Brad Schwartz was named President, Entertainment of The CW Network in November 2022 and is responsible for programming strategy, creative and brand development, and day-to-day operations of The CW Network, America’s fifth national television network. Schwartz reports to Dennis Miller, President, The CW Network.

Schwartz brings 20 years of experience in media leadership and transformation, having overseen the launch or turnaround of seven different media brands. Most recently, Schwartz spearheaded the highly-successful award-winning re-brand of the TV Guide Network to Pop TV. As President of the network, Schwartz oversaw both creative and business operations. The Pop TV team grew audience and revenue for six consecutive years.

Schwartz was responsible for landing Pop TV’s flagship original series, “Schitt’s Creek,” which received four Emmy nominations in 2019, making Pop TV only the second basic cable network in history with a Best Comedy Series Emmy nomination. In 2020, “Schitt’s Creek” won more Emmys than any comedy series in history and between “Schitt’s Creek” and “One Day at a Time,” Pop TV won the third-highest total of Emmys in the industry. In 2020, Pop TV was the fastest growing non-news network in all of television.

Prior to Pop TV, Schwartz was Senior Vice President of Programming and Operations at Fuse, where he oversaw an award-winning re-brand, delivered the highest ratings in the network’s history and discovered critically acclaimed talent and programming, including the Emmy-nominated “Billy On The Street” with Billy Eichner, Prentice Penny’s Image-Award winning “The Hustle,” GLAAD-winning Best Reality Series “Big Freedia: Queen of Bounce,” and developed the Emmy and Peabody-winning “Hip Hop Evolution” for Netflix.

Prior to Fuse, Schwartz served as General Manager of a portfolio of eight music and pop culture networks in Canada, including MTV Canada and MuchMusic, where his team produced the Gemini-winning “MTV Live,” the North American-wide hit “The Hills After Show”, the highest rated non-sports cable program on television “The MuchMusic Video Awards,” Emmy-nominated and Peabody-winning “Degrassi,” and produced Martin Gero’s first TV show “The L.A. Complex”. Schwartz also launched and led VEVO in Canada.

Schwartz has been recognized among Broadcasting & Cable’s “Next Wave of Leaders,” The Hollywood Reporter’s “Next Generation,” CableFax’s “Top 100 Power Players,” and Marketing Magazine’s “Thought Leaders.” He was named one of “Canada’s Top 40 Under 40” executives and is a member of the CableFax Hall of Fame.

Schwartz is a graduate of The University of Pennsylvania and began his career working for Lorne Michaels at “Saturday Night Live.”

Chris Spadaccini was named Chief Marketing Officer, The CW Network, in February 2023. In his role, Spadaccini oversees the network’s broadcast and digital marketing divisions.

An award-winning marketing leader with over 20 years of experience building media, entertainment, and lifestyle brands that consumers love, Spadaccini was a driving force behind building the iconic HBO brand. As Chief Marketing Officer for Warner Media Entertainment, Spadaccini was responsible for marketing a portfolio of category-leading brands including HBO, TBS, TNT, truTV, and all aspects of brand and content marketing for HBO Max, the company’s direct-to-consumer streaming platform.

Spadaccini had a remarkable 20-year career at HBO, where he served as Head of Marketing, responsible for overseeing brand strategy, creative advertising, media, consumer promotions, multicultural and digital platform marketing. Under his leadership, the HBO team built a reputation as the gold-standard in television marketing and helped propel the network to record-breaking results. While he has built a career in ‘big media,’ Spadaccini is an entrepreneurial builder at heart, most recently evolving the marketing function and driving growth at CAMP, an early-stage retail-entertainment company targeting young families.

As a senior marketing executive for HBO and WarnerMedia, Spadaccini helped to advance the organization’s digital transformation to support a global, direct-to-consumer business. Among his many success stories, Spadaccini launched award-winning campaigns for HBO’s culture-defining original programming including “Game of Thrones,” “The Sopranos,” “Entourage,” “The Wire,” “Euphoria” and “Succession.” Additionally, over a 10-year period, he led the marketing strategy for three streaming services – HBOGO, HBO NOW, and most recently, HBOMAX – all of which contributed to record revenue and subscriber growth. Spadaccini also differentiated the brand with innovative global campaigns such as “It’s What Connects Us,” which showcased HBO’s breadth and depth of premium content.

