Mercury Re-organises and Creates New Positions in response to Revenue Growth

MercuryMedia today announces a new team ahead of Mip 2011 following the departure of Head of Sales Patricia Hickey.

Calum Gray is promoted to Head of Sales and Acquisitions for both MercuryMedia and digital subsidiary JoiningTheDocs.tv (JTD), with sales responsibility for Northern Europe, North America and Asia.

Elsewhere, Helena Martinez is promoted to Sales Executive Southern Europe and Latin America, while Mark Navarrete is recruited as Marketing Executive for both Mercury and JTD.

Marga Villalonga has also been hired to the new role of Production Co-ordinator for JoiningTheDocs.tv, and Ben Taylor is recruited to the new role of JTD Acquisitions Co-ordinator.

MercuryMedia Chief Executive Tim Sparke commented: “We have said a fond farewell to Patricia Hickey our former Head of Sales who has left Mercury after 4 years to join 3DD. We have used the opportunity to re-engineer the company to meet the challenges of combining traditional and digital distribution. The multi-skilled team, led by Calum Gray and Content Director Ben Wharton, gives Mercury and JoiningTheDocs.TV a new edge in content acquisition, post-production, marketing and distribution capabilities – the sum of which is already bearing fruit through increased revenues and a superlative catalogue of new film titles which we will unveil at Mip 2011”.