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General Motors and media company MACRO announced the launch of The General Motors Marketing Academy Powered by MACRO, a five-month program to prepare the next generation of multicultural marketing executives. This program focuses on business and professional acumen, enabling each participant to successfully grow in marketing and media while creating a diverse talent pipeline of skilled and deserving executives in marketing, branding, public relations and communications. 

It sounds like David Beckham and Mark Wahlberg‘s friendship is likely over as they’re now embroiled in a $10 million lawsuit.

EXCLUSIVE: The MACRO Lodge at Sundance Film Festival (www.StayMACRO.com), hosted by MACRO Founder & CEO Charles D. King (Mudbound, Judas and the Black Messiah) and his wife Stacey Walker King, Chief Brand Officer of the company, returns to the Sundance Film Festival for its seventh annual showcase of panels and parties at the iconic film festival to champion inclusion and people of color at its prime location at 136 Heber Avenue in Park City, UT with three days of programming. 

“A Mountain of Entertainment” is coming to the Nevada desert next year. Paramount Global said today that it will showcase its TV series and films with a four-day brand-promotion event tied to Super Bowl LVIII in Las Vegas.

th Century Studios’ “Free Guy” and “Prey,” along with Disney+ hit series including “The Mandalorian,” “WandaVision,” “Obi-Wan Kenobi” and “Loki,” among many others. In all, Ayaz has led the campaigns for the most watched films on Disney+ and Hulu, and 13 of the top 15 box office debuts of all time, including six opening weekends over $200 million, as well as the biggest worldwide debut of all time for “Avengers: Endgame,” which earned over $1.2 billion in five days. An award-winning marketing leader, Ayaz has been the recipient of multiple industry honors, including Variety’s Marketing Visionaries Award and The Clio Marketing Mastermind Award.

Effective immediately, Walt Disney Studios President of Marketing and 18-year studio vet, Asad Ayaz, has been named the first-ever Chief Brand Officer of The Walt Disney Company.

Jennifer Lopez partnered with Revolve to launch an exclusive line of footwear, JLO Jennifer Lopez for Revolve, filled with chic must-haves.The first drop features a collection made up of platforms, knee-high boots, strappy sandals, and kitten heels in suede, leather, mesh, and satin, with metallics, crystal embellishments, and animal prints.“Jennifer Lopez is a pop culture icon and an inspiration to millions of people all over the world, so there was no question of doing an exclusive collaboration with her line, JLO Jennifer Lopez,” Raissa Gerona, Chief Brand Officer of Revolve, said in a press release.“We’re so excited to introduce the new line of footwear and collaborate with Jennifer Lopez,” she added. The collab was crafted under the star’s direction and is made with Lopez’s style and fans in mind.Starting today, shop the footwear online at Revolve.com with prices ranging from $145 to $200.

The nonprofit BIPOC accelerator Rideback Rise, launched last July by Dan Lin’s production company Rideback (The Lego Movie, It franchises) has today named film producer Tracey Bing as its Head of Content, appointing former charity: water exec Sabrina Pourmand as its Founding Executive Director, and adding Panda Express’ Chief Brand Officer, Andrea Cherng, to its Board of Directors.

The SXSW Conference and Festivals said Monday that event co-founder Roland Swenson’s title is now Executive Chairman, while Chief Brand Officer Jann Baskett and Chief Programming Officer Hugh Forrest become co-presidents assuming day-to-day leadership of the company. 

As an actor, activist and entrepreneur, Jennifer Garner is one of our favorite people in Hollywood and it’s always great to see nice people succeed. She’s certainly done that, having starred in the thriller/sci-fi show Alias for five seasons and now as the co-founder and Chief Brand Officer of Once Upon a Farm, which has grown exponentially since she helped set up the business. It begs the question as to what Jennifer Garner’s net worth is, particularly after her marriage to Ben Affleck, which had no prenup and was finalized more than four years ago.

Priyanka Chopra and Jennifer Garner were both speakers at The Fast Company Innovation Festival in New York City on Thursday (September 22).

HYBE has dropped the first set of teasers for its upcoming K-pop girl group.On July 1, HYBE subsidiary ADOR, which is headed by HYBE’s Chief Brand Officer (CBO) Min Hee-jin, took to the imprint’s social media pages to post the first set of cryptic teasers for its new girl group.The teasers include a peculiarly animated video of green, white, pink, blue and yellow rabbits rollerskating in orderly fashion, against a backdrop of pink and blue flames over an otherwise plain black background.A post shared by ADOR (@alldoorsoneroom)Other posts also include individual animations of the numerical numbers “22”, “7” and “22”, assumed to highlight the announcement of the group’s first content on July 22 this year, as teased in the captions of ADOR’s posts. More details about the new act, including their exact line-up and debut date, are expected to arrive in the coming months.A post shared by ADOR (@alldoorsoneroom)A post shared by ADOR (@alldoorsoneroom)A post shared by ADOR (@alldoorsoneroom)ADOR’s upcoming K-pop act was previously teased by Min herself in an interview earlier this year, who explained that the girl group will “present the direction I’ve had specific plans for a new girl group for a long time”, and at the time provided an estimate of the girl group’s debut to be sometime in the third quarter of this year.Min also revealed that the as-yet-unnamed girl group had been in the works for as long as two years.

