About Heath Banks
Heath Banks is Chief Operating Officer of ITV America, with production, post and operations oversight of the company’s six vertical production labels – ITV Entertainment, Leftfield Pictures, Sirens Media, Thinkfactory Media, High Noon Entertainment and Good Caper Content.
During his tenure with ITV America, he’s helped to create efficiencies and workflows to facilitate the rapid growth of the company’s labels and their ever-expanding programming slates – shepherding myriad long-running reality hits as well as new series launches, including Netflix’s Queer Eye and FOX’s The Four: Battle for Stardom.
Banks most recently served as executive vice president of operations for ITV America, and was previously EVP of production at Leftfield, running production for the company’s slate of shows, including unscripted juggernauts Pawn Stars and Counting Cars (HISTORY), as well as American Grit with John Cena (FOX).
Before Leftfield and ITV, Banks was SVP of production at Pilgrim Studios (now Pilgrim Media Group), where he managed unscripted hits including American Chopper, The Ultimate Fighter, Ghost Hunters and Dirty Jobs, which he produced and for which he was nominated for an Emmy in 2007.