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THE INFLUENTIALS
speeds by operating in the 5GHz band.
Situ supports organizations that guide
young people to tech careers, including
Girls Who Code and the Bixel Exchange
Tech Talent Pipeline. His advice to those
just starting out? " Believe in yourself
and let your passion guide you. That will
never steer you wrong. "
Mikel Slater
VP, HR, Customer
Experience
Comcast Cable
Slater, a board offi cer
in NAMIC's 2018 Detroit
chapter, provides
strategic HR leadership,
consultation and coordination for
Comcast's customer experience team,
which has employees in several locations
across the country. His responsibilities
also include strategic planning,
labor relations, employee engagement
and workforce development.
Dane Snowden
COO
NCTA - The Internet &
Television Assn.
Snowden oversees the
evolving association's
day-to-day operations,
as well as its planning
and strategic initiatives. He feels the media
industry is making strides in diversity
and inclusion, and is especially proud
of Diversity Week. " While it has become
an annual event, we cannot overlook
the importance of Diversity Week for the
industry and each individual. It is not
just a symbol but practical real world
workshops, panels and attention focused
on the issue of inclusion, growth and
opportunity, " he says. " No one else does
it. Be proud but not content. "
Tony Song
VP, Advertising Sales
AMC & SundanceTV
During the last
two years, Song
has expanded his
duties and now
oversees both AMC
and SundanceTV's national ad sales
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businesses. To boot, he's one of the
key architects of AMC Networks'
Upfront & Scatter strategy. A native of
South Korea, Song is pleased to see
the success of " Crazy Rich Asians "
and notes, " I'm hopeful to see more
movies and shows featuring more
diversity. "
Madhu Goel Southworth
SVP, Legal & Business
Affairs
AMC & SundanceTV
Southworth's goals
for 2019 include
executing deals
supporting the
on-demand AMC Premiere service,
as well as brand extensions and
non-scripted deals for AMC and
SundanceTV. Meanwhile, Southworth
continues to run Lattice, a professional
group for women counsel in
media, entertainment and digital. " I
think recognizing, acknowledging
and then building a conversation
around diversity & inclusion is a big
deal, " she says.
Tony Speller
SVP, Engineering &
Technical Operations,
Northeast Division
Comcast Cable
Speller provides
strategic guidance
and leadership for
the technical operations, engineering,
business improvement, and residential
and commercial construction
functions for Comcast's operations
from Maine through Virginia. During
the past year, multiple severe
weather and high-traffic events
notched up his efforts even higher.
Speller would like to see the industry
invest more in data collection and
analysis. " This would make for a
more targeted approach to strategy
and design to match business objectives
and outcomes, " he says.
Manjri Srivastava
VP, Integrated
Advertising Sales &
Marketing, Direct-toConsumer
and
International
The Walt Disney Co.
Srivastava is a consummate
innovator. One of her team's
latest high-profi le programs was an
award-winning, multimedia, crossportfolio
campaign that paired " DuckTales "
with the Afl ac " spokesduck. "
Addressing industry changes, she says,
" It is the daily challenge of how to
create that perfect custom advertising
solution that meets the needs of the
brand and hits home with our audience
when there is so much of everything to
choose from. "
Lance Still
SVP & Managing
Director, Branded
Content
A+E Networks
Still leads two divisions
within A+E: The
Build and The Bridge.
They are aptly named as she feels
" building " and " bridging " with future
generations is vital to increase diversity
and inclusion within the industry. " One
step to improve this is to put a greater
effort into community outreach to
students at the high school and college
level through internships, mentoring
programs, job shadowing, " Still says.
Marcela Tabares
SVP, Research &
Strategic Insights
A+E Networks
Having delved into
the buying habits
of women for A+E
Nets, Tabares is now
exploring males through her work on
#HisLife: Understanding the Experience
of Today's Man. She feels statistics
on diversity within content creators is
bleak but believes those fi gures can
change. " I do not believe that this is
because the talent is not out there; it
surely is, " she says.
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