Warner Bros. Promotes Allen Etherton To SVP

Veteran finance executive Allen Etherton has been promoted to SVP, planning and analysis, Warner Bros. Worldwide Television Distribution.

Etherton expanded his aegis to include financial planning on a global basis, last year. A 10-year veteran of Warner Bros., he has been overseeing the entire Worldwide Television Distribution financial planning and analysis team, responsible for all financial planning and analysis for the global television distribution businesses in order to guide senior management (both domestic and international) in key decision making.

Etherton will continue to report to Andy Lewis, EVP, finance and contract administration, Warner Bros. Worldwide Television Distribution.

Etherton joined Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution in 2005 as Director of Finance. He has worked his way up through the ranks being promoted to executive director and then VP, adding responsibilities during that time to include cable and subscription-video-on-demand and, last year, international territories to his responsibilities.

Etherton got his start in the participations department at Paramount, where he worked for three years. He joined Warner Bros. as an audit manager in the participations department. He returned to Paramount in 2000 as a production finance executive assigned to Entertainment Tonight before returning to Warner Bros. in 2005. 

Etherton earned his master’s degree in business administration from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management in 2004.