76. Sara Clarke

SVP, Corporate Strategy, Analysis, and Communication, Showtime Networks

Clarke has her hand in myriad strategic capacities for SNI, including evaluating the company’s sales and marketing, subscriber and revenue growth and internal communications. She oversaw the upgrade of Showtime’s intranet, which introduced enhanced collaboration tools and more streamlined access to mobile device-compatible resources for the sales force and senior executives. Mentoring up-and-comers in the industry is important to her as well. She is director at large on the Board of the WICT’s New York Chapter and co-chairs the organization’s Prime Access Executive Mentoring program. And at SNI she has recruited scores of diverse interns, many of whom have landed full-time positions at the company. Over the past five years, she has engaged 121 interns in the program. In her own words, her reward comes in the form of “the mosaic of thank you notes, emails and conversations when my mentees conveyed not just gratitude but demonstrated a greater capacity for self-regulation, awareness and confidence.”