
Skydance org charts: Who holds the power under CEO David Ellison
David Ellison has assembled a management team that he hopes will help Skydance compete with media powerhouses like Netflix and Disney.
Skydance has revealed the executives who will oversee its streaming, technology product, television, sports and advertising teams, weeks after finalizing the mega-merger between Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery.
Ellison’s media giant updated employees on changes to their teams in recent weeks and sent a company-wide email Friday evening with links to memos detailing Skydance’s new direction.
Business Insider previously reported on the new leaders of Skydance’s product and technical teams reporting to the head of product. Danish Glasgowas well as its advertising unit under Jay Askinasithe director of advertising revenue.
We are now publishing org charts for each of the teams described in Skydance’s email blast to employees, some of which have not been previously reported.
It’s the clearest picture yet of Ellison’s management team as the media mogul attempts to transform the new-look Skydance into a streaming leader – armed with content from HBO, Warner Bros. Studios. and Paramount Pictures, CNN, CBS and cable networks like HGTV, TNT and MTV.
Several top executives are absent amid Skydance’s management shakeup, including former Paramount streaming chief Cindy Holland and Warner Bros. film co-presidents Pam Abdy and Mike De Luca.
Skydance’s product and technical teams will be primarily led by Paramount executives, while former WBD executives such as technical head Avi Saxena and streaming product head Tyler Whitworth will leave the company. However, Skydance’s streaming business is led by longtime HBO chief Casey Bloys and a number of executives on the WBD side.
Below are the 12 organizational charts in the order they appear in official memos or documents. We’ve added links to some of the names of people we’ve covered for further reading. Role descriptions are given in quotation marks when specific titles were not included.
Part of the Skydance leadership team
Here are the direct reports from David Ellison, Chairman and CEO, and Ynon Kreizco-CEO:
Here are the direct reports from Andy Gordon, President:
Who runs Skydance’s streaming, product and content businesses?
Here are direct reports from Casey Bloys, Co-President and Chief Content Officer of Skydance DTC:
Here is Dane Glasgow, Director of Product, direct reports:
Here are direct reports from JB Perrette, Co-President and Chief Commercial Officer of Skydance TV and DTC:
Here are direct reports from George Cheeks, Co-President and Chief Content Officer of Skydance TV:
Here’s direct reporting from David Berson, President of Skydance’s Global Sports Group:
Who leads Skydance’s revenue, finance and operations teams?
Here are direct reports from Jay Askinasi, Chief Revenue Officer for Advertising:
Here are the direct reports of Dennis Cinelli, CFO:
Here is the direct report of Jim Sterner, Director of Human Resources:
Here are the direct reports from Jose Turkienicz, President of Global Operations:
Here are direct reports from Melissa Zukerman, Director of Communications:
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