Zalaznick is the Chairman of Entertainment & Digital Networks and Integrated Media at NBC Universal and the Chairman of reality show-saturated cable channel Bravo as well as Oxygen, the female-friendly network NBC acquired in 2007.

Brown grad Zalaznick spent her early career working in the film industry, linking up with indie queen Christine Vachon in the early 1990s to co-produce films like Todd Haynes' Poison and Safe and Larry Clark's Kids. She turned to TV and took a job as a programming exec at VH1, where she tried to make over the channel's stale, stuck-in-the-'80s image with new shows like Pop Up Video. In 2002, USA Network's Michael R. Jackson hired Zalaznick to turn around underperforming cable channel Trio. She re-focused Trio on pop culture and revived faded TV favorites as part of the "Brilliant But Canceled" series. After the channel was sold to NBC Universal, Zalaznick was tapped to oversee Bravo was well. In 2006, NBC chief Jeff Zucker decided to shutter Trio, but she remained at the company and continued to oversee Bravo. Her role expanded once again in 2007, after NBC negotiated the purchase of Oxygen Network and expanded even still in 2011 with the title Chairman of Entertainment & Digital Networks and Integrated Media, which adds Style Media, Telemundo, and mun2 to her roster. [Image via Getty]