Industry veteran with proven first-run track record who has created and led several entertainment ventures. Ritch has enjoyed a career spanning more than twenty-years in television syndication, where he directed efforts to develop, launch and distribute off-network series, feature films, movies made for television and original programs. Ritch held senior executive positions at Orion Pictures, Colbert Television Sales, Access Entertainment, TPE, and ITC Entertainment Group, where he marketed a variety of programs to television stations, cable networks and international broadcasters, including Tic Tac Dough, Jokers Wild, Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous, Star Search, Motorweek, George Michael Sports Machine, a variety of original first-run series and literally hundreds of movie titles and episodic television programs. Ritch joined ARTISTdirect in 1999 and built a full-service Marketing Solutions division, providing integrated music and entertainment programs for leading brand advertisers and recording artists.