Buena Vista International Television (BVITV), the Walt Disney Co.’s international TV distribution arm, has appointed Dayna Donaldson and Simon Barwick to its London-based EMEA TV sales team. Donaldson has been named sales director for the Nordic region, responsible for free TV, pay TV and digital media business in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland. Meanwhile Barwick will serve as senior sales manager for the U.K. and Ireland region. His employment is effectively immediately and Donaldson will join the team at the end of March. Both will report to Catherine Powell, BVITV’s VP of sales for U.K. and Ireland, Nordic, Benelux and Israel.
Donaldson was previously head of sales for Minotaur International, one of the U.K.’s largest distributors of multi-channel programming. There she headed the sales team responsible for licensing programming produced for the five Flextech Channels and independent production companies such as SMG, LaPlante Prods., Kudos, TwoFour and Shine, and was responsible for all sales to the Americas. Before that, she was VP of distribution for Hypnotic in New York.
Barwick movies up from the role of finance director at BVITV, in which he was responsible for commercial and financial strategy across the Asia-Pacific region. He originally began his media career with BVITV’s London-based finance team in 1998, before moving on to stints at such international broadcasters as BSkyB in the U.K. and Foxtel in Australia.
BVITV manages the pay TV, free TV, pay-per-view, video-on-demand and mobile licensing of Disney’s filmed entertainment. The branch covers feature films from Walt Disney Pictures and Touchstone Pictures, as well as Disney-produced animated and live action series, and also services the distribution of the Jetix Europe portfolio of programming.
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