Rise appoints new managing director

Smith takes over from Carrie Wootten, and has over two decades of success in multi-billion dollar companies, including NBC Universal and TiVO

By Jenny Priestley

Published: June 14, 2023 Updated: June 15, 2023

Smith takes over from Carrie Wootten, and has over two decades of success in multi-billion dollar companies, including NBC Universal and TiVO

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Rise, the advocacy group for gender diversity in broadcast media technology has announced the appointment of Donna Smith as its new managing director.

Donna Smith Smith takes over from Carrie Wootten, and has over two decades of success in multi-billion dollar companies, including NBC Universal and TiVO.

Rise has also welcomed Carla Maroussas as mentoring manager for UK and Europe.

The goal of Rise has always been to help foster a diverse and gender balanced workforce in the media and entertainment technology space and we are delighted to have Donna and Carla working with us towards this future. said Sadie Groom, founder of Rise.

Rise has also announced the UK mentorship pairings for 2023:

Alice Rose, Events Marketing Assistant, Media Business Insights (MBI) will be mentored by Louise Wells, Managing Director, Bubble Agency

Aoife Daly, Senior Media Coordinator, UKTV will be mentored by Sue Farrell, Technologist, Channel 4

Chrissy Agius, Junior Broadcast Engineer, Limitless Broadcast will be mentored by Purminder Gandu, Lead for BBC Edge Forum, BBC

Cloe Wood, Technical Operations Engineer, ITV Content Services will be mentored by Elaine Sampson, Broadcast Engineering Manager, Timeline TV

Deanna O'Brien, Satellite Systems and IP Engineer, Arqiva will be mentored by Camilla James, Director, TechEx

Emma Weeks, Senior Account Executive, Bubble Agency will be mentored by Amisa Saari-Stout, PR and External Comms Lead, Vizrt Group

Hannah Wells, Bookings Coordinator, Timeline TV will be mentored by John Griffiths, Chief Commercial Officer, Spicy Mango

Hitomi Hamaba, Head of Product, Sony will be mentored by Stephen Tallamy, CTO, EditShare

Iwona Czardybon, Project Manager, base media cloud will be mentored by Catriona Tate, Sales Director, UK & MEA, Accedo TV

Jessica Horst, Network Director (Broadcast Services ITV), Red Bee Media will be mentored by Morwen Williams, Director of Operations, BBC News

Kavita Dill, Head of Scale Programmes EMEA License Manager, Adobe will be mentored by Laurissa Yeung Shea, Business Analyst, Warner Media

Kerry Freeman, Head of Sales UKI, IMES will be mentored by Margaret Davies, Head of Market Area Operations UK, IE & APAC, Red Bee Media

Leila Ghazzawi, Rental Coordinator, Gravity Media will be mentored by Liz Clarke, VP Client Operations, Mirriad

Lorraine Panman, Programme Manager, Pulselive will be mentored by Rebecca Moore, Director of Technical Operations, Warner Media

Louise Jones, Content Operations and Previewing Supervisor, WBD will be mentored by Charlotte Wheeler, Event Director, Media and Production Show (MPTS)

Madeleine Chappell, Digital Marketing Assistant, Object Matrix will be mentored by Lauren Carter Jones, Marketing Manager, Media Business Insights (MBI)

Marina Cantabrana, Head of Product Marketing, disguise will be mentored by Heidi Shakespeare, CEO, Memmon

May Coughlan, Video Technician, Universal Pixel will be mentored by Stephen Stewart, Media Consultant

Michelle Kegg, Sales Lead Media, Endava will be mentored by Claire Butler, VP Marketing, Grabyo

Rebecca Hodgson, Workflow Consultant, Avid Technology will be mentored by Kerry Shreeve, Vice President of Technology Operations, Discovery Inc

Sam Stafford, Engineer, Evolutions Post Production will be mentored by Jackie Howes, Director Media Infrastructure Architect, Discovery Inc

Sophie Glaas, Delivery Manager, Hawk-Eye Innovations will be mentored by Nic Kemp, Senior Workflow Consultant, Adobe

Tazmin Ercen, Innovation Designer, Adobe will be mentored by Mike Ward, Head of Marketing, Singular.live

Tia Shenton, Broadcast Engineer Apprentice, Channel 4 will be mentored by Carys Hughes, Senior PQ Engineer, Sky

Toria Farrell, Operational Lead, DAZN will be mentored by Gabby Redfern, Group Content Services Director, Sky

Zoe Mumba, Senior Manager, PR & Comms, Bitmovin will be mentored by Katie Tweedle, Head of Communications, Whisper TV

Zo Kennedy, Senior Business Analyst, BBC Studios will be mentored by Dee Davison, Director of Sustainability, Deluxe

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