Serita Wesley, a media and podcast veteran, has been hired as the new head of US entertainment podcasts by Sony Music Entertainment’s Global Podcast Division.

Wesley will be residing in New York and will be reporting to Tom Koenig, Sony Music’s VP of US Podcasts.

Wesley’s new responsibilities include directing the production of new episodes in a variety of genres, including comedy, pop culture, self-care, and conversation, as well as leading the division’s entertainment podcast strategy. Wesley will assist in establishing and oversee Sony Music’s growing entertainment team, which includes several new producers starting this spring, as the firm focuses on building a slate of “always-on and returning programmes,” according to the company.

Wesley has worked in the entertainment, marketing, and podcasting industries for almost 15 years. She worked on series like “Red Table Talk Podcast” and “Positively Gam” as an executive producer at Fresh Produce Media and as a senior producer at Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith’s Westbrook.

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She’s also the co-creator and sole writer for Charlamagne Tha God and Kevin Hart’s SBH Productions audio production company’s upcoming narrative series “Un-Lesh for Love,” which will premiere on Audible in 2022. Welsey also co-founded, produced, and hosted “On She Goes,” a travel and lifestyle podcast for women of colour, which was nominated for an iHeartRadio Award.

Welsey has a bachelor’s degree in radio, television, and film from Howard University.

The podcast section of Sony Music Entertainment is centered in New York, Los Angeles, and London. There are 55 podcasts on the company’s schedule. Among these are a number of podcasts produced by Three Uncanny Four, a Brooklyn-based podcast production firm co-founded with Sony Music.