Endeavor has added SVPs for monetary communications and its Occasions, Experiences and Rights division, a properly as selling two comms execs, WME veteran Marie Sheehy and Tiffany Fang at company occasions.
Chad Tendler, the brand new SVP of Company and Monetary Communications, now oversees all monetary and inner communications for Endeavor. He was most just lately director of communications for worldwide online game and e-commerce platform Sea Restricted. Beforehand, he was EVP and Cross-Border Lead at Edelman for the agency’s worldwide monetary communications apply and has labored in Beijing and Hong Kong for worldwide media, monetary providers, and communications consulting corporations.
Sarah Hird joins as SVP of Communications for Endeavor’s Occasions, Experiences and Rights phase, together with IMG’s occasions and media companies, On Location, Endeavor Streaming and OpenBet. Primarily based in London, she joins with expertise throughout leisure and sports activities model communications, together with DAZN Group, the place she was VP, International Communications.
Beforehand, she was director of communications for Disney EMEA, serving to launch Disney+ internationally. Most just lately, Hird was SVP, Communications for BritBox Worldwide, the BBC and ITV-backed worldwide streaming enterprise.
Sheehy is promoted to SVP overseeing all communications for Endeavor’s Illustration phase, that means WME (together with its sports activities and trend companies), 160over90, IMG’s licensing enterprise and Endeavor’s nonscripted content material enterprise. Primarily based in LA, she has served as WME’s chief spokesperson since 2017 and labored on communications technique for the merger of the William Morris Company (which she joined in 2005) and Endeavor and main occasions from WME’s acquisition of IMG, Endeavor’s acquisition of UFC, and WME’s dispute and determination with the WGA.
Sheehy has additionally suggested a variety of the company’s purchasers on proactive and disaster communications and helped launch Endeavor Content material (now Fifth Season), overseeing company communications for the studio.
Fang, with Endeavor since 2011, is now SVP of communications for Company Occasions and Inventive, overseeing Endeavor’s international company occasions workforce, together with tentpole business occasions, shopper hospitality, company retreats, and sports activities and leisure conferences. Beneath Fang’s management during the last 5 years, Endeavor, mentioned, its company occasions workforce has tripled its portfolio, activating greater than 200 occasions globally. He newly expanded position now consists of oversight of Endeavor’s company artistic and social media groups. She joined WME in 2011.
The strikes come at a key second for the corporate as Endeavor’s largest shareholder Silver Lake has mentioned it’s getting ready an proposal to take the corporate personal. The corporate’s acquisition of WWE — merged together with UFC into a brand new public firm referred to as TKO — is being challenged by shareholders in Delaware Chancery Court docket.
