Sheraton Kalouria is an American television executive based in

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, and the former

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and

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.https://web.archive.org/web/20141021104344/https://sites.sonypicturestelevision.com/aboutspt/executives.php?id=20 , Sony Pictures Television – Sheraton Kalouria

Early life

Kalouria is a graduate of Ohio's

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which he attended between 1983 and 1987. He received his MBA from the

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in 1993.

Career

Before moving into broadcast, Kalouria was an account supervisor at

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, overseeing media for

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. Kalouria was also a marketing manager at

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. From August 1996 through May 2000, Kalouria held several positions at

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. He was initially named director, marketing, kids and family programming, where he managed the network's marketing and on-air promotions for family, children's, and daytime programming. In 1998 Kalouria was named vice president of marketing & promotion, ABC daytime, overseeing the network's soaps and daytime talk. Kalouria led

's daytime marketing team and was responsible for the development of all on- and off-air promotions, paid advertising as well as marketing for the network's daytime talk show, The View. Kalouria also spearheaded the redesign of ABC.com's daytime sections. From May 2000 through November 2005, Kalouria served as

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of daytime programming for

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, providing strategic planning and creative vision for

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's daytime programming, which included soaps ''

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'' and ''

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''. Kalouria also provided consulting services to

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and PAX. During Kalouria's tenure,

went from third to first place in the 18-to-49 female demographic and remained on top for four years. From 2005 through 2008 Kalouria served as president of television for

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( MSLO) in

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, he was responsible for development and production of global programming for

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and

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as well as managing MSLO's development in the area of

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for

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and

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platforms. On signing with MSLO Kalouria was granted shares of

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and options. On September 29, 2010,

named Sheraton Kalouria senior vice president of programming business development. Subsequently, Kalouria was named

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and

, overseeing the division's marketing globally for over 30 high-profile shows, including ''

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'', ''

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'', ''The Blacklist'', ''The Goldbergs'', ''Helix'', ''Community'', ''Outlander'', ''

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'', ''Justified'' and ''

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''. On April 27, 2016, Steve Mosko, chairman of Sony Pictures Television, named Kalouria as president and chief marketing officer for Sony Pictures Television,. Kalouria is now responsible for all SPT consumer licensing of series and brands.

References

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