* Vancouver’s Mainframe Entertainment has shuffled its senior management again and named toy company executive Lou Novak as chief executive officer. Ian Pearson, the creative spark behind the company’s breakthrough series ReBoot, moves from CEO after two years to the new job title chief creative officer.

Previously, Novak held senior management positions with Galoob, Mattel and Coleco. He takes over immediately and will provide ‘strategic direction’ and oversee all business and operational aspects of Mainframe.

Pearson says the change will allow him to spend more time on the creative side of the business.

On June 5, Mainframe shares closed at $1.20 on the Toronto Stock Exchange. The year high is $2.49 per share and the year low is $0.81 per share.

* It’s a move between fierce competitors for Kevin Shea as the former president and COO of CanWest’s Global Television Network moves over to Bell Globemedia, which owns CTV, as the group executive vice-president, convergence.

Shea, whose resume spans senior positions in cable, satellite, specialty television, production and broadcasting, was with Global for six years until he resigned earlier this year. Before joining CanWest, Shea was president and COO of Atlantis Communications for three years. From 1988 to 1993 he was president and CEO of YTV Canada and GRC Productions.

His work in building YTV as a stellar performer in the young specialty channel universe was preceded by positions at Rogers Cable and Cable Satellite Network.

* The Canadian Association of Broadcasters has appointed Beverley Kirshenblatt to the position of VP, television. Kirshenblatt is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada and joins CAB from the Canadian Cable Television Association where she most recently served as senior counsel.

* Tim Brown has been appointed VP distribution at Red Sky and Keystone Entertainment in Vancouver.

* Daniel Weinzweig, the founder and former president of Norstar Entertainment, has been appointed managing director, global media, entertainment and convergence at Toronto-based Korn/Ferry International. In his new post, Weinzweig will lead the search for assignments in media, entertainment and convergence.

With more than 30 years of experience in the British and Canadian film and television industries, Weinzweig joins Korn/Ferry from London’s Mayfair Entertainment International and Mayfair Television International. There, he held the job of chief executive and oversaw the company’s film and TV distribution sales activities.

Weinzweig has also been in the upper management stables of Cineplex Odeon and Astral Films.

* Broadcast engineer Kevin Alguire has joined Vancouver’s Northwest Imaging & FX to support the company’s technical equipment, including film transfer units, Avids and VTR. Previously, he has worked for Finale Editworks, Shooters and Image Engine Design in Vancouver.