Messinger – SVP @ Univision Sales Development & Marketing.

Univision Communications Inc. announced the appointment of Evan Messinger to the position of Senior Vice President, Sales Development and Marketing, effective immediately. Messinger will be responsible for business development and integrated cross platform endeavors for Univision. He will report to Bennett Fogel, Executive Vice President, Network Sales and Marketing, and will be based in New York.

“Evan has a very strong background in high-level client selling and was one of the innovators of cross platform packaging,” said Fogel. “His experience and industry contacts make him uniquely qualified to have an immediate impact on our organization.”

Prior to joining Univision, Messinger served as Senior Vice President of Business Development for Reciprocal.com, a joint venture with Microsoft and Reuters, where he was responsible for digital rights management, content licensing and e-commerce. From 1987 to 1999, he served as Senior Vice-President of Sales and Marketing for Turner Broadcasting/Time Warner, where he was responsible for creating the Company’s Integrated Sales and Marketing division. This division reflected the industry’s first consolidated corporate sales endeavor among the entire portfolio of Time/Warner and Turner Broadcasting assets. Messinger began his career in spot radio with Katz Communications.