John Halley

John Halley serves as Executive Vice President, Head of Advanced Marketing Solutions (“AMS”) and Chief Operating Officer of Ad Sales for Viacom.

In this role, Halley oversees the company's pricing, inventory, commercial operations, finance and business development functions for Viacom’s ad sales portfolio across all of its brands, including MTV, VH1, BET, Comedy Central, Paramount Network, and Nickelodeon. As head of AMS, Halley steers Viacom’s advertising product suite and go-to market strategy across its digital, social, and advanced advertising offerings.

Halley is the former Chairman and serves on the Board of Directors of OpenAP, the television industry’s advanced audience platform, whose consortium membership includes Viacom, Fox and NBCUniversal.