Vice President & Associate General Counsel of Buzzfeed Heather Hutchinson Joins Color Vision Advisory Board
We are extremely proud to welcome Heather Hutchinson to our Color Vision Advisory Board! Heather Hutchinson is currently Associate General Counsel, Corporate and Commercial Transactions, in the Legal and Business Affairs Department of BuzzFeed, a leading digital media content producer and distribution platform. Before joining BuzzFeed, Heather was a Vice President of Business and Legal Affairs for Discovery, home of the leading lifestyle and entertainment brands, including Discovery Channel, HGTV, Food Network, Investigation Discovery, TLC, and Travel Channel. As leader of a team of negotiators, Heather secured the services of many of the networks’ most recognizable talent and acquired content for exploitation on a global multi-platform basis. She also helped to launch Food Network Brazil, led the US Talent Legal Affairs team, overseeing negotiations for all talent across the domestic networks, and negotiated and drafted agreements for the production, development, distribution and financing of programming for Discovery’s US and international networks.
After receiving her Bachelor of Science (Honors) from Queen’s University in 1990, Heather received her law degree from the University of Ottawa in 1994. She is a member of both the New York and Ontario bars, and is an active member of a number of trade and professional organizations including the American Bar Association, National Bar Association, Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD), Black Entertainment and Sports Lawyers Association, Corporate Counsel Women of Color, Women in Cable Telecommunications (WICT), Sports Lawyers Association and National Association for Multi-Ethnicity In Communications. Heather is a 2012 LCLD Fellow, and a former Board Member and Committee Chair of the Washington DC/Baltimore Chapter of WICT.
Heather is a leadership and executive coach, certified by the Gallup Corporation to coach individuals, managers and teams to maximize engagement, performance and profitability as well as individual fulfilment. She is a proven mentor and leader of attorneys and non-attorneys, ultimately increasing personal awareness, effectiveness, and collective success.
Heather lives in Montclair, NJ, with her husband and her 13-year old son.
Welcome Heather!