TV sales vet Patricia Ryan has been upped to EVP of sales at Santa Barbara, California-based Foothill Entertainment. Ryan had been working as a sales consultant for the company over the past year and the promotion formalizes her role. Currently, Ryan’s concentrating on finding sales streams for new series such as Hip Hop Kidz and catalogue titles like Animal Stories from Collingwood O’Hare.
Prior to joining Foothill, Ryan served as DIC Entertainment’s president of international sales, and prior to that, spent 14 years as VP of international sales and administration at Filmation Associates.