PEOPLE

ASPIRE

Paul Butler has been named general manager of Aspire,
the new African-American network backed by Earvin
“Magic” Johnson. He comes from GMC, where he was
senior VP, general counsel.

BBC WORLDWIDE

Parul Patel was promoted to vice president, factual coproductions
and sales at BBC Worldwide. She had been
director, sales and distribution.

CABLEVISION

Jerry Genova has been named vice president of network
management and field operations at Bethpage,
N.Y.-based Cablevision Systems. A former Cablevision
employee, he had most recently served as a communications
consultant.

CNN

Margaret Hoover has joined CNN as a political consultant.
She is a former Bush administration official and Republican
consultant.

GLOBECAST

Edward “Eddie” Ferraro has been named North American
Head of Sales at Globecast Americas, based in New
York. He was VP, sales and business development at
United Service Source.

HISTORY

Samantha Maltin has been named senior vice president
of marketing at History, H2 and the History portfolio
of brands. She comes from Viacom International
Media Networks, where she was senior VP, global
partnerships.

INSIGHT STRATEGY

Betsy Grimes was named associate director at New
York-based Insight Strategy Group. She had been senior
manager.

KANTAR

Jon Swallen was named chief research officer at Kantar
Media. He had been SVP, research, at Kantar Media Intelligence.

MEDIA STORM

Scott Yambor has joined New York- and South Norwalk,
Conn.-based media and marketing agency Media Storm
as media director He comes from Serino Coyne, where
he was senior director, media services.

MINERVA

Alviso, Calif.-based TV-over-Internet-protocol software
solutions provider Minerva has named Todd Clayton vice
president of strategic sales. He comes from 2Wire/Pace.

Also, Chuck Morris joined Minerva as vice president,
engineering. He had been VP of engineering at Omneon
and Venturi Wireless.

Chuck Yort has joined Minerva as vice president of
marketing and strategic alliance. He was VP and general
manager of B2B Solutions at Plantronics.

Finally, Pancrazio Auteri has joined Minerva as senior
director, product management. He was co-founder and
chief technology officer of TVBLOB.

MLB NETWORK

Rob McGlarry was promoted to executive vice president
at MLB Network. He was senior VP, programming and
business affairs.

NICKELODEON

Jim Mollica was promoted to senior vice president, consumer
marketing at Nickelodeon Group. He had been
VP, digital marketing.

OVATION

Marc Johnson has joined Santa Monica, Calif.-based
arts network Ovation as vice president of digital media.
He was director, creative services at ABC.com.

RADIALPOINT

Montreal-based Radialpoint has named Devkumar Das
as vice president, global sales and client relationships.
He comes from Mavenir Systems, where he was VP,
worldwide sales.

SONAR

Todd Solokove was named vice president, marketing,
at New York-based Sonar Entertainment. He had been
marketing director of the company.

DID YOU KNOW? While at Viacom, Samantha
Maltin conducted Nickelodeon’s first global
kids’ influence study.

DID YOU KNOW? At Nickelodeon, Jim Mollica
developed the social-media stratgey for such
series as iCarly, Victorious and Big Time Rush.