Jason Monteiro exits Shahid, joins HBO Max as GM for Southeast Asia
Monteiro has extensive experience in streaming, most recently serving as Director of AVOD at Arabic content streaming platform Shahid.
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Monteiro has extensive experience in streaming, most recently serving as Director of AVOD at Arabic content streaming platform Shahid.
The move will see current LA CEO Matthew Wiseman promoted to executive director and head of North America.
Before moving to technology manufacturing, DesRosiers worked in engineering operations for MVPDs, including Comcast and Cablevision.
Prior to this, Abu Assi served as Broadcast Director at Sharjah Media Corporation.
Johannes Larcher, head of HBO Max International, will take over Malhotra's responsibilities for streaming in the region.
Prior to Ross, Gardner worked for Vistek, ProBel, Snell, SAM and Grass Valley.
The chief executive will oversee the recruitment process for Price’s replacement next year, while the BAFTA board will convene to begin looking for a new CEO to appoint in 2023.
Morrell will also hold the title of senior executive VP, replacing Zenia Mucha, who will be retiring from Disney at the end of the year.
Arnold has been a member of Disney’s board for 14 years and has served as its independent lead director since 2018.
Prior to Viacom and Awesomeness, Day worked in various roles at Discovery and AOL and served as CEO of venture-backed video company Blip Networks.
Initially, Jafri worked in consumer electronics, then in supply chain of STB, encryption technology, and OTT/IPTV sales.
During his time running BET, Mills was also responsible for the launch of BET+ and has worked with talent including Tyler Perry, Lena Waithe and Lee Daniels.
Kelly-Grant worked for Disney for more than 14 years, most recently as VP, Casting, ABC
Laurenson, who most recently led carrier partnerships at Google for Android, will join Snap later this month based in Paris.
Al Hamli had previously served as CEO of Etisalat Egypt and CEO of Etisalat Afghanistan.
Jasper has more than 25 years of experience in the broadcast industry.
The company has also announced a new leadership team that includes Sam Hewitt and Leon Box.
Netflix is expected to theatrically release around 30 features and docs in the EMEA per year.
Bulochnikov, Weir, Gruner and Goldman will all expand their responsibilities under Shannon Ryan, president of content marketing for Hulu and general entertainment.
Pebble has hired eight new employees as the company continues to grow post-pandemic.
Lange has 25 years of experience in digital transformation across the media market in various senior leadership positions.
Bennett comes to ABC from CBS Studios, where she served as vice president of drama development since 2014.
Prior to NBCUniversal, Walker was senior director of Marketing at DirecTV.
Meijs, president of global entertainment at ITV Studios, will report directly to Talpa founder John de Mol upon joining the company in January 2022.
Jumaa has worked with MultiChoice ME, Thomson Video Networks, and Ateme in the past.
The expanded EditShare team will give customers and channel partners more touchpoints for technical strategy and business growth.
Apthorpe will be based in Dubai and will lead Middle Eastern client services and business development teams.
In her role, Campbell will lead Peacock’s streaming business and work alongside leaders from across NBCUniversal’s media empire.
DGA national executive director Russell Hollander will be the guild’s chief negotiator.
In her new role, Vicente will oversee all areas of the Institute, including the annual Sundance Film Festival in Utah.
Hobeika has rejoined Snap Inc. after being part of the team that launched Snap in MENA in 2017.
Prior to Souq and Amazon, Ghobrial led business development for Prodea Systems with leading telecommunication companies in the MENA region, Asia and Africa.
Abis will drive the global marketing strategy and focus on the development of cloud-based tools to support broadcast and digital content creators.
Broome has advanced from CTO to CEO, spearheading MediaKind’s vision to raise the industry bar on the ease and quality of live streaming video delivery.
Tony Ghazal, Snap’s Dubai-based Lead for Talent Partnerships in MENA, will work alongside Bogaert and report to her.
Paramount Pictures will be divided into a movie and TV unit, as studio head Jim Gianopulos exits the company.
Al Obed will be promoted to the rank of Department Director on the system of special jobs in the Government of Sharjah.
Toonz Media Networks SBU will supervise the launch of the group’s new linear television channels in the fast-growing kids’ television markets of Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and MENA.
Desai has served as a non-executive director on the OSN Board for over a year and will move into her new role with immediate effect.
The promotion will see Us expand his remit to both scripted and non-scripted format sales in Turkey.
Heinzer founded signal routing and transport systems provider Network Electronics in 1996, which became Nevion in 2007.
Ezama replaces Jessica Neal and will begin at Netflix in mid-September.
David’s digital video technology background will help scale JW Player’s engineering team and product development to service the growing digital video economy.
Maalouf joins Synamedia after nine years at Harmonic MEA.
Masood currently serves on the boards of Yahsat, the UAE Space Agency, and Etihad Aviation Group.
Dan is currently the President and CEO of ATX Networks, a global provider of network infrastructure systems and commercial video solutions.
Previously, Ghallab has worked for leading systems integrators in the region and was the regional head for Sony Professional Services for eight years.
The firm achieves double-digit growth, promotes Said Bacho to Chief Revenue Officer and Stuart McGeechan to Chief Operating Officer.
Eric Armstrong previously served as Vice President of North American Sales and Services at Harmonic.
Amanda is the second ABC Signature executive to move to Netflix this month, joining ABC Studios/ABC Signature veteran Lisa Lang McMullen.
In her new role, Dummer will be responsible for managing creative affairs for all current scripted series produced by WBTV across all platforms.
In her role, Mia will be responsible for leading acquisitions of local language programming in Turkey for HBO Max in EMEA and Latin America.
Al Turki is currently representing Saudi Arabia at the Cannes Film Festival in Southern France.
Braman and Sharp take over from previous co-chairs, Chris Duffy and Nicola Pearcey.
With Anurag Agrawal’s retirement, Venkatasubramanian Hariharan will be responsible for overseeing the immediate post-pandemic transition, as well as focus on long-term business recovery plans for Canon Middle East.
Both execs will report to Vanessa Brookman, who was promoted to WarnerMedia’s head of kids for EMEA at the end of last year.
Tanya has worked across the media and entertainment sector for over 13 years, both as an employee and freelancer.
Sylvia Rothblum, Pierre Branco and Jamie Friend take up Country Manager roles as part of EMEA executive leadership team.
Rich comes to the digital publisher after spending time at DC Comics, which he joined in 2015 as part of its Vertigo imprint.
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