In just a little more than a year in his current post, Schnaars’ keen ability to strategize helped him secure a bounty of future revenue dollars for NBCU by renewing deals with MVPD, vMVPD and device partners for the NBCU linear portfolio, Peacock and TV Everywhere distribution. To boot, he helped advance the company’s FAST model with launches on Roku, Samsung, Amazon Freevee and more. And he pioneered new ways to bring tentpoles including the Women’s World Cup and BravoCon to NBCU partners.