Nicholas Lehman has joined NBCUniversal in a newly created position as president of digital for NBCUniversal’s Entertainment & Digital Networks and Integrated Media division, reporting directly to Lauren Zalaznick, chairman of the division. 

Lehman will oversee the pure-play digital businesses in the portfolio, including iVillage, Daily Candy, Swirl and Fandango.

“Nick, with his powerful combination of creative and business expertise in multiplatform media and new product development, is the ideal person to build on our success, at a very exciting time of expansion both in the rapidly growing digital industry, as well as at our company,” said Zalaznick. “We have an unparalleled array of pure-play digital brands with loyal, high quality and large scale audiences. These assets, housed inside a ‘traditional’ media company with innovation at its core, are uniquely well positioned for growth.”

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