Maggie Bellville Accepts Invitation To Join Academy Of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation Board Of Directors
ATLANTA, GA – January 5, 2006 – This week Maggie Bellville, a partner at CarterBaldwin, an Atlanta-based executive search firm, and longtime executive in the telecommunications industry, accepted an invitation to join the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation’s Board of Directors. Bellville’s term of service, which begins immediately, will last two years.
As the former Chief Operating Officer for Charter Communications and a partner at CarterBaldwin, Bellville has over 20 years of experience in the telecommunications industry and has been recognized for hiring and developing some of the industry’s top senior executives.
“We are delighted to have Maggie Bellville as part of our board,” said Steve Mosko, President of Sony Pictures Television and Chair of the foundation. “Her depth of resources and contacts in the cable and telecom space will lend an invaluable voice to our board and help drive our future growth,” he said.
Bellville’s invitation comes as the Foundation attempts to implement a five-year strategic plan aimed at enhancing its educational and archival programs thereby allowing the organization to fully live up to its mission of educating and inspiring the next generation of the television industry and to preserve the history of the medium.
Bellville’s telecommunications career has spanned a range of services from residential telephony to wireless, and operations to consumer products sales. She has served in a variety of management positions with the former GTE Wireless/Contel Cellular, Inc. and at AT&T and New York Telephone.
A recipient of numerous professional honors and distinctions, including being named one of the Top 10 Women in Business in Atlanta; "Woman of the Year" by the California Chapter of Women In Cable & Telecommunications (WICT); "Woman to Watch" by the Atlanta Chapter of WICT, and "Woman of the Year," the national WICT award, Bellville has served on the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the California Cable Television Association, as well as the Board of Directors of Cable Positive, and the Women in Cable and Telecommunications Foundation. In addition, Bellville has also served as an advisor to the NCTA (National Cable and Telecommunications Association) Task Force on Diversity.
A graduate of the State University of New York at Binghamton with a B.A. in Social Science, Bellville also is a graduate of the Harvard Business School, Advanced Management Program.
About the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation
The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation is a non-profit organization whose primary focus is to use the history and artistry of television to preserve its past for posterity, and guide those who will be its future.
The Foundation utilizes the resources and membership of the Television Academy to develop and sponsor educational and archival programs that address a variety of issues including career guidance, student achievement, personal skill development, diversity and the documentation of television's evolution.
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