Jon Malone Email & Phone Number

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• Lead the Techwood Studios Operations & Business Strategy team responsible for all operational activities, strategy, project management and budget for the entire organization. This includes overseeing several unique groups: the Business Operations, Culture & Engagement, Post-Production Technology, Media Asset Management, and Project Management teams supporting the entire portfolio of Warner Bros. Discovery networks and brands. • Serve as Chief of Staff for the General Manager/SVP of Techwood Studios, ensuring strategic alignment between each distinct vertical and operational excellence is carried throughout the entire organization. Responsibilities include: o Assessing organizational structure, providing recommendations and developing strategies to evolve each function to meet growing business needso Serve as unifying influence among the leadership team, providing best practices, guidance and support for all areas of team management and strategy, ensuring synergy across all verticals o Writing all internal corporate communications on behalf of our GM and Culture & Engagement teams• Oversee financial tracking of all capital and operational resources and serve as subject matter expert of the allocation. This requires regularly tracking partner and Studio progress, maintaining open lines of communication, and ultimately identifying needs of the organization and deploying critical resources as needed. • Direct all projects related to our 300,000 square foot facility, with a significant emphasis on Atlanta Consolidation, a 5+ year initiative of moving all of CNN staff out of CNN Center and into our Techwood facility. Ensure resources are adequately allocated, proper communication is enacted and ultimately all key objectives are met.

Atlanta, Ga

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

• Lead three distinct Operations teams within Turner Studios designed to provide support to our various Network, Corporate, and Brand teams within the WarnerMedia Entertainment, WarnerMedia News & Sports, and Warner Brothers portfolios. Team consists of project managers and logistics professionals dedicated to support Edit and Sound Design Operations, Design/Visual Effects Operations, and 10th Street Productions Operations. Responsibilities include planning and implementing production schedules, assessing project and resource requirements, scheduling personnel, estimating, negotiating and confirming budgets, and maintaining timelines for our partners. • Implement team strategy; ensure production schedules, deadlines and budgets are met; develop team members for individual success; troubleshoot as a partner with all teammates; and analyze, rethink and tweak current project scope, work flow and results to ensure smart and maximum output.• Serve as primary point of entry into Turner Studios for work facilitated through the various Creative Services teams, ensuring project intake, mobilization and post-mortem processes are unified and consistent across all operations teams. Analyze incoming work and assign projects based on expertise and scope of work. • Work with Business Operations and Network Partners monthly to provide accurate reporting of hard and soft costs in an effort to provide financial clarity on a continual basis.• Partner with Operations and Finance colleagues to prepare the ensuing year’s budget in order to set the allocation. Responsibilities include facilitating pre-meetings with Partners to communicate budget baselines to open up financial planning dialogue. On an on-going basis, responsible for meeting regularly with partners to more accurately predict future needs.

• Lead a team responsible for the development and execution of Real-Time Marketing initiatives in association with our partner agency Starcom and their portfolio of brands. • Create custom social and linear content by connecting TBS/TNT properties and the advertisers’ brands to relevant moments in pop culture or major news events, allowing the brands to join the real-time conversation with maximum reach and relevance and capturing the moment while it is trending. • Manage production of highly customized integrated marketing campaigns for national advertisers.• Concept marketing ideas, direct creative decisions, and influence advertisers and agencies in order to ensure campaigns benefit TBS/TNT.• Oversee budgets, production timelines and project teams comprised of 5-25 internal and external partners.

• Led a team within Turner Entertainment’s full-service creative agency responsible for the creation of standard on-air sponsorship elements airing on TNT and TBS for all network advertisers, translating to over 10,000 spots hitting air each year. • Managed production of industry-leading custom promotions on TNT and TBS that included highly contextual content aimed to fully integrate an advertiser’s product within the respective network’s branded environment, ultimately priming viewers and enhancing receptivity to the client’s commercial message.• Executed fully integrated branded content sponsorships produced by Funny or Die and DumbDumb.

• Served as Octagon’s key marketing consultant for CLEAR Mobile Internet’s client team in Georgia and North Carolina. • Managed a marketing team responsible for increasing brand awareness and product knowledge through onsite CLEAR demonstrations at events and engaging consumers in current promotions in order to obtain quality lead information, resulting in increased interactions and incremental sales. • Identified, evaluated and executed sponsorship opportunities to drive sales through direct and retail channels. • Created promotions to build excitement and to generate brand affinity. • Provided general marketing and advertising recommendations based on program measurement and results.

• Managed the Southeast Region’s sponsorships and events. • Developed and maintained partnerships with the Atlanta Braves, Atlanta Falcons, Charlotte Bobcats, NASCAR and Bowl Championship Series Colleges and events such as Allstate All-Access Weekend and the Atlanta Football Classic. • Developed an interactive mobile marketing program to increase brand awareness and new business, exceeding more than a 3.0% sales conversion rate of all leads generated and obtaining a 10% engagement of agency sales force within the Southeast region.

• Managed a team of marketing professionals responsible for creating general market and multi-cultural initiatives and developing surround sound advertising programs aimed to achieve increased sales for Allstate agencies. • Planned, tracked and forecasted marketing departmental spend for a $2.6 million budget, the largest regional budget in the Southeast, resulting in a plan variance of less than 2% each year. • Received Allstate’s National “Above and Beyond” award for flawless planning and implementation of all creative elements. • Named “Southeast Regional Innovator” for creative development and execution of a mobile marketing program.