Liz Kalodner
EVP & General Manager, Sesame Workshop
30 minutes with Liz Kalodner, EVP & GM, Global Consumer Products and International TV Distribution, Sesame Workshop

Liz Kalodner is currently Executive Vice President and General Manager of Sesame Workshop's Global Consumer Products and International TV Distribution division.

Before joining the Workshop in late 2001, Kalodner was Chairman and CEO of Socialnet, Inc., an online dating service which she built and subsequently sold to MatchNet PLC. Prior to that, she spent ten years with The Walt Disney Company, working extensively on product licensing for both film and television properties as well as running the merchandise operation for Disney's sports teams and theatrical ventures. She finished her tenure there as SVP of Walt Disney Records. Kalodner began her career at Kenner Toys, a division of Hasbro. Kalodner has an undergraduate degree from Harvard University and an M.B.A. from Columbia.