Ted Lim has joined Warner Bros Movement Image Group as Chief Enterprise Officer, the studio introduced on Tuesday.
Learn the memo to workers from studio chiefs Michael DeLuca & Pam Abdy beneath.
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As we shared earlier this month, we stay targeted on the way forward for the Warner Bros. Movement Image Group as a singular operation that permits us to be globally targeted with the movies we convey to audiences whereas additionally serving our staff’s wants in markets worldwide.
As we evolve in direction of a totally built-in worldwide division, we’re excited to introduce you all to our new staff member, Ted Lim, who joins the Movement Image Group as Chief Enterprise Officer. On this newly created function, Ted’s contributions will enable us to proceed our progress and supply better assist to most of the very important divisions inside our group.
As Chief Enterprise Officer, he’ll report back to us and work intently with management to outline and implement the strategic and operational plans for the Movement Image Group. He can even establish and drive new enterprise improvement and progress alternatives, guaranteeing alignment with WBD’s long-term company targets. Ted will moreover lead initiatives to optimize inner processes throughout manufacturing, advertising and marketing, and distribution whereas offering steerage on the adoption of recent applied sciences and progressive practices in partnership with the respective useful leads of finance, P&C, GBT, driving alignment with OneWBD.
Working with our colleagues in finance, streaming, franchise, content material gross sales/dwelling leisure, licensing, and client merchandise, Ted will collaborate with every division to make sure every Warner Bros. Photos launch reaches the widest potential viewers past its theatrical window. With this new construction, Ricky Tydus who serves as SVP of Inventive Technique & Movie Operations and his staff will report back to Ted.
Ted involves WBD from Amazon MGM Studios, the place he most lately served as Head of World Technique and Enterprise Improvement, overseeing company technique, content material technique for movie (theatrical and streaming) and worldwide originals, inventive planning, franchise administration, and strategic partnerships. Throughout his time at Amazon, Ted helped architect the corporate’s go-forward movie technique – particularly, he oversaw the strategic growth of the theatrical slate with upcoming titles akin to The Accountant 2, Venture Hail Mary, Masters of the Universe, and The Thomas Crown Affair, whereas executing distribution methods for current titles together with Creed III, Challengers, The Beekeeper, and American Fiction. He was additionally a key proponent of facilitating international theatrical home windows for Crimson One and Air and managed the corporate’s worldwide theatrical distribution partnership with Warner Bros.
Beforehand, Ted was Govt Vice President of Strategic Planning and Company Improvement for MGM Studios, the place he was a key member of the deal staff that led the corporate’s landmark sale to Amazon. He additionally supported us each in our roles as MGM’s Movement Image Group Chairman and President, respectively, on the greenlighting, manufacturing, and launch of movies together with No Time to Die (the most recent installment of the 007 franchise), Home of Gucci, Canine, Licorice Pizza, and The Addams Household 2, in addition to the formation of United Artists Releasing (the corporate’s US theatrical distribution three way partnership with Annapurna) and the marketing strategy for the relaunch of Orion Photos. Following the shut of the MGM acquisition, Ted helped lead integration efforts to create a unified movie & tv enterprise mannequin throughout Prime Video, Amazon Studios, and MGM earlier than taking up his broader function on the mixed studio.
Previous to MGM, Ted served as Senior VP of Technique and Enterprise Improvement for Participant and as an government within the Company Technique and Enterprise Improvement staff for The Walt Disney Firm. He began his profession in administration consulting at Bain & Firm and has an MBA from Stanford Graduate Faculty of Enterprise and a BA from Harvard College.
We look ahead to introducing him to the staff when he joins us formally this week.
Mike & Pam