WARNER BROS - Key Persons


Adria Alpert Romm

Job Titles:
  • Employee
  • Member of the Corporate Leadership Team
  • Officer
  • Chief People and Culture Officer
Adria Alpert Romm serves as Chief People and Culture Officer for Warner Bros. Discovery, responsible for building and nurturing a workforce prepared to meet the changing media landscape while fostering an industry-leading inclusive company culture for more than 35,000 global employees. Alpert Romm has implemented several employee development and wellness initiatives that reinforced Discovery's reputation as a best place to work, as measured by Fortune, Working Mother Magazine, Fatherly, Fast Company, the Cable and Television Human Resources Association and Women in Cable Telecommunications (WICT). Prior to joining Discovery, Alpert Romm spent more than 25 years at NBCUniversal, including as SVP of Human Resources, serving NBC's TV Network and Studio divisions, NBC News and cable networks, including MSNBC, CNBC, USA, SyFy and Bravo. Alpert Romm has served on the board of directors for the Emma L. Bowen Foundation, MotorTrend Group, OWN and WICT.

Asif Sadiq

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Corporate Leadership Team
  • Chief Global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer
Asif Sadiq serves as Chief Global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Officer at Warner Bros. Discovery. In this role, Sadiq is tasked with building key synergies between internal and external efforts to ensure diversity, equity and inclusion are embedded in all elements of the business, resulting in innovative, creative and inclusive products and services. Previously, Sadiq was SVP of DEI at WarnerMedia, based in London. He also held similar roles at Adidas, The Telegraph Media Group, EY Financial Services and the City of London Police. Sadiq has been listed as one of the most influential Global D&I Leaders by Hive Learning and the CIPD's Top 20 Power list. He was honored with an MBE by the Queen of England in 2017 and granted the freedom of the City of London in 2016. He is a member of the HR Guild and a companion member for The Chartered Management Institute. Sadiq serves on the board of American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Kaplan, and is a member of the board of advisors for Hedley May.

Avi Saxena - CTO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Technology Officer
  • Member of the Corporate Leadership Team
Avi Saxena serves as Chief Technology Officer for Warner Bros. Discovery, where he is responsible for the technology that serves the company's consumer products globally, including Max, Warner Bros. Discovery's enhanced streaming platform that launched in the U.S. on May 23, as well as HBO Max in global markets, and discovery+. Saxena also oversees all direct-to-consumer News, Sports and Entertainment products, such as CNN, Eurosport, GolfTV & Golf Digest, Bleacher Report, March Madness, NHL, Harry Potter Franchise, DC Comics, MotorTrend, Magnolia, TNT, TBS and numerous other entertainment products. He is responsible for a global technology organization that spreads across Seattle, New York, San Francisco, Ottawa, London, Stockholm, Amsterdam, Budapest, India and many other global locations. Prior to joining Discovery, Inc., Saxena worked for Amazon in a variety of roles, most recently as VP of Technology for Amazon Marketplace. He also held leadership roles at Microsoft and several internet infrastructure startups, where he created content delivery networks and other technologies to transform how businesses leverage internet technology. Saxena holds an MBA from Southern Methodist University, an M.S. in Computer Science from University of Texas, Dallas, and a B.S. in Computer Science from SGS Institute of Technology and Science.

Bruce Campbell

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Corporate Leadership Team
  • Chief Revenue and Strategy Officer
Bruce Campbell serves as Chief Revenue and Strategy Officer for Warner Bros. Discovery, overseeing U.S. advertising sales, distribution revenue and content licensing, global corporate development and strategy, global streaming platform agreements and legal affairs for the company. Campbell most recently served as Chief Development, Distribution and Legal Officer, Discovery, Inc., where he was responsible for corporate development, domestic distribution, global legal affairs, and business affairs as well as production management. In that role, Campbell spearheaded and executed many of the company's most crucial deals, including acting as the lead negotiator in the merger between AT&T's WarnerMedia and Discovery; and the acquisitions of Scripps Networks Interactive, SBS Nordics and Eurosport. Before joining Discovery in 2007, Campbell was the EVP of Business Development for NBCUniversal, where he was responsible for strategic planning and corporate transactions. He also represented the company in negotiating the online video joint venture with News Corp that became Hulu. Campbell holds degrees from Princeton University and Harvard Law School.

