The 19 most extremely effective WarnerMedia pros running its studios and networks, as the HBO Max and Warner Bros. owner prepares to merge with Discovery (T)

• WarnerMedia has shaken up its energy structure to compete with streaming products and services fancy Netflix.
• Now, the owner of HBO and Warner Bros. is arena to merge with unscripted sigh chief Discovery.
• Insider identified the 19 prime pros running WarnerMedia’s studios and networks, sooner than the merger.
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This yarn used to be initially published on April 29, and used to be up to this level with new reporting after WarnerMedia and Discovery launched plans to merge.

Warner Bros. leadership seems very various recently than it did one year in the past.

The Hollywood studio recently transformed to higher compete with streaming products and services fancy

Netflix
, at the side of bringing in new administration and collapsing about a of the partitions between divisions of the legacy exchange. 

The new faces on the encourage of WarnerMedia’s “Studios and Networks neighborhood” encompass former BBC exec Ann Sarnoff, who runs the unit; Casey Bloys, who rose thru the HBO ranks to was the sigh chief for each HBO and HBO Max; and Channing Dungey, a Netflix and ABC alum who leads WarnerMedia’s TV studio. 

Sarnoff also appointed firm veterans fancy Toby Emmerich to key positions. Emmerich, who Zaslav talked up in his feedback following the deal announcement, is to blame of the film studio.

Sarnoff’s prime deputies in the studios and networks neighborhood are (in alphabetical boom): 

• Tom Ascheim, president, World Kids, Younger Adults, and Classics, who used to be previously president of Disney’s younger-adult community Freeform.
• Casey Bloys, chief sigh officer, HBO and HBO Max, who used to be previously a programming exec at HBO at some level of an technology that integrated hits fancy “Sport of Thrones,” “Veep,” and “Westworld.”
• Channing Dungey, chairman, Warner Bros. TV Community, who used to be a first-rate sigh exec at Netflix and ABC sooner than becoming a member of WarnerMedia to scuttle its TV studio. She replaced retired exec Peter Roth in the goal.
• Toby Emmerich, chairman, Warner Bros. Photos Community, who has headed Warner Bros. film studios since 2017 and been with the firm since 1992.
• David Haddad, president, Warner Bros. Interactive Leisure, who oversees Warner Bros. video-game franchises tied to manufacturers fancy Harry Potter and Mortal Kombat.
• Liz Huszarik, chief compare officer and EVP, world compare and insights, who has been with the firm in replacement compare roles since the early 1990s.
• Jay Levine, chief technique officer and EVP, exchange operations, a former of the firm who stepped into his most fresh goal in leisurely 2020.
• Pam Lifford, president, World Brands, Franchises, and Experiences, who is to blame for growing the fan bases for WarnerMedia’s replacement franchises thru themed occasions, experiences, and other touchpoints. 
• Brett Weitz, standard manager of TNT, TBS, and TruTV, a longtime firm govt who is now to blame for WarnerMedia’s three entertainment TV networks.

Bloys, the manager sigh officer for HBO and HBO Max, has also named his lieutenants, who encompass a mixture of seasoned HBO alum and pros from other divisions of the firm:

• Nancy Abraham, EVP, HBO Documentaries and Family, who joined the documentary division in 1995 and rose to scuttle the unit alongside Lisa Heller.
• Sarah Aubrey, head, fashioned sigh, HBO Max, a former TNT exec who, in her most fresh goal, has helped scheme early successes for HBO Max fancy “The Flight Attendant.”
• Meredith Gertler, EVP, sigh technique and planning, HBO and HBO Max, who held replacement positions at HBO sooner than taking on her expanded mandate.
• Amy Gravitt, EVP, HBO programming, who has overseen HBO comedies equivalent to “Timid,” “The Righteous Gem stones,” and “A Murky Lady Sketch Display cloak.”
• Lisa Heller, EVP, HBO Documentaries and Family, who joined the documentary unit in 2000 and now runs it alongside Abraham.
• Francesca Orsi, EVP, HBO programming, who has overseen such HBO dramas as “Big Little Lies” and “The Leftovers.”
• Michael Quigley, EVP and head, sigh acquisition, who came from the Turner side of the exchange.
• Nina Rosenstein, EVP, HBO programming, who has overseen HBO sequence at the side of “Final Week Tonight with John Oliver” and replacement comedy specials.
• Glenn Whitehead, president of exchange affairs and manufacturing at HBO and HBO Max, a longtime HBO exec who used to be instrumental to coproduction and distribution deals that helped the community land higher scale and world initiatives fancy “Chernobyl.”

The studios and networks neighborhood is also supported by an administrative team that comprises: 

• Johanna Fuentes, head of communications for studios and networks, who joined WarnerMedia from Showtime in Might maybe maybe well also.
• Ben Hill, head of human sources for studios and networks, who used to be an HR exec at Turner sooner than taking on the expanded goal.
• Jassica Holscott, head of finance for studios and networks, who used to be previously HBO’s monetary chief.
• John Rogovin, head of appropriate for studios and networks, who has been with the studio for higher than a decade, and led the suitable technique linked to properties at the side of “Superman,” “The Hobbit,” “The Lord of the Rings.”

For more on WarnerMedia’s energy structure, explore our interactive org chart:

• We mapped out the 111 most extremely effective of us at WarnerMedia after CEO Jason Kilar’s leadership shake-up. This is our queer org chart.