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MUMBAI:
Maurice van Sabben will join National Geographic Television
International (NGTI) as president on 1 April.
Based
out of London, he will directly report to National Geographic
Ventures (NGV) COO Edward (Ted) Prince, who is based at the
company’s headquarters in Washington DC.
van
Sabben
will be responsible for overseeing the existing factual and
kids’ programme sales business. In this capacity, he
will be working closely with National Geographic Television,
continuing to meet the documentary programme needs of broadcasters
around the world. He will source new financing opportunities
for production and forging new production partnerships.
Besides,
he will support the development of selected National Geographic
activities in the international marketplace, which includes
working with NGV and National Geographic Digital Media to
help drive National Geographic’s growing digital business
outside of the US.
van
Sabben comes in from SNTV (Sports News Television), part of
IMG Media. Prior to that, he was senior commercial manager
at Three UK and was at Jetix Europe (then Fox Kids Europe)
for three years.
Prince
said, “NGTI has grown and developed significantly in
recent years, as has our production output, but as the way
in which people consume content changes and the boundaries
between our own internal business divisions blur, we increasingly
need internationally-minded, pro-active business leaders like
Maurice who can help ensure National Geographic Ventures capitalises
on all possible future opportunities.”
Sabben
said, “ I am delighted to be leading the NGTI team, selling
high-quality factual programming the world over. It is great
to be onboard for MipTV and I am looking forward to meeting
many of our existing clients and business partners in Cannes.”
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