Kevin Mayer and Tom Staggs’ Candle Media has hired seasoned executives Courtney Cappa and Kendall Ostrow as, respectively, SVP, Finance & Accounting, and SVP, Business Advancement & Group.
Cappa will help travel Candle’s company finance attempts such as making up a corporate staff to oversee financial preparing and accounting, reporting to Candle CFO Salil Mehta.
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Ostrow will focus on constructing strategic partnerships and creating techniques to reinforce the communities about Candle and its business units and makes, reporting to Brent Weinstein, Candle’s Main Growth Officer.
Cappa will be based in LA, Ostrow in New York.
Candle co-founders, co-CEOs and previous Walt Disney colleagues, Mayer and Staggs, referred to as the duo “tremendous executives with deep working experience, techniques and relationships.”’
Cappa most a short while ago served as head of finance and controller at impartial film and television studio Wiip, guiding the enterprise from start out-up by way of quite a few rounds of fundraising to its prosperous sale to JTBC Studios. Prior to Wiip, she was VP of Finance/Accounting at Famous and Europacorp, performing on essential acquisitions, which include the sale of Famous to Wanda. She began her media occupation in finance at Disney.
Ostrow was most a short while ago at UTA for seven many years, making its electronic approach office, then serving as head of customer method for UTA IQ. Previously, she was at ID PR, and head of new media for The Ellen Exhibit.
Candle, released very last year with financial backing from Blackstone Team, is adding execs as it proceeds to grow, most not long ago getting ATTN, a social media storytelling enterprise for Gen Z and Millennials. That follows deals for Reese Witherspoon’s Hi Sunshine, CoComelon producer Moonbug Enjoyment, Fauda producer Faraway Productions and a minority stake in Will Smith and Jada Pinkett’s Westbrook.
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