CEO, DOLORES SUKHDEO

Dolores Sukhdeo currently serves as the President & CEO of South Florida PBS (WPBT2 and WXEL). Dolores runs the day-to-day operations for both stations, acts as on-air fundraiser and leads the executive team including the COO, CFO, Executive Vice President, and Vice Presidents of Content & Community Partnerships, Development, Membership & Marketing, and Engineering.

In 1998, Dolores joined the staff of WPBT2 in Miami as Vice President for Facilities Services where she was responsible for the for-profit activities. She was promoted to Station Manager in 2002 and to Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer in 2003.

Dolores Sukhdeo began her television career in 1990 at the international newsgathering division of Disney/ABC News Inc.--Worldwide Television News in New York, NY, where she worked her way through the ranks from Sales Assistant to Regional Executive for the USA & Latin America. During her tenure at Worldwide Television News, she managed large scale news events including the Oklahoma bombing, Olympics, Presidential Elections and United Nations 50th Anniversary.

Dolores earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Spanish Literature from Columbia University and also a Master’s in Business Administration from the University of Miami.

Dolores is President of FPBS, the Association of Public Television and Radio Stations in Florida. She is immediate past President of the International Women’s Forum of Florida. She is a past chair of the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce Nonprofit Business Committee and a past chair of the GMCC Creative Industries Committee. She also served on the Professional Leadership Council for FIU’s School of Journalism and Mass Communications.

SOUTH FLORIDA PBS OFFICERS

President & CEO, Dolores Sukhdeo, South Florida PBS/WPBT2 & WXEL

Chair, Michele Kessler, Palm Beach

Immediate Past Chair, Laurie Silvers, Hollywood.com, Boca Raton

Chair-Elect, Peter L. Bermont, Bermont Advisory Group of Raymond James, Coral Gables

Vice Chair, Thomasina Caporella, Plantation

Vice Chair, Mark W. Cook, Royal Palm Management, West Palm Beach

SOUTH FLORIDA PBS OPERATING BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Sandy Batchelor, The Batchelor Foundation, Miami

Fred Berens, Wells Fargo Advisors, Miami

Irving Bolotin, Coral Gables

Paul J. DiMare, Sr., Homestead

Margaret Eidson, M.D., Miami

George T. Elmore, Hardrives, Inc., Delray Beach

Harvey A. Goldman, Miami

David L. Jaffe, Lynn University, Boca Raton

Leonard Klorfine, Palm Beach

Ellen Liman, Palm Beach

Susan M. Mansolillo, Community Care Plan, Fort Lauderdale

Nicholas Perricone, M.D., Out of State

David C. Prather, Clark, Fountain, La Vista, Prather, Keen & Littky-Rubin, LLP, West Palm Beach

Handel R. Robinson, M.D., Miller Medical School, Holy Cross Hospital, Fort Lauderdale

Charles M. Tatelbaum, Tripp Scott, P.A., Fort Lauderdale

Kathryn Vecellio, Palm Beach

George W. Weaver, Rauch, Weaver, Norfleet, Kurtz & Co., Fort Lauderdale

Michael J. Zinner, M.D., The Miami Cancer Institute, Miami

SOUTH FLORIDA FOUNDATION BOARD OF DIRECTORS

LIFE DIRECTORS

COMTEL BOARD OF DIRECTORS

COMMUNITY ADVISORY BOARD (SOUTH)

COMMUNITY ADVISORY BOARD (North)