Paramount Global’s Top Marketing and Communications Exec, Julia Phelps, Is Leaving
variety.comTodd Spangler NY Digital Editor Julia Phelps, Paramount Global‘s executive VP and chief communications and corporate marketing officer, is exiting after almost 20 years with the company and predecessor Viacom.
Phelps had long worked with Bob Bakish, who was ousted as CEO of the company last month and replaced by a three-exec committee.
Phelps, in a memo to her team Friday, said she will leave Paramount at the end of May. (Read the full memo below.) According to Phelps’ memo, the company’s marketing and communications group for the time being will report into Brian Robbins, president and CEO of Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon.
Robbins is one of the troika of execs in the company’s “Office of the CEO,” alongside George Cheeks, president and CEO of CBS, and Chris McCarthy, president and CEO, Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios and Paramount Media Networks.
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