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George Leon is the CEO and founder of Cakewalk Entertainment, a full-service promotional marketing entertainment agency which pushes entertainment properties and brands beyond the silver screen and into consumers’ everyday lives. George is a one-of-a-kind specialist in global promotions and franchise development in the entertainment space and has over 25 years of experience. As EVP of Sony Pictures Entertainment, he pioneered a new franchise strategy by bringing promotions, consumer products, and product placement under one fully-integrated roof. Today George carries that global-scale studio approach everywhere he goes to create tailor-made promotional campaigns that elevate world-renowned icons and innovate new brands. He got his B.A. in Communication from the University of the Pacific.
WHAT YOU’ll LEARN ABOUT IN THIS EPISODE:
- How you should look for titles like ‘assistant’, ‘coordinator’ and explore temp services to break into this industry
- Why your major in college doesn’t matter
- How this is an industry in which you’ll always be learning
- Why one of the most frustrating things you’ll deal with is industry politics
- Why you should tune in to T4C episode #49 to learn more about what George does in his current job and how he built his career
