Purdy departs Rogers for new role at Vice

TORONTO – Long-time Rogers exec David Purdy has been named as Vice Media’s new chief international growth officer.Purdy, who played a key role in the recent multiplatform partnership between Vice and Rogers, will work between Toronto and New York developing that partnership and growing other partnerships around the world to distribute Vice’s programming across linear, mobile, and OTT. At Rogers, where he was most recently SVP for content and video product management, Purdy (pictured) helped to launch several Canadian linear channels, brought more than 100 international channels into the Canadian market, and led the launch of numerous new content products and services...