Michael Klein has been appointed as Executive Vice President of Original Content at MTV with responsibility for all original programming, development, and creative across MTV and its related brands. A veteran creative executive whose credits include Vanity Fair Confidential for ID; Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations and Man V. Food for Travel Channel; and What Not to Wear and Miami Ink for TLC, Klein joins MTV from Condé Nast Entertainment, where he served most recently as Executive Vice President of Programming and Content Strategy, Digital Channels. He will report directly to Sean Atkins, President of MTV.

In his role at Condé Nast Entertainment, Klein was responsible for programming strategy, development, and production for the company’s portfolio of Millennial-targeted digital channels across unscripted, scripted, animation, documentary, and virtual reality. Under Klein’s leadership, the portfolio – which includes Vogue, Vanity Fair, Glamour, Wired, GQ, and The New Yorker – attracted more than 2.7 billion video views last year and produced award-winning series including Glamour’s “Screw You Cancer” and GQ’s “Casualties of the Gridiron.” Earlier, as Executive Vice President of Alternative Programming, he was a member of the senior team that launched Condé Nast Entertainment. In that role, Klein oversaw development and production of original non-fiction programming including Vanity Fair Confidential for ID, The New Yorker Presents, and The Fashion Fund for Amazon.

Prior to launching Condé Nast Entertainment, Klein served as Senior Vice President of Programming and Development for the Sundance Channel. There, he helped drive the network to the highest audience engagement in its history with original series including Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys, All On The Line with Joe Zee, and Push Girls. Earlier, Klein served as Senior Vice President of Content for the Travel Channel, where he helped engineer a network renaissance and record ratings with original series including Man V. Food and Ghost Adventures.

Klein has also held executive roles at Discovery Communications Inc. including Vice President of Program Production at TLC, where he launched brand-redefining series including Little People, Big World, What Not to Wear, and Miami Ink.