Warner Bros. Discovery International Boss Gerhard Zeiler Sets New Leadership Team Following Spate Of Exits
deadline.comWarner Bros. Discovery international boss Gerhard Zeiler has set a new leadership structure for his team following a spate of exits in the past few weeks.
Zeiler sent an all-staff email out this morning in which he laid out how the team will work now that EMEA boss Priya Dogra, international distribution head Robert Blair, Germany lead Hannes Heyelmann and France chief Pierre Branco have all departed.
There have been no layoffs as part of the restructure, Deadline understands. James Gibbons has been promoted from Asia Pacific, INSEAK and Western Pacific boss to run all of APAC, while Clement Schwebig, who has managed INSEAK since 2020, will now have responsibility for GSA, France, Benelux and Africa, which will be brought together into a single Western Europe & Africa market cluster under his leadership.
You can see the full structure at the bottom of this article laid out in Zeiler’s email. Zeiler said he is “fully aware that change can be unsettling and we have had a lot of changes in these last 18 months.” “In addition to the organisational and personnel changes, we are also experiencing a difficult macroeconomic situation in combination with an acceleration of the transformational industry trends,” he added. “This is not an easy situation for any company to manage through, including ours.
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