NSI boss stepping down after eight years
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The National Screen Institute has a blockbuster of a vacancy to fill.
Susan Millican, CEO of the Winnipeg-based training school for journalists, television producers and filmmakers, has announced she is stepping down after nearly eight years at the helm.
"I really think this is one of the best jobs in the country in the film and television industry. When I took it on, I said I would do it for three years," she said.
Millican, former vice-president of the Women’s Television Network in Winnipeg until it was moved to Toronto in 2001, said she doesn’t have anything else lined up, but she’s not ready to retire.
"I think you should learn as many new things as you can before you retire. You should only be a CEO for so many years before you let somebody else have a crack at it," she said.
Millican said she will stay on until a replacement is found, to help out through a transition phase and be available in a consulting role if needed.
NSI has 11 full-time staff members and an annual budget of $2.3 million. It has seven television series on television right now, including Less Than Kind (HBO Canada), Cashing In (APTN) and Wapos Bay (APTN).
Todd & the Book of Pure Evil is currently shooting for Space.
Millican, who is featured on Red River College billboards around town touting graduates who went on to become successful business leaders, said a serious car accident 18 months ago, from which she has fully recovered, didn’t influence her decision. It did, however, cause her to take stock.
"When you’re in any kind of situation like that, it makes you stop and revalue life. It makes you realize life isn’t as long as you think it’s going to be and you have to take responsibility for getting the things done that you want to accomplish," she said.
Millican, sister to Mark, Jeoff and Steve Chipman, said she has no interest in joining any of the family businesses, including the Birchwood Automotive Group — where she used to answer the phones as a kid — or the American Hockey League’s Manitoba Moose.
geoff.kirbyson@freepress.mb.ca