Leadership Team

Paul Yanover

President
Fandango
NBCUniversal Entertainment and Digital Networks

Paul Yanover was appointed President of Fandango in October 2012, leading the company's overall business, and focusing on significantly growing its original content offerings across mobile, TV and the Web, as well as expanding strategic partnerships with the movie studios, driving social engagement and building on Fandango's strong e-commerce foundation.

Before being named to his post at Fandango, Yanover served as executive vice-president and managing director of Disney Online, the entertainment and lifestyle digital product group of the Disney Interactive Media Group where he oversaw all Disney-branded strategic, creative, technical, and marketing initiatives on the Internet and mobile web, from Disney.com to Disney's suite of premium digital products including online games, virtual worlds and streaming service Disney Movies Online. He also led development of Disney's network of family targeted sites including Family.com, FamilyFun.com, Kaboose.com, and Babyzone.com and drove unprecedented engagement with consumers and advertisers across multiple platforms, including video streams and mobile content delivery. Yanover began his career with Disney at Walt Disney Feature Animation, ultimately becoming vice president of technology and digital production for the division, and also served as senior vice-president of Disney Parks & Resorts Online, overseeing the ecommerce business across Disney's resorts and theme parks.

Most recently, he was the head of Lookout Interactive Media, a consulting practice in the digital media, entertainment and technology space serving both established media companies and early-stage startups. He also served as interim-CEO and executive chairman of Examiner.com, where he remains a member of the board.

Rick Butler

Executive Vice President and General Manager
Fandango and Movies.com
NBCUniversal Entertainment and Digital Networks

Rick Butler was appointed by NBCUniversal as the Executive Vice President and General Manager of Fandango in 2011, recognizing his 10 years of leadership at the nation's top moviegoer destination, with over 41 million unique visitors per month, 30 million downloads of its popular mobile apps, and more than 20,000 screens across the country.

Before his appointment at Fandango, Rick previously served the company as its Chief Operating Officer, and previous to that promotion, its Vice President of Operations and Chief Information Officer. As one of Fandango's original executives, he brings over 20 years of leadership in media and internet operations, technology solutions delivery and professional services to its management team.

Before Fandango, Rick was Senior Vice President of Operations for financialprinter.com, a Web-based financial document services company providing secure on-line document creation and editing, SEC compliant EDGAR filings, and printed and electronic distribution. He previously served as regional Vice President of Operations for Bowne Business Solutions, an information-management outsourcing provider to legal and financial institutions where he managed a multi-state on-site and corporate document services group. Rick began his career at R.R. Donnelley, where over a 12 year period held several positions in the book and financial publishing and printing groups in Indiana, Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco from major account services to operations management.

Scott Schiller

Executive Vice-President, Digital Media Sales
NBCUniversal Entertainment and Digital Networks and Integrated Media

Scott Schiller is the EVP of Digital Media Sales, for NBCUniversal Entertainment and Digital Networks and Integrated Media. Scott oversees ad sales for Fandango, DailyCandy, and Television without Pity.

Most recently, Schiller was SVP of Comcast Digital Entertainment Advertising Sales. Under his leadership, Comcast Digital Entertainment ad sales doubled in the last two years.

Prior to joining Comcast in 2009, Scott was Executive Vice President of Global Marketing and the original Chief Revenue Officer of Glam Media. He has more than 25 years of advertising, sales management and start-up media experience, having held positions at worldwide entertainment brands including: Disney, AOL, Sony, Prodigy and MTV Networks. He is a co-founder of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), and was its first vice-chairman.

Scott earned his BA in Economics from Cornell University and chairs the Career Connections Committee for the College of Arts and Sciences. He has an MBA in Marketing/Finance from the JL Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, where he currently is leading a class in Managing Interactive Media. Additionally, he is a member of the New Media Committee for Lincoln Center in New York.

A lifelong resident of New York City (that makes him a Yankee fan); he currently lives on the Upper West Side of Manhattan with his wonderful wife, two boys, and their dog Ginger.

Jessica Yi

Chief Product Officer, Fandango

Jessica leads the strategic planning, development, and ongoing management of all product-related initiatives for Fandango and Movies.com. She oversees the website Fandango.com, mobile application and emerging platform design and development, and the sister property movies.com. Jessica joined Fandango in 2006, bringing with her 13 years of experience in product, user experience, and web application design and development. Prior to joining Fandango, Jessica served as Director of Information Architecture at Sapient, a leading business technology consulting firm, where she worked in the financial services and automotive verticals. For several years, she oversaw Sapient's development team for Nissan North America's online marketing program. Prior to Sapient, she was VP of Information Architecture at Arc:eConsultancy and a Principal at Computer Sciences Corporation.

Jessica has a BA in Economics from Wellesley College.