Beggs to Chair NATPE Board For Third Consecutive Term

Association also announces additions to board

By Paige Albiniak -- Broadcasting & Cable, 1/21/2010 4:34:22 PM

Kevin Beggs, Lionsgate's president of programming and production, has been elected to serve a third term as chair of the NATPE board of directors.

Newly elected members of the 2010 NATPE board are Paul Buccieri, CEO and President, ITV Studios; Emiliano Calemzuk, President, Fox Television Studios; Nancy Dubuc, President & General Manager, History, A&E Television Networks; Alina Falcon,EVP/ Operating Manager, Univision Network; Hans Schiff, Agent, Creative Artists Agency; Eric Schotz, CEO & President, LMNO Productions; and Peter Tortorici, CEO, GroupM Entertainment World Wide.

Returning to the NATPE Board are Lisa Berger, EVP, Original Programming and Series Development, E! Entertainment Television; Sean Compton, SVP, Programming and Entertainment, Tribune Broadcasting Company; Chris Grant, Managing Director and Head of Worldwide Distribution, ShineReveille International; Phil Gurin, President, The Gurin Company; Keith Hindle CEO, Americas, FremantleMedia Enterprises; Jordan Hoffner, President of Digital Media, Electus; Jordan Levin, CEO, Generate; Gary Lico, President & CEO, CABLEready Corp.; Diane Robina, President, FEARnet and EVP, TV Guide Network; Neal Sabin, EVP, Weigel Broadcasting; Lori H. Schwartz, SVP, Director of Emerging Media, Interpublic Emerging Media Lab; Kathy Styponias, GM, Media & Entertainment Group, Entertainment & Devices Division, Microsoft Corp.; Fernando Szew, CEO, MarVista Entertainment; Jon Vlassopulos, CEO, Moderati/GM.

The 2010 NATPE Executive Committee is comprised of NATPE President Rick Feldman and Beggs along with member representatives Stephen J. Davis, President, Hasbro Studios; Emerson Coleman, VP, programming, Hearst Television Inc.; Bruce David Klein, President & Executive Producer, Atlas Media Corp.; Jim Packer, President, Worldwide TV Distribution, Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios; Barry Wallach, President, NBC Universal Domestic Television Distribution; and Eminence Gris Lew Klein, President, NATPE Educational Foundation.