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Shine exec restructure

Shine Australia promotes Tim Robinson to Chief Operating Officer with Carl Fennessy to return and Matt Campbell to depart.

Shine Australia has announced a number of changes to its executive team which sees Tim Robinson promoted to Chief Operating Officer and Matt Campbell, formerly SBS Director of Television, departing the company.

Shine also indicates a move towards scripted content under Rory Callaghan, formerly of Southern Star.

Current Chief Operating Officer, Shine Australia Tim Robinson has been promoted to Chief Operating Officer, Shine Group and will relocate to London in early 2013.

Sara Horn, currently Director of Production, has been promoted to Executive Director, Production.

Scott Howard, Head of Business and Legal Affairs has been promoted to Commercial Director.

Chris Fry will join Shine Australia from Shine Group as Head of Business and Finance Strategy, Shine Australia and Asia-Pacific in early 2013.

Mark Fennessy, CEO, Shine Australia said: “These promotions are much deserved and I remain proud of the incredible team we have at Shine. This restructure ensures our business is correctly positioned for continued growth while enhancing our ability to deliver premium content.”

Rory Callaghan joined the business this month as Executive Director and will be responsible for growing the sales of Shine Group formats in Australia and New Zealand in addition to those of Talpa and Zodiak. He will also focus on moving the company into scripted.

As a result of the restructure and the planned return of Carl Fennessy to the Australian business in 2013, Managing Director Matt Campbell has departed the company.

Mark added, “We sincerely thank Matt Campbell and wish him the best. He is a talented executive and has contributed greatly to Shine during his time with us.”

3 Responses

  1. @Ronnie I don’t agree with you about ‘under the radar’ Shine has had a very big year with a lot of big productions.

    Good to see Carl is back. A good guy and a good operator.

  2. Ronnie, under the radar – you are kidding!

    RE Staffing, most (all) crews are outsourced and there’s plenty being produced by the indies – probably more than any other point in history with imported finished not doing as well as it used to.

  3. I’ve been wondering what has been going on at Shine Australia this year – they have seemed very “under the radar” – apart from The Voice, of course. This adds to my early questions over these Australian outposts of major international companies – there are not enough big commissions to sustain all of them at current staffing levels – so I expect to see more of these “restructuring” announcements between now and the end of the year.

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