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Warner Bros. Discovery worldwide boss Gerhard Zeiler has unveiled a brand new worldwide management construction for the corporate following numerous govt departures and restructurings.
“Following my latest bulletins concerning the departure of Priya Dogra, Robert Blair, Hannes Heyelmann and Pierre Branco, I’ve been working with the management throughout the worldwide enterprise to create a brand new worldwide construction that greatest leverages the strengths of our companies, whereas empowering all of us to drive the long run development and success of the corporate,” he mentioned in a memo. “After many discussions I’m now happy to share with you the brand new worldwide management group, who will report into me.”
So far as key areas go, Latin America will proceed to be led by Fernando Medin.
In the meantime, within the Asia Pacific space, the India, Southeast Asia and Korea (INSEAK) and Western Pacific areas will likely be united right into a single APAC area underneath the management of James Gibbons.
Elsewhere, Clement Schwebig, who has managed INSEAK for the corporate since 2020, will now take over accountability for Germany/Switzerland/Austria (GSA), France, Benelux and Africa, which will likely be introduced collectively right into a single Western Europe & Africa market cluster underneath his management.
As beforehand unveiled, Andrew Georgiou has taken over as head of enterprise within the UK and Eire along with main WBD Sports activities Europe.
In Europe, Alessandro Araimo will proceed to run Southern Europe, which mixes Italy and Iberia, whereas Christina Sulebakk will proceed to run the Nordic area. Poland will proceed to be led by Kasia Kieli.
Jamie Cooke, who oversees the CEE (Central and Jap Europe) and MENAT (Center East, North Africa and Turkey) areas and has accountability for artistic and all pay-TV channels throughout Europe, the Center East and Africa (EMEA), will tackle further oversight of unscripted and linear content material acquisitions. Myriam Lopez-Otazu, who’s accountable for “sourcing and maximizing unscripted utilization throughout the EMEA WBD portfolio” in collaboration with Meredith Gertler’s group, will now report into Cooke, Zeiler unveiled.
His memo additionally detailed the next roles:
Ragnhild Thorbech will preserve accountability for scripted acquisitions “to extra totally combine the content material technique for Max and can turn out to be a part of the World Streaming Content material Management group,” reporting to Meredith Gertler, govt vp, world content material technique, planning and evaluation.
Vanessa Brookman will proceed to run the EMEA children enterprise.
Ronald Goes will proceed to supervise the worldwide manufacturing unit WBITVP, which incorporates 21 manufacturing corporations in 13 nations in EMEA and APAC.
Qaisar Rafique will proceed to steer business technique for EMEA and APAC.
Louis Goldstein will proceed to steer enterprise operations for worldwide and “increase his coordination accountability for worldwide dwelling leisure to additionally embody content material licensing,” the memo detailed.
“I’m delighted to have such a terrific Worldwide management group with the talents and capabilities to efficiently lead us by way of the following stage of Warner Bros. Discovery’s development,” Zeiler mentioned. “This group has each the perspective and competence to handle the complexity of the worldwide enterprise and a One Workforce mindset to collaborate successfully with the worldwide companions throughout the corporate.”
Warner Bros. Discovery Units New Worldwide Management Workforce – The Hollywood Reporter
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