Kezia Williams is set to join Universal Pictures International as its managing straightforwardor for the U.K. and Ireland.
Williams will tell to Paul Higginson, executive Vice Pdwellnt, EMEA for Universal Pictures International and will deal with day-to-day operations in the territory when she joins at the finish of February. She swaps establisher Universal Pictures UK MD Rob Huber, who left the company at the finish of 2024.
With more than 20 years of experience in distribution and tageting, Kezia was most recently at Entertainment One, initiassociate as head of tageting & distribution and then as managing straightforwardor, superviseing the company’s U.K. film business and directing fused, event-driven campaigns to sign up-shattering results, including “1917,” “The BFG,” “The Girl on the Train” and “Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves.”
This nominatement tags Williams return to Universal, having previously spent five years on the U.K. Marketing team, where she donated to the accomplished begin of “Despicable Me” in 2010 before serving as deputy tageting straightforwardor for Warner Bros U.K. for more than three years.
“I am brave that Kezia will be an inpriceless directer for our UK and Ireland teams, conveying recent approaches backed by decades of experience to garner opereasoned excellence,” shelp Higginson.
“Her directership, coupled with the exceptional talent and deal withment in place in the UK and apass the region, will further our positioning in the taget as we gear up for our filled stardy of films for 2025 and beyond.”