WWE® Names Sal Siino Senior Vice President, Global Content Distribution and Business Development
February 21 2017 - 10:00AM
Business Wire
WWE (NYSE: WWE) today announced the appointment of Sal
Siino as Senior Vice President, Global Content
Distribution & Business Development. Siino, who previously
held senior leadership roles with WeMash, Bedrocket Media Ventures,
T3Media and Westwood One, will report directly to Tandy O’Donoghue,
WWE Executive Vice President, Strategy & Analytics.
As WWE’s Senior Vice President, Global Content Distribution
& Business Development, Siino will be a key member of WWE’s
leadership team, responsible for the management of WWE’s worldwide
content distribution business across all platforms. Siino will also
manage business development initiatives and partnerships, and
provide related support to WWE’s business units.
Prior to joining WWE, Siino was Co-Founder, President and Chief
Operating Officer of WeMash, where he connected premium content
owners including movie studios, news organizations, sports
entities, music labels and publishers with video artists,
filmmakers, and musicians to re-imagine content beyond its original
context.
Before co-founding WeMash, Siino was Executive Vice President,
Partnerships & Chief Revenue Officer of Bedrocket Media
Ventures, where he partnered with established brands and category
leaders including Univision, PGA Tour and Major League Soccer, to
develop pioneering online destinations and branded YouTube channels
to reach audiences on all screens.
Previously, Siino was Chief Content & Revenue Officer at
T3Media, a company that represented the largest library of
licensable video content in the world. He also served as
Executive Vice President, Sales, Marketing & Operations at
Westwood One, a sports and entertainment content syndicator and the
top domestic provider of traffic and news reports to television and
radio stations. Siino practiced law with Kelley, Drye &
Warren in New York and worked as an investment banker in Merrill
Lynch’s Mergers and Acquisitions group.
Siino received a BA from Georgetown University, his J.D. from
The George Washington University School of Law and his MBA from
Harvard Business School.
About WWE
WWE, a publicly traded company (NYSE: WWE), is an integrated
media organization and recognized leader in global entertainment.
The company consists of a portfolio of businesses that create and
deliver original content 52 weeks a year to a global audience. WWE
is committed to family friendly entertainment on its television
programming, pay-per-view, digital media and publishing platforms.
WWE programming reaches more than 650 million homes worldwide in 25
languages. WWE Network, the first-ever 24/7 over-the-top premium
network that includes all live pay-per-views, scheduled programming
and a massive video-on-demand library, is currently available in
more than 180 countries. The company is headquartered in Stamford,
Conn., with offices in New York, Los Angeles, London, Mexico City,
Mumbai, Shanghai, Singapore, Dubai, Munich and Tokyo.
Additional information on WWE (NYSE: WWE) can be found at
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activities, go to http://www.wwe.com/worldwide/
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Forward-Looking Statements: This press release contains
forward-looking statements pursuant to the safe harbor provisions
of the Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, which are subject
to various risks and uncertainties. These risks and uncertainties
include, without limitation, risks relating to: WWE Network; major
distribution agreements; our need to continue to develop creative
and entertaining programs and events; the possibility of a decline
in the popularity of our brand of sports entertainment; the
continued importance of key performers and the services of Vincent
K. McMahon; possible adverse changes in the regulatory atmosphere
and related private sector initiatives; the highly competitive,
rapidly changing and increasingly fragmented nature of the markets
in which we operate and greater financial resources or marketplace
presence of many of our competitors; uncertainties associated with
international markets; our difficulty or inability to promote and
conduct our live events and/or other businesses if we do not comply
with applicable regulations; our dependence on our intellectual
property rights, our need to protect those rights, and the risks of
our infringement of others’ intellectual property rights; the
complexity of our rights agreements across distribution mechanisms
and geographical areas; potential substantial liability in the
event of accidents or injuries occurring during our physically
demanding events including, without limitation, claims relating to
CTE; large public events as well as travel to and from such events;
our feature film business; our expansion into new or complementary
businesses and/or strategic investments; our computer systems and
online operations; a possible decline in general economic
conditions and disruption in financial markets; our accounts
receivable; our revolving credit facility; litigation; our
potential failure to meet market expectations for our financial
performance, which could adversely affect our stock; Vincent K.
McMahon exercises control over our affairs, and his interests may
conflict with the holders of our Class A common stock; a
substantial number of shares are eligible for sale by the McMahons
and the sale, or the perception of possible sales, of those shares
could lower our stock price; and the relatively small public
“float” of our Class A common stock. In addition, our dividend is
dependent on a number of factors, including, among other things,
our liquidity and historical and projected cash flow, strategic
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and condition, contractual and legal restrictions on the payment of
dividends (including under our revolving credit facility), general
economic and competitive conditions and such other factors as our
Board of Directors may consider relevant. Forward-looking
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