Kevin Mayer has held numerous top jobs in the media and entertainment industries—three of them this year alone.
After rising in the ranks and orchestrating the streaming strategy at Walt Disney Co., he left the company in March after being passed over to succeed Robert Iger as chief executive. He landed at the short-video app TikTok in May, but departed that gig in August after President Trump pressured Bytedance Ltd., its Chinese owner, to offload the app’s American operations.
Now,…
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