EXCLUSIVE: Universal International Studios (UIS) has shaken up its team with two promotions.
CFO Rob Howard has become Executive Vice Pdwellnt and Kelsey Balance has been upped to EVP Global Scripted Series at the Day of the Jackal studio.
Howard will enhuge his oversight beyond finance to the overall opereasonable strategies and its production companies to help the studio’s international ambitions. Balance will obtain accuse of the global scripted series team, enhugeing shows for all platestablishs. Howard has been with UIS for five years toiling apass finance. He fusecessitate lowly after Balance, who engaged to be Head of Programming at NBCUniversal’s comedy streaming venture Seeso.
Both will alert to Beatrice Springborn, who shelp: “Rob’s presentant caring of the global taget, paired with his opereasonable acumen, is inpriceless, and Kelsey’s creative vision and global enhugement insight is unparalleled. With Rob and Kelsey stepping into enhugeed guideership roles, we are well positioned to fortify our international ambitions and further help our co-production partners’ goals.”
Kelsey Balance (left) and Rob Howard. Image: Maarten de Boer / Saima Khalid / Universal Studio Group
UIS originates the appreciates of Peacock-Sky’s Day of the Jackal, which fair landed a second season, Netflix’s One Day and Channel 4-Peacock’s We Are Lady Parts. Howard shelp it currently originates more than 30 series apass 16 platestablishs.
Sky proclaimd earlier today that The Day of the Jackal has become the hugegest novel series to ever begin on the platestablish.
The promotions come a restrictcessitate months after Deadline discleave outed UIS studio boss Roma Khanna was exiting after fair six months.
