Teka Grimes is senior director of strategy development for Turner Entertainment Networks (TEN). In this role, she focuses on strategic analysis and modeling. Grimes is based in Atlanta and reports to Amy Zehfuss, vice president of strategy development for TEN.
Grimes leads projects to identify, evaluate and execute growth strategies across TEN’s portfolio of cable network brands: TBS, TNT, truTV and Turner Classic Movies (TCM). She has utilized data insights to drive analytical problem solving, support and guide investment recommendations and facilitate decision making with TEN leadership.
Grimes joined Turner in 2006 as a senior analyst in corporate strategic planning. Previously, she worked at JPMorgan Chase & Co. as a corporate and investment banking analyst.
Grimes holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Northwestern University. She is a member of Women in Cable Telecommunications (WICT) and the National Association for Multi-Ethnicity in Communications (NAMIC). Grimes, a native of Hagerstown, MD, lives in the Atlanta area with her husband and two sons.
