Paramount Television added Brian Segna as SVP and Kate Gill and Nicole Harjo as VPs of Development. Segna joins from Universal Cable Productions, where he served as VP Scripted Television Development, while Gill hails from YouTube Originals and Harjo joins from the Kennedy/Marshall Company. Brenda Kelly Grant has returned to ABC as Vice President of Casting. Prior to her return, Grant served as the head of Internal Communications and worked across Operations at Amazon Studios.
Complex Networks announced appointments to the executive team: Jonathan Hunt, Executive Vice President of Marketing and Audience Development; Katina Lee, Head of Branded Content; and David Weinstein, Vice President of Production, recently joined the company and will work across Complex, ComplexCon, First We Feast, Pigeons and Planes and Sole Collector.
Bright Bay tapped Tony Nguyen to serve as Senior Vice President of Development. Nguyen hails from Complex Networks.
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Comcast Advertising hired Joel Armijo as SVP and Chief Financial Officer. He joins from fuboTV.
Tommy Lee has joined Digital Media Rights as Chief Financial Officer. Lee was previously Vice President of Global Business Development at SK Telecom.
Debbie Labeaux has joined Rogue Creative Agency as VP, Business Development and Strategic Partnerships.
AI company GumGum, Inc. that it has named Patrick Gildea to lead as Chief Financial Officer and that it has revamped its organizational and leadership structures. Ben Plomion has been named Chief Growth Officer, Adam Schenkel has been promoted to Senior Vice President of Commercial Development, Travis O’Neil has been upped to Senior Vice President of Operations, and Ken Weiner, GumGum’s Chief Technology Officer, will now oversee Publisher Development in addition to his Engineering and Product team leadership functions.
Simran S. Sethi has been named to the newly created position of EVP, development and content strategy for ABC Entertainment. She most recently served as director of international originals, India and the Middle East, at Netflix.
Lionsgate promoted television execs Scott Herbst and Jocelyn Sabo. Herbst, formerly SVP of television production, is now head of scripted development for its Television Group. Sabo, most recently VO of TV development, becomes SVP of television.
MediaCom USA named company veteran Adam Potashnick its US COO. Previously, he was chief growth officer, a position he has held since 2015. Potashnick joined MediaCom in 2006.
Endemol Shine North America named Amber Sheppo to the post of SVP, licensing. Sheppo previously served as VP, international licensing at 20th Century Fox.
AMC Networks International elevated Patrick Connolly SVP of programming and marketing. Connolly was named SVP of programming, AMC/SundanceTV Global in 2018.
Eric Green rises to president of BWR and Sunny Jenkins joins the team in the new role of chief growth officer, in news that comes as BWR and BCW team to launch BCW Entertainment, designed to move people and build brands through pop culture. Green previously led BWR’s entertainment division; Jenkins joins from HL Group, where she most recently served as EVP and client lead for West Coast relationships.
Ben Berna has been named Supervising Producer of CNBC’s Fast Money. Berna was most recently CNBC’s Director, Markets & Data News.
