David Palmer has been appointed senior vice president, brand development and talent alliances at Comcast Entertainment Group. Palmer is charged with maximizing exposure and revenue associated with brand extensions and business opportunities in partners

April 6, 2018

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hip with network talent and key franchises across E! Entertainment, The Style Network and G4.

VF Outdoor has named Paul Sline director of collegiate sales, JanSport. Sline will have responsibility for growing the JanSport collegiate business, which includes backpacks and collegiate apparel. He will report to Steve Munn, president of JanSport, and will be based at the JanSport office in Appleton, Wisc. Sline most recently worked for Stride-Rite and Reebok.

Andy Holtz has joined the Halo Group as a senior account executive at the New York City-based branding agency. Prior to this, Holtz managed product launches, TV productions, ad campaigns and media plans for clients including Verizon Wireless Retail, AutoTrader.com and Chiquita.

Mark Hollingsworth has become chief executive officer of Ragdoll and will oversee the future development of the company, extending his role as Ragdoll’s commercial director. Andrew Davenport, the co-creator of Teletubbies, and creator and author of "In the Night Garden," who joined the board of Ragdoll in 2006, assumes a wider role as creative director and will also contribute to the creative direction of the company as a whole. Davenport will join Hollingsworth, as a director of Ragdoll Worldwide, the joint venture between Ragdoll and BBC Worldwide. Anne Wood, who founded Ragdoll and has been responsible for its creative direction to date, will chair the board while continuing to work with writers and producers in an originating role.

Italy-based Atlantyca Entertainment has appointed author Pierdomenico Baccalario as editor-in-chief to head the company’s content-publishing division, which is dedicated to creating and developing new content for books based on entertainment properties and characters. Baccalario’s first task is to develop the content for Taffy Entertainment’s "Code Lyoko" books.

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