Legendary Leisure is increasing its enterprise capital enterprise, hiring Jawhara Tariq as senior VP of technique, company growth & investments.
Tariq may have a mandate to concentrate on progress and income maximization, in addition to oversight of the corporate’s $5 million enterprise capital fund Legendary Ventures. Initially launched in 2021 because the Legendary Creator Accelerator, the fund invests in creator-owned and led media corporations.
She’s going to report back to Legendary president Brian Flanagan. Tariq most just lately labored as VP of technique and chief of employees at Kevin Hart’s Hartbeat and earlier than that labored on the VC companies M13 and Moonshots Capital.
“Legendary’s ambition to change into the definitive Creator studio calls for executives of outsized expertise,” Flanagan stated in a press release. “Jawhara’s sterling observe file as each an operator and investor confirmed us we’d be fortunate to deliver her aboard, nevertheless it was her remarkably clear imaginative and prescient for what Creator-led corporations may imply in the way forward for Hollywood that sealed the deal. Rhett & Hyperlink and I can’t wait to see what she achieves at Legendary, at each our core enterprise and people of our enterprise investees.”
“Creator-entrepreneurs are the way forward for leisure. Rhett and Hyperlink have confirmed this by way of Legendary,” Tariq added. “They haven’t solely helped to outline the creator-led enterprise mannequin, however have created a catalog of evergreen and beloved content material. I’m thrilled to affix forces with them to architect this subsequent section of progress, additional shaping Legendary as a next-gen studio along with investing in best-in-class media corporations”