Henry Ahn Joins FuboTV as Chief Business Officer

Tv streaming service provider FuboTV announced Henry Ahn, a longtime tv government most not too long ago at TelevisaUnivision, has been employed to the recently created situation of main small business officer.

Ahn will start off in early April at the company’s New York Metropolis headquarters and report specifically to David Gandler, co-founder and CEO. In conjunction with this appointment, Ahn will give up his current job on FuboTV’s board of directors immediately after becoming a member of the board in July 2020.

Also Friday, FuboTV introduced that Julie Haddon, an proprietor of the Nationwide Women’s Soccer League’s Chicago Red Stars and a previous NFL and DreamWorks Animation exec, has been named to its board of directors. Haddon also will sign up for the board’s audit committee.

As chief organization officer, Ahn will oversee FuboTV’s information tactic and licensing as properly as business development. Reporting specifically to Ahn will be Ben Grad, SVP content technique and acquisition, and Len Landi, SVP organization development.

Beforehand, Ahn served as president of content distribution and partnerships for TelevisUnivision (previously Univision Communications Inc.) He joined Univision in 2018 to lead written content distribution sales, operations, finance and tactic, specializing in media contract negotiations, small business technique, content licensing, new media method and authenticated streaming/video on-desire. Ahn also was responsible for distribution deal execution and interactions with new and current distributors including multichannel video programming and on-line online video distributors, cell carriers and digital sell-via companies.

Prior to joining Univision, Ahn served as a distribution government for Scripps Networks Interactive — now aspect of Discovery — in which he led gross sales, negotiations, strategic preparing and marketing and advertising endeavours for SNI’s written content distribution. Formerly, he served as executive vice president of Television set networks distribution at NBCUniversal, the place he labored for 17 many years.

“Henry has served as a reliable advisor to FuboTV because joining our board of directors in 2020,” Gandler stated in asserting the seek the services of. “He is a nicely-revered media govt whose abilities has straddled the two common distribution and streaming television, positively impacting vital development places for the businesses in which he’s worked.”

Ahn commented, “Ever because my involvement with FuboTV, which goes back even before I joined the board in 2020, I was impressed by David and his staff, who have continually out-shipped success in the rapidly growing streaming business. I appear ahead to doing the job constructively with media companies, other information suppliers and distribution businesses to carry on to carry terrific sports activities and leisure programming in an economical manner to our fFuboTV prospects.”

First launched in 2015 as a soccer-centric livestreaming services, FuboTV operates in the U.S., Canada, France and Spain. In the U.S., it competes with other virtual pay-Tv set solutions which include YouTube Tv, Hulu and Dish’s Sling Tv set.

The organization documented 2021 annual revenue of $638 million, far more than double calendar year above yr, and a web decline of $383 million vs . a net reduction of $599.3 million in 2020.

FuboTV finished 2021 with 1.13 million whole paid out subscribers, up 106% from the prior yr, following netting 185,000 new subscribers in the fourth quarter.