Former Endemol Shine International Chief Cathy Payne To Head Banijay Rights; Tim Mutimer Set To Exit
EXCLUSIVE: Cathy Payne, former head of Endemol Shine Worldwide, is ready to move Banijay Rights, the worldwide distribution arm of the Preserving Up With The Kardashians manufacturing group.
Deadline understands that the transfer will see Tim Mutimer, who’s Head of Distribution at Banijay Group and CEO of Banijay Rights, go away the corporate.
The transfer is considerably of a shock provided that Payne revealed in October 2019 that she was stepping down as CEO of Endemol Shine Worldwide, two weeks earlier than Banijay’s $2.2BN takeover of Peaky Blinders and Huge Brother manufacturing group Endemol Shine was introduced. The mega-acquisition is predicted to shut sooner or later over the summer season.
Payne has had an almost thirty yr affiliation with Endemol and its subsidiaries; she was CEO of Endemol Shine Worldwide since 2015 and earlier than that she was CEO of Endemol Worldwide Distribution since 2009 and CEO of Southern Star Worldwide when it was acquired by Endemol.
Payne stated again in October that she was wanting ahead to a “model new problem” and bringing collectively Banijay Rights and Endemol Shine Worldwide will definitely be that.
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Mutimer has been CEO of Banijay Rights since 2016, overseeing its groups in London, Paris and Copenhagen. He joined Zodiak Rights, which was subsumed by Banijay when the French group merged with Zodiak Media in 2015/16. Earlier than that he labored at BBC Worldwide, the place he bought exhibits similar to Prime Gear and Sherlock and at ITV’s worldwide gross sales arm, promoting exhibits similar to Prime Suspect and Poirot.
