Interactive Ontario’s has brought on Max Berdowski as VP of business development to grow services with partners in the private and public sectors.

In the newly created role, Berdowski will be taking charge of building partnership’s around IO’s IN 2010 event, as well as for a new business skills training program that focuses on interactive media and digital games entrepreneurship.

He’ll be putting his experience in the Canadian entertainment industry to good use, having spent a decade in Ottawa serving as the executive director and CEO of the now-defunct Canadian Screen Training Centre. Berdowski resume also includes work that’s aired on CTV, Global, CBC, CHUM, TLC (U.S.) and TQS.