Senior Management | Sales Management | Newsroom Management | On-Air Personalities

Jon Petrovich
Vice President, Domestic Broadcast
With nearly four decades of experience in broadcast journalism, Petrovich worked his way up from rookie reporter in local television news in Louisville, Ky., to Executive Vice President of CNN, where he served for 15 years.
At CNN, Petrovich developed CNN Interactive, which produces CNN.com, and in that role created all new media projects for CNN. He was responsible for all of CNN's new business and ancillary services including Headline News, Airport Network, CNN en Espanol, CNN Radio, CNN Radio Noticias and CNN Newsource. 
 
Most recently, Petrovich was professor and chairperson of the Broadcast Department at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, where he had also served as a visiting distinguished lecturer and on the school's board of advisors in the 1990's. Petrovich also served as Executive Vice President, International Networks, Sony Pictures Television International and as consultant to numerous broadcast industry corporations.
 
He is a graduate of Indiana University with a bachelor of arts in broadcast journalism and received his master's degree in telecommunications from the University of Alabama.


Greg Groce
Director of Planning and Analysis
Groce is responsible for revenue reporting and analysis, sales workflow and data management and contract standards and procedures. He was previously director of Business Operations and Development, Director of AP's Cable Television Services and Director of Marketing for Corporate Sales. He joined AP in Tampa, FL in 1978 as Broadcast Executive for Florida and has been an AP Assistant Secretary since 1995. Prior to joining AP, he worked for an association management firm in Charlottesville, VA. He holds a bachelor's degree in marketing/management from the University of Virginia.


Lee Perryman
Deputy Director of Broadcast Division and
Director of Broadcast Technology
Perryman is responsible all broadcast technology including the development and implementation of ENPS. Until 1989, he was responsible for the day-to-day administrative operations, including contract administration, strategic planning and budgeting at AP Broadcast. He also served as assistant secretary of AP until 1995.

Most recently, he has focused on technology projects and was also responsible for business planning and the design of administrative and editorial systems launching of London-based APTV in 1994. Earlier, he served as broadcast executive for Florida, and then for Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. He started his career in local radio station management, sales, programming and engineering. Perryman is a graduate of the University of Alabama.


Denise Vance
International Manager of the Americas for APTN
Vance is responsible for AP Television's coverage in North, South and Central America and Broadcast Services and Commercial Productions in North America.

Vance joined Associated Press Television in 1994 as senior field producer in Frankfurt, Germany. She was responsible for setting up the bureau and covering the region where she covered the Balkan conflict and Mobuto's final days of power in Zaire. In 1997, she moved to Washington as regional editor for APTN's North America operation. She was promoted to international television manager in 1999 and international television manager for the Americas in 2000. Prior to joining the AP, Denise was a freelance producer for German television ZDF in Bonn, Germany. From 1989 to 1994, she worked on the International Desk at CNN and as producer for CNN International in Atlanta, Georgia. At CNN headquarters she assisted in such stories as Tiananmen Square, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the Gulf War.

Kevin Roach
Director of U.S. Broadcast News
Roach is responsible for all US-based news operations, including AP Radio, AP Television News, the Online Video Network and other services.

Previously, Roach was Executive Producer, Online Video. He joined the AP in 2007.

He began his career at ABC News in New York, where he worked his way up from production assistant to producer. His responsibilities included line producing, field producing and managing assignments.

Roach worked as the regional director of IBS (Internet Broadcast Systems) where he oversaw 17 station Web sites including those of WNBC in New York, WCVB in Boston and WDIV in Detroit.

He helped started up New England Cable News. He was news director at WDTN-TV in Dayton, Assistant News Director at WCPO-TV in Cincinnati and executive producer at WFSB-TV in Hartford.


Thomas Callahan
General Manager AP Radio
Callahan has a 22-year career in radio management and programming, both at the network and station levels. He has served in senior management positions at Metro Networks, Standard News Radio Networks as well as GM positions at stations. In his current role as general manager of AP Radio, Thom is responsible for the development and continued growth AP Radio products and services and is instrumental in the development of new radio products. He is based in Washington DC at AP's Broadcast News Center.