Channing Dungey - CEO, Chairman

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • Chairman
  • Chairman and CEO, Warner Bros. Television Group
  • Entertainment Industry Leader
Highly esteemed entertainment industry leader Channing Dungey serves as Chairman and CEO of the Warner Bros. Television Group. She was tapped to run the TV Group in October 2020 and began her tenure at the Studio in January 2021. In this role, she has creative responsibility for all of Warner Bros.' unrivaled television production activities, including production of scripted, unscripted, and animated series for on-demand/streaming platforms, premium/pay and basic cable channels, and the U.S. broadcast networks. As Chairman and CEO, Dungey oversees Warner Bros. Television, the Studio's flagship television production unit for live-action scripted programming, as well as Warner Bros. Unscripted Television, which produces unscripted and alternative programming through its three production units: Warner Horizon Unscripted Television, Telepictures, and Shed Media. She also has oversight of animated programming produced through Warner Bros. Animation, Cartoon Network Studios, and Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe. As of May 2023, the scripted, unscripted, and animated divisions are producing more than 100 total series, movies, and specials for streaming and cable partners, as well as the broadcast networks and local stations.

Dave Duvall - CIO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Information Officer
  • Member of the Corporate Leadership Team
  • Member of the Board of Directors for SDVI
Dave Duvall serves as Chief Information Officer for Warner Bros. Discovery, leading the organization accountable for all enterprise technology and operations at the company. Group responsibilities include: IT corporate and business systems, workforce technology and support, InfoSec, as well as studios, networks, and distribution technology and operations. A 19-year veteran of Discovery, Inc., Duvall most recently served as the company's CIO, responsible for the global technology and operations team comprising all IT (corporate and revenue systems), broadcast operations and engineering, distribution and InfoSec globally. He has wide-ranging experience in global technology platform design, configuration and management in a multi-national setting.

David F. Sandberg

Job Titles:
  • Director of the Conjuring

David M. Zaslav - CEO, President

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive Officer
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Member of the Corporate Leadership Team
  • President
  • Executive Management Experience
David Zaslav is President and Chief Executive Officer of Warner Bros. Discovery, one of the world's largest and most diverse media and entertainment companies with market leadership across all programming genres, including premium scripted television and movies, non-fiction series, international, animation, global sports and news. Mr. Zaslav spearheaded the transaction between AT&T's WarnerMedia and Discovery, combining the companies' media assets, in April 2022. Zaslav sets the strategy and oversees all operations for Warner Bros. Discovery's global suite of brands, including Warner Bros. Pictures and Warner Bros. Television Group, HBO and Max, discovery+, CNN, TNT Sports, HGTV, Food Network, OWN, ID, Warner Bros. Animation, Discovery Kids, Eurosport and more. Previously, Mr. Zaslav led Discovery since 2006, driving the organization's growth, operational efficiency and its pivot to direct-to-consumer. Under his leadership, Discovery launched some of the fastest-growing cable networks in the U.S.; achieved numerous milestones for viewership of domestic brands, including Animal Planet, HGTV, Food Network and TLC; and curated a collection of world-class brands and global IP that created the foundation for discovery+. Prior to taking the helm at Discovery, Mr. Zaslav had a distinguished career at NBCUniversal, where he was instrumental in developing and launching CNBC and also played a role in the creation of MSNBC. He was previously an attorney with the New York firm of LeBoeuf, Lamb, Leiby & MacRae, and graduated with honors from Boston University School of Law. Mr. Zaslav was inducted into the Cable Hall of Fame in 2017 and is a member of the Cable TV Pioneers Class of 2018. He is a recipient of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Ripple of Hope Award, the UJA-Federation of New York's Steven J. Ross Humanitarian Award, Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications Fred Dressler Leadership Award, and the Association of Frontotemporal Degeneration's Susan and S.I. Newhouse Award of Hope. Mr. Zaslav serves on the boards of American Cinematheque, Sirius XM Radio, Inc., and Grupo Televisa. He also is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Paley Center for Media, the Mount Sinai Medical Center and Syracuse University.

De Luca

Job Titles:
  • Co - Chair of the Pictures Group
An esteemed and prolific producer with three decades in the film business, De Luca has been nominated three times for an Academy Award® for Best Picture of the Year (for David Fincher's The Social Network, starring Jesse Eisenberg and Andrew Garfield, Bennett Miller's Moneyball, starring Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill, and Paul Greengrass's Captain Phillips, starring Tom Hanks and Barkhad Abdi); and three times for an Emmy Award (for producing both the 89th and the 90th Academy Awards® and, most recently, for producing Ben Stiller's award-winning Escape At Dannemora for Showtime).  Additionally, he has been nominated four times for a Producers Guild of America Award.  De Luca also produced the film adaptation of Fifty Shades of Grey, as well as its two sequels - Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed, starring Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson, for Universal Pictures. The trilogy was a global phenomenon and a box office sensation that grossed over $1 billion internationally.

