Layla Lewis is Senior Vice President of Global Acquisitions and Content Partnerships for Nickelodeon, a part of the global Kids and Family group at Paramount (formerly ViacomCBS). Lewis leads and implements the global strategy for all acquisitions and content partnerships across the entire Nickelodeon portfolio of channels, across all linear and nonlinear platforms, both in the US and internationally. Responsible for sourcing, negotiating, and managing all strategic content partnerships for Nickelodeon platforms globally, Lewis cultivates new and existing partnerships with content distributors, producers and creators from around the world, while expanding the partnerships and aligning opportunities across the other lines of business within Paramount. In her current role, Lewis has secured many long-term, successful content collaborations around both new and existing IPs across pre-school, animation and live action. 

Lewis joined ViacomCBS from Turner International’s Hong Kong office, where she was responsible for the development, planning, and execution of Turner International’s pan-regional Asia Pacific acquisitions and development strategies, with a particular focus on India, South Korea and Southeast Asia. Prior to Turner, she was a part of Nickelodeon UK, where she was responsible for acquiring and editorially overseeing much of the award-winning content produced for the network out of the UK.

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