Spadaccini’s work has been recognized with numerous Cannes Lion, Emmy, Clio, Webby, Effie, and One Show awards. In addition, he has been named one of “The 25 Most Innovative CMOs in the World” by Business Insider and one of “Hollywood’s Top 25 Marketing Masterminds” by The Hollywood Reporter.

Before joining HBO, Chris worked in marketing at VH1 and in public relations at PMK/HBH. He has a BA in English Literature from Colgate University and an MBA from NYU Stern School of Business.

Ashley Hovey was named Chief Digital Officer, The CW Network, in April 2023. In this role, Ms. Hovey is responsible for overseeing the business strategy and day-to-day operations of the network’s digital operations and OTT streaming platforms.

Ms. Hovey joined The CW after spending five years at Roku where she oversaw the Ad Supported business for The Roku Channel (TRC), including both on-demand and FAST channel content, audience engagement, and growth. As Senior Director, TRC AVOD, Ms. Hovey built and led the Kids and Family, FAST, Music, and Espacio Latino businesses, drove overall partner strategy and monetization, and managed the multiplatform offering.

Prior to her tenure at Roku, Ms. Hovey was a senior director of advertising strategy and development at Comcast supporting the $2.5B Cable Ad business. Ms. Hovey has also worked for British Telecom and Nielsen in various business development, product and client services roles, including working with Facebook building its ad measurement solutions. 

Ms. Hovey has a Master of Business Administration from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and a B.A. in Classical Languages from Pomona College. 

Heather Olander was named Head of Unscripted Programming, The CW Network, in February 2023. In her role, Olander oversees development and production of alternative reality series, events and specials on behalf of the network.

Prior to joining The CW, Olander joined NBCUniversal in 2011 as the SVP of Alternative Development & Programming for USA Network. In 2014, she added oversight of alternative programming for Syfy. In 2019, Olander took on the additional responsibility of running alternative development for NBCUniversal’s AVOD service, Peacock, and was elevated to Executive Vice President, Alternative Development & Programming, USA/Syfy/Peacock.

A transformative leader, Olander designed and built an unscripted brand and development team for USA Network, a network previously focused on scripted programming. She successfully launched series that include the CHRISLEY KNOWS BEST franchise, TEMPTATION ISLAND (reboot), MIZ & MRS. and STRAIGHT UP STEVE AUSTIN.

Prior to joining NBCUniversal, Heather served as VP, Original Series Development and Current Programming at MTV from 2003-2010.

Tom Martin joined The CW Network as Head of Business Affairs and General Counsel in February 2023. Martin is a veteran business affairs executive with over 20 years of experience in the entertainment industry. His diverse experience includes structuring and negotiating business models and deals for scripted, unscripted and documentary programming for broadcast television, cable television and streaming platforms.

Martin most recently served as the Head of Business Affairs at MasterClass, the platform where anyone can learn from the world’s best, and he was responsible for the team that negotiated deals with instructors such as Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Bob Iger, Aaron Sorkin, Steph Curry and Serena Williams. Previously, Martin was the BA Lead for Quibi, where he worked to create the business model and deal structure for Jeffrey Katzenberg’s short-form streaming platform.

Prior to Quibi, Martin served as the SVP, Business Affairs at Fox Broadcasting Company, where he was the lead negotiator for all of Fox’s unscripted programming, negotiating deals for “The Masked Singer” and “I Can See Your Voice.” Prior to Fox, he spent over 15 years at Comcast/NBCU, where he led the business affairs teams for several NBCU cable entertainment networks (E!, USA, Syfy and Esquire) as well as its scripted and unscripted cable studios (UCP and Wilshire Studios). At E!, Tom negotiated some of the network’s biggest talent deals, including the Kardashian family talent deals for “Keeping Up With the Kardashians,” Ryan Seacrest’s host deal for “E! News,” Joel McHale’s deal for “The Soup,” Joan Rivers’ deal for “Fashion Police” and Chelsea Handler’s deal for “Chelsea Lately.”

Rebekah E. Dopp joined The CW Network as Executive Vice President of Distribution, Strategy, and Affiliate Relations in November 2022. She is responsible for leading the network’s distribution efforts and overseeing affiliate relations with its station group partners.

