Laura Lee

Under Lee’s leadership, Hallmark Channel has achieved a number of renewals with major affiliates, pushing significant increases in the network’s SD and HD carriage. Lee is driving distribution for Hallmark’s first two original primetime series, and she oversaw growth of Hallmark Channel’s emerging sibling network, Hallmark Movie Channel, which in just 11 months surpassed 40 million subscribers by the end of last year. “My mantras: Put one foot in front of the other and go for it!,” she says. “And there is always a way to ‘Yes, we can.'”