Debra L. Lee

Job Titles:
  • Independent Director
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Chairman of Leading Women Defined Foundation
Debra L. Lee is chair of Leading Women Defined Foundation (a nonprofit education and advocacy organization in Los Angeles, California), which she founded in 2009. She has served in this capacity since June 2018. Ms. Lee served as chairman and chief executive officer of BET Networks, a global media and entertainment subsidiary of Viacom, Inc., from 2006 until her retirement in 2018. Ms. Lee joined BET Networks in 1986 and served in several leadership roles, including as president, chief executive officer, chief operating officer and general counsel. Ms. Lee has served as a director of the Procter & Gamble Company since 2020, Burberry Group plc since 2019, and Marriott International, Inc. since 2004. Ms. Lee served on the board of AT&T, Inc. from 2019 until 2022, when AT&T's WarnerMedia business was combined with Discovery, Inc. Ms. Lee formerly served on the board of Twitter from 2016 until 2019 and WGL Holdings from 2000 until 2018. Ms. Lee is a Class III Director; her initial term will expires at the 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.

Dr. John C. Malone

Job Titles:
  • Independent Director
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Chairman of the Boards of Liberty Media Corporation
Dr. John C. Malone is chairman of the boards of Liberty Media Corporation, Liberty Broadband Corporation and Liberty Global Plc. His extensive experience includes serving as chief executive officer of Tele-Communications, Inc. for over 25 years until its merger with AT&T Corporation in 1999. Dr. Malone previously served as chief executive officer and chairman of the board of directors of Discovery Holding Company from 2005 to 2008, when it merged with Discovery. Dr. Malone has served as a director of Liberty Broadband since 2014, Liberty Media (including its predecessors) since 2010, Liberty Global (including its predecessors) since 2005 and Qurate Retail (including its predecessors) since 1994. Dr. Malone previously served as a director of GCI Liberty, Inc. from 2018 to 2020, Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. from 2015 to 2018, Liberty Expedia Holdings, Inc. from 2016 to 2019, Liberty Latin America Ltd. from 2017 to 2019, Charter Communications, Inc. from 2013 to 2018 and Expedia, Inc. from 2005 to 2017. He also brings extensive experience serving on boards of non-profit organizations within the cable industry, including Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. and the National Cable Television Association. Dr. Malone is a Class II Director; his initial term expires at the 2024 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.

Geoffrey Y. Yang

Job Titles:
  • Independent Director
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Founding Partner and Managing Director of Redpoint Ventures
Geoffrey Y. Yang is a founding partner and managing director of Redpoint Ventures, a global private equity and venture capital firm, and has served in this capacity since 1999. He also founded Performance Health Sciences (d/b/a Apeiron Life), where he has served as chief executive officer and as a director since April 2018. Prior to founding Redpoint, Mr. Yang was a general partner with Institutional Venture Partners, a private equity investment firm, which he joined in 1987. Mr. Yang has served as a director of Liberty Media Acquisition Corp. since 2021 and Franklin Resources, Inc. since 2011. Mr. Yang also served as a director of AT&T, Inc. from 2016 until 2022, when AT&T's WarnerMedia business was combined with Discovery, Inc. Mr. Yang is a Class III Director; his initial term expires at the 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.

Gerhard Zeiler

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Corporate Leadership Team
  • President, International
  • President of International
Gerhard Zeiler serves as President of International for Warner Bros. Discovery. Zeiler has strategic oversight for the company's brands and joint responsibility for direct-to-consumer in more than 220 international markets. He is also responsible for local theatrical production and acquisitions, as well as managing the country and region-specific networks and businesses in Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. Appointed President of WarnerMedia International in 2020, Zeiler added responsibility for Discovery Inc.'s significant international footprint following the close of the Discovery-WarnerMedia merger in April 2022. He first joined Turner in 2012 as President, Turner International, where he oversaw the entertainment and kids' networks in all markets outside of North America, working with core global brands on local and regional channels. Prior to joining Turner, Zeiler was CEO of RTL Group, a division of German conglomerate Bertelsmann and Europe's largest television production and broadcast company. Under his leadership, RTL expanded its international footprint, bringing hit competition shows like Idols and Got Talent to the U.S. market and growing its holdings to 41 channels and 34 radio stations across 10 countries.  Among his many professional honors, Austrian-born Zeiler is the first non-American to receive NATPE's prestigious Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Award in 2011.

Gunnar Wiedenfels - CFO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Financial Officer
  • Member of the Corporate Leadership Team

James Gunn

Job Titles:
  • Co - Chairman and CEO of DC Studios
James Gunn is the prolific filmmaker behind some of today's most notable pop culture content and the Co-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of DC Studios alongside Peter Safran. Gunn's film and television credits include the Warner Bros. feature "The Suicide Squad," Marvel's entire "Guardians of the Galaxy" franchise, the Emmy-nominated HBO Max television series "The Peacemaker," cult classic features "Slither," "Super," and many more. Most recently, Gunn wrote and directed the third and final "Guardians" feature, "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3," which was released on May 5, 2023. At the end of its opening weekend, the film exceeded its global expectations and had earned a whopping total of $289.3 million from international and domestic audiences and just recently passed $835 million worldwide ahead of its digital release. On the filmmaking side, Gunn is next writing and directing the feature "Superman: Legacy," which will be released in theaters on July 2025. In 2021, Gunn brought his trademark sensibilities to the Warner Bros. feature film "The Suicide Squad", which he wrote and directed. The film starred Margot Robbie, Viola Davis, Jai Courtney, and Joel Kinnaman reprising their roles from the DC franchise as well as a new group of characters led by Idris Elba, John Cena, Peter Capaldi, Alice Braga, Michael Rooker, Nathan Fillion, Mayling Ng, Steve Agee, Flula Borg, Storm Reid, Sean Gunn, Daniela Melchior, David Dastmalchian, Pete Davidson, and more. Based on John Cena's popular character in "The Suicide Squad," Gunn created, wrote, and directed "The Peacemaker," a spinoff series for HBO Max. The show debuted on January 13, 2022 to rave reviews and garnered an Emmy nomination. Gunn carefully curated the soundtrack for the series, which has been praised by critics and was highlighted in the viral dance sequence from the show's opening credits. In 2014, Gunn brought to life what is now one of the most memorable franchises in the Marvel Universe, "Guardians of the Galaxy." Gunn wrote and directed both "Guardians of the Galaxy" and "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2," which have earned a combined 1.5 billion dollars at the global box office. The original was the second highest grossing film of 2014 and spent five weekends atop the charts, a record in Marvel history.  The franchise has garnered impressive reviews from film critics around the world, won the Critics' Choice Award for Best Action Movie and was nominated for three Academy Awards, two Grammys, two BAFTAs, seven MTV Movie Awards and two People's Choice Awards, amongst many others.  Gunn was personally nominated for a WGA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in 2014. Knowing what an important role music plays in a movie, Gunn personally chose every song included in the "Guardians of the Galaxy" film soundtracks. The albums, Awesome Mix Vol. 1 and Awesome Mix Vol. 2, featured pop songs from the 1960's & 70's and were highly praised by critics as being a secondary character in the film that serves as its emotional core.  Awesome Mix Vol. 1 is the first soundtrack comprised entirely of previously released songs to ever reach the No. 1 spot on the Billboard charts. Vol. 1 went on to become certified Platinum status; Vol. 2 finished 2017 as the country's eighth highest-selling album with 600,000 copies sold, and has been certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America. Born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, Gunn began his career at the age of twelve by making a zombie movie with an eight-millimeter camera and an actor, his brother Sean. Gunn got his start in the industry while attending Columbia University. He applied for a part-time job filing papers at famed B-movie studios Troma Entertainment, and was paid $150 to write the screenplay for the feature "Tromeo & Juliet" instead. In 1997, "Tromeo" became a cult hit, playing in theaters around the world, including over a year of midnight screenings in Los Angeles. Gunn left Troma to write and star in (along with Rob Lowe, Thomas Haden-Church, and Jamie Kennedy) the 2000 feature film, "The Specials," about a group of superheroes on their day off. In the same year, Bloomsbury Press released Gunn's critically acclaimed novel "The Toy Collector," the story of a hospital orderly who sells drugs to finance his escalating toy collecting addiction. He also wrote, with Lloyd Kaufman, the non-fiction book "All I Need to Know About Filmmaking I Learned from the Toxic Avenger," currently in its fifth printing. In 2004, Gunn wrote the live action "Scooby-Doo" movie which grossed over $300 million worldwide. He became the first screenwriter in history to write back-to-back hits standing at #1 at the weekend box office, with the critically-acclaimed and re-imagined "Dawn of the Dead" on March 19, 2004 and "Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed" on March 26, 2004. Gunn's love for the comedy and horror genres coalesced in his feature film directorial debut, "Slither," which he also wrote. The film was released by Universal in 2006 and stars Nathan Fillion and Elizabeth Banks. "Slither" is featured on Rotten Tomatoes as one of the "Top Ten All-Time Best Reviewed Horror Films," was named "The Best Horror film of 2006" by Rue Morgue Magazine, and garnered Gunn a Saturn Award and a Fangoria Chainsaw Award for his work on the film. Additionally, in 2010, Gunn directed the independent feature film, "Super" starring Rainn Wilson, Elliot Page, Liv Tyler, and Kevin Bacon. It is the dark and comedic tale of a disturbed man who dresses up as a superhero to save his ex-wife from her drug-dealing new boyfriend.  "Super" was an official selection at the Toronto Film Festival, was picked up by IFC Films, and is IFC's top selling film ever on On-Demand. In 2012 Gunn released his first video game, Lollipop Chainsaw, with Suda 51 and Warner Bros, on Xbox and Playstation 3. In 2008 he created Xbox Live's first original content, producing seven comedy shows by horror directors, and creating his own, "Sparky & Mikaela." Gunn's additional credits include hosting the reality show Scream Queens for VH1 and writing and directing the comedy web series PG Porn, which has received over 70 million hits online, has been remade by Canal+ in France, and is one of the most profitable web series of all time.

JB Perrette - CEO, President

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • Member of the Corporate Leadership Team
  • Member of the View All Leadership Team
  • President
Perrette is spearheading the rollout of Max, the company's enhanced streaming platform, which launched in the U.S. on May 23, and combines HBO Max and discovery+ content into a unified product. Additionally, he oversees Warner Bros. Discovery's gaming and interactive entertainment business, which includes WB Games' successful game development and publishing operations for such titles as Mortal Kombat, Hogwarts Legacy, and Batman: Arkham Knight. Perrette most recently served as President and CEO of Discovery Streaming and International, a global leader in real life entertainment with worldwide distribution in both television and emerging digital platforms. Prior to joining Discovery, Inc. in 2011 as Chief Digital Officer, he spent 11 years with NBCUniversal, ultimately serving as President, Digital and Affiliate Distribution. During that time he played a leadership role in creating and developing Hulu, including serving on its Board for several years.

Jon Steinlauf

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Corporate Leadership Team
  • Chief U.S. Advertising Sales Officer

Kathleen Finch

Job Titles:
  • Chairman and CEO, US Networks, Warner Bros. Discovery
  • Hollywood Reporter
  • Role of Chairman and CEO, US Networks
Kathleen Finch assumed the role of Chairman and CEO, US Networks, at Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. in April 2022-following the merger of Discovery, Inc. and WarnerMedia. Her group of more than 20 networks, including Discovery, HGTV, Food Network, TLC, TNT, TBS, OWN, Investigation Discovery, Cartoon Network/Adult Swim and TCM, produces over 3,000 hours of lifestyle and entertainment programming each year. Finch also leads the Digital Lifestyle Studios Group which is responsible for producing hundreds of video and social assets. A graduate of Stanford University, Finch has received multiple honors, including: Hollywood Reporter's Top Dealmakers, Hollywood Reporter's Women in Entertainment Power 100, Cablefax 100, Variety Reality TV Impact Report, Variety500, Time's 100 Innovators to Watch, Adweek's Television Executive of the Year and WICT's Woman of the Year. Finch contributes her time and expertise to the industry as a member of The Committee of 200 and the Fast Company Impact Council and serves on the board of NCTA - The Internet & Television Association. She resides with her family in New York City.

Kenneth W. Lowe

Job Titles:
  • Independent Director
  • Member of the Board of Directors
Mr. Lowe served as Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of Scripps Networks Interactive from its split with The E.W. Scripps Company in 2008 until its sale to Discovery, Inc. in 2018. He previously served as President and CEO of The E.W. Scripps Company from 2000 until 2008. Prior to 2000, Mr. Lowe was Chairman and CEO of Scripps Networks, where he built it into one of the fastest growing and most successful creators of unique content and lifestyle brands for television. Mr. Lowe was also a member of the Discovery, Inc. Board of Directors from March 2018 until the closing of the Company's acquisition of the WarnerMedia business in April of 2022.

Li Haslett Chen

Job Titles:
  • Independent Director
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Howl
Li Haslett Chen is the founder and chief executive officer of Howl, a technology platform that democratizes access to retail's next frontier - social commerce. For creators on platforms like YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram, Howl provides the foundation to get paid for selling products from global brands. Under her leadership, Howl has been named one of Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies and one of the Most Promising AI Companies by Forbes. Ms. Chen has been recognized as a Retail Disruptor by The Financial Times, a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, and included on Ad Age's 40-Under-40.

Lori Locke - CFO

Job Titles:
  • Chief Accounting Officer
  • Member of the Corporate Leadership Team
Lori Locke serves as Chief Accounting Officer for Warner Bros. Discovery, where she leads the company's financial reporting, accounting, and related internal controls functions. Locke works closely with the company's Chief Financial Officer, Gunnar Wiedenfels, to whom she reports. A 30-year veteran in corporate and public accounting, Locke has held senior finance positions at various large organizations including Gannett, Leidos, Hilton and AOL Time Warner. Locke also served in the Division of Corporation Finance at the Securities and Exchange Commission and prior to that worked at Deloitte. Locke currently serves on the board of the Media Financial Management Association. Locke earned a B.S. in accounting from Pennsylvania State University, is a certified public accountant and member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

Luis Silberwasser - CEO, Chairman

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • Chairman
  • Chairman and CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery Sports
Luis Silberwasser is Chairman and CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery Sports, overseeing a preeminent U.S. sports rights portfolio highlighted by long-standing relationships with the National Basketball Association, NCAA, Major League Baseball and National Hockey League. He is responsible for all aspects of WBD Sports U.S. partnerships, brands and assets including rights acquisitions, business development and revenue. Silberwasser is also charged with overseeing key growth strategies and global priorities for WBD Sports.

Max Content Casey Bloys - CEO, Chairman, President

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • Chairman
  • President
  • Chairman and CEO, HBO and Max Content
Casey Bloys Chairman and CEO, HBO and Max Content Casey Bloys is Chairman and CEO, HBO and Max Content. After becoming president of HBO programming in May 2016, he assumed original content responsibilities for HBO Max in August 2020, encompassing all HBO Original and Max Original series, documentaries, and specials. In April 2022, Bloys' purview expanded to include the Magnolia Network. In May 2023, with the launch of the new Max platform, Bloys continues to oversee HBO and Max Originals. Under his leadership, Bloys' compelling slate of groundbreaking original programming has continued to breakthrough. In 2022, his programming received 38 Emmy® Awards across 13 titles, more than any network or streaming platform; it was also the most nominated with 140 nods, besting HBO's previous record of 137 nominations in 2019. Additionally, with House of the Dragon, The White Lotus, The Last of Us and Euphoria, Bloys had four current original series with cross-platform audiences averaging more than 15 million viewers per episode, a first in HBO history. Bloys' slate also includes such award-winning and culturally impactful programming as HBO's Succession, Industry, Barry, The Rehearsal, Jerrod Carmichael: Rothaniel, and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, along with Max Originals Hacks, Station Eleven, Our Flag Means Death, Rap Sh!t, And Just Like That…, The Sex Lives of College Girls, Love & Death, and Peacemaker. Recent titles include HBO's The Idol, True Detective: Night Country, The Sympathizer and The Regime as well as Max Originals Full Circle and Dune: The Sisterhood. Additionally, Bloys is continuing to expand the DC universe with Max Originals such as The Penguin. During his 19-year tenure, he has overseen the development and production of a long list of HBO programming, including Flight of The Conchords, Eastbound and Down, Veep, Girls, Silicon Valley, and Enlightened. After he began overseeing the drama group, HBO launched Mare of Easttown, Watchmen, Succession, Euphoria, Westworld, Big Little Lies, My Brilliant Friend, The Undoing, and Chernobyl. Bloys was promoted to the role of President, HBO series, late night and specials in February 2016, responsible for the development and production of all series, talk shows and specials for the network. Before that, he served as Executive Vice President, HBO Programming from 2013, and was responsible for comedy series, late night and specials. He joined HBO in 2004 as Director, Development, HBO Independent Productions (HIP), and was promoted to Vice President, HIP, in 2005. In 2006, he was named Vice President, HBO Entertainment, spearheading the development and production of comedy series and named Senior Vice President in 2009. Prior to HBO, he was director, Development, for Wass-Stein Productions, from 2000 to 2004. He began his career as an assistant in the Current and Development departments of CBS. In 2023, Bloys was appointed to the Television Academy's executive committee. He has a BA in Economics from Northwestern University.

Mike De Luca - CEO

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • Co - Chair
Michael De Luca serves as Co-Chair and CEO of Warner Bros. Motion Pictures Group, encompassing Warner Bros. Pictures, New Line Cinema, DC-based films and Warner Animation Group. WBMPG continues to build on its legacy of iconic feature franchises and world-class cinema, working across all genres with both established and emerging talent - in front of and behind the camera - to deliver the industry's most diverse slate of films for a global audience. De Luca serves as Co-Chair with Pamela Abdy. As Co-Chair of the Pictures Group, De Luca shares oversight of the Studio's global theatrical production, marketing and distribution operations, which set a new high watermark for the industry early in 2022 with the record-shattering success of the acclaimed blockbuster The Batman. Following its record-breaking $258.2 million opening weekend, the critical and commercial hit went on to earn more than $770 million, becoming the Studio's highest-grossing release in the pandemic era. In addition to The Batman, WBPG's 2022 releases include Elvis, DC League of Super-Pets (Warner Animation Group), Don't Worry Darling (New Line), Black Adam (New Line/DC) and Shazam! Fury of the Gods (New Line/DC).

Pam Abdy - CEO

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • Co - Chair
  • Co - Chair and CEO of the Pictures Group
Pamela Abdy serves as Co-Chair and CEO of Warner Bros. Motion Picture Group, encompassing Warner Bros. Motion Pictures, New Line Cinema, DC-based films and Warner Animation Group. WPMPG continues to build on its legacy of iconic feature franchises and world-class cinema, working across all genres with both established and emerging talent - in front of and behind the camera - to deliver the industry's most diverse slate of films for a global audience. Abdy serves as Co-Chair and CEO with Michael De Luca. As Co-Chair and CEO of the Pictures Group, Abdy shares oversight of the Studio's global theatrical production, marketing and distribution operations, which set a new high watermark for the industry early in 2022 with the record-shattering success of the acclaimed blockbuster The Batman. Following its record-breaking $258.2 million opening weekend, the critical and commercial hit went on to earn more than $770 million, becoming the Studio's highest-grossing release in the pandemic era. In addition to The Batman, WBPG's 2022 releases include Elvis, DC League of Super-Pets (Warner Animation Group), Don't Worry Darling (New Line), Black Adam (New Line/DC) and Shazam! Fury of the Gods (New Line/DC). Abdy previously served as Executive Vice President at Paramount Pictures, where she oversaw the development and production of a number of films, including Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island, The Love Guru starring Mike Myers, Kimberly Peirce's Stop-Loss, the Judd Apatow-produced Drillbit Taylor, Oliver Stone's World Trade Center, Karyn Kusama's Aeon Flux, Richard LaGravenese's Freedom Writers, Alejandro González Iñárritu's Golden Globe-winning Babel and Mark Waters' Mean Girls.

Patrizio Spagnoletto

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Corporate Leadership Team
  • Global Chief Marketing Officer, Direct - to - Consumer

Paul A. Gould

Job Titles:
  • Independent Director
  • Member of the Board of Directors
Paul A. Gould has served at Allen & Company, an investment bank, since 1972, including as a managing director and executive vice president for more than the last five years. Mr. Gould has served as a financial advisor to many Fortune 500 corporations and advised on several large media company acquisitions. Mr. Gould has served as a director of Radius Global Infrastructure, Inc. since 2020, Liberty Latin America since 2017 and Liberty Global since 2005. Mr. Gould previously served as a director of Ampco-Pittsburgh Corp. from 2002 to 2018. Mr. Gould previously served as a director of Discovery Holding Company from 2005 until 2008, when it merged with Discovery. Mr. Gould is a Class II Director; his initial term will expire at the 2024 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.

Paula A. Price

Job Titles:
  • Independent Director
  • Member of the Board of Directors
Paula A. Price was the executive vice president and chief financial officer of Macy's, Inc. from 2018 until 2020. From 2014 to 2018, she was a full-time senior lecturer at Harvard Business School and remains a visiting executive. Prior to joining the faculty of Harvard Business School, she was executive vice president and chief financial officer of Ahold USA, a U.S. grocery retailer, which she joined in 2009. Prior to joining Ahold USA, Ms. Price was senior vice president, controller and chief accounting officer at CVS Caremark. Ms. Price also held senior management positions at JPMorgan Chase & Co., Prudential Insurance Co. of America, Diageo and Kraft Foods. A certified public accountant, she began her career at Arthur Andersen & Co. Ms. Price has served as a director of Bristol-Myers Squibb Company since 2020 and a director of Accenture plc since 2014. Ms. Price was a member of the board of Dollar General from 2014 through 2018, of Davita Inc. from 2020 until 2022, and of Western Digital Corporation from 2014 through 2019 and again from 2020 until 2022.

Peter Safran

Job Titles:
  • Co - Chairman & Co - Chief Executive Officer of DC Studios
  • Co - Chairman and CEO of DC Studios
Peter Safran is Co-Chairman & Co-Chief Executive Officer of DC Studios, a newly formed division of Warner Bros. Discovery. Together with his fellow Co-Chair & Co-CEO, acclaimed writer/director James Gunn, Safran is leading the effort to design and build a long-term creative architecture to realize the power and wonder of the DC Universe across film, TV, animation and gaming to under a single banner. The first chapter of the dynamic interconnected DCU they're building is set to launch in 2025 with the HBO Max series Creature Commandos and Waller, and the big screen debut of James Gunn's epic Superman: Legacy on July 11. A prolific and widely respected producer, Safran was previously President and Founder of The Safran Company, which has generated more than $3 billion in worldwide box office, in collaboration with Warner Bros. Pictures & New Line Cinema, with the blockbuster The Conjuring Universe, among others. Since the 2013 release of director James Wan's The Conjuring, the blockbuster film series has earned a staggering combined gross of nearly $2 billion worldwide, becoming the biggest horror franchise of all time, with the latest installment - 2021's The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It - taking in $180 million globally. Safran reunited with his Conjuring partner James Wan to deliver the 2018 box office juggernaut Aquaman, starring Jason Momoa in the title role. Following its record-shattering run, which topped out at an astonishing $1.14 billion at the worldwide box office, Safran and Wan again reteamed to continue the popular adventure franchise with 2023's hugely anticipated Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom. Safran also reteamed with David F. Sandberg, director of the Conjuring franchise entry Annabelle: Creation, to bring one of DC's most critically praised films to the big screen, the 2019 box office smash Shazam!, which earned over $364 million worldwide, and its 2023 follow-up Shazam! Fury of the Gods. Other recent credits include the upcoming chiller The Nun 2, which continues The Conjuring Universe saga. Before taking the helm of DC Studios, Safran and James Gunn first teamed up to produce the hit HBO Max series Peacemaker, a spin-off of Gunn's acclaimed 2021 DC feature The Suicide Squad. He also produced the 2022 Amazon romantic comedy I Want You Back, directed by Jason Orley (Big Time Adolescence) and starring Charlie Day and Jenny Slate. Next up for the banner is the DC entry Blue

Richard W. Fisher

Job Titles:
  • Independent Director
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Senior Advisor to Barclays PLC
Richard W. Fisher has served as senior advisor to Barclays PLC since 2015. He served as president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas from 2005 until March 2015. From 2001 to 2005, Mr. Fisher was vice chairman and managing partner of Kissinger McLarty Associates. From 1997 to 2001, Mr. Fisher served as Deputy U.S. Trade Representative with the rank of Ambassador. Previously, he served as managing partner of Fisher Capital Management and Fisher Ewing Partners LP and prior to that was senior manager of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. Mr. Fisher has served as a director of Tenet Healthcare Corporation and of Beneficient Company Group since 2017. Mr. Fisher previously served on the boards of AT&T, Inc. and PepsiCo Inc. from 2015 through 2021. Mr. Fisher is a Class II Director; his initial term will expire at the 2024 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.

Samuel A. Di Piazza - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Board
  • Member of the Board of Directors
Samuel A. Di Piazza, Jr. became Board Chair of Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. in 2022 when AT&T's WarnerMedia business ("WarnerMedia") was combined with Discovery, Inc. Mr. Di Piazza served as global chief executive officer of PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited from 2002 until his retirement in 2009. Mr. Di Piazza began his 36-year career with PricewaterhouseCoopers ("PwC," formerly Coopers & Lybrand) in 1973 and served in various leadership positions with PwC. After his retirement from PwC, Mr. Di Piazza joined Citigroup where he served as vice chairman of the Global Corporate and Investment Bank from 2011 until 2014. Mr. Di Piazza served on the AT&T board from 2015 until 2022. Mr. Di Piazza has served as a director of Regions Financial since 2016, Jones Lang LaSalle since 2015 and ProAssurance, Inc. since 2014. Mr. Di Piazza is a Class III Director; his initial term will expire at the 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.

Savalle Sims - Chief Legal Officer

Job Titles:
  • Chief Legal Officer
  • Member of the Corporate Leadership Team

Sir Mark Thompson - CEO, Chairman

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • Chairman
  • Chairman and CEO of CNN Worldwide
  • Chairman of Ancestry
Sir Mark Thompson is Chairman and CEO of CNN Worldwide where he oversees all aspects of the business in the U.S. and around the world. He also serves as the editor-in-chief of CNN.

Steven A. Miron

Job Titles:
  • Independent Director
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Chief Executive Officer of Advance / Newhouse Partnership
Steven A. Miron is the chief executive officer of Advance/Newhouse Partnership, a privately-held media company, and a senior executive officer at Advance, a private, family-held business that owns and invests in a broad range of media, communications, technology, education, and live entertainment companies, including Warner Bros. Discovery, Charter Communications and Reddit. Mr. Miron previously served as president of Advance/Newhouse Programming Partnership and Bright House Networks from 2002 to 2008, and as chief executive officer of Bright House Networks from 2008 until 2016, when it was acquired by Charter Communications, Inc. ("Charter"). Prior to Bright House Networks, Mr. Miron held positions with MetroVision, Vision Cable Communications, NewChannels and Time Warner Cable. Mr. Miron has served as a director of Charter since 2016, and on the board of C-SPAN since November 2021; Mr. Miron previously served on the board of C-SPAN from 2011 until 2016. He also served on the boards of non-profit organizations within the cable industry, including the National Cable & Telecommunications Association and CableLabs. Mr. Miron is a Class III Director; his initial term will expires at the 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.

Steven O. Newhouse

Job Titles:
  • Independent Director
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Co - President of Advance
Steven O. Newhouse is co-president of Advance, a private, family-held business that owns and invests in a broad range of media, communications, technology, education, and live entertainment companies, including Warner Bros. Discovery, Charter Communications and Reddit. Since he became co-president 10 years ago, Advance, the owner of Condé Nast and Advance Local, has acquired Stage Entertainment, Turnitin and The IRONMAN Group. He has served as an observer on the board of Reddit since 2011 and was an observer on the board of Discovery, Inc. from 2008 until 2022. Mr. Newhouse also serves on the board of New York-Presbyterian Hospital, a non-profit organization. Mr. Newhouse is a Class III Director; his initial term will expire at the 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders.