National Geographic Partners’ Jeff Schneider, executive vice president of television business affairs, and Evelyn Miller, deputy chief counselNational Geographic Partners Taps 2 Lawyers to Lead Split Business and Legal Divisions
Media company National Geographic Partners split its business and legal divisions, announced Thursday. Two of its top lawyers have been tapped to lead the newly created separate teams.
August 01, 2019 at 07:17 PM
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National Geographic Partners appointed two of its in-house lawyers to newly created leadership roles Thursday, as the media company divides its business and legal affairs division.
The Washington, D.C.-based company, a joint venture between the nonprofit National Geographic Society and the Walt Disney Co., announced Jeffrey Schneider as executive vice president of television business affairs and operations and Evelyn Miller as deputy chief counsel of NGP.
“Evelyn and Jeff are extremely talented individuals who have played an integral part in NGP’s success to date and will now be better positioned to help us drive focus around our key priorities in this exciting new phase of our business,” said Gary Knell, chairman of National Geographic Partners, in a press release.
Schneider led the company’s joint business and legal affairs division as executive vice president for just over four years, prior to the department split this month. An NGP representative did not immediately respond to request for comment on why the divisions split.
In his new role, Schneider will lead a newly former operations team and take on a business legal role, overseeing “deal-making functions,” acting “as business liaison to talent agencies” for the National Geographic Channel. He’ll report to Courteney Monroe, president of National Geographic Global Networks.
Miller’s new role comes after more than five years with NGP as senior vice president of legal and business affairs. As deputy chief counsel, she’ll provide “strategic and tactical legal advice” to senior leaders and be responsible for legal affairs over “television, rights management, and magazine businesses.”
She’ll also serve as the main bridge between NGP’s legal team and Disney and the National Geographic Society. Miller will report directly to Disney deputy general counsel Suzy Wilson and Knell.
“We’re excited about the opportunity to achieve even greater growth under the Walt Disney Company and bring our audiences even more of the great storytelling that inspires them to care for our planet,” Knell said of the appointments.
Neither Miller nor Schneider immediately responded to request for comment.
Both lawyers joined NGP with previous in-house experience. Before her 2014 move to NGP, Miller held senior legal department roles at AddThis and Viacom Media Networks. She started her legal career at Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer after earning her juris doctor at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law.
Schneider served in business and legal executive roles at Endemol Shine North America, NBCUniversal Inc., A&E Television Network, Fox Television Studios and MTV Networks heading to NGP in 2015. He graduated from the University of Southern California Gould School of Law.
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