Sodan Selvaretnam Named Vice President of Finance and Planning for
Freedom Interactive
IRVINE, Calif. (Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) April 11, 2007 --
Sodan Selvaretnam, a proven leader in financial and strategic planning
for interactive businesses, has joined Freedom Interactive as Vice
President of Finance and Planning. As a member of Freedom Interactive’s
management team reporting to Michael Mathieu, the President of Freedom
Interactive, Sodan will be leading financial, strategic and operational
planning for Freedom Interactive’s network of
40 websites and interactive businesses. As well, Sodan will play a key
role in evaluating all acquisition efforts for the business.
“We are extremely pleased to have Sodan
leading the strategic and financial planning for Freedom Interactive,”
said Freedom Interactive’s President Michael
Mathieu. “Sodan will play a key role in
spearheading the alignment of our financial planning and business
strategy to the execution of our operations to ensure our success.”
Most recently, Sodan served as Director of Finance and Business Planning
at the Walt Disney Company’s Internet Group
and played a critical role at managing and launching their broadband and
mobile businesses. Prior to Sodan’s three and
a half years at Disney, he worked in the media and entertainment
division of e-business consulting firm Scient Corporation, providing
strategy consulting to new media start ups and major media companies.
Sodan has been in the media and new media industries serving in
financial, operational and strategic roles since 1994 with such leading
companies as Disney, BMG Direct, EMI Music Publishing, Scient and Lehman
Brothers. He started his career as an investment banker at Lehman
Brothers.
About Freedom Interactive
Freedom Interactive is the Internet subsidiary of the nation's 12th
largest media company—Freedom Communications—a
national, privately owned information and entertainment company
headquartered in Irvine, Calif. Freedom Interactive owns and operates
web sites coast to coast, each offering local, up-to-the-minute breaking
news stories, extensive content with a unique perspective, and trusted
local news coverage on demand. The company's web sites are associated
with various Freedom Communications media properties including over 70
newspapers and magazines, such as The Orange County Register and The
Gazette in Colorado Springs, and nine broadcast television stations.
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