Kevin Mayer and Tom Staggs’ Candle Media has hired seasoned executives Courtney Cappa and Kendall Ostrow as, respectively, SVP, Finance & Accounting, and SVP, Business Advancement & Local community.
Cappa will support travel Candle’s corporate finance efforts which includes constructing up a corporate workforce to oversee economic organizing and accounting, reporting to Candle CFO Salil Mehta.
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Ostrow will aim on setting up strategic partnerships and developing approaches to fortify the communities close to Candle and its company models and manufacturers, reporting to Brent Weinstein, Candle’s Main Development Officer.
Cappa will be primarily based in LA, Ostrow in New York.
Candle co-founders, co-CEOs and former Walt Disney colleagues, Mayer and Staggs, identified as the duo “tremendous executives with deep working experience, techniques and relationships.”’
Cappa most not long ago served as head of finance and controller at impartial film and television studio Wiip, guiding the business from begin-up through several rounds of fundraising to its thriving sale to JTBC Studios. Prior to Wiip, she was VP of Finance/Accounting at Legendary and Europacorp, functioning on crucial acquisitions, which include the sale of Legendary to Wanda. She began her media vocation in finance at Disney.
Ostrow was most a short while ago at UTA for 7 several years, building its digital strategy office, then serving as head of customer strategy for UTA IQ. Previously, she was at ID PR, and head of new media for The Ellen Exhibit.
Candle, released past year with money backing from Blackstone Group, is introducing execs as it proceeds to increase, most lately buying ATTN, a social media storytelling company for Gen Z and Millennials. That follows deals for Reese Witherspoon’s Hi Sunshine, CoComelon producer Moonbug Entertainment, Fauda producer Faraway Productions and a minority stake in Will Smith and Jada Pinkett’s Westbrook.
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