Amy Powell is a famous American media personality best known for serving as the president of Paramount TV and Digital Entertainment for fifteen years. Likewise, she even was a director of the Internet Marketing Strategy at Sony Picture. Also, the versatile personality was an Internet Marketing Manager at Vivendi Universal: Universal Studios Home Entertainment.
Early Life, Bio, And Education
Amy Powell was born on May 14, 1976, in Atlanta, Georgia, the USA. She holds American nationality and belongs to the white ethnicity.
Amy attended Emory University, Atlanta and gained Bachelors Degree in Arts. Later, she did MBA from UCLA Anderson School of Management, Los Angeles.
Professional Career
Amy Powell began her professional journey serving at CNN in Atlanta. She worked as an internet marketing manager at Vivendi Universal: Universal Studios Home Entertainment from January 2000 to January 2001,
Immediately, after leaving Vivendi Universal, she joined Sony Pictures Entertainment serving as the director of an internet marketing strategy for three years.
Amy Powell SOURCE: am21.akamaized.net Later, she went to Paramount TV and Digital Entertainment in July 2013. She was the president of Paramount TV for around 15 years, but she was fired from the company in July 2018.
Net Worth And Earnings
The talented figure Amy Powell has gathered impressive fortunes from her career. According to some online sites, she has a net worth on $16 million while some tabloids say her net worth is $20 million.
Even though the exact figure of her net worth is not disclosed in the media, she definitely has gathered a net worth between $16 million to $20 million. As per the reports, Paramount TV's value is $4 billion, and she might have collected a handsome amount after serving at the company for more than a decade.
Personal Life; Married, Husband, And Children
The former president of Paramount TV Amy Powell is married to Douglas Keith. Her boyfriend turned husband is recently serving in a television network at L.A.
By profession, Keith is an executive producer and creator of The Duff Challenge: Beat the Pros and the reality show Show Dates.
The couple dated for around two years and finally tied the knot on June 24, 2004, at Belair Bay Club, Pacific Palisades in a secret ceremony.
It's already been around fifteen years since they tied the knot, and the life partners are still together living a blissful life. They together share two children; however, the name of their babies are yet not available.
Controversy
Powell was accused of making racist comments which were not in harmony with the company values. She then was fired from the Paramount television back in July 2018.
Powell commented on black women being angry with producers in a conference call about the TV adaptation on the film First Wives Club. She was claimed to promote an Afro-American a s sistant who was on call to protest regarding the incident.
Later, Amy refused for such scandalous comments. Shockingly, she was fired from the company in July 2018.
by samikshya, 29 Aug, 2019
