Cynthia Swensen, Senior Consultant
Cindy Swensen has helped build thriving businesses for more than 20 years. As an executive coach, she provides senior teams and executives with skills and understanding that enable them to fulfill their potential to lead.
She brings to her work a wealth of experience in the media and financial industries; as well as deep insight into the barriers that keep groups and individuals from achieving their goals.
Clients appreciate her balanced, results-oriented approach. She excels at supporting executives in navigating their complex world of interpersonal relationships, corporate influence and business goals in order to discover and implement creative solutions.
Her coaching clients have included executives from: Adelphia, Bell Canada, CBS, Cablevision, CanWest, Comcast, CourtTV, Lifetime Television, MTV Networks, Proskauer Rose, Rainbow Media, and Turner Broadcasting.
Before beginning her work with Proteus, Cindy held senior-level positions in commercial and investment banking, television, and new media technology. In each industry, she was recognized for skill, foresight and drive, and rapidly climbed the ranks to shape the organization's future with the CEO and senior team.
- As Vice President/Director of Syndications for Barclays, she underwrote and syndicated transactions in excess of $10 billion, catapulting that firm's project finance group to #1 globally.
- At Walt Disney, as the Director of National Accounts, Cindy led a 500% increase in the distribution of The Disney Channel among her client base by moving Disney to basic cable and helped launch Toon Disney.
- As Senior Vice President of Business Development at high-tech start-up LiveWave, she helped the firm finance, distribute and market their revolutionary robotic camera technology.
Cindy is on the New York board of Women in Cable and Telecommunications, and is a former member of the advisory board for American Women in Radio and Television.