The new Global Consumer Products leadership team will integrate the Consumer Products and Discovery Consumers Products divisions as one.

Warner Bros. Discovery Global Brands and Experiences (GBE), the division of Warner Bros. Discovery that encompasses the Global Consumer Products and Themed Entertainment businesses, the company’s Franchise Development and Brand management, including Harry Potter and DC, has announced a new global leadership team for its Consumer Products business. The move formalises the integration between two legacy divisions, Warner Bros. Consumer Products and Discovery Consumer Products into a new North American leadership team.

The newly combined global consumer products division will extend the company’s portfolio of brands and franchises from Warner Bros.’ film, television, animation and games studios, HBO, Discovery, DC, Cartoon Network, HGTV, Eurosport, Adult Swim, and more into the lives of fans around the world and will complement GBE’s Franchise Development efforts to maximize long-term consumer engagement with the company’s major franchises. The changes were announced by Pam Lifford, president, Warner Bros. Discovery Global Brands, Franchises, and Experiences, to whom the leaders will report.

Pam commented: “This team of best-in-class leaders brings years of experience in their respective areas and the realignment will result in a strong focus on our key growth areas, will further maximize our global relationships, streamline communication with global partners operating, and most importantly bring brand new, integrated, and dynamic ways to engage fans around the world with our characters and stories.”

The new global commercial leadership team under Pam will be:

• Julian Moon, head of EMEA Consumer Products will also be head of APAC Consumer Products. Based in London, Julian is a Warner Bros. veteran with extensive experience maximizing the potential of key brands and franchises to create best-in-class products and programmes with licensees, retailers and partners.

• Robert Oberschelp will now head North America Consumer Products. An industry veteran with deep expertise across licensing, brand and product development, Robert will also continue to oversee Global Brand Product, Franchise Management and Marketing. His newly combined team now supports all of North America, including a retail-facing category team consisting of:

• Carolann Dunn who will now lead a new category role for the region overseeing Home, Food, Health and Beauty.
• Jessica Elliot taking on a new role leading the Fashion, Footwear, and Accessories category broadening her previous role in brand product.
• Catherine Bachmaier continuing to lead Toys and Licensed Publishing.
• Preston Lewis continuing as head of LATAM Consumer Products and also leading retail strategy and major retailer relationships for all of The Americas, partnering with Robert in North America.
• Samantha Bushy, who joined the company from Apple in 2021 will transition full-time as head of Global E-commerce, bringing her substantial digital expertise to further build out the robust direct-to-consumer eCommerce experience worldwide.

The renewed focus on digital consumer sales will complement the company’s best-in-class retail partners with even more ways to engage customers of Warner Bros. Discovery’s iconic properties.

Peter van Roden will continue to lead Global Themed Entertainment, a worldwide leader in the creation, development, and licensing of location-based entertainment, live events, exhibits and theme park experiences based on the biggest franchises, stories and characters from Warner Bros.’ film, television, animation, and games studios, HBO, Discovery, DC, Cartoon Network and more. The legacy-Discovery experiences group will now be part of this group.

The changes are effective immediately.