Chris Liddell joined Wme | Img as Chief Financial Officer Wednesday, filling the void created by the departure of Peter Klein, whose departure TheWrap reported in early July. Liddell has more than 30 years of experience as a financial executive, having served as CFO of General Motors from 2010 to 2011 and CFO of Microsoft for four years before that. “Chris is a seasoned professional with a great track record and we're excited to welcome him to the team,” Patrick Whitesell and Ari Emanuel, co-CEOs of Wme | Img, said in a statement. Also read: Another Exec Leaves Ari Emanuel's Img: Growing Pains or.
- 7/30/2014
- by Travis Reilly and Lucas Shaw
- The Wrap
Wme / Img has hired former General Motors and Microsoft exec Chris Liddell as chief financial officer, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The news comes weeks after Peter Klein, also a former Microsoft exec, left the position after six months at the newly combined agency. Story Inside Wme's $2.4 Billion Play for Sports Giant Img (Analysis) Over more than three decades in finance, Liddell's previous operations roles included vice chairman and CFO of Gm and senior vice president and CFO of Microsoft. He was also a director at Img as well as CFO of International Paper and CEO of Carter
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- 7/30/2014
- by Rebecca Sun
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Another senior executive has exited the sports marketing giant Img, and gossip is rife that the $2.4 billion agency now run by Wme's Ari Emanuel and Patrick Whitesell is a “slow-motion car crash,” as one former executive put it. David Abrutyn, a 15-year veteran of Img and their global head of consulting, announced last week that he was leaving the agency “to pursue the next opportunity in my career,” with no further explanation and no word of a successor. That came on the heels of abrupt exit earlier this month of CFO Peter Klein — just two months officially into his job.
- 7/21/2014
- by Sharon Waxman
- The Wrap
Nobody said it was going to be easy for Ari Emanuel and Patrick Whitesell to take over the giant sports talent agency Img, but this week it just got significantly harder. Peter Klein, the finance executive who fronted the staggering $2.4 billion raise that was needed for William Morris Endeavor to buy Img, has stepped down as chief financial officer after just six months in the job, the agency confirmed to TheWrap. Also read: Is Ari Emanuel Spooking Talent At Img Worldwide? Wme Denies New Report Emanuel and Whitesell have been running Img since closing the minnow-swallowing-the-whale deal earlier this year.
- 7/9/2014
- by Sharon Waxman
- The Wrap
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