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James Ballard
Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing
James Ballard joined VITAC in 2001. With more than 25 years of experience in the television and information-technology industries, he has held sales and marketing roles at ESPN, Fox Sports, SmartRoute Systems (a Westwood One company), and LumaPath. Jim is a former U.S. Marine, who served in the Sudan and Switzerland, and is a graduate of the University of Connecticut. As our Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing, he leads sales initiatives from VITAC’s North Hollywood office.
Jim commutes daily to and from his home in Irvine, California. When not stuck in traffic in his car, he can be found spending time with his wife, two mad dogs, avoiding calls from three grown sons, road biking and collecting music.
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Leadership
- Patricia Prozzi
President and CEO - Chuck Karlovits
Chief Operations Officer (COO) - Doug Karlovits
Chief Business Development Officer (CBDO) - Pete Muck
Director of Finance - Dwight Wagner
Chief Technology Officer
Sales and Marketing
- Drew Blasingame
Client Sales and Services Representative - Franco Bonacchi
Assistant Manager, Client Sales and Services - Darryn Cleary
Senior VP, Sales - Debbie Hammond
Director, Client Sales and Service - James MacPherson
Client Sales and Services Representative - Maggie McDermott
VP, Sales, West Coast - Ryan Nickoli
Client Sales and Services Representative - Rosemary Agcaoili-Tapia
Client Sales and Services Representative - Steve York
Client Sales and Services Representative - Heather York
VP, Marketing
Operations
- Danielle Bellows
Manager of Realtime Scheduling - Bob Beyer
General Manager, Washington D.C., Office - Tim Taylor
VP, Engineering and Facility Operations - Amy Bowlen
Manager, Realtime Captioner Training - Dan Garbark
Multilanguage Services Coordinator - Chris Kallet
Manager, Offline Training - Yelena Makarczyk
VP, Multilanguage Operations - Mark Paluso
Manager, Realtime Coordinators - Mark Panichella
Manager, Human Resources - Dina Smith
Director, Prerecorded Operations
