO USA through its March 2007 commercial service launch, and led negotiations to secure both Verizon Wireless and AT&T as wireless operator partners. She was also instrumental in the signing of programming deals with CBS, ESPN, FOX, NBC and MTV Networks. Previously, she served as senior vice president of marketing and product management for Qualcomm Internet Services.

 

Executive Vice President and Chief Government Relations Officer
Time Warner Cable
Gail MacKinnon oversees Time Warner Cable's Washington, D.C. public policy office and is responsible for the company's legislative and regulatory strategies. Previously, she served as senior vice president of global policy for Time Warner Inc. Prior to joining Time Warner Inc., she served as senior vice president for government relations at the National Cable and Telecommunications Association. Before assuming her position at NCTA in January of 2006, she was vice president of government relations at Viacom Inc. She has also held posts at Telecommunications Inc. (TCI), CBS and Turner Broadcasting.

 

President
HBO Entertainment
Sue Naegle is responsible for overseeing all of HBO's series programming and specials. Before joining the network in April 2008, she was a partner and co-head of the television department at United Talent Agency. She also managed UTA's training program. During her time at UTA, she oversaw the packaging of TV series such as HBO's Six Feet Under. She was also involved with HBO's current series True Blood since its inception.

 

Executive Vice President, Distribution Sales and Marketing
Univision Communications
Tonia O'Connor, who joined Univision Communications in January 2008, is responsible for leading the company's distribution efforts with cable, satellite and telecommunications operators, and managing the affiliate relations teams for the Univision and TeleFutura Network stations and the Galavisión cable network. Previously, she spent 13 years at Gemstar TV Guide.