Jesse Collins Entertainment President Dionne Harmon introduced immediately that John Wehage has joined the corporate as Executive Vice President, Head of Production of the full-service Emmy Award successful manufacturing firm. Karen Grant-Selma will lead the corporate’s in-house authorized workforce as Executive Vice President, Head of Business & Legal Affairs. Both will report back to Harmon.

Wehage will oversee the bodily manufacturing of all the firm’s specials, scripted and unscripted tv content material.  With a profession spanning over twenty years, he has had numerous management positions throughout quite a lot of codecs spanning a whole lot of hours of programming together with stage, reside, competitors, docu-follow, gameshow, digital, documentary and journey programming.  Most lately with Scout Productions, he contributed to the success of acclaimed reveals equivalent to Legendary (HBO Max), The Hype (HBO Max), Merpeople (Netflix), The Secrets of Hillsong (FX), The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning (Peacock) and the Emmy Award successful Queer Eye (Netflix). 

Prior to Scout, Wehage was Head of Production at 495 Productions, overseeing finance, accounting, manufacturing and operations. During his tenure, he managed the manufacturing of hit reveals together with Jersey Shore Family Vacation (MTV), Floribama Shore (MTV), Peace of Mind with Taraji (Facebook Watch), Pushing The Line (Discovery+), Martha & Snoop’s Potluck Dinner Party (VH1) and Double Shot At Love (MTV).  Wehage is member of the Television Academy’s Production Executive Peer Group and holds a Bachelor of Science diploma in Business Administration with an emphasis in Finance from the University of Southern California. He resides in Los Angeles along with his spouse and three kids.

Grant-Selma will lead the authorized and enterprise affairs division.  She beforehand served as Head of Business and Legal Affairs at OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network the place she negotiated expertise, manufacturing and license offers for scripted and unscripted programming and oversaw its requirements & practices, worldwide gross sales, mental property, human sources, union administration, insurance coverage, participations, rights administration and danger evaluation.  Grant-Selma was instrumental in negotiating offers for the community’s collection together with Queen Sugar, David Makes Man, The Kings of Napa, All Rise, the Love & Marriage franchise, Super Soul Sunday, Ready to Love and Put A Ring On It. 

Her expertise spans greater than 20 years, together with time spent at DreamWorks Animation, Live Nation, Universal Pictures, Maker Studios, AMC Networks, ITV Studios America and NBCUniversal.  She started her transactional profession in non-public observe beneath the tutelage of authorized icon Nina Shaw.  Grant-Selma is a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and the British Academy of Film & Television Arts (LA).  She obtained her B.S. of Business Administration in Marketing from the University of Miami and the University of Southern California’s Gould School of Law is the place she obtained her Juris Doctor and likewise sits on its Board of Councilors.

The duo joins JCE’s 20+ individual employees and management workforce that features Founder & CEO Jesse Collins, President Harmon, CFO Monique Jones, EVP of Scripted Content for TV & Film Tracey Kemble, EVP of Unscripted Content & Alternative Programming Madison Merritt, SVP of Current Unscripted Content Elaine Metaxas, VP of Unscripted Content Tahira Francis, SVP of Specials Jeannae Rouzan-Clay and VP of Unscripted Production Yanina Molina.  

Jesse Collins Entertainment was most lately named because the manufacturing firm for The 2023 Emmy Awards.  The firm made historical past in 2022, together with RocNation and DPS, when The Pepsi SB LVI Halftime Show Starring Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige, Kendrick Lamar and 50 Cent received the primary ever Emmy Award for the present within the Outstanding Variety Special class.