Paramount Skydance Names Ynon Kreiz Co-Chief Executive Officer

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Paramount Skydance has appointed longtime media executive Ynon Kreiz as Co-Chief Executive Officer and board member, with David Ellison remaining the principal executive officer and Chairman. The move lands days before the planned closing of the Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition and follows a multi billion dollar secured debt raise, setting up Kreiz to run day to day operations while Ellison concentrates on creative direction and capital allocation. The leadership shift comes as the stock has posted a 30 day share price return of down 13.4% and a 1 year total shareholder return of down 49.3%, with a roughly US$52b debt package reshaping the risk profile ahead of the Warner Bros. Discovery deal closing. Paramount Skydance now trades near US$9.50, and on the most followed narrative it screens modestly cheap with a fair value estimate of about $9.81. The company is pursuing global scaling of Paramount+ through premium content, sports such as UFC and Zuffa Boxing and South Park, and year round programming, alongside consolidation of Paramount+, Pluto and BET+ onto a single tech platform and an Oracle Fusion enterprise rollout aimed at reducing run rate costs toward the US$3b efficiency target.

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Its acquisition by Paramount Skydance is set to close days after the leadership change, but no new terms are given.

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