Ms. Dopp joins Nexstar from Google, where she was recruited to the launch team of YouTube TV to lead the affiliate relations strategy and distribution efforts. Prior to Google, she was the Senior Vice President of advanced digital services at CBS where she led ideation, creation and implementation of multi-platform digital strategies. She also acted as a technology expert on complex deals and as the chief evangelist and distribution lead on digital products for TV affiliates. Prior to CBS, she spent 14 years with HBO, culminating as vice president, digital products leading an international team including product, finance, legal, and engineering leads to launch new and existing digital products with global affiliate and technology partners. While holding these executive positions at Google, CBS, and HBO, she served as a senior leader on the launch teams for HBO GO, CBS All Access (Paramount+) and YouTube TV.

As an independent corporate director, Ms. Dopp was a board member of Tilray (NASDAQ: TLRY) from 2018-2021 and the board member of the Canadian American Business Council since 2019. She also serves on the advisory boards of Bonfire Digital Wellness, FinTech4Good, BWG Strategy, and Dentons Women in Technology. In the non-profit sector, she served on the board of trustees for The New York Foundling and as the chair of the board for the Child Abuse Prevention Program (CAPP) for more than 10 years, among other board service. While at Google, Ms. Dopp founded Exponent, a global gender equity accelerator, that continues to operate as a standalone non-profit organization.

Ms. Dopp graduated from The College of William & Mary with a Bachelor of Business Administration and a concentration in finance. She is a fellow of Betsy Magness, CTAM U., and Stanford’s Directors’ College. She is based in the New York office and resides in New Jersey with her husband, their four kids and two enormous dogs.

Beth Feldman joins The CW with nearly three decades of experience leading and executing mainstream, digital, and social media campaigns on behalf of leading television networks, film studios, consumer brands and authors. Throughout her career she launched major talk shows, primetime series, and high profile, well-known brands by developing groundbreaking media campaigns that generate media exposure and drive consumer and viewer awareness.

In addition to her new duties with The CW, Feldman serves as Executive Director of Communication for the Networks Division of Nexstar Media Inc., overseeing communications for NewsNation, multicast networks, and radio. In this role Feldman has overseen the media awareness campaigns regarding the expansion of programming at NewsNation, the launch of “Cuomo,” and the communication strategy for the network’s mid-term election coverage.

For the past 15 years, Feldman has served as a partner at Beyond PR Group, developing and executing successful digital media and influencer activation campaigns on behalf of more than a dozen television series and syndicated talk shows from major television networks including: “The Talk,” “Survivor,” “The Good Wife,” “Mom,” “48 Hours,” “The Goldbergs,” “Dr. Ken,” and “Timeless,” among others. From 1996 to 2007, she held positions of increasing responsibility with the CBS Television Network and served as Vice President for the CBS Communications Group. As a leading network television communications professional, Feldman played an integral role in the media campaigns for Emmy award-winning television shows such as CBS’ hit series “CSI,” “The Amazing Race,” and the final season of “Everybody Loves Raymond.”

Feldman holds a Master’s degree in journalism from New York University and graduated with honors with a B.A. in Communications from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She currently resides in New Rochelle, NY with her family.

Liz Wise Lyall currently serves as the Senior Vice President of Scripted Programming at The CW Network, where she oversees current programming and scripted development, including international co-productions.

With a 12-year tenure at The CW, Liz started in current programming, acting as a creative liaison for numerous hit primetime drama series such as SUPERMAN & LOIS, RIVERDALE, ARROW, THE FLASH, DC’S LEGENDS OF TOMORROW, THE 100, iZOMBIE, NANCY DREW and TWO SENTENCE HORROR STORIES, among others. In 2016, she expanded her portfolio to include CW Seed digital, contributing to the success of projects like the DC animated movies CONSTANTINE and VIXEN, the popular comedy SIGNIFICANT MOTHER and The CW’s first original animated Christmas special BEEBO SAVES CHRISTMAS featuring the beloved character from DC’S LEGENDS OF TOMORROW. In 2022, Liz transitioned to the scripted development team, and in 2023, she took on the oversight of both current and development departments, merging them into one team.

Before joining The CW, Liz was an executive at Lifetime Television Network, playing a key role in the development and oversight of some of the network’s top-rated movies. Prior to her work in development, she established herself as a respected figure in discovering and championing fresh and unique voices during tenures at boutique literary agencies in Los Aneles and Toronto. Liz’s career began in physical production in Calgary, Canada.