FX’s enterprise affairs government Shola Ajewole has been named to the newly created place of SVP, Inventive and Cultural Variety, FX.
Reporting to FX Chairman John Landgraf and dealing carefully with expertise, Ajewole has been tasked with making certain that FX and FX Productions’ dedication to range and inclusion is mirrored in all points of the corporate’s tradition, artistic relationships and content material. He may even work carefully with Disney Common Leisure Content material’s Variety Fairness and Inclusion workforce on company and FX-specific initiatives.
“I can’t consider a greater particular person than Shola to take this new position as we try to be extra inclusive and proceed to develop programming that’s extra reflective of our world,” stated Landgraf. “We’ve had the nice fortune of working carefully with Shola on the authorized facet of our authentic programming, and it turned very clear to me and everybody on our workforce that he was an ideal match for this place. He understands our model, has nice artistic instincts and is obsessed with this chance to assist us enhance and diversify the FX model and tradition.”
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Ajewole joined FX in 2016 as VP, Enterprise Affairs and was the lead enterprise affairs government on quite a few scripted, animated and non-scripted tasks. He was chosen for the Disney Belong Affiliate Program (2019) and Government Management Program (2020) and is a founding member of the LA chapter of twenty first Century Fox Black Worker Community Group (NOIR), Walt Disney Tv’s Black Enterprise Employment Useful resource Group (NOIR LA) and Fox Networks Group’s Professional-Bono Counsel.
Previous to FX, Ajewole was VP Enterprise and Authorized Affairs at Fox 21 TV Studios. He first got here to Fox in 2013 as Director, Enterprise and Authorized Affairs for Fox Sports activities and was promoted to Senior Director.
A lawyer by commerce, Ajewole started his profession in 2002 on the Weil, Gotshal and Manges legislation agency in New York as IP/Media Follow Group Affiliate, leaving for Comcast Leisure Group as Counsel of Enterprise Affairs in 2007. In 2009 he joined ABC Tv Group as Director of Enterprise Affairs and one 12 months later turned Counsel, Authorized Affairs at ABC Studios, rising to Affiliate Principal Counsel.
“I’m honored to take this new position and excited to work with John Landgraf, Eric Schrier and the remainder of my colleagues to assist FX construct on its custom of empowering various artistic voices and championing content material that celebrates understanding and inclusion,” Ajewole stated. “All through my profession, I’ve remained dedicated to inclusion as a result of it’s enormously rewarding from an inventive, enterprise and cultural stage. FX has been a pacesetter and a mannequin for change in our trade and I’m thrilled to assist us construct upon that legacy.”
FX has made nice strides in behind-the-camera range. After the community ranked on the backside in 2015, with 85% of its administrators being white males, Landgraf led an effort that resulted in projected 63% of FX’s 2021 being helmed by various/feminine administrators – the primary time that white male administrators won’t be within the majority.
