Skydance’s Leadership

David Ellison. Credit: Jessica Chou, NY Times.

Paramount Skydance Corp. leadership pay is starting to come into focus.

Execs:

• CEO

  • David Ellison (current CEO of Skydance)

    • Pay: $3.5M minimum

    • Bonus $1.5M

    • Stock Awards vested over five years: 5M shares Class B (value $75M)

• President

  • Jeff Shell, executive RedBird (former CEO, NBCUniversal)

    • Overseeing TV

    • Pay: $3.5M minimum

    • Bonus $1.5M

    • Stock Awards vested over five years: 5M shares Class B (value $75M)

• Paramount COO and Chief Strategy Officer

  • Andy Gordon (Partner: RedBird, former: Goldman Sachs global chairman of Investment Banking Services)

    • Pay: $2.8M minimum

    • Bonus $1.2M

    • Stock Awards vested over five years: 4M shares Class B (value $60M)

• Chairman of TV Media (CBS, MTV, Comedy Central, BET, South Park)

  • George Cheeks (current: Paramount co-CEO and CBS CEO)

    • Last year salary: $22.1M

• Co-Chair of Paramount Pictures/Head of Paramount TV Studios and Nickelodeon Films

  • Dana Goldberg (former: Skydance’s CCO)

• Co-Chair of Paramount Pictures, Vice Chair of Platforms

  • Josh Greenstein (former: Sony President, Motion Picture Group)

• Film Lead under Dana Goldberg and Josh Greenstein (President of Motion Picture Group)

  • Don Granger (current Skydance President of Features)

• TV Lead under Dana Goldberg (President of Paramount TV Studios)

  • Matt Thunell (current Skydance TV President)

  • E.g., the guy in charge of Taylor Sheridan’s shows (through 2028)

  • Showtime/MTV Head of Scripted, Keith Cox, will remain

• Animation Lead under Dana and Josh

  • Ramsey Naito

    • No longer overseeing Nickelodeon Animation

• Skydance Animation Lead

  • John Lasseter

• Head of Paramount+, Pluto, and DTC

  • Cindy Holland (former: Netflix VP of Content Acquisitions)

    • Confirmed additions to Head of DTC Cindy Holland’s team include:

      • Efrain Miron

        • Current: President, Strategy and Business Affairs, Sister

        • Previous: VP of Original Series, Netflix

      • Jane Wiseman

        • Current: Head of US Television, Sister

        • Previous: VP of Original Series and Head of Comedy, Netflix

• Chief Legal Officer

  • Stephanie Kyoko McKinnon (current: Skydance General Counsel)

• Chief Communications Officer

  • Melissa Zukerman (co-founder: Principal Communications)

• Chief People Officer

  • Jim Sterner (current: head of Amazon Entertainment HR)

• President of international and content distribution

  • Kevin MacLellan (former Chairman of NBCUniversal Global Distribution International)

• President of cross-company initiatives, franchise, and corporate marketing

  • Rebecca Mall (CMO, Skydance)

Board Members:

• David Ellison (CEO of Paramount Skydance)

• Safra A. Catz (CEO of Oracle, former Disney board of directors)

• Sherry Lansing (Former: CEO of Paramount Pictures)

• Barbara Byrne (current Paramount board member, head of Audit Committee, former: Vice Chairman, Lehman Brothers)

• Gerry Cardinale (Founder and Managing Partner of Redbird)

• John L. Thornton (Chairman Redbird)

• Jeff Shell

  • New: President of Paramount Skydance

  • Current: Executive RedBird

  • Former: CEO, NBCUniversal

• Andy Gordon

  • New: Paramount COO and Chief Strategy Officer

  • Current: Partner RedBird

  • Former: Goldman Sachs global chairman of Investment Banking Services

• Paul Marinelli (president of Larry Ellison’s Lawrence Investments)

• Justin G. Hamill (Managing Director, Silver Lake)

5 EPs:

• EVP Corporate Finance, Treasury, Investor Relations

  • Kevin Creighton (previous: Netflix Director - Investor Relations and Corporate Research and Strategy)

• EVP Head of Corporate Strategy and Development

  • Tony Driscoll (Paramount, EVP of Corporate Strategy and Development)

• EVP Head of Content Strategy and DTC licensing

  • Efrain Miron (Previous: VP of Original Series, Netflix)

• EVP Head of Global Operations

  • Jose Turkienicz

• EVP of Comms

  • Laura Watson (Acting Co-Chief Comms Officer WBD)

Exits:

• Paramount co-CEOs

  • Brian Robbins

    • Severance pay: $18.6M

  • Chris McCarthy

    • Severance pay: $18.3M

• Liza Burnett Fefferman

  • VP/Head of Communications, SHOWTIME/MTV Entertainment Studios & Paramount Media Networks

• Keyes Hill-Edgar

  • Chief Operating Officer, Paramount Media Networks and MTV Entertainment Studios

• Mike Ireland

  • Paramount’s Motion Picture Group Chief since 2020

  • Previous: SVP Production at 20th Century Fox.

• Tom Ryan

  • President & CEO, Paramount Streaming

• Nina L. Diaz

  • President of Content and Chief Creative Officer for Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios

The merger is set to close this Thursday. Full details here.