Sue Naegle
Sue Naegle is an American business executive. She was the president of HBO Entertainment from 2008 until 2013, when she departed and formed her own production company. She now works as chief content officer at Annapurna In August 2012, she was recognized as the 46th most powerful woman in the world by "Forbes Magazine". Early life and education. Naegle grew up in Rockaway, New Jersey and attended Morris Hills High School. She graduated from Indiana University in 1991 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in telecommunications. Career. Naegle began her career in the mail room at United Talent  Agency. Two years later, she became one of their agents and went on to be named a partner and a director of the agency's TV department by 1999. While there, she is credited with developing several successful programs, including The Bernie Mac Show and the HBO dramas Six Feet Under and True Blood. In 2008, she was named President of HBO Entertainment, overseeing all original series and remained in that position until 2013. HBO's Girls, Game of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire, and Veep were all developed under her leadership. In August 2012, she was recognized as the 46th most  powerful woman in the world by "Forbes Magazine". In the last year of her tenure, HBO won 27 Emmy Awards. After her departure, she formed her own production company Naegle Ink. She is an executive producer of the Cinemax series Outcast which began production in 2015. In 2016, she was named the head of Annapurna Television, a division of Annapurna Pictures. In 2019, she was named chief content officer of Annapurna Pictures. where she oversees TV, Film, and Theatre development. On the TV side, Annapurna is known for Coen Brother's THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS on Netflix and David  Simon's PLOT AGAINST AMERICA on HBO. Upcoming credits include Hulu’s PAM & TOMMY (with Craig Gillespie; starring Sebastian Stan & Lily James), Amazon’s DEAD RINGERS (starring Rachel Weisz), THE STAIRCASE (starring Colin Firth, Toni Collette, Sophie Turner among others), and Showtime’s I LOVE THAT FOR YOU (starring and created by Vanessa Bayer). On the film side, Sue shepherded such projects as BOOKSMART (directed by Olivia Wilde; starring Beanie Feldstein and Kaitlyn Dever), WHERE’D YOU GO BERNADETTE (directed by Richard Linklater; starring Cate Blanchett), KAJILLIONAIRE (directed by Miranda July; starring Evan Rachel Wood), and many more. Upcoming features include  ON THE COUNT OF THREE (directed by Jerrod Carmichael), SHE SAID (starring Carey Mulligan) and LANDSCAPE WITH INVISIBLE HAND (based on the National Book Award winning novel). Annapurna Theatre has produced several Broadway productions including the Tony Award-winning plays FLEABAG and NETWORK as well as David Byrne’s AMERICAN UTOPIA, BETRAYAL, THE LEHMAN TRILOGY, and many more. Personal life. She was married to comedian Dana Gould and has three daughters adopted from China named Liu Liu, Alice, and Nell.