As EVP and General Manager of Warner Bros. Discovery, Hannes Heyelmann heads the German, Swiss and Austrian markets and is responsible for all Warner Bros. Discovery business units in the GSA region. His responsibilities include pay and FTA channels, local cinema and TV productions, marketing and monetisation of US content across all business units, including cinema, TV licensing, consumer products, games and home entertainment, as well as co-responsibility for streaming services.

Most recently, Hamburg-born Heyelmann was EVP Programming, EMEA, at WarnerMedia, where he was responsible for the content, windowing and acquisition strategies for HBO Max and the company's entertainment channels. He was also responsible for Creative Services, Research and Insights and Channel Marketing. Heyelmann also managed local cinema production in the GSA region.

Prior to this, Heyelmann, who studied international business administration in Reutlingen and Boston, was SVP & Managing Director for Central and Eastern Europe and International Originals Programming Strategy at Turner. He began his career with the company in 2001 in Corporate Strategy in the USA and Business Development in the UK before being appointed Managing Director for Turner in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.