Germany‘s UFA Group has brought in a senior Netflix exec, as part of a management re-org. Natalie Clausen has been named COO of the Fremantle-owned German production giant, and will join its management board on February 19.
She was most recently Senior Production Manager for German-speaking countries, working on productions such as The Empress, Kleo and Liebskind.
Prior to Netflix, she worked on big-ticket German shows such as Babylon Berlin and UFA shows Charité and Deutschland 89. She’ll report to UFA CEO Sascha Schwingel, who took on his role in September.
Schwingel replaced Nico Hofmann, who had been with the Generation War maker for more than 25 years. Clearly, the restructuring didn’t end there, and the addition of Clausen will “provide valuable input to create even more space for creativity in a flexible, lean organization and with the clever use of technology,” according to Schwingel.
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