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

CBS CEO George Cheeks declared on Tuesday that Allison Brightman and Jeeun Kim, who currently co-direct Business Affairs for CBS Entertainment and Studios, are growing their obligations to oversee Information and Stations, Athletics, and CBS Media Ventures.

Cheeks laid out their new roles in a memo to staff, creating. “As executive vice presidents and co-heads of Organization Affairs for CBS, they will deliver leadership, strategy, steerage and aid to all our outstanding B.A. teams. Incredibly comparable to our centralized structure for Communications, Advertising and marketing and Finance, the divisional B.A. groups will report specifically to Allison and Jeeun, while continuing to operate closely with their respective divisional leaders. Allison and Jeeun have performed a excellent occupation major B.A. at both equally CBS Entertainment and CBS Studios over the earlier calendar year and a 50 percent.”

Brightman will do the job largely with the Studios and Media Ventures groups whilst Jeeun will focus on Entertainment, News and Stations, and Sports activities.

“A strong Enterprise Affairs procedure is a crucial driver of our success in a rapidly evolving media world, and I consider this unified structure is a win for all CBS groups. Each and every division can reward from the combined expertise and talent sets across all our business enterprise strategists and negotiators, regardless of the type of articles, talent and platforms they address. Please join me in congratulating Jeeun and Allison on their freshly expanded roles and thanking them for their sizeable contributions to CBS!” he wrote.

Brightman was named executive vice president of CBS Television Studios in January 2020 and later on co-head of Company Affairs for Studios and Entertainment with Kim in October 2020. She very first joined CBS in 2006 as vice president of Company Affairs and was promoted to senior vice president in 2012, introducing CBS All Access to her portfolio in 2017. Prior to becoming a member of CBS, she was senior legal counsel at HBO given that 1998.

Kim, who started her occupation 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 until Oct 2020, the place she led a group of negotiators handling advancement, production and license deals for scripted development tasks and sequence. Prior to that, she held many senior roles at several divisions at NBCUniversal, including NBC Network, United states, Syfy, Universal Cable Productions and Universal Tv.