Viacom Names Julia Phelps Senior Vice President, Communications & Culture
April 21 2017 - 10:00AM
Business Wire
Viacom Inc. (NASDAQ:VIAB, VIA) today announced that Julia Phelps
has been promoted to Senior Vice President, Communications &
Culture. In the newly created role, Phelps will serve on the
company’s senior executive team and lead corporate communications,
corporate marketing and culture. Most recently, Phelps led
communications for the company’s international business, Viacom
International Media Networks (VIMN). She will continue to report to
Bob Bakish, President and CEO of Viacom.
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“Julia has been an indispensable partner for me in developing
and articulating Viacom’s strategy, while keeping us true to our
values and responsive to our employees,” said Bakish. “It is
absolutely critical that both our external stakeholders and our
people understand and embrace our new vision for Viacom, and
Julia’s insight, empathy and forward thinking make her uniquely
suited to this task.”
In her role, Phelps will oversee Viacom’s Corporate
Communications, Corporate Marketing, Corporate Responsibility and
Special Events teams, as well as its internal creative agency,
Catalyst. Most recently, she served as Executive Vice President of
Communications at Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN), where
she led VIMN’s internal and external communications efforts for
Viacom’s international brands, including MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy
Central, BET, Paramount Channel, VH1, COLORS and Channel 5.
Previously, Phelps served as Senior Vice President of Corporate
Communications for VIMN and as VP of Corporate Communications for
Viacom.
Phelps joined Viacom in 2005 from New York-based agency DeVries
Public Relations. A native of Canada, she earned a B.A. in
Political Science from the University of Victoria in British
Columbia, and an M.S. in Strategic Communications from Columbia
University.
About Viacom
Viacom is home to premier global media brands that create
compelling television programs, motion pictures, short-form
content, apps, games, consumer products, social media experiences,
and other entertainment content for audiences in more than 180
countries. Viacom's media networks, including Nickelodeon, Comedy
Central, MTV, VH1, Spike, BET, CMT, TV Land, Nick at Nite, Nick
Jr., Logo, Nicktoons, TeenNick, Channel 5 (UK), Telefe (Argentina)
and Paramount Channel, reach over 3.9 billion cumulative television
subscribers worldwide. Paramount Pictures is a major global
producer and distributor of filmed entertainment.
For more information about Viacom and its businesses, visit
www.viacom.com. Keep up with Viacom news by following Viacom's blog
at blog.viacom.com and Twitter feed at www.twitter.com/viacom.
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