Sony Pictures Entertainment’s new boss, Ravi Ahuja, is shortly placing collectively his management workforce.
The Culver City-based studio on Tuesday named longtime TV government Keith Le Goy as president of Sony Pictures Television, with oversight of all U.S. and worldwide productions, together with Sony’s recreation present enterprise behind “Jeopardy!” , “Wheel of Fortune” and Game Show. Net.
Le Goy will succeed his boss, Ahuja, who rose to the highest of Sony Pictures Entertainment earlier this month following the retirement of longtime boss Tony Vinciquerra. Since then, Ahuja has raised his profile and arranged his government workforce.
“Keith … is strategic, growth-oriented and has an especially sharp thoughts,” Ahuja mentioned in a press release. “Equally essential, as my shut associate in our tv enterprise, I’ve seen firsthand that he’s a unbelievable colleague. I sit up for working with him on this new capability.”
Le Goy manages the studio’s mixed tv and residential leisure distribution and advertising and marketing models.
He has been deeply concerned in key gross sales, comparable to syndication of “Seinfeld” and movie manufacturing offers with Netflix and Disney. He additionally oversees the corporate’s cable networks in Latin America and Europe. Sony credited its management with serving to Sony Pictures’ digital residence leisure enterprise obtain excessive ranges of income final 12 months for its movies, in addition to focusing consideration on local-language productions in Latin America .
Le Goy additionally led the current launch of Sony’s in-car leisure service, Ridevu, and an leisure app for PlayStation consoles.
Previously, he was head of distribution for Sony Pictures Television. Le Goy joined Sony in 1999 after serving as vp of European gross sales at Walt Disney Co.
Over the previous eight years, the studio has turn out to be a serious unbiased supplier of streaming companies and tv networks. Its productions embrace “The Boys” for Prime Video, “Cobra Kai” for Netflix, “The Last of Us” for HBO, “SWAT” for CBS, “Outlander” for Starz, “Shark Tank” for ABC and “90- Day Fiancé” for TLC.
“Rainbow,” Sony Pictures Entertainment public artwork set up by American sculptor Tony Tasset, on the Culver City lot.
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“It is a privilege to take the helm of the tv group right now of trade transformation,” Le Goy mentioned in a press release. “Thanks to Ravi and our unimaginable groups, SPT is nicely positioned to steer and construct on our wealthy legacy on this dynamic and evolving market, and I’m invigorated by the alternatives forward.”
Ahuja grew to become president and CEO of the studio on January 2. It reviews to Sony Group Corp. president and CEO Kenichiro Yoshida and Hiroki Totoki, president and chief working officer of the Japanese electronics firm.
