Claudia Teran has been elevated to EVP and corporate general counsel at Fox Corp., where she’s getting expanded responsibilities in the wake of the departure of Rita Tuzon. In her new role, Teran will continue to serve as Fox Sports General Counsel and now also supervise business and legal affairs for Fox entertainment assets, as well as corporate legal areas such as acquisitions, content distribution, digital, privacy, advertising and music rights.
Univision promoted Julissa Bonfante to VP, content publicity. She had been serving as director of corporate communications since 2016.
Heather Phillips will segue from her longtime executive publicity post at Fox to become chief communications officer and head of global publicity for 101 Studios.
Poker Central hired Aaron Casillas as senior director of product and Tyler Champley as VP of marketing and audience development. Casillas has led the development of games for Electronic Arts, Atari, Telltale Games, among others. Champley most recently was a marketing technology exec for mobile and OTT apps at AT&T.
Maximo Ibarra is in as CEO of Sky’s Italian division Sky Italia. Ibarra previously was CEO at Dutch telecom firm KPN.
Oren Aviv is exiting as president and chief film content officer at STX. Aviv oversaw the studio’s first animated feature, UglyDolls. He will remain connected to STX as a strategic consultant.
ITN appointed David Conway as Chief Financial and Operations Officer. Conway joins ITN from BBC Studioworks, where he was Managing Director.
French animation studio Xilam Animation hired Charles Courcier as Head of Digital Production. Courcier joins from Amuse, where he served as Head of Digital Production.
Shaftesbury announced that Jennifer McCann has joined the company in the newly created role of Executive Producer, Kids & Family. McCann has worked in Europe and North America, overseeing projects in both documentary and entertainment programming.
Shawn Strickland has been named President of Allyance Media Group. Strickland joins from Complex Networks.
Claudia Teran has been elevated to EVP and corporate general counsel at Fox Corp., where she’s getting expanded responsibilities in the wake of the departure of Rita Tuzon. In her new role, Teran will continue to serve as Fox Sports General Counsel and now also supervise business and legal affairs for Fox entertainment assets, as well as corporate legal areas such as acquisitions, content distribution, digital, privacy, advertising and music rights.
Univision promoted Julissa Bonfante to VP, content publicity. She had been serving as director of corporate communications since 2016.
Heather Phillips will segue from her longtime executive publicity post at Fox to become chief communications officer and head of global publicity for 101 Studios.
Poker Central hired Aaron Casillas as senior director of product and Tyler Champley as VP of marketing and audience development. Casillas has led the development of games for Electronic Arts, Atari, Telltale Games, among others. Champley most recently was a marketing technology exec for mobile and OTT apps at AT&T.
Maximo Ibarra is in as CEO of Sky’s Italian division Sky Italia. Ibarra previously was CEO at Dutch telecom firm KPN.
Oren Aviv is exiting as president and chief film content officer at STX. Aviv oversaw the studio’s first animated feature, UglyDolls. He will remain connected to STX as a strategic consultant.