ITC MAKE TWO SENIOR APPOINTMENTS

THE ITC have made two senior appointments: Chris Banatvala as the new Head of Factual Programmes, and Vena Raffle to the new post of Head of Advertising Standards. Both appointments take immediate effect.
Banatvala takes over from Steve Perkins as Head of Factual Programmes, managing a team of programme and sponsorship managers who work primarily on factual output and sponsorship compliance issues. He joined the ITC in September 2000 as Programmes Officer with a special responsibility for news and current affairs programmes on all channels. Before that, he was Senior Political Producer for Channel Four News and has also worked on Channel Four's political news programme. Steve Perkins's appointment as ITC Controller of Advertising and Programme Standards was announced on 20 November.
As Head of Advertising Standards, Raffle manages a team of Advertising Standards and Advertising Complaints Officers, taking responsibility for the handling of complaint responses and ensuring that the ITC Advertising Code is kept under review and applied consistently. Raffle also joined the ITC in September 2000 as Advertising Standards Officer. Before joining the ITC, she was a Senior Complaints Officer at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors for ten years. (CD)