Kevin Mayer and Tom Staggs’ Candle Media has hired seasoned executives Courtney Cappa and Kendall Ostrow as, respectively, SVP, Finance & Accounting, and SVP, Company Advancement & Community.
Cappa will enable drive Candle’s company finance efforts including making up a company workforce to oversee economical organizing and accounting, reporting to Candle CFO Salil Mehta.
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Ostrow will concentrate on creating strategic partnerships and establishing techniques to strengthen the communities about Candle and its company units and brands, reporting to Brent Weinstein, Candle’s Main Improvement Officer.
Cappa will be centered in LA, Ostrow in New York.
Candle co-founders, co-CEOs and former Walt Disney colleagues, Mayer and Staggs, called the duo “tremendous executives with deep working experience, abilities and interactions.”’
Cappa most not long ago served as head of finance and controller at unbiased film and tv studio Wiip, guiding the corporation from commence-up through a number of rounds of fundraising to its effective sale to JTBC Studios. Prior to Wiip, she was VP of Finance/Accounting at Legendary and Europacorp, working on vital acquisitions, like the sale of Famous to Wanda. She started her media career in finance at Disney.
Ostrow was most a short while ago at UTA for 7 decades, constructing its digital tactic department, then serving as head of customer strategy for UTA IQ. Beforehand, she was at ID PR, and head of new media for The Ellen Present.
Candle, launched final calendar year with monetary backing from Blackstone Team, is introducing execs as it continues to mature, most a short while ago getting ATTN, a social media storytelling organization for Gen Z and Millennials. That follows specials for Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine, CoComelon producer Moonbug Amusement, Fauda producer Faraway Productions and a minority stake in Will Smith and Jada Pinkett’s Westbrook.
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