EXCLUSIVE: Wheelhouse Leisure is stepping up its seek for new expertise.
The corporate, based by Brent Montgomery, has employed former Paramount and MTV exec Jessica Zalkind as EVP, Expertise and Improvement.
Zalkind, who joined lately, spent the final three years as SVP, Expertise and Content material Improvement at Paramount, having beforehand spent over a dozen yr main expertise throughout MTV.
It marks a brand new position for Wheelhouse, which is searching for expertise for its tv and streaming collection in addition to podcasting and publishing along with working with stars to assist increase their manufacturers and companies.
Zalkind has been chargeable for breaking some main expertise throughout her time at MTV, working with the likes of Akwafina, Ali Wong, Charlemagne The God, Chrissy Teigen, Jake and Logan Paul and Liza Koshy. She additionally labored throughout hit collection resembling The Hills, Jersey Shore, Punk’d, Teen Mother and Ink Grasp.
Wheelhouse is producing Duck Dynasty: The Revival, which premiered final month on A&E, and is behind collection resembling Netflix’s Million Greenback Secret, W.A.G.s to Riches and America’s Sweethearts in addition to Hulu’s Bought to Get Out.
It has additionally partnered with expertise resembling Chef David Chang together with his Majordomo Media and NBA star Anthony Edwards together with his Three Fifths Media.
“Immediately’s expertise transcends conventional leisure – they’re their very own channels, manufacturers and companies,” stated Wheelhouse Leisure President Courtney White. “Wheelhouse is constructed for these entrepreneurial creators, athletes and entertainers trying to align with content material and manufacturing, model, sports activities, funding and talent-management. Including Jessica’s monitor file and relationships to the combo, we’re completely positioned to amplify and increase Wheelhouse’s ‘lighting in a bottle’ collaborations.”
Zalkind added, “Discovering expertise means recognizing potential in sudden locations, whereas growing expertise calls for a holistic, deeply personalised strategy—true inventive potential is realized solely when each components work in tandem, and that’s the place Wheelhouse really excels. Brent, Courtney and your entire group deliver not solely distinctive assets, but additionally the strategic area to domesticate concepts, incubate innovation and embrace calculated danger. That’s the muse upon which standout expertise and lasting influence are constructed.”