If there’s one good thing that can be said about the NFT boom (I know that’s a big “if”), it’s that it seems to have brought with it a lot of the dafter elements of artist-brand partnerships that I think we all thought had died years ago.You know, like giving celebs nonsense job titles. Surely that died with Justin Timberlake and MySpace? Well, arise Pharrell Williams, the new Chief Brand Officer at Doodles NFT.The non-fungible-Pharrell-hook-up was announced yesterday at crypto conference NFT.NYC, as Doodles also revealed that it has raised its first round of funding led by venture capital firm Seven Seven Six.

A family affair. For the WWE’s legendary McMahons, professional wrestling is in their blood.

Wrestling royalty! Since Stephanie McMahon married Paul “Triple H” Levesque, they’ve expanded their family and become proud girl parents.

Sasha Urban editorMike Van has been promoted to President of Billboard while Dana Droppo has been named its first Chief Brand Officer. Both positions are effective immediately.“We are thrilled to elevate two extremely talented executives, Mike and Dana, into the roles of President and Chief Brand Officer,” said Jay Penske, Chairman and CEO of Penske Media. “The spirit of collaboration and teamwork they have helped to build has yielded incredible results and creativity over many years at Billboard.

Let’s get ready to … focus on what matters. After decades of working for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), executive Stephanie McMahon intends to take time away from her corporate role.

Jordan Moreau Discovery exec Kathleen Finch has revealed her revamped leadership team at the newly merged Warner Bros. Discovery after a series of c-suite exits, which includes Tom Ascheim, Brett Weitz and more, Variety has confirmed.Nancy Daniels, who was Chief Brand Officer of Discovery & Factual, will take on content oversight at the Turner networks after the departure of Brett Weitz. She currently oversees male-focused networks like Discovery Channel, Animal Planet and Science Channel, will take on TNT, TBS and truTV.

Warner Bros. Discovery is moving fast with its reorganization.

Sports Illustrated's issue. But in reality, Bock splits her time between the colder climates of New York and Cleveland, which tend to wreak havoc on her dry skin. “I switch [my skin-care products] up a lot because I live between different places,” she tells Glamour.

ADOR says fans should expect the new subsidiary label of BTS‘ agency HYBE to debut its first K-pop girl group sometime in “the third quarter of the year”.ADOR’s CEO Min Hee-jin recently spoke to Be(Attitude) in a new interview about her plans for the company’s new group, which she revealed will be making their highly-anticipated debut later this year following the label’s launch in November 2021.Min first explained that the new girl group had been in the works since 2019. “We held auditions back in September 2019 and by the end of that year, we had completed not only the audition process but the casting as well,” she shared.

Netflix has named Marian Lee chief marketing officer, replacing Bozoma Saint John who’s been in the post since 2020.

Cody Rhodes and Brandi Rhodes have made their exit from All Elite Wrestling (AEW).

Jeannie Mai Jenkins, 42, married the love of her life, rapper and songwriter Jeezy, 43, three months ago and then wasted no time when it came to adopting his last name. “I’m honored,” the Chief Brand Officer of Owl’s Brew Boozy Tea told HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY during an episode of TVTalk on Instagram Live on June 11.

Newlywed Jeannie Mai Jenkins tied the knot with Jeezy at their home in Atlanta on March 27, and now the pair has even more to celebrate.

Jeannie Mai Jenkins tied the knot with Jeezy at their home in Atlanta on March 27, and now the pair has even more to celebrate.Other than being able to call herself a wife, co-host has a new role that the couple has been commemorating together.Jeannie joined Owl's Brew, a female-owned hard tea seltzer brand, as their Chief Brand Officer alongside co-founders and tea experts Jennie Ripps and Maria Littlefield. «As I've had more years of experience with drinking, the more important it’s become for

Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Kate Bock, 33, recently got engaged to her basketball beau Kevin Love, 32, and she already has thoughts about what their special wedding night is going to look like.

pizza, Amelia Riba, Chief Brand Officer, Pizza Hut UK & Europe said: “We’re so happy to be able to put the Pizza Hut’s KFC Popcorn Chicken Pizza back on the Pizza Hut Delivery menu. It was overwhelmingly popular with customers last year, so we want to keep delivering them products they love.

By Denise Petski