Paramount Skydance Corporation Chairman and CEO David Ellison and Co-CEO Ynon Kreiz yesterday announced their CEO Leadership Team (CLT) expected to lead the combined company to be named Skydance, following the anticipated close of acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. today (Oct. 6).

The CEO Leadership Team will anchor a culture of innovation and excellence to build the next-generation global media and entertainment company powered by creativity and technology, according to a press statement issued by Paramount-Skydance yesterday in Los Angeles and New York.

Drawing on deep expertise across entertainment, technology, and business operations, the CLT brings together leaders from both companies and reflects their complementary strengths. Each will report directly to the CEOs.

These leaders, according to the statement, bring decades of experience building and stewarding iconic franchises, a bold creative vision, and a shared commitment to achieve the company’s stated mission.

The CLT, led by Ellison and Kreiz, is designed to drive transformation and growth, deepen collaboration across the business, and ensure the combined company is positioned to execute on its mission.

Ellison will focus on the company’s long-term strategy, creative vision and direction, including its talent relationships, strategic partnerships, technology and capital allocation.

Kreiz will focus on the company’s day-to-day management and integration of the combined business. Andy Gordon, President of Skydance, will work closely with both to advance the company’s strategic priorities across its businesses.

All three will also serve on the Board of Directors, with Ellison as Chairman.

The following, according to the Paramount statement, is the expected full CLT who will report to Ellison and Kreiz, assuming completion of the transaction:

Enterprise Leadership

• David Ellison, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
• Ynon Kreiz, Co-Chief Executive Officer

CEO Corporate Leadership Team

• Andy Gordon, President
• Dennis Cinelli, Chief Financial Officer
• Makan Delrahim, Chief Legal Officer & President, Global Corporate Affairs
• Dane Glasgow, Chief Product Officer
• Rebecca Mall, Chief Marketing Officer
• Melissa Zukerman, Chief Communications Officer

CEO Business Leadership Team

• Casey Bloys, Co-Chair and Chief Content Officer, Skydance DTