'Amazon Studios Expands Duties For Business Affairs Head Dan
Duties For Business Affairs Head Dan
Amazon Studios
head Jennifer Salke is making one more structural tweak to her team
Salke announced
Thursday that Dan Scharf, VP and head of global business affairs, will now also oversee
Scharf, who
had already reported to Salke, will continue to do so
The production,
studio operations, casting and studios music had previously reported to Amazon Studios’ Albert Cheng
But Cheng,
who previously was COO of Amazon Studios, was promoted to Vice President of Amazon Prime
in September,
and now reports to Mike Hopkins, senior vice president of Prime Video and Amazon Studios
Scharf has
been with Amazon Studios in 2013, negotiating deals including “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan,” “The Marvelous
Maisel,” “The Boys,” “Coming
2 America” and “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
Also under
Scharf’s domain as head of global business affairs, he worked out talent deals with
The exec
is also credited with assisting in Amazon Studios’ international expansion and its global synergy efforts
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