About HIT Entertainment
HIT Entertainment, owned by private equity investment group Apax Partners, is one of the world's leading independent children's entertainment producers and rights-owners. HIT's portfolio includes properties, such as Barney™, Bob the Builder™, Thomas & Friends™, Pingu™, Fireman Sam™, Angelina Ballerina™ and Rainbow Magic™. HIT represents Chapman Entertainment's Fifi and the Flowertots™ and Roary the Racing Car™ in North America and Japan, as well as Wallace & Gromit™, Shaun the Sheep™, Timmy Time™ and Aardman Classics from Aardman Animations. HIT also acts as representative for The Wiggles® in the UK.
Launched in 1989, HIT's lines of business span television and video production, content distribution, publishing, consumer products licensing, live events and attractions and has operations in the UK, US, Canada, Hong Kong and Japan. HIT is a part-owner of US preschool channel, PBS KIDS Sprout℠, and international preschool channel JimJam, (outside of the US, UK and China).
For more information, visit http://www.hitentertainment.com.
Pamela Westman
Executive Vice President, Thomas Division, The Americas, HIT Entertainment
Pamela Westman, Executive Vice President, Thomas Division, The Americas, has over 20 years of experience in children's entertainment. In her current role, Ms. Westman is responsible for Consumer Products for HIT's Thomas Division in The Americas, and Home Entertainment, Live Events, Marketing, and Broadcast Distribution across HIT's portfolio of brands including Angelina Ballerina™, Barney™, Bob the Builder™ and Thomas & Friends™ in the United States, Canada and Latin America.
Prior to her current position, Ms. Westman served as Senior Vice President, HIT Entertainment Canada and Latin America where she managed the Canadian and Latin American divisions of the Company's broadcast sales, home entertainment, licensing & live events businesses. In addition, she oversaw the brand management for HIT's portfolio of classic preschool brands.
Before joining HIT, she served as General Manager at Kids Motion where she managed video distribution for a leading Canadian children's video company. While there, she was part of the team that launched Barney Home Video in Canada and represented other properties, including Wishbone, The Wiggles and Veggie Tales. She began at Kids Motion in finance as an Assistant Controller and moved into the Sales division as an account manager prior to becoming the General Manager.
Previously, Ms. Westman was the Director, Finance, Swift Adhesive, a leading provider of industrial adhesives, where she managed all finance and customer service departments for the Company for its manufacturing plants across Canada.
Ms. Westman received her BA in Administrative Studies from York University.
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