EXCLUSIVE: Universal executive Xavier Albert, who has been Managing Director for France since 2016, is taking on a dual market role with the studio and will also become Managing Director for Italy.
Albert will take over the post from Richard Borg who is retiring in July after 30 years with the Universal Pictures International organization.Universal’s President of International Distribution, Veronika Kwan Vandenberg, made the news official in a note to staff today.Albert will report to the new Executive Vice President of EMEA, a role that is in the process of being filled.
In the interim, he will report directly to Niels Swinkels, EVP International Distribution.Before joining Universal, Albert held several executive roles at Netflix and
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