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 a worldwide representative for The Jim Henson Company's library of classic family brands and 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
Senior Vice President, HIT Entertainment Canada and Latin America, HIT Entertainment
Pamela Westman, Senior Vice President, HIT Entertainment Canada and Latin America, has more than 14 years of experience in video distribution for children's entertainment. In her current role, Pamela manages the Canadian and Latin American divisions of the Company's broadcast sales, home entertainment, licensing & live events businesses. In addition, she oversees the brand management for HIT's portfolio of classic preschool brands, including Bob the Builder™, Barney™, Thomas & Friends™ and Angelina Ballerina™, among others.
Prior to 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, she 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.
Pamela received her BA in Administrative Studies from York University.
