Paramount Skydance, continuing to round out its management ranks, has hired Jeff Silberman as senior VP of corporate strategy.
Silberman spent more than eight years at Boston Consulting Group, most recently as a partner in its media and entertainment practice. Earlier in his career, he worked at law firms Cooley LLP and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.
At Paramount Skydance, Silberman reports to Tony Driscoll, executive VP, head of corporate strategy and development. Driscoll, who had served as an adviser to Skydance since September 2024 prior to the close of the Paramount deal, previously held roles at Epic Games, WarnerMedia, AT&T and Disney.
Silberman, who is based in the L.A. area, holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Columbia University, a law degree from Yale Law School and an MBA from Columbia Business School.
On Aug. 7, Skydance Media officially closed its takeover of Paramount Global, ending the Redstone family’s ownership of the media company. The company brings together Skydance with CBS, Paramount+ and Pluto TV, cable channels like MTV, Comedy Central and BET, and Paramount Pictures.
The new Paramount Skydance is led by chairman and CEO David Ellison, with Jeff Shell (former CEO of NBCUniversal) taking on the role of president. Other top execs include COO and chief strategy officer Andy Gordon, who formerly led the West Coast office of RedBird Capital Partners (a financial backer of the Paramount-Skydance deal); and ex-Netflix VP of original content Cindy Holland, chair of direct-to-consumer streaming.
Ellison and Shell have said they expect to cut more than $2 billion in costs from Paramount. That will include mass layoffs, with as many as 3,000 jobs expected to be eliminated by early November, Variety has reported.
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