Bedi A. Singh appointed senior VP, strategic planning and deputy CFO for Fox Filmed Entertainment.LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 23, 1997--Bedi A. Singh has been appointed senior vice president strategic planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. and deputy chief financial officer of Fox Filmed Entertainment Fox Filmed Entertainment is the parent company of Twentieth Century Fox. Since the year 2000 its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer is Thomas Rothman. , it was announced Thursday by Simon Bax, senior vice president and chief financial officer of Fox Filmed Entertainment. Since March 1995, Singh has served as senior vice president attached to the office of Rupert Murdoch, chairman and chief executive officer of The News Corporation, Ltd. In his new position, Singh will report to Bax and will oversee Business Development and Information Systems, as well as overseeing a number of operating divisions. Commented Bax: "Bedi is a great addition to the team. I have had the opportunity of working closely with him on a number of projects over the last two years, and am delighted that we were able to persuade him to join Fox Filmed Entertainment." Commented Bill Mechanic, chairman and chief executive officer, Fox Filmed Entertainment: "I am delighted that Bedi will be joining the group. He already has extensive knowledge of Fox through his NewsCorp responsibilities and will be an immediate help to the very strong team that we now have in place." Prior to his arrival in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. in March 1995, Singh worked for three years as the group financial controller for News International plc, NewsCorp's publicly traded European subsidiary. Before joining NewsCorp in 1992, he worked with the accounting and consulting firm Noun 1. consulting firm - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting company business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a of Arthur Andersen For the U.S. Supreme Court case commonly known as Arthur Andersen, see . Arthur Andersen LLP, based in Chicago, was once one of the "Big Five" accounting firms (the other four are PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Ernst & Young and KPMG), performing for seven years in England and three years in West Africa. He holds a Bsc. Degree from the London School of Economics The School is a member of the Russell Group, the European University Association, Association of Commonwealth Universities, the Community of European Management Schools and International Companies, The Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs as well as the Golden and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales England and Wales are both constituent countries of the United Kingdom, that together share a single legal system: English law. Legislatively, England and Wales are treated as a single unit (see State (law)) for the conflict of laws. . In 1994, Singh graduated from Harvard Business School's Program for Management Development. Fox Filmed Entertainment is a News Corporation Co. CONTACT: Fox Filmed Entertainment, Los Angeles Florence Grace, 310/369-5634 |
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