Browsing: Executive

I’ve just had the tip-off about the new executive director of comics retailer activist group ComicsPRO, appointed to replace the departing Marco DaVanzo. And it’s Moni Barrette, who will be the first librarian in the role, rather than a comic book retailer, as is traditional.

Helen Chiang had been at Microsoft since 2005. She spent over a decade overseeing Minecraft, the company’s most important gaming franchise, and survived this year’s big Xbox “reset” with a promotion to the role of the gaming division’s chief operating officer. Barely three months later, she’s suddenly out at the company she called home for…

GOVERNOR JIM PILLEN HAS SIGNED AN EXECUTIVE ORDER DIRECTING THE NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES TO SUBMIT A STATE PLAN AMENDMENT TO THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES ADMINISTRATION FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES.

TV

In the late 1990s, Disney and Henry Winkler teamed up to create “So Weird,” which was essentially The Disney Channel’s answer to “The X-Files.” The show was produced by The Fonz himself and followed the exploits of a self-possessed, determined young girl as she traveled the United States aboard her musician mother’s tour bus, encountering…