June 2026 Newly Elected Members

The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences is proud to welcome our newly elected Members - spanning 24 countries.

New Directors

 Beatrice Springborn

President

Universal Global Television

USA

Jeffrey Zucker

CEO & Operating Partner

RedBird IMI & RedBird Capital Partners

USA 

New Alternate

Kelsey Balance

Executive Vice President, Global Scripted Series

Universal Global Television

USA

Sabine Anger 

Senior Vice President, Head of Distribution and Business Development D2C EMEA 

Paramount 

Germany 

Luis Ara 

CEO 

Trailer Films 

Uruguay 

Nohra Assaker 

Executive Producer 

Imagic Productions 

Lebanon 

Jaume Banacolocha Ill 

CEO 

Diagonal Televisió, SLU 

Spain 

Rafael Barioni 

CCO / Director / Executive Producer 

Mood Hunter 

USA 

Claudia Bluemhuber 

CEO 

Silver Reel 

Switzerland 

Erin Brock 

Co-Chief Content Officer & Executive Vice-President/Showrunner 

Insight Productions 

Canada 

Julieta Brunero 

Scripted Content Director 

Dynamo 

Mexico 

Jessica Brunton 

Senior Vice-President/Chief Production Officer 

Insight Productions 

Canada  

Adriana Cechetti 

Sr. Director of Unscripted Content - Brazil 

Warner Bros. Discovery 

Brazil 

Henry Chang 

Senior Vice President 

Colbeck Capital 

USA

Ligia Ciornei 

Producer 

Augmented Films 

Romania 

Yigit Dogan Celik 

Chairperson and CEO 

Merzigo 

Türkiye

Pamela Duckworth 

Head of Fubo

Studios and Networks 

Fubo

USA

Victoria Elmacioglu 

Media & Entertainment

Relations Strategist

Greece

Mouhssine Ennaimi 

Executive Producer /

Director-Producer 

TRT World 

Türkiye 

Jordi Frades 

Director General 

Diagonal Televisió, SLU 

Spain

Susana Gomes 

Programming Director and Content Acquisitions Executive 

Dreamia 

Portugal

Dmitrii Gorbunov 

CEO, Executive Producer 

METAXILASIS LLC 

Serbia

Guy Hameiri 

Co-Founder & CEO 

Roseberry 

Israel 

Asef Hamidi 

Managing Director of Al Jazeera Arabic Channel 

Al Jazeera Media Network 

Qatar

Cindy Holland 

Chair, Direct to Consumer 

Paramount 

USA

Toshihiko Honda 

Director, Chief Operating Officer (COO) 

U-NEXT 

Japan

Meghan Hooper White 

EVP, Global Strategy and Co-Productions 

Studio TF1 America 

USA

Jin Ishimoto 

President, Producer 

Element 8 Entertainment 

Japan

Olivier Jollet 

Executive Vice President Head of Pluto TV 

Paramount 

Germany 

Taku Kato 

Head of Content Value Development Center / Deputy Head of Content Strategy 

NHK 

Japan 

Federico Levrino del Valle 

Senior Director of Programming and Content 

Telefe 

Argentina 

Jay Lin 

Founder and CEO 

Portico Media and GagaOOLala 

Taiwan 

Rodrigo Mazon 

Head of Latin America + Canada, Direct to Consumer 

Paramount

USA

Beverley McGarvey 

President Network 10 & Head of Streaming, Paramount ANZ 

Network 10, Paramount 

Australia

Maarten Meijs 

CEO 

Talpa Studios 

Netherlands

Christine Molinares 

Founder CEO

Bremer Vision Group Inc. 

USA

Benjamin Moskowitz 

Counsel 

Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz

USA

Mary Njoku 

Founder/CEO 

ROK Studios/Thema Nigeria 

Nigeria

Monica O'Brien 

Producer 

Ambience Entertainment 

Australia 

Anna Priest 

SVP Head of Marketing DTC EMEA 

Paramount 

United Kingdom

Augusto Rovegno 

SVP, Content - Latin America 

Paramount 

USA 

Katsuaki Setoguchi 

Executive Officer /

President & CEO 

TBS Holdings, Inc. / THE SEVEN / THE SEVEN US

Japan 

Matthew Sidari 

Member 

Phronesis Advisory, LLC 

USA 

Adam Steinman 

Executive Vice President Global Formats and Acquisitions 

BLINK49 Studios 

USA

Fadi Taher 

CEO 

Impact Media 

Egypt

Anton Ten 

Founder and Executive

Creative Director 

PAPATON Studio 

USA

Adriana Timco 

Producer 

Passion Pictures 

United Kingdom

Jane Wiseman 

Head of Originals 

Paramount+ 

USA

Fairouz Ziani 

Principal Presenter 

Al Jazeera Network 

Qatar