Career Moves: September 6, 2006

Authored by dmw on September 6, 2006 - 10:23am.

Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) appoints Dave Karraker as its Senior Director of Corporate Communications. Karraker will be charged with overseeing all North American public relations for SCEA. Karraker was previously North American Vice President of Corporate Communications for Allied Domecq Spirits and Wine.
http://scea.sony.com/

Charlie Collier joins Rainbow Media Holdings LLC’s AMC as its General Manager. Collier was previously Executive Vice President, General Manager for Court TV.
http://www.rainbow-media.com/rainbow/index.jsp
http://www.amctheatres.com/

John T. Kurtzweil joins Cree, Inc. as its Executive Vice President and CFO, effective september 22, 2006. Kurtzweil just resigned from his position as Senior Vice President and CFO for Cirrus Logic, Inc.
http://www.cree.com/

Everstream hires Barry Hardek as its Vice President of Marketing and Business Development. Hardek was previously Vice President of Marketing and Sales at CableMatrix.
http://www.everstream.com/

Leighton Webb joins I-play as its Senior Vice President of Content Strategy and Licensing, Global Business. Webb was previously Vice President International Wireless for Fox Mobile Entertainment.
http://www.iplay.com/

FotoNation appoints Eric Zarakov as Vice President of Marketing. Zarakov was previously VP of Marketing for Foveon Inc.
http://www.fotonation.com/

Discovery Communications names Leonard Tacconi as its President of Discovery Health Media Enterprises. Previously, Tacconi served as Executive Director of Corporate Marketing for Merck & Company.
http://corporate.discovery.com/

Rachelle Zoffer joins Verizon as its Director of Interactive TV — a newly created position. Zoffer previously held management postitions at Softel-USA, ShadowTV, and Disney.
http://www22.verizon.com/