Viz Media has named Linda Espinosa as its Vice President of Content Management.  Espinosa will spearhead the strategy for acquired animation properties, providing creative direction for the Consumer Products division and supervising the Approvals and Content Management teams. Espinosa effectively joined the Company on January 8, 2007 and will report to Executive Vice President, Akira Fujita.

Espinosa has over 20 years experience in entertainment branding, licensing and product design for a variety of high profile global companies including the Viacom properties Nickelodeon, Nick@Nite, MTV and Paramount; she also served as Creative Director for retail at Warner Bros., and Creative Director for Consumer Products at the Walt Disney Company.