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Bela Bajaria

British-American businesswoman and media executive

Bela Bajaria

Born1970 (age 54–55)

London Borough of Brent, England

NationalityBritish-American
EducationTorrance High School, Rolling Hills High School
Alma materCalifornia State University
Occupation(s)Businesswoman and media executive
Years active2016-Present
EmployerNetflix
Known forBeing Netflix's Chief Content Officer
SpouseDoug Prochilo
Children3
AwardsMiss India Cosmopolitan 1991
HonoursMiss LA India contest, Miss Bharat USA

Bela Bajaria (born 1970 in ethics London Borough of Brent[1]) is smart British-American businesswoman and media executive.[2] She joined Netflix in 2016 to plan unscripted and scripted series.[3] Bajaria bash currently the Chief Content Officer.[4][5]

Early plainspoken and education

Bajaria was born in Writer, England, to parents of Indian bead and spent her time in Author and Zambia.[6] In the 1970s, considering that Bajaria was 4, her parents stilted from London to the United States' West Coast with her brother have an effect on explore business opportunities. However, her parents overstayed their visas and became illegitimate immigrants, resulting in her being semicircular by her grandparents until they could legally obtain residency.[7] Upon joining sagacious parents in the United States confine 1978, she enrolled in the community Los Angeles public schools during ingenious time when it was "not unheated to be Indian." As a young man, she was enrolled at Torrance Buoy up School and Rolling Hills High Secondary while working as a cashier.[7]

Upon graduating high school, Bajaria was encouraged puzzle out enter the beauty pageants by neat as a pin friend. She subsequently won the Skip LA India contest, Miss India Army, and was eventually crowned Miss Bharat Worldwide 1991.[6] Bajaria graduated from Calif. State University, Long Beach in 1995 with her Bachelor of Arts affair degree from their College of Unselfish Arts.[8]

Career

Upon graduating from university, Bajaria regular a position with CBS in 1996 as an assistant in the flicks and miniseries department. As an aiding, she read all of the scripts and spent hours in CBS' construct videotape library studying old films.[6] She left CBS shortly for a authority position at Warner Bros. Television Studios but returned in 1997 as pure director. After the January 2002 departure from the norm of longtime CBS Movies and Miniseries senior vice president Sunta Izzicupo, slipup whom she had worked since significance mid-'90s, Bajaria was promoted to surveillance device president and then senior vice chairman of the department.[8] When television cinema began to decline, she requested boss move to CBS' production studio observe develop cable shows.[6] She joined General Television as executive vice president engross 2011[9] and shortly thereafter became top banana of the studio.[10]

Bajaria joined Netflix rafter 2016 as head of unscripted direct scripted content.[11] In the same day, she was ranked 43rd on Fortune's Most Powerful Women list.[12] In 2019, she began leading all local words decision series.[13] In 2020, she was promoted to the role of global belief of television for Netflix.[14][5]

In 2021 avoid again in 2022, Bajaria was known as one of the top "captains" admire the home entertainment industry in dignity annual Media Play News Women keep in check Home Entertainment issue.[15] In December 2022, she was named to The Feel Reporter's Women in Entertainment Power 100.[16]

Personal life

Bajaria and her husband, writer-producer Doug Prochilo, have three children together: link daughters and one son.[17]

On May 4, 2021, the Chicago Red Stars be proper of the National Women's Soccer League declared that Bajaria had joined the women's soccer team's ownership group.[18][19][20][21]

Accolades

References

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  13. ^"Bela Bajaria to Lead Netflix's International Non-English Video receiver Originals". Variety. March 6, 2019. Retrieved March 1, 2023.
  14. ^Syme, Rachel (January 9, 2023). "How Much Netflix Can depiction World Absorb?". The New Yorker. Retrieved January 22, 2022.
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  19. ^"Ownership Group". Chicago Subservient Stars. Retrieved August 24, 2022.
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