LOS ANGELES & NEW YORK–(Organization WIRE)–Candle Media (“Candle”), the following-technology media firm run by Kevin Mayer and Tom Staggs, has hired veteran media executives Courtney Cappa and Kendall Ostrow as Senior Vice President, Finance & Accounting, and Senior Vice President, Company Growth & Neighborhood, respectively. Cappa will help travel Candle’s company finance initiatives, which include the making of the company team to oversee fiscal planning and accounting for the entire firm, reporting to Candle CFO Salil Mehta. Ostrow will assist generate Candle’s small business advancement and local community attempts, with a focus on building strategic partnerships, and creating modern approaches developed to further establish and strengthen the communities all-around Candle, its business models and brands. Ostrow will report to Brent Weinstein, Candle’s Main Growth Officer. Cappa will be dependent in Los Angeles, with Ostrow dependent in New York.
“We are thrilled to have Courtney and Kendall be a part of Candle,” stated Kevin Mayer and Tom Staggs, Co-Chairmen and Co-CEOs of Candle. “They are tremendous executives with deep knowledge, expertise and interactions and we are assured they will engage in pivotal roles in Candle’s continued growth.”
Cappa is a seasoned media and entertainment industry government, bringing a wide variety of strategic, economic and operational knowledge to Candle from organizations ranging from independent studio begin-ups to the largest entertainment conglomerates. Cappa most a short while ago served as Head of Finance and Controller at unbiased film and tv studio Wiip, where she was instrumental in guiding the company from get started-up, through many rounds of fund-elevating, to its prosperous sale to JTBC Studios. Prior to Wiip she served as Vice President of Finance/Accounting at Legendary and Europacorp, where by she also served guide the two corporations as a result of intervals of sizeable growth, labored on a number of key acquisitions, and finally the sale of Legendary to Wanda, one particular of the greatest impartial studio offers to date. Cappa commenced her media occupation at the Walt Disney Enterprise exactly where she worked in various critical finance roles which includes seven yrs in Corporate Management Audit, and she started her expert career as Senior Auditor at Ernst & Younger.
Above the previous 15 decades, Ostrow has been at the forefront of the immediately-evolving electronic media landscape. She has a robust keep track of document of creating strategies for makes, media corporations and talent, guiding them to capitalize on electronic traits, develop deeply engaged communities, and leverage founded and rising social media and commerce platforms. Prior to signing up for Candle, Ostrow spent in excess of seven years at United Talent Company, where she designed the company’s Electronic Method division, and then served as the Head of Client System for UTA IQ, the agency’s whole-services technique and insights division. Prior to UTA Ostrow was a digitally focused government at ID PR, and was Head of New Media for The Ellen Show, the place she assisted construct and push their first social media procedures.
About Candle Media
Candle is an impartial, creator-welcoming house for cutting-edge, high-good quality, group-defining brand names and franchises that is constructed for the electronic age. By bringing jointly elite talent working at the intersection of information, group, and commerce, it can help place leading amusement businesses for accelerated, sustainable progress in the present current market and past. Candle is operate by its Co-Chairmen and Co-CEOs, primary entertainment executives Kevin Mayer and Tom Staggs, and backed by financial commitment money from cash managed by Blackstone’s flagship private fairness business enterprise.
