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Jimmy Horowitz is Vice Chairman of Business Affairs & Operations for NBCUniversal. In this newly-created role, he oversees global deal making across the portfolio of the media industry’s premier film and television studios, television networks and streaming service, Peacock. Horowitz advises and collaborates with Business Affairs teams across the Company, providing expertise, counsel and insight into all major deals, and setting policy across the portfolio addressing the new distribution landscape.
Horowitz has been with the Company for nearly 30 years, rising through the ranks to the highest levels of studio leadership. He was named Vice Chairman and President of the Universal Filmed Entertainment Group (UFEG) in January 2019, after serving in several senior roles, including President of Universal Pictures, Co-President of Production and Executive Vice President of Universal Pictures.
While serving as Vice Chairman and President of UFEG, Horowitz negotiated an unprecedented five-year exclusive partnership with visionary filmmaker Jordan Peele and his Monkeypaw Productions, secured a five-year exclusive deal with The LEGO Group to develop, produce and distribute theatrical releases based on its intellectual property and original ideas, negotiated a new five-year overall film and TV deal for Working Title with Universal Pictures and NBCUniversal International Studios and brought LeBron James and Maverick Carter’s The SpringHill Company over to the film studio in a four-year deal.
He began his tenure at the company in 1992 in the feature legal department and subsequently held the roles of Senior Vice President, Business & Legal Affairs and Executive Vice President, Business & Legal Affairs, managing all of Universal’s term deals, along with oversight of the business and legal affairs departments. Earlier in his career, he served as counsel for the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. He also practiced labor law at Manatt, Phelps, Phillips, LLP and later at Greenberg Glusker until 1990.
Horowitz is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.
He earned his Juris Doctor from George Washington University Law School and graduated cum laude from Tulane University with a Bachelor’s Degree in political science.
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NBCUniversal is one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies. They began separately as NBC and Universal, both in the new world of motion picture, production, and distribution. In 2004, they merged to become a new media conglomerate. Today, they own and operate over 20 different businesses across 30 countries. Their services include development, production, marketing of entertainment, news and information. Within their services, they own and operate various portfolios of news and entertainment television networks, a premier motion picture company, television production operations, television stations group, theme parks, and streaming services. They are a wholly owned subsidiary of Comcast. Notable brands within their Film portfolio are Universal Pictures, DreamWorks, and Focus Features. Their News portfolio includes NBC News, MSNBC, and CNBC. Parks and Resorts consists of Universal Studios Hollywood, Universal Orlando Resort, Universal Studios Japan, Universal Studios Singapore, and Universal Beijing Resort. TV & Streaming is a larger portfolio that consists of NBC, NBC Sports, Telemundo, peacock, Oxygen True Crime, Universal Kids, USA, SyFy, GolfNow, hayu, bravo, E, and Fandango. Lastly, the TV studios group is recognized by their Universal Television, UCP, Universal Television Alternative, and Universal International Studios brands.