Skydance Announces Board, Adding Ynon Kreiz, Laurene Powell Jobs and Bobby Kotick as Directors and Tony Blair as Advisor
- Skydance appointed Laurene Powell Jobs and Bobby Kotick as independent directors, while Ynon Kreiz became co-CEO and a director.
- Former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair will serve as a board advisor in a personal capacity.
- David Ellison remains Skydance’s CEO and said the new leaders bring experience and perspectives to guide the company’s future.
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Former Activision CEO Bobby Kotick Was Once Reviled by Gamers. Now He's Joining Skydance's Board of Directors
Former Activision CEO Bobby Kotick, who stepped down from running the Call of Duty publisher after Microsoft completed its $69 billion acquisition of Activision-Blizzard-King, is joining David Ellison's board of directors at the newly christened Skydance following Paramount's now-completed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery.
Skydance Adds Bobby Kotick and Laurene Powell Jobs to Board, Taps Tony Blair as Adviser
Skydance Corp., formed from the megamerger of Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery, is bringing new blood to its board of directors. On Tuesday, the company announced that Laurene Powell Jobs, founder and president of Emerson Collective, and Bobby Kotick, founder and former CEO of Activision, are joining the board as independent directors. In addition, former […]
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/PRNewswire/ -- Skydance Corporation (NYSE: SKYD) ("Skydance") today announced the director and advisor designees for the newly combined company, formed...
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A CBS News insider erupted Tuesday after new Skydance CEO David Ellison promised to protect the editorial independence of the company’s newsrooms, according to media columnist Justin Baragona.“You’re pleading not to interfere with editorial at CNN?” Anderson Cooper asked Ellison during Skydance’s first companywide town hall following the massive Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger.Ellison responded to the CNN anchor by promising to support t…
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