Sky Italia Appoints Vodafone’s Andrea Duilio as New CEO

APPOINTMENTS

Sky Italia has verified the rumored appointment of Andrea Duilio as the company’s new CEO, set to just take office environment Sept. 6 of this year reporting straight to Stephen van Rooyen, Sky CEO for the U.K. and Europe. Last week, Reuters noted that Duilio experienced emerged as the leading prospect in the company’s search to replace Maximo Ibarra, who stepped down from his job as CEO at Sky Italia in April.

Duilio joins Sky from Vodafone Italia where he invested two many years performing in the company’s Company Unit Consumer. In 2018, as digital director at Vodafone, he spearheaded the company’s digital transformation and afterwards took on the role of director of commercial functions. Considering the fact that December 2020, he has been director of Vodafone’s Business Unit Buyer.

“I am delighted to welcome Andrea Duilio as the new CEO of Sky Italia and to perform with him in carrying out our bold improvement plans,” stated van Rooyen in a statement. “Duilio’s knowledge will give an crucial push to the innovation and progress of Sky Italia, finishing the changeover towards a leaner and integrated company design with the group.”

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Sony Photographs Networks (SPN) India has created several leadership alterations. Rohit Gupta has transitioned from his job as main profits officer – advertisement product sales and worldwide small business and will now be SPN’s advisor to the administration and the board. Rajesh Kaul, in addition to his existing position as the main income officer – distribution and enterprise head – athletics, will choose on demand of global product sales. Neeraj Arora, at present heading global income, will now be reporting into Kaul. Sandeep Mehrotra has been appointed head – advertisement gross sales, community channels reporting into CEO N.P. Singh. Danish Khan, organization head – Sony Entertainment Tv, digital enterprise and StudioNext will consider more demand of community channels licensing. Tushar Shah, small business head, English, factual amusement and Sony Aath, will take on the more role of the freshly produced posture of chief advertising officer for SPN. Aditya Mehta, in addition to his existing function of corporate technique and business growth, will spearhead the formation of SPN’s Info Analytics Center of Excellence and will also be accountable for enterprise monetization. Main finance officer Nitin Nadkarni will choose supplemental charge of the Broadcast Operations and Network Engineering (B.O.N.E) office. Kingshuk Bhattacharya – head, B.O.N.E. will report into Nadkarni.

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WarnerMedia has appointed Mia Edde to the recently designed role of executive director of Turkish information acquisitions, reporting to govt VP and head of programming EMEA Hannes Heyelmann and govt VP and chief articles officer for Latin The usa Tomas Yankelevich. Operating from the company’s offices in Dubai, Edde will guide acquisitions of area language programming in Turkey for HBO Max in EMEA and Latin The us, wherever Turkish dramas regularly find large audiences. She will also get the job done with acquisitions and programming groups in EMEA and Latin The usa, as perfectly as teaming with Antony Root, government VP and head of authentic generation EMEA, to fee and generate new original Turkish language content material.

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London and L.A.-based mostly The Ink Manufacturing unit has appointed previous Warp Movies exec Barry Ryan as its new head of production replacing Tracey Josephs, who still left the enterprise in June. Ryan will report to creative director Katherine Butler and COO Rod Henwood and oversee output of the company’s film and Tv lineups. At Warp Films Ryan was head of creation, responsible for that company’s movie and Tv set initiatives which include 25 capabilities, 10 sequence and various shorts. He at present sits on ScrenSkills Large-Stop Television Capabilities Council, advising the agency’s education programs. He is also concerned in PACT’s mentorship plan.

STREAMING

The Walt Disney Organization EMEA has greenlit a new romantic comedy action thriller, “Wedding day Season,” to be produced as a Star Initial for the company’s Disney Additionally streaming system. Clocking in at 8 episodes, the series is explained as a genre-busting romance about a mismatched couple that cannot continue to be away from one particular another. It is created by Dancing Ledge Productions with Chris Carey, Laurence Bowen and Toby Bruce executive manufacturing. The series’ screenplays are prepared by Olivier Lyttleton (“Cheaters”) and will be directed by George Kane (“Timewasters”), with manufacturing established to kick off this drop.