CBS Business Affairs EVPs Allison Brightman and Jeeun Kim Expand Roles Into News, Sports and Media

CBS CEO George Cheeks announced on Tuesday that Allison Brightman and Jeeun Kim, who currently co-direct Small business Affairs for CBS Entertainment and Studios, are growing their obligations to oversee News and Stations, Sporting activities, and CBS Media Ventures.

Cheeks laid out their new roles in a memo to workers, writing. “As executive vice presidents and co-heads of Enterprise Affairs for CBS, they will deliver management, strategy, advice and aid to all our outstanding B.A. teams. Pretty comparable to our centralized structure for Communications, Promoting and Finance, the divisional B.A. groups will report specifically to Allison and Jeeun, while continuing to get the job done closely with their respective divisional leaders. Allison and Jeeun have done a great occupation main B.A. at equally CBS Entertainment and CBS Studios about the past year and a 50 percent.”

Brightman will operate principally with the Studios and Media Ventures teams although Jeeun will focus on Entertainment, News and Stations, and Sports.

“A strong Small business Affairs procedure is a vital driver of our success in a rapidly evolving media world, and I believe this unified structure is a earn for all CBS groups. Just about every division can reward from the combined expertise and talent sets across all our business strategists and negotiators, regardless of the kind of content, expertise and platforms they cover. Please join me in congratulating Jeeun and Allison on their newly expanded roles and thanking them for their important contributions to CBS!” he wrote.

Brightman was named executive vice president of CBS Tv Studios in January 2020 and afterwards co-head of Company Affairs for Studios and Entertainment with Kim in October 2020. She first joined CBS in 2006 as vice president of Small business Affairs and was promoted to senior vice president in 2012, introducing CBS All Obtain to her portfolio in 2017. Prior to becoming a member of CBS, she was senior authorized counsel at HBO because 1998.

Kim, who started her vocation as a attorney at  Latham & Watkins in Los Angeles and Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker in New York, was director of Business Affairs (Original Series) for Netflix till Oct 2020, where she led a group of negotiators handling enhancement, generation and license deals for scripted development jobs and collection. Prior to that, she held quite a few senior roles at several divisions at NBCUniversal, together with NBC Community, United states, Syfy, Universal Cable Productions and Universal Television.