Career Moves - September 7, 2006

Authored by dmw on September 7, 2006 - 10:19am.

Discovery Communications announced today the selection of Roger F. Millay as Senior Executive Vice Pesident and Chief Financial Officer. Millay previously served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Airgas, Inc.
http://www.discovery.com

Amy Pascal has been promoted to Co-Chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment and has extended her deal with the studio to 2011. Pascal was a studio executive at Columbia from 1987 to 1994, after which she was named President of Production for Turner Pictures where she remained for two years.
www.sonypictures.com

Capcom, a worldwide developer and publisher of video games, today announced the appointment of Germaine Gioia to serve as Senior Vice President of Licensing. Previously, Gioia was an executive at videogame publisher THQ.
http://www.capcom.com

Speck Products, a Palo Alto, Calif.- based maker of iPod, cell phone, satellite radio and the electronics accessories, on Wednesday named Irene Baran as its new CEO. Baran previously spent 20 years at Monster Cable, where she most recently spent 12 years as COO.
http://www.speckproducts.com
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/060906/20060906005512.html?.v=1

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc., an operating unit of METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER Inc., the film and television-program producer and distributor, appointed Jim Packer President of its restructured MGM Worldwide Television Distribution Group. The post is new. Packer was previously an Executive Vice President of the Worldwide Television Distribution unit.
http://www.mgm.com

Menlo Park, California-based venture capital firm Mayfield Fund has appointed Navin Chaddha as Managing Director. Most recently, Chaddha was a partner at Gabriel Venture Partners, where he focused on software, applications and networking investments in the US, and led investment activities in India.
http://www.mayfield.com

Cressanda Solution Ltd., a Delhi based IT, digital media and BPO services firm, has appointed Ashish Garg as its new Chief Financial Officer (CFO).
http://www.cressanda.com

AdLINK Group has appointed Kate Burns, former managing director of Google UK, Benelux and Ireland, as Head of Search. In her new role, Burns will be working across the UK and internationally to assess AdLINK’s potential within the search space.
http://www.adlinkgroup.com