09/05/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 09/05/2024 11:08
Bruce Campbell, Chief Revenue and Strategy Officer of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), announced today a new global structure for the company's worldwide studio tours, retail destinations, touring exhibitions, and all location-based experiences, bringing together the existing licensed entertainment and owned and operated teams into a single worldwide division. Warner Bros. Discovery Global Experiences will be charged with strategically expanding the company's fan facing experiences and pursuing new businesses that capitalize on the Company's world-class intellectual property like those with Universal Destinations & Experiences and Miral, and its award-winning operated businesses including Warner Bros. Studio Tours in London, Hollywood, and Tokyo.
"WBD has an incredible mix of location-based experiences for fans around the world, from theme parks and tours to exhibits, retail and more," said Bruce Campbell, Chief Revenue and Strategy Officer for WBD. "Bringing these two teams together under one roof gives us an opportunity to leverage and coordinate the talent and resources across all of our experiential businesses to better delight our consumers through offering even more truly authentic and engaging in-person experiences and events in every market.
WBD Global Experiences combines the company's existing Global Themed Entertainment licensing group, and the Studio Tours & Retail owned and operated division into a new cohesive and unified division. The new team will develop and execute on global strategies that offer partners the right mix of both models, putting WBD in a position to drive growth and become a worldwide leader in the creation, development, licensing and operating of location-based entertainment inspired by Harry Potter, DC, Looney Tunes, Scooby-Doo, Game of Thrones, FRIENDS, Discovery and more.
Simon Robinson, Chief Operating Officer of WBD Studios will add leadership of WBD Global Experiences to his responsibilities. He will report to Bruce Campbell for Experiences and will continue reporting into WBD's Chief Financial Officer Gunnar Wiendenfels for his studio and content operations and financial roles.
Robinson appointed two veteran leaders to his new Experiences organization who will report to him:
In announcing the Global Experiences leadership team, Robinson said "Peter and Sarah are experts in curating and executing global location-based experiences at the very highest caliber. Our teams have an obsession for detail that we bring to each project and together, we will be able to bring partners - and fans - even more of what they've come to expect from a Warner Bros. experience."