Paul Condolora, VP and general manager for Cartoon Network New Media, has been promoted to the senior VP post in the division. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, Condolora will continue to report to Mark Norman, senior VP of business operations for Cartoon Network U.S. and Boomerang.
Condolora’s new duties will include further developing new Cartoon Network and [adult swim]-branded products and services for burgeoning distribution platforms such as broadband, VOD, wireless and interactive television. In addition to overseeing creative development and day-to-day operations for CartoonNetwork.com, AdultSwim.com, CartoonNetworkYA.com and TickleU.com, Condolora will work closely with sales and marketing teams in the Turner Network Sales (TNS) New Media division, under the direction of Dennis Quinn.
“In the five years that Paul has been with Cartoon Network New Media, formerly Cartoon Network Online, business development from branded franchises and original content under his direction has expanded more than five-fold,” says Norman. “All of these areas will become even more important going forward as ‘convergence’ finally becomes a reality, and our core audience of kids and young adults’as well as advertisers’come to expect our unique properties and characters to be available on all platforms and at all times.’
Condolora joined Cartoon Network Online in 2000 as VP of business development from Sony Pictures Imageworks in Los Angeles, where he was the head of the multimedia department. In this capacity, Condolora supervised more than 20 projects including visual effects for feature films and television shows, Internet games and promotional web sites. He also managed the U.S-based software development for Sony’s AIBO entertainment robot. Prior to his role at Imageworks, Condolora was the director of special projects for Sony Pictures Entertainment, focusing on business development.
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