Business
Magic Johnson announces Paul Butler General Manager of ASPiRE
Before joining GMC, Butler was an executive at Viacom, where he worked for VH1, serving at various times as director, program enterprises and business development and senior counsel, music programming and products. In these positions, he worked on ancillary business and business development for the music channel and handled the negotiation of distribution and marketing deals for VH1’s consumer products business.
He has also served as general counsel for Flavor Unit Entertainment, Queen Latifah’s entertainment company and as vice president, business development at Razor & Tie, LLC, in New York.
Butler serves as the chairman for The Brotherhood/Sister Sol, an award-winning non-profit organization in Harlem that develops African-American and Latino youth into critical thinkers and community leaders.
In 2008, Butler’s work in and out of cable was recognized by Multichannel News (“40 Under 40”) and Cable World (“Most Influential Minorities in Cable”). In 2009 and 2011, he was named to the Cable Fax “Most Influential Minorities in Cable” list.
Butler is a graduate of the University of Rochester and Harvard Law School.
