Los Angeles – Duccio Donati has been promoted to executive vice president, Comcast International Media Group (CIMG), the announcement was made by Kevin MacLellan, president CIMG and Comcast Entertainment Productions (CEP). In his new role Donati takes over CIMG’s day-to-day responsibilities, including direct reports and oversight of the international division’s properties E! Entertainment Television, The Style Network, Versus, Golf Channel and G4. Donati’s role expands beyond being responsible for programming sales and new media for CIMG’s programming assets, to include management of all international channel properties in the areas of distribution, business development, finance and operations. MacLellan, who recently added the management of Comcast Entertainment Productions to his responsibilities, will continue to supervise Donati in his new role. Donati first joined the company as sales executive in 1999 and since then, he has played a key role in making CIMG one of the most dynamic and fastest growing divisions of Comcast Corporation. He has led the company’s international sales division expanding its presence with local offices in London and Hong Kong and growing global distribution of Comcast content to over one billion homes internationally. Since becoming senior vice president in 2008, Donati also took over responsibility for CIMG’s new media efforts overseeing the successful launch of E! Online in the UK, Australia, France, Germany and Italy.