MPAA's Dodd taps leadership team

MPAA chairman Chris Dodd has attracted with an old senatorial aide together with a Democratic communications strategist within their new leadership team within the studios' lobbying org. He's also marketing Michael O'Leary, the MPAA's executive v . p . of government matters, to have an extended role supervisory all worldwide, federal and condition matters methods around the globe. Also part of the leadership team will probably be David England, the MPAA's chief financial officer, and Joan Graves, chairman in the Classification and Ratings Administration. Dodd, who started as MPAA in March carrying out a extended career inside the Senate, was prone to make greater level utilizes to enhance the org. Laura Nichols, who were a senior fellow and senior V . p . of communications and techniques within the Center for American Progress, will finish in the MPAA's executive v . p . of global communications, controlling all worldwide and domestic communications, media relations, new media development and special events. She offers labored as senior V . p . of corporate communications for PBS and held senior roles for then-House Democratic Leader Richard Gephardt as well as the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Howard Gantman, v . p . of corporate communications, will remain because role and therefore are accountable to Nichols. Lori McGrogan, who were acting chief of staff and deputy chief of staff for Dodd because they reaches the Senate, assists as his senior agent, aiding in extended-term planning and day-to-day methods. She'd been a senior agent to several campaigns, including people of Bill Bradley and Joe Lieberman, that they offered as national research director. O'Leary, who grew to become an associate from the MPAA under previous chairman Serta Glickman, remains guiding the org's domestic lobbying efforts, like the passage in the Professional-IP Act as well as the current effort to feed legislation to help government physiques crack lower on "rogue" websites. Contact Ted Manley at ted.manley@variety.com