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Marcia Robbins is an international Media & Entertainment executive with 20 years' experience launching cable channels, multiplatform content, and digital media in the U.S., Europe, Latin America and the Asia-Pacific.  Her corporate and consulting career includes start-ups and new business for the BBC, Discovery, CBS, Rainbow Media, Scripps, Gaylord, online portal StarMedia, and all the major studios of the Motion Picture Association of America. Committed to growing our green economy, Marcia is active in marketing and advising sustainable business initiatives, including EcoPlum.  She is affiliated with HAF Consulting, a global boutique supporting investors in pursuit of telecom, media and technology properties.

As the BBC's Vice President, Joint Ventures Latin America/Iberia, Marcia managed its key relationship with Discovery for Animal Planet and People + Arts, with oversight for the P&L, marketing, programming strategy and selection of documentary, history, lifestyle and entertainment content from the BBC's vast library.  Globetrotting for CBS Cable, Marcia opened over 40 markets around the world for CMT: Country Music Television and led Latin American channel growth with the turnaround and relaunch of Spanish-language news channel CBS TeleNoticias.  Working in Europe, she conducted marketing due diligence on over $3 billion in completed acquisitions for a leading private equity investor and triple-play operator and restructured its business plan for a digital and interactive television platform, with VOD rollout.

With a passion for representing content creation, strengthening associated brands, and building distribution, Marcia has immersed herself in these businesses with an analyst's focus, marketing creativity, the ability to forge strong multicultural partner relationships and an eye on the bottom line.

Marcia has an MBA from Columbia University in International Business, Marketing and Finance and a BA in Economics and Psychology from the University of Virginia. She started her career in Washington, DC, managing survey research and operational projects for the Consumer Expenditure Survey and International Price Program of the U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics.