Paramount International’s Worldwide CEO Raffaele Annecchino has been positioned “on depart,” based on an inside be aware seen by Deadline.
A brief assertion revealed the exec, who is taken into account to be a key lieutenant of Paramount President and CEO Bob Bakish in Europe, was not in submit however supplied no additional particulars of the state of affairs. “Efficient right now, Raffaele Annecchino, President, Paramount Worldwide Studios, Networks and Streaming, is on depart from the corporate,” the be aware learn.
Annecchino shall be changed within the interim by JC Acosta, President, Worldwide Studios, Streaming and Networks for Southern Europe, Latin America, Center East and Africa; Maria Kyriacou, President, Australia, Canada, Israel and UK; and Mark Specht, Govt VP and Managing Director, Central and Northern Europe and Asia, the memo notes.
Annecchino has been main the position out of Paramount+ and Pluto TV in Europe, lately handing Marco Nobili and Olivier Jollet key new roles to turbo-charge the enlargement. He additionally had final oversight of worldwide networks reminiscent of Channel 5 within the UK, Telefe in Argentina and Community Ten in Australia, and oversaw the Indian three way partnership Viacom18, which this week bagged the profitable Indian subcontinent rights to the Indian Premier League cricket.
He has had a future at Paramount, working by its earlier guise as ViacomCBS. He joined MTV Networks Worldwide again in 1997, having beforehand labored at Turner.
Primarily based in Madrid, he reported on to Bakish.
