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 Organization Affairs for CBS Entertainment and Studios, are increasing their obligations to oversee Information and Stations, Sports, and CBS Media Ventures.

Cheeks laid out their new roles in a memo to workers, composing. “As executive vice presidents and co-heads of Organization Affairs for CBS, they will supply management, strategy, guidance and assist to all our outstanding B.A. groups. Extremely related to our centralized structure for Communications, Advertising and Finance, the divisional B.A. teams will report right to Allison and Jeeun, whilst continuing to perform closely with their respective divisional leaders. Allison and Jeeun have performed a amazing career main B.A. at equally CBS Entertainment and CBS Studios more than the past yr and a fifty percent.”

Brightman will perform generally with the Studios and Media Ventures groups even though Jeeun will focus on Entertainment, Information and Stations, and Athletics.

“A strong Enterprise Affairs operation is a crucial driver of our success in a promptly evolving media world, and I believe that this unified structure is a earn for all CBS teams. Just about every division can benefit from the combined expertise and ability sets throughout all our company strategists and negotiators, regardless of the type of information, talent and platforms they cover. Please join me in congratulating Jeeun and Allison on their recently expanded roles and thanking them for their sizeable contributions to CBS!” he wrote.

Brightman was named government vice president of CBS Tv Studios in January 2020 and later on co-head of Organization Affairs for Studios and Entertainment with Kim in Oct 2020. She very first joined CBS in 2006 as vice president of Company Affairs and was promoted to senior vice president in 2012, incorporating CBS All Entry to her portfolio in 2017. Prior to signing up for CBS, she was senior authorized 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 eventually October 2020, where she led a staff of negotiators handling growth, production and license deals for scripted development initiatives and sequence. Prior to that, she held numerous senior roles at numerous divisions at NBCUniversal, together with NBC Community, United states, Syfy, Universal Cable Productions and Universal Television.