MUMBAI:  Paramount Worldwide Television Licensing & Distribution (PWTLD) has added two executives to its TV licensing team and promoted one in the Asia Pacific and Sub Saharan Africa territories.

The expansion of PWTLD’s sales team comes in response to the increasing slate of rights that PWTLD represents around the world.

PWTLD senior vice president TV licensing, Asia Pacific & Sub Saharan Africa Jonathan Greenberg now oversees new regional sales executives based in Seoul and Mumbai. Greenberg will oversee PWTLD director regional sales, South Asia Manju Nair as well as PWTLD executive director regional sales, North Asia June Choi.

In addition, Christopher Safford has been promoted to executive director regional sales, South East Asia & Sub Saharan Africa and is now based in Singapore. The company’s senior manager regional sales Carolyn Johnston is now overseeing Australia and New Zealand and is based in Sydney.

Six additional executives were added in territories around the world. The expansion of PWTLD’s sales team augments the studio’s presence in Singapore, Germany, Spain, Italy, Scandinavia, Russia, Brazil, India and Korea.

PWTLD president Amy Reinhard said, “The growth of our division is a reflection of the expanding opportunities in the global marketplace and the increasing amount of content that we have to offer, including the studio’s growing television production. We want to ensure that we can meet the demand across all territories and have sought out the very best professionals to add to our exceptional team so that we can continue to build our business worldwide.”