Exec Shuffle
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Mercury Records Group has named Ken Walsh senior VP of finance and administration. Responsible for the day-to-day financial operations and planning at the label, Walsh had been senior VP at Motown Records.
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Gary Van Dis has been named VP and corporate creative director at Conde Nast Publications. Van Dis had been with Conde Nast label GQ, where he was associate art director, and also did a spin with company mag the New Yorker.
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RAI Corp. has upped Guido Corso to exec VP. Moving up from his marketing & PR VP slot, Corso will rep the U.S. wing of Italo pubcaster RAI at NATPE this month.
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Jay R. Feldman has been appointed senior VP and G.M. for the Travel Channel after serving a stint as prexy of his own Jay Feldman Co. as a developer and packager of TV programming for cable, broadcast, syndication and the international marketplace.
Feldman also worked as a consultant for firstrun syndication with the CBS O&Os from 1993 until the sale of CBS to Westinghouse. He also spent three years as executive VP for Ralph Edwards/Stu Billet Prods.
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Sal Craparotta has been named executive VP of sales and marketing at Rank Video Services America. The former president of VI&A, acquired in April by Rank, will work to position RVSA as a force in video replication, packaging, distribution and fulfillment services.
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Matthew Mitchell has been named VP of longform TV at Encore Hollywood. Charged with developing the post house's longform tube biz, Mitchell joins from G.E. Capital.
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Tim Riley has been tapped manager of A&R for Silvertone Records. Riley comes to Silvertone from a gig booking talent at the CMJ Music Marathon. He's also done stints at Revolution and Geffen Records.
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Request TV has bumped Mark Hessee to director of on-air promotions and marketing, and has named Catherine Davidson director of marketing. The PPV service also upped Ron Newton to account manager of the Midwest region, elevated Darcy Souza to director of finance and accounting, reslotted Kristen Haneke as accounting supervisor, and finally, put Dolly Bonner in the event programming manager post.
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Digital post house Voodoo has expanded its sound design division, naming Kathryn Korniloff sound designer/composer. Korniloff was sound f/x editor on Universal TV syndie series "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys" and features "Goodbye Lover" and "Gold Coast" while at Digital Sound & Picture.
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Sharon Nichols has been tapped director of sales for Laser Pacific Media Corp. Nichols will spearhead Laser Pacific's sales efforts over its entire range of of-ferings, including DVD mastering, full digital post, visual f/x and its high-definition TV operations. Before hanging her hat at Laser Pacific, Nichols held a variety of sales and operations positions at Sunset Post and the Post Group.
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The Image Bank has tapped Barbara Boster and Daryl Devlin for the newly created positions of directors of marketing development, splitting them be-tween the coasts: Boster handles the West Coast from Santa Monica, while Devlin covers the East Coast from New York. Both will handle servicing for agency art buyers, film and TV production companies, effects houses and others.
Boster comes to the Image Bank from a 20-year career in the agency and production business in New York, Dallas and L.A. Devlin was a former model and most recently was marketing director for Stratos Pictures and the Film Design Group in New York.
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Jason Rice has been tapped associate director of marketing at Trident Entertainment, a Universal City-based production and post-production outfit headed by David Salzburg. Rice will service existing corporate sponsors and clients, and will market the company's two existing video franchises, "All Pro Sports" and "A Day With." Rice comes to Trident from Fitness Works and Aero Sport.
