Creative executive

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In film production, a creative executive (often called CE for short) is a studio executive tasked with reading scripts and finding source material which can be turned into motion picture content (feature films, television series, television films). [1] [2]

In advertising agencies, the term can also refer to the creative concept writer or copywriter. [3]

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