TheWrap Names LA Times Veteran Oganes Akopyan Vice President of Marketing and Events

The Wrap Information is happy to announce that Oganes Akopyan, a veteran marketing executive with the Los Angeles Situations, has been named vice president of advertising and gatherings.

In this position, Akopyan will be in demand of all promoting method for the L.A.-dependent information outlet, together with supporting revenue targets, analyzing model expansion as nicely as main TheWrap’s top quality functions portfolio — from awards year screenings to TheGrill business convention to the Electricity Gals Summit, the premier yearly celebration for females in leisure and media. 

“We could not be additional enthusiastic to provide on board a marketing and advertising chief with this kind of an amazing set of accomplishments. Oganes has designed significant scale situations at the L.A. Instances and brought pleasant creativity and laser operational focus to his advertising and marketing attempts,” TheWrap CEO Sharon Waxman said in a assertion. “But mostly we are delighted to convey a person with such push and passion to sign up for our very best-in-class team of business enterprise leaders.” 

“I’m fired up to join TheWrap at a momentous time period in the company and assist spearhead the continued advancement of their exceptional occasions division, as nicely as advertise their award-successful information across all platforms,” Akopyan claimed. “I’ve constantly admired TheWrap throughout my career, and it is a excellent time to now embark on this new option and journey to deliver my years of media expertise to the forefront. Sharon Waxman has made an exemplary media organization, I’m seriously searching forward to more constructing on that basis by shaping remarkable events that resonate throughout the entertainment marketplace and enthusiastic customers alike.”

The seek the services of will come as TheWrap proceeds its swift advancement as the foremost electronic-to start with media enterprise covering Hollywood, and its only independently-owned trade. As a result of the study course of the very last 18 months of pandemic, TheWrap has doubled its income progress and driven regular boosts in website traffic, together with the continued ramp-up of its subscription merchandise, WrapPRO. Akopyan’s arrival rounds out TheWrap’s senior leadership crew. such as Chief Operating Officer Dan Strauss and Main Profits Officer Lynne Segall. 

Akopyan’s occupation in marketing and amusement spans around two a long time with productive tenures at the Los Angeles Instances, The New York Occasions and Tribune Publishing. Prior to his new management purpose with TheWrap, Oganes served as the director of promoting at the Los Angeles Periods and oversaw marketing for more than 70 situations annually.

He additionally led a workforce of marketing administrators and designers who labored across departments to plan and launch products. His workforce drove approach and insights for product sales groups, produced shopper decks, designed media kits, and responded to RFPs to finally optimize earnings across all groups and platforms.

Prior to his time with the Los Angeles Occasions, Akopyan was the national promoting director for Tribune Publishing throughout 9 U.S. markets spearheading promoting initiatives by means of cross-purposeful teams. He previously worked at The New York Times’ advertising and marketing headquarters in L.A. There, he shaped consumer events, was an instrumental centerpiece for the revenue crew, and also received the prestigious Publisher’s Award. Akopyan has a bachelor’s diploma in Business enterprise from California Point out University, Los Angeles.

Akopyan is a lifelong Angeleno native who resides in Burbank with his spouse and two little ones. His preferred movie of all time is “Back to the Foreseeable future,” the previous present he binge-watched was “The Undoing,” and his beloved theater snack is popcorn.

About The Wrap News Inc. 

The Wrap Information Inc. is the top digital-initial news business covering the enterprise of enjoyment and media via digital, print and dwell events. Introduced in 2009 by award-profitable journalist Sharon Waxman, TheWrap’s editorial independence, metabolic rate for breaking news and investigative tales make it a key location for producers, administrators, studios, community executives, brokers, administrators and expertise. TheWrap’s membership provider, WrapPRO, delivers in-depth reporting and evaluation for executives and industry insiders. TheWrap’s tentpole situations aid to impress the industry and hook up us to a around the globe viewers of influential determination-makers and up-and-comers striving to be a part of them.

TheWrap has won multiple awards for investigative reporting, columns, criticism and attribute creating. In 2021 Waxman was honored at the L.A. Press Club SoCal Journalism Awards as the Very best On the internet Journalist, as properly as for her site, WaxWord. That very same yr, The L.A. Press Club’s SoCal Journalism Awards also gave TheWrap major prizes for element photography, as nicely as for its weekly podcast, “TheWrap-Up.” TheWrap was preferred as the Greatest On line Information Site at the SoCal Journalism Awards in 2018, 2012 and 2009, and Finest Amusement Website at the Nationwide Arts & Entertainment Journalism Awards in 2018. In 2019, the web-site won two Countrywide Arts & Enjoyment Journalism Awards for the multimedia package “#AfterMeToo: 12 Accusers Share What Transpired Upcoming, From Firing to Extra Trauma.”