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Executive Staff

Behind the Network - Altitude's Senior Staff:

 

 Kimberly A. Carver  - President and CEO

Denver native Kim Carver was tapped in November 2011 as the new President and CEO of Altitude Sports and Entertainment. In this capacity she will oversee network operations including the network’s business initiatives, marketing, sales and distribution efforts, programming, production and new media. A 24-year veteran of the television and broadcasting industry, Carver has successfully launched, grown and managed a myriad of international television networks and sports programming ventures.

A graduate of the University of Denver with a degree in mass communications, Carver began her career in Golden, Colo. in 1984, spending seven years as a production assistant with JPI Productions, a live sports productions company which produced high school, college, and professional sports programming throughout the Front Range.  Demonstrating her abilities while learning the intricate and ever-changing details of the industry from the ground up, Carver embarked on her international career with STAR Television in Hong Kong where she served in a variety of capacities while managing multi-million dollar sports productions from 1991 to 1995.

Her next destination was Sydney, Australia, where she accepted a new role as the program manager for GALAXY Television’s Premier Sports Network in 1995.  There she would establish herself as one of the top managers in the sports broadcasting industry as she assumed the role of program manager, launching a myriad of FOX networks under the FOXTEL banner and later taking the reins of Main Event Television as the network’s general manager.

After nearly a decade Down Under, Kim was on the move once more, this time to Singapore, where she was tapped vice president of network presentation for ESPN STAR Sports, a position she held from 2004 until assuming her duties with The Mtn. the latter half of 2006.  At ESPN Star Sports, Carver was reunited with her original team from STAR in Hong Kong when the network had employed 30. Now 10 years later, the network numbered nearly 500 employees.

Returning to the United States in 2006, Carver and her team had the task of taking a pioneering concept of creating the first television network dedicated to a single college athletic conference and launching it in the span of six weeks. The Mtn. premiered on September 1, 2006.

Kim is a member of Women in Cable and Telecommunications (WICT) and was recently one of 22 individuals selected to attend the 2011 WICT Rocky Mountain Leadership Institute. She is a two-time mentor in WICT’s mentoring program, designed to help develop future industry leaders by putting WICT members and senior executives together.

Born and raised in Wheat Ridge, Colo. and a proud Wheat Ridge High School Farmer, Carver resides in Centennial, Colo. with her husband, Craig, and her two sons, Ryan and Logan.

Tom Philand - SVP of Partnership Marketing and Media Sales

Philand rejoined the KSE management team in 2011 after serving as the Senior Vice President of Sales & Marketing for Altitude Sports & Entertainment since their inception in 2004. Prior to that Tom served as Senior Vice President of Marketing for Kroenke Sports & Entertainment, starting in  August of 2000.  Philand continues to be in charge of Sales and Marketing for Altitude Sports and also oversees all sales and sponsorship departments of KSE, including the Denver Nuggets, Colorado Avalanche, Colorado Rapids and Colorado Mammoth, Altitude television and radio networks’, Pepsi Center, Dick’s Sporting Goods Park, Paramount Theatre as well as all internet properties.  Before joining KSE, Philand worked for The Denver Post and King Soopers, the Rocky Mountain region's leading grocer. Born in Glasgow, Scotland, Philand attended the University of Colorado.

 

 

 

Shelly Harper - SVP of Programming and Production

Harper has over 25 years experience in television programming, scheduling and production. At Altitude, Shelly oversees the programming, creative services and production departments.   She began her career at Home Sports Entertainment in 1982. As a freelance graphics operator, her clients included CBS, ESPN, Raycom Sports, SportsChannel and Home Sports Entertainment (HSE). She also worked as an Associate Producer and Producer for many professional team events in Houston for HSE, and as the program director for Prime Sports Southwest. From 1996-1999 she served as Director of Programming and from 1999-2001 as VP of Scheduling and Program Operations for FOX Sports Net at their corporate headquarters in Los Angeles. Harper has a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration.   Shelly graduated in June of 2010 from the University of Colorado-Denver Executive MBA program.  Shelly is a member of the National Association of Television Programming Executives, Women in Cable and Telecommunications, and the Mile High United Way Women's Leadership Council.

 

 

Phillip Mallios - SVP of Affiliate Sales and Marketing

As Vice President of Affiliate Sales, Mallios is responsible for securing distribution agreements for Altitude Sports Network via negotiations with cable operators and satellite (DBS) providers. Serving his entire professional career in cable sports television affiliate sales, marketing and relations, Mallios was previously director of affiliate relations for TFN -The Football Network, responsible for distribution of the start-up national network in the central and western United States. He has also been Vice President, Affiliate Sales and Marketing for ACTV, Inc., as well as holding numerous affiliate sales positions with FOX Sports Southwest and its precursor, Home Sports Entertainment (HSE). Mallios, a 1984 graduate of the University of Houston with a Business Administration degree, is married with two daughters.

 

 

Dave Zur - SVP of Operations and Engineering

Zur joined Altitude Sports and Entertainment as Senior Vice President of Operations and Engineering after serving as Chief Broadcast Engineer for Kroenke Sports Enterprises since September 2001. Prior to joining KSE, Zur served as a freelance engineer involved in broadcast facilities integrations for the Pepsi Center, ESPN, Fox Sports Rocky Mountain and remote production trucks for Mountain Mobile and Lone Star Television. Since joining the media profession, Zur has worked on more than 1,000 events, including the 1996 Summer Olympics for NBC and the 1996 Republican National Convention for PBS. Zur holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing and Media Communications from Metropolitan State College of Denver. Zur resides in Littleton with his wife, Jenny, and son, Michael.