Erin Stam has been named senior vice president of production at Participant Media, and will be responsible for supervising the development and overseeing the production of narrative features for the company.

She reports to Jonathan King, executive vice president of production at Participant.

Stam joins Participant from Spyglass Entertainment where she was involved in the production of films such as 27 Dresses, Underdog and The Invisible. She was previously a production executive at Tall Trees Productions where she oversaw Surviving Christmas. She began her career as an assistant at ICM.

'I am very pleased that Erin will be joining Participant, where we look forward to marrying her expertise in bringing entertaining and commercially successful stories to the screen with our mission to produce movies that inspire and compel social change,' said King in a statament.