HSN promotes marketing head to president

St. Petersburg, Fla. – HSN Inc. (HSNi) is promoting chief marketing officer Bill Brand to president of HSN, effective immediately. Brand will retain his role as chief marketing officer of HSNi and will continue to report directly to HSNi CEO Mindy Grossman.



Brand is also an executive officer of the company. As president, he will assume responsibility of merchandising, programming, planning and HSN2 in addition to his current responsibilities.



Brand joined HSN in 2006 as senior VP of programming. He took on on increased areas of responsibility, adding marketing and new business development followed by TV operations, creative and digital. In 2013, Brand was promoted to chief marketing and business development officer of HSNi.



Prior to joining HSN, Brand spent more than 10 years holding senior executive positions in programming with Lifetime and VH1. He is a member of the board of directors for the National Retail Federation Foundation and the GRMA advisory.