Ann Boyd

Artist, Brainstormer, Business leader, Business mentor, Change Agent, Connector, Foodie, Idea generator, Life mentor, Parent

Ann Boyd is executive vice president, Communications for Participant Media, where she oversees the communications strategy and operations across Participant’s media portfolio, including its film and documentary divisions; television network, Pivot; and digital brand, TakePart.com. As the company expands globally and onto new platforms, she is responsible for elevating Participant’s message of social impact through entertainment. Boyd most recently served as executive vice president, Global Communications at Sony Pictures Entertainment, where she managed the company’s corporate communications and social responsibility teams, which handle global media and employee communications; crisis management; social media; corporate marketing; as well as philanthropy and volunteerism. She was also a studio representative for the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the Creative America Coalition. Boyd joined Sony Pictures as vice president of Global Communications in 2008 and helped lead corporate media relations for the company, in particular raising awareness for Sony Pictures’ environmental sustainability, technology, and digital initiatives. Before joining Sony, Boyd served as vice president of Corporate Communications for Fox Interactive Media, which included online properties such as MySpace, IGN and Rotten Tomatoes, where she helped build the PR function from the ground up. Prior to Fox Interactive Media, she worked for AOL, where she led music and entertainment communications and promoted the launch of several of the first legitimate online music offerings and historic events such as “Live 8.” Boyd began her career in Communications at Waggener Edstrom Worldwide working on the Microsoft account and conducting media and analyst relations’ efforts for technology products ranging from server software to the first eBooks. In June of 2012, Boyd was appointed to the board of directors for the Library Foundation of Los Angeles, serving the Los Angeles Public Library.

learning, kids, compassion, empathy, art, design, logic, yoga, nature

I think that it's time that people start thinking about their own ethical framework, the source(s) of it, when they are applying it, how their daily life reflects it (or not), and how the choices they are making and influencing in others will sustain it or not.

Communications - strategy, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Culture & Change

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