EXCLUSIVE: Netflix EMEA has shed two executives working in its licensing and co-production group amid a shakeup in its German-language unit.
Amsterdam-based vet Kai Finke quietly left in current months after becoming a member of Netflix again in 2015 and serving as Director Content, Licensing & Co-Productions, specializing in European and German productions.
During his tenure he labored on sequence together with Freud and Undercover and flicks akin to Rising High and Black Island.
Netflix Germany’s Marc van den Bosch Mprah, Head of Acquisitions & Co-Production, has additionally left the streamer after becoming a member of two years in the past.
Netflix’s director of non-fiction exhibits for German-speaking Europe, Inga Leschek, left the streamer for RTL earlier this yr, whereas Anja Kaeumle, comms supervisor for Germany, left her full time function final yr.
Katja Hofem continues to steer the German content material group throughout sequence, movies, non-fiction, and acquisitions. Hofem was in the midst of a current licensing cope with native studio Constantin.
Netflix declined to touch upon the explanations for the 2 newest departures or whether or not the positions can be stuffed however they arrive as quite a few worldwide studios and broadcasters are making cuts amid world financial pressures and two Hollywood strikes.
EMEA is Netflix’s second-biggest area by way of full-time workers with 2,000, so these don’t signify massive cuts. However, given the local weather, sources who recurrently work with the streamer in Europe inform us they wouldn’t be stunned to see additional adjustments inside native groups earlier than yr finish.
The streamer let go its director of U.Ok. options Fiona Lamptey this spring after two and a half years. Late final yr — following a swathe of cuts within the U.S. — David Kosse left his put up as VP of International Film amid a restructure of the corporate’s European content material enterprise. In the U.S. this spring the streamer moved on from longtime movie execs Lisa Nishimura and Ian Bricke amid a reorganization of the movie group, which noticed the arrival of Warner Bros exec Peter Dodd.
Netflix’s Q2 world income stood at $8.2BN with internet revenue of $1.5BN off the again of 238.4M paid memberships. Global content material spend is estimated to take care of at round $17BN in 2023 and 2024. Netflix’s two most up-to-date quarterly earnings studies have proven that its largest subscriber development has come from Europe, which has the same variety of subs to the U.S.
Finke joined Netflix from German distributor Telepool, spending near eight years there over two stints. He additionally labored at Vodafone.
Van den Bosch Mprah beforehand labored at Super RTL, Warner Bros, Viacom and Discovery.
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