Update Monday on: Skydance Media announced the future management team for its pending fusion with Paramount Global this morning, which will be closed on August 7th.
“The new management team will consist of highly followed industry veterans who will bring additional skills and strategic insights with entertainment, technology, business processes and the world as a whole in order to drive the transformation of Paramount for the future,” says the publication.
The company is expected to be built into three primary business segments: 1) Studios; 2) Direct-to-Consumer (DTC); and 3) TV media.
The following is the expected full management team for managers; Most of them were right last night, including their roles, which we state below:
- David Ellison, Chief Executive Officer
- Jeff Shell, President
- Andy Gordon, Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Operating Officer
- George Cheeks, chairwoman of the TV media
- Dana Goldberg, co-chair of Paramount Pictures and Chairman of Paramount Television
- Josh Greenstein, co-chair of Paramount Pictures and deputy chairman of platforms
- Cindy Holland, Chairman of Direct-to-Consumer
- Stephanie Kyoko McKinnon, General Counsel and deputy Chief Legal Officer
- Jim Sterner, Chief People Officer
- Melissa Zukerman, Chief Communications Officer
Andrew Warren is continued as an interim CFO.
As we have already reported, Paramount Global Co-CEO Chris McCarthy leaves this announcement before the merger of over $ 8 billion. The Paramount Global Co-CEO Brian Robbins, the Nickelodeon and the Paramount Pictures Studio run out, which has rumored the news for a long time.
David Ellison, the future chairman and CEO of Paramount, commented:
“I am thrilled to present our new management team for managers-supported by deep industry experiences, proven success pictures and a common commitment to excellence. It is uniquely equipped to face the occasion and to deliver via our brave vision that each member was selected to convey our goals. to be unlocked and shaped the future of our industry.
The service specifications for the Execs include Shell, which will monitor the daily processes of the media transactions of congloma.
Redbird Vet Gordon, as we reported yesterday, is the chief strategist and COO. It will lead corporate strategy and operation and focus on the implementation of strategies into operational plans that promote performance, scalability, efficiency and long -term growth in the entire company.
In his position as chairman of TV media at Paramount, cheeks will lead the radio and cable TV transactions. Under its inventory, CBS-Branded properties such as CBS Television Network, CBS News & Stations, CBS Sports and CBS Studios-Sowie Bet Studios, Nickelodeon TV Studios, see IT Now Studios and Paramount Media Networks, the iconic brands such as MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon and Bet.
As we told you last night, Goldberg not only reminds production with Greenstein, but also receives television production with the additional title of the chairman of Paramount Television Studio for Paramount. Goldberg will have the supervision of production, marketing, sales and strategic planning and will also lead Paramount pictures, Nickelodeon films and Paramount -television studios.
At Skydance as President of Production, Goldberg monitored such functional projects as The Adam project, The Tomorrow was, the old security guard, the family plan, the gorge, While the same Mission: impossible Franchise (Dead Reckoning, Fallout, villain Nation, Ghost Protocol), as well as First World War, True GritAnd many others. Before the Skydance, Goldberg was on the Village Roadshow Pictures as President of the production where she worked and films like EP'D how I am legend And Happy feet. Before the Village Roadshow, Goldberg was Vice President at Baltimore/Spring Creek Pictures.
The President of Sony Pictures, Josh Greenstein, receives the title of deputy chairman of platforms for Paramount in addition to the co-chair of Paramount Pictures with Goldberg. He will have a long-term vision for congloma strategy and at the same time have production, marketing, sales and strategic planning and lead paramount images and nickelodeon films under his domain. As deputy chairman of platforms, he will work together on all platform strategies and use his creative, sales and marketing background. As we told you before, the new job for Melrose -Los replies: Greenstein was the head of marketing at Paramount before his run at Sony in 2014. Therefore, he has the popular knowledge of the popular IP of the studio, including the Mission: impossible, transformers, And Teenage mutant ninja turtles Films.
McKinnon will monitor all legal, regulatory and compliance matters in the entire global operation of the company and give strategic legal guidelines for transactions, intellectual property, legal disputes, employment and company issues. She comes from the parachute jump, where she was the General Counsel. Previously, McKinnon SVP, Deputy General Counsel at Vice Media, was legally legal for all strategic projects of Vice. The manager began her career as a lawyer at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP in New York City.
Holland, as chairman of Direct-to-Consumer for Paramount, heads Ops for Paramount+ and Pluto TV.
Sterner, who worked for Amazon for over 15 years, most recently as HR Head for Global Media and Entertainment, where he had Prime Video, Amazon Studios and Amazon Music under his management, will promote “a culture that promotes innovation and long-term business success in the publication of this AM public.
When Chief Communications Officer von Paramount, a SkyDance company, Zuckerman will cite the global communication strategy of congloma and will serve as the head of the company as well as consultant for the chairman and CEO for external relationships. It is also responsible for company news as well as for managers, crisis and internal communication to promote and protect the company and its culture on all platforms and stakeholders. Zuckerman will also manage the Department of Social Responsibility of Paramount and lead the company's interest representation initiatives and the Philanthropic priorities.
Previous Sunday PM: Sources tell us that SkyDance paramount will make your corporate management team official tomorrow morning.
The structure of the combined company will be announced early Monday before the merger date of August 7th. Here is what we hear, over $ 8 billion will drop per sources in the transaction: some of them were already out there-just take everything with one asterisk.
As already mentioned, SkyDance founder David Ellison will be CEO of the new entertainment conglomerate with the former NBCuniversal CEO Jeff Shell be used as president.
Redbird Capital Partner Andy Gordon Come over as a chief strategist and COO. The Redbird capital, founded by Gerry Cardinale, supported the SkyDance paramount deal. Gordon helped the Source of Redbird's investments in the parachute jump into the Ellison family, the talent systems and the hidden pigeon. Previously, he had a 35-year career at Goldman Sachs, where he was most recently the global chairman of Investment Banking Services, head of the west region of the investment bank, the global director of the media and telecommunications for the technology, media and telecommunications group and co-manager of the One Goldman Sachs Family Office Initiative in Americas.
Cindy HollandThe former Netflix -TV boss and former global CEO by Elisabeth Murdoch and Jane Featherstone's sister will be DTC, Paramount+ and Pluto. Sources tell us that she will report directly to Ellison.
We hear this Chief Creative Officer of the SkyDance chief Dana Goldberg and former Sony Pictures Motion Pictures President Josh Greenstein Will be co-heads of the film studio. Greenstein will also be the deputy chairman of DTC, while Goldberg will add television production under her domain. As a person who called on knowledge of the deal via Greenstein: “someone who knows creatively and marketing these days is a unicorn.”
As expected, Paramount Global Co-CEO is George Cheeks Will be one of the old paramount managers who have passed (Co-CEO Chris McCarthy, who has already signaled his exit, and Co-CEO Brian Robbins expected). The cheeks will continue to monitor CBS and add the McCarthy cable network. Cheeks CBS Entertainment, CBS messages and stations, CBS Sports currently has the largest TV production unit in Paramount Skydance, and the syndication business of Paramount, CBS Media Ventures.
We also hear Jim SternerThe current head of Amazon Entertainment HR comes to Head of Skydance and Paramount HR.
And former co -founder of the main communication Melissa Zuckerman The new head of Corp Comm for Skydance paramount will be, the veterinarian has already passed to the Ellison production company.