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Culver City, Ca, Us

New York, Us

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Managed the product and technologies team financial results and vendor agreements, including budgeting, pricing, and negotiations, deal analysis, sales support, requests for proposals (RFPs), and product lifecycle process.• Negotiated agreements for our Product and Technology team's vendors that provide analytics services, consultative solutions, cloud services, targeted marketing and IOT (Internet of Things) agreements.• Established financial controls and reviews, coming under budget 10% – 12% each year between 2015 – 2017• IBM Blockchain Essentials Certified

London, England, Gb

Managed strategic financial deal analysis and overall strategy to content distribution team of 8 members for BBC America and BBC World News. Charged with strategy and financial model creation to increase brand distribution and revenue. Presented forecasts, budgets, models, risks and opportunities of deals to chief financial officer (CFO) and executive vice president (EVP) of content distribution.• Implemented strategy to expand BBC World News distribution domestically, growing subscribers 600%, from 5M to 35M.• Created strategic rate card for BBC America and BBC World News, increasing revenue and distribution for both networks each year during tenure.• Headed financial systems implementation for affiliate distribution team, which included setup of billing, subscriber tracking, and financial reporting; all previously handled by Discovery Networks.• Offered strategic financial analysis and operational support of acquisition of BBC America and World News to AMC Networks as member of high-level, cross-functional team.

New York, Us

Provided strategic insight for domestic distribution and over-the-top (OTT) distribution; financial oversight of systems implementation and management of this startup premium network• Offered financial and strategic leadership and support on Netflix deal that provided EPIX with OTT distributor for our partners MGM, Paramount, and Lionsgate; ultimately leading to financial stability of the premium network.

New York, Ny, Us

Led financial planning, strategy, budgets, subscriber forecasts, rate cards, and operations for content distribution team of AMC, IFC, WE, and Sundance• Created financial models and budgets for 4 cable networks, improving rates, revenue, and distribution for AMC, IFC, WE, and Sundance of 10%+ annually.• Served as strategic member of team charged with identifying potential networks for acquisition and launch of new internal networks for domestic distribution, resulting in launch of Wedding Central (spinoff network of WE).

New York, Ny, Us

Directed internal financial results, including budgets, consolidation, month-end close, audits, and systems.• Led Chart of Accounts conversion that streamlined and reduced number of accounts for 20+ networks and provided better visibility and insight across accounts and brands for general managers (GMs) of each network.Developed standardized P&L reports and dashboards and distributed to each network, enabling detailed variance analysis for the organization.