TORONTO – Corus Entertainment Inc. has made some executive changes in its corporate, television, and content divisions. The appointments are effective immediately.
Some of the changes are to help the company get ready to move its Toronto-based employees to a new facility in a few years.
• Andrew Eddy becomes Vice President, Content Distribution and Strategy. Eddy will leverage his programming expertise to enhance Corus’ relationships with its cable and satellite partners and will report to Paul Robertson, President, Corus Television.
• Helen Lebeau becomes Vice President, Operations, Television division and will oversee the Corus Television broadcast operations and post-production teams at both Nelvana Studios and the Television division. Lebeau will report to Robertson.
• The upcoming move to the new facility in 2009-2010 has resulted in the appointment of Bryan Ellis to Chief Technology Officer, heading up the Corus Entertainment-wide Information Technology department as well as focusing on the broadcast and IT services side of the Toronto move. To ensure the move of Corus’ broadcast and IT operations is well-executed, John Heij will step down from his operational role and will focus his technical expertise on the upcoming relocation in Toronto. In his role as Waterfront Technical Strategy Advisor, Heij will report to Bryan Ellis. Ellis will continue to oversee Corporate Business Development and report to John Cassaday, president and CEO of Corus Entertainment.
• Julie Edwards becomes Vice President, Facilities and Administration and will oversee the entire move into the company’s new Toronto location. Edwards continues to report to Tom Peddie, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.
• Lisa Lyons becomes President of Kids Can Press and will build upon the strong business results Kids Can Press has delivered this past year. Lyons will report to Doug Murphy, President, Nelvana Enterprises.
“To maintain our dynamic growth, we continue to examine opportunities to enhance the quality of our programming for our audiences and the service level to our customers,” said Cassaday. “These changes integrate our customer service and technical operations teams and also ensure we have the right resources to seamlessly execute the upcoming move to our new broadcast facility in Toronto.”
