{"id":2233279,"date":"2026-01-13T18:23:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T18:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2233279"},"modified":"2026-01-13T18:23:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T18:23:31","slug":"entertainment-earth-taps-john-louie-as-new-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/entertainment-earth-taps-john-louie-as-new-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Entertainment Earth Taps John Louie as New CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<p>Online collectible retailer <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Entertainment Earth<\/a> has named John Louie as its new CEO after Billy Lagor announced his departure to join Hasbro as President of Toys &amp; Games.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEntertainment Earth has an incredible foundation of strong partnerships, a passionate team, highly-engaged consumers, and a reputation for reliability and trust across the industry,\u201d Louie says. \u201cI\u2019m excited to build upon that foundation and help guide the company through its next phase of growth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<p>Louie has more than 25 years of strategic global leadership experience across consumer products, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.toybook.com\/tag\/licensing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">licensing<\/a>, entertainment, and digital commerce. His background includes franchise development, consumer products expansion, global retail strategy, and omnichannel growth.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe Entertainment Earth is uniquely positioned for continued expansion, and John is the right leader for this moment,\u201d says Matt Harvey, Executive Managing Director of PGIM and Chairman of the Board of Entertainment Earth. \u201cHis experience growing global businesses, developing talent, and navigating change gives us great confidence as we support our core fandom customer base and growing demand for content-inspired collectible and hobby categories.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<p>Louie previously served in senior executive positions at Warner Bros., Mattel, and The Walt Disney Co. He recently served as Chief of Staff and Head of Strategy and Business Transformation at Funko.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<p>Learn more about Entertainment Earth at <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">entertainmentearth.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/span>\t\t<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source toybook.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online collectible retailer Entertainment Earth has named John Louie as its new CEO after Billy Lagor announced his departure to join Hasbro as President of Toys &amp; Games.\u00a0 \u201cEntertainment Earth has an incredible foundation of strong partnerships, a passionate team, highly-engaged consumers, and a reputation for reliability and trust across the industry,\u201d Louie says. \u201cI\u2019m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2233280,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[432057,432058,432059,325173,432060,383934],"class_list":["post-2233279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-billy-lagor","tag-entertainment-earth","tag-john-louie","tag-licensing","tag-matt-harvey","tag-popular-collectibles"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Entertainment-Earth-Taps-John-Louie-as-New-CEO.webp.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2233279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2233281,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233279\/revisions\/2233281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2233280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2233279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2233279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2233279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}