{"id":22959,"date":"2025-05-12T11:38:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/hearst-media-production-group-adds-cathy-perifimo-as-vp-of-business-affairs\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T12:43:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T16:43:06","slug":"hearst-media-production-group-adds-cathy-perifimo-as-vp-of-business-affairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvreal\/hearst-media-production-group-adds-cathy-perifimo-as-vp-of-business-affairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearst Media Production Group Adds Cathy Perifimos to Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cathy Perifimos has joined Hearst Media Production Group (HMPG) as VP of business affairs.<\/p>\n<p>Perifimos is an entertainment industry attorney and has experience in unscripted programming and film across international platforms.<\/p>\n<p>She is a Paramount Global and CBS Corporation alum, where she managed legal affairs for the Smithsonian Channel and across the MTV Entertainment Group. Most recently, she worked as counsel with boutique law firms. In this position, her practice focused on entertainment and media, including scripted television, film and talent representation.<\/p>\n<p>Perifimos holds a degree from Columbia and a Juris Doctor from New York\u2019s Yeshiva University. She is a founding board member of Barnard Women in Entertainment, a member of the Filmmakers Legal Clinic Board and on the Fashion, Arts, Media and Entertainment (FAME) Advisory Board at Cardozo School of Law.<\/p>\n<p>Frank Biancuzzo, president of HMPG, said, \u201cCathy is a great addition to HMPG\u2019s team, bringing domestic and international experience and helping advance our production, distribution and branded content goals.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cathy Perifimos has joined Hearst Media Production Group (HMPG) as VP of business affairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7387,"featured_media":22960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[10924,9842,6149,10925],"class_list":["post-22959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-cathy-perifimos","tag-frank-biancuzzo","tag-hearst-media-production-group","tag-hmpg","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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