Mike Palmer
Director of Broadcast Digital Distribution Systems and Strategy
Mike Palmer joined the AP ENPS team in 1998.  Since then he has been an architect of ENPS and a driving force and spokesman for the MOS Protocol, a newsroom integration tool recognized by much of the broadcast industry as the primary standard for machine communication in the newsroom.  As a result in 2001, Palmer was awarded the prestigious Oliver Gramling Award for Achievement by AP.  In 2006 Palmer was awarded the Broadcast & Cable Technology Leadership Award for his work over many years to advance the application of technology within the broadcast industry. Palmer also has been a key architect of other AP software and products, some of which have resulted in pending patents.  Currently Palmer holds the dual titles of Direct of Broadcast Digital Distribution Systems and Strategy for AP and Director of Design and Integration Strategy for AP/ENPS. 

Prior to 1998, he worked in local and national news and in positions ranging from feature writer for a small newspaper to videographer and news operations manager for a network O&O.  Palmer also held management positions in satellite operations at Conus and USSB, both pioneers in the satellite news and DBS industries.  Between 1990 and 1996 his team at Conus worked with NASA to produce ground breaking live interviews from both the US Space Shuttle and Soviet Mir Space Station.  Palmer is a Mass Communications (Journalism) graduate of the University of Southern Colorado, and also studied computer science and electrical engineering.

Montrese joined AP as the Regional Human Resources Manager in 2005. She is based in Washington, DC and is responsible for managing human resources initiatives for the Mid-Atlantic and Washington bureaus, Domestic Broadcast, APTN, and DC Financial News. Prior to AP, she worked as the Human Resources Director with a large automotive dealership. She has served in both the private and governmental sectors in the areas or healthcare and cosmetics, and also has experience in developing an HR department within a large university medical system.

 

John Phillips
Financial Planning Director
Phillips is responsible for financial and accounting functions at the Broadcast News Center and APTN-North America.  He is responsible for monthly BNC financial reporting, the annual budget process, and
general accounting and administration.  John is also responsible for capital budgets and contract admin.
Phillips joined AP in 1999 and has 22 years of experience in  accounting and finance.  He has worked as a public accountant, controller, and business manager for various companies,  including Councilor, Buchanan & Mitchell, CPAs; SMS Data Products; Multivision Cable TV; Phillips Publishing International; and Electronic Industries Alliance.  John is a Certified Public Accountant, and has a B.S. degree in Accounting from the University of Maryland.

Dave Gwizdowski
Director, Broadcast Markets, the Americas

Gwizdowski is responsible for all of AP's sales to broadcasters in the U.S., Canada and Central and South America.

 

Gwizdowski joined AP in 1997 as a Regional Television Executive covering the Southwest and based in Dallas after 18 years in broadcast journalism. Gwizdowski was named AP Television's sales person of the year in 1999. He was promoted to Director of Network Sales in 2001 when he became responsible for relationships with the major US television networks and their cable network and online properties.

 

Prior to joining AP, Gwizdowski gained extensive editorial and production experience in newsrooms from Texas to Maine, where he won several awards. He was an Assistant News Director at KTRK-TV in Houston and WLVI-TV in Boston. He also was News Director at WPRI-TV in Providence, RI and WLBZ-TV in Bangor, Maine. He was also a Producer and Executive Producer at WCVB-TV in Boston. Gwizdowski won two Emmys and two RTNDA Awards while working in Providence and Boston. 

 

Born in Pawtucket, RI, Gwizdowski is a Communications graduate of Emerson College in Boston, is married to wife Mary-Frances.  And they have a daughter and two sons. 

 

Bill Burke

Global Director, Online Video Products

Burke is responsible for global product management of AP’s suite of online video products, including the subscription-based video and the Online Video Network (OVN). Subscription clips are produced for media and other digital companies around the world, while the OVN is an online video network of about 2,000 newspapers and television and radio stations in the U.S.

 

Burke joined AP in 1997 and until 2007 was Product Manager for ENPS, AP’s newsroom computer system, directing software development and managing enterprise installations such as Tribune and ESPN.  Before joining AP, Burke was a news director, manager, and producer at several South Florida television stations, and at WIS-TV in South Carolina. 

 

He served as Executive Producer of the WTVJ-TV team that won DuPont, Murrow and Peabody awards for coverage of Hurricane Andrew in 1992, and won an Emmy for spot news coverage while at WIS. Burke is a graduate of the University of Virginia.