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Suzanne Rainey joined KoolConnect in September, 2006 to manage and negotiate all the Hollywood Studio and other content for the KoolConnect service. Ms. Rainey has over 20 years of experience working for television media companies including NBC, MGM, Universal and PolyGram. Ms. Rainey has consulted for a wide variety of companies on licensing, marketing and business plan projects including General Dynamics Interactive (GDI), Best Buy, Reel.com, Replay Television and Solaris Entertainment. Ms. Rainey is also Principal of Accord Media Group, LLC a digital media consulting company that works with broadband companies around the world including Sprint, Cable & Wireless, Hancock Telecom and Monaco Telecom.
Ms. Rainey worked with the first VOD trials while she was MGM’s Director of Worldwide Pay Television. Her extensive involvement in television distribution includes managing the licensing and marketing for MGM’s film and television programs worldwide where she introduced innovative marketing and promotion campaigns for films such as Goldeneye, The Birdcage and Get Shorty. In 1998, she was appointed Vice President, Pay Television and Cable Television for PolyGram Television. In addition to overseeing all of PolyGram’s PPV and VOD activities, Ms. Rainey was responsible for sales from PolyGram’s library to domestic cable networks. Ms. Rainey began her career at NBC. Over the course of 11 years, she rose through the ranks of finance and business affairs. She holds a B.S. in Business Management from Brigham Young University and an M.B.A. from the University of Southern California. | 