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The Leaders
30. Charisse Lillie
VP, Community Investment,
Comcast Corp;
President, the Comcast Foundation
Comcast's most senior female minority
executive, Lillie is responsible for multimillion-dollar
partnerships with national
community and non-proit groups and
oversees community and employee projects, such as Comcast
Cares Day. One of Comcast's most prominent ambassadors to
the industry, she is responsible for overall leadership of corporate
and Foundation charitable giving, all of Comcast's national
community partnerships with organizations such as City Year
and United Way Worldwide. Though she acknowledges marked
improvement in the business focus on diversity, Lillie " would
like to see improvement in the hiring and retention of diverse
employees at all levels of cable companies and more diversity
on the boards of cable companies. "
31. A.B. Cruz
Chief Legal Officer/Corporate Secretary,
Scripps Networks Interactive
Cruz sits atop Scripps' Executive Committee
alongside the CEO, president
and CFO, instituting corporate strategic
decisions. His considerable experience
in law practice makes him a master
business negotiator, deftly brokering mergers, acquisitions,
and pivotal distribution agreements. Cruz uses his inluence to
forward Scripps' " Change the World " initiative, birthed to better
the lives of those in need. As you go through life, he says,
focus less on your career trajectory and more on understanding
who you are becoming as a person. He'd like to see improved
diversity at every level of cable, " particularly in the C-suites and
boardrooms of the organizations that make up our industry. "
32. Richard Gay
EVP, MTV and VH1, MTV Networks
Gay drives strategic and operational
initiatives within the brands of the Viacom
Music Group, including MTV, VH1
and CMT. In this role, he brokers deals
that help the Group build new revenue
streams for its major brands and
franchises, such as the recent partnership with a major spirits
company, a leading music library and a major events producer.
He's also helped develop festival concepts and identify partners
to bring them to fruition, and helped drive new advertiser-sponsored
content. Among the lessons Gay has gleaned over the
years: " Sometimes you have to separate the message from its
delivery. You can learn from any situation, even those that aren't
particularly pleasant. "
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33. Diana Mogollon
GM, mun2, NBCUniversal
Mogollon led mun2 to its best-ever
ratings and revenue in year 2011,
and followed up with the network
holding the top Hispanic cable net
position in 2012 in key demos for
numerous weeks running. A trendsetter
in the Hispanic programming realm, she is the inal
say on all content the network creates and acquires, and
she holds a key leadership role within the Comcast/NBCU
family. Though Mogollon says cable is doing better than
broadcast on diversity, " We still have a long way to go on
truly understanding how to showcase diversity and make
the case that it's great business all around. "
34. Cynthia Chu
CFO, USA Network, NBCUniversal
2011 was a stellar year for Chu. Not
only did she help exceed USA's annual
budget, but she also set new
company proit records. Her sweeping
purview extends across USA's
development, production, marketing
and acquisitions divisions. Chu urges those anxious to accelerate
their career to focus on the present. " If you excel
in your current job, opportunities to advance usually come
knocking, " she says. Chu supports several high-potential
NBCU employees through professional mentorship and
career coaching.
35. Marva Smalls
EVP, Global Inclusion Strategy,
MTV Networks;
EVP, Public Affairs and
Chief of Staff, Nickelodeon/MTVN
Kids & Family Group
A testament not only to her cable
industry savvy but her commitment
to diversity, Smalls stepped up ive years ago to become
MTVN's very irst EVP of global inclusion strategy while
retaining her role in public affairs. She steers the company's
efforts to foster a diverse, multicultural and inclusive
workforce, working with the upper echelons of all MTVN
brands as well as expanding the networks' partnerships
with outside organizations to help further the company's
inclusion efforts. " Diversity and inclusion are as essential
as creativity and innovation for success in a global marketplace, "
Smalls has said.
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