SkyShowtime streamer adds to leadership team ahead of European roll-out

SkyShowtime CEO Monty Sarhan has unveiled the forthcoming streaming service’s leadership team ahead of its European roll-out which will begin later this year.

Monty Sarhan

Francesca Pierce has been named chief financial officer. Pierce, who joins from Sky, was one of the key members of the team that helped shape SkyShowtime.

She first joined Sky from Bear Stearns in 2006 and worked in several finance leadership roles across Sky, including content and channel operations, strategy and insight through to her most recent role as director of finance, new business and markets.

Jen McAleer has been appointed chief brand officer. McAleer also joins from Sky where she has worked as group brand director. Prior to Sky, she worked at Tesco as group own brand director.

Richard Howard joins as chief marketing officer from NBCUniversal where he was senior VP of marketing for reality streamer Hayu.

Josh Snow has been named chief product officer. He also joins from NBCUniversal where he worked as senior VP of product and design.

Henriette Petersen has been named regional general manager for northern Europe. She joins from Paramount where she was director of marketing and played a key role in the launch of Paramount+ in the Nordics.

Gabor Harsanyi has been appointed regional general manager for central and eastern Europe. He joins SkyShowtime from Paramount, where he was general manager for central and eastern Europe, Austria and Switzerland.

The Comcast and ViacomCBS joint-venture streamer was first revealed last year and Sarhan was appointed CEO in January.