CNNWorldwide has tapped Otto Bell to oversee its creative marketing department.

Hell oversee on-air and off-channel brand and marketing for allCNN Worldwidebusinesses.

Bell is the founder and chief creative officer of Courageous, the commercial brand studio for CNN.

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He worked with CNN teams on hundreds of campaigns for hundreds of advertisers.

Partners included BBC World News, CNBC, Nat Geo and Discovery.

Bell also is a documentary director and producer.

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His feature debut,The Eagle Huntress, premiered at Sundance and sold to Sony Pictures Classics.

Another feature,The Badass Librarians of Timbuktu, is in post-production.

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Bell will be based out of CNNs New York bureau.