Jennifer Harkness is leaving Temple Street Productions as head of development, factual and reality, to join marketing, metrics, events and consulting company Jumpwire Media, which she co-founded with Gavin McGarry.

A Temple Street spokeswoman confirmed Harkness’ departure on Wednesday.

While at the indie producer, Harkness spearheaded development on reality shows like Recipe to Riches for Food Network Canada and Global Television, and Cover Me Canada for the CBC.

Before joining Temple Street, Harkness served as executive director of the then Banff World TV Festival (now Banff World Media Festival).

At the same time, Harkness also partnered with McGarry to launch the Cross Media NYC and Cross Media Toronto conferences.

From Playback Daily