DC Promotion, Departure Announcements Stuff Friday With New Names To Spell

Catching up with a trio of releases at DC's announcement-driven Source blog:

* Amit Desai has been added to the Burbank team in the position of Senior Vice President -- Franchise Management, DC Entertainment. From what I can tell, despite sounding like the position held by the bad guy new husband to Rene Russo in a 1997 Tim Allen movie, this is actually a key management position designed to facilitate plans for various characters/groups of same across the Warner empire, which is basically the point of all the recent restructuring.

* a trio of in-house promotions/reorganizations in manufacturing sees Alison Gill Named Senior Vice President, Manufacturing & Operations, DC Comics; Nick Napolitano named Vice President, Manufacturing Administration, DC Comics; and Jeff Boison named Vice President, Publishing Operations, DC Comics. The latter two will report to Gill. Gill and Napolitano are decade-plus employees, while Boison is a more recent hire. Anything I could say about these hires would depend on knowledge I don't have at my fingertips, but it does continue the recent spate of rewarding people already employed by the company. I would also say this is the kind of announcement to which critics may return if things go badly for DC, emphasizing the number of changes that have been at the vice president level or higher in a kind of "too many suits" critique. I'm not saying that's true, but I'm saying it's likely.

* finally, Publicity Manager Alex Segura penned his own goodbye from that position as of Friday end-of-business. He hints that there will be an announcement Monday morning as to his new job, also in comics.

The current DC restructuring kicked off in September 2009.

Update: Here's that announcement. Mr. Segura has moved to Archie.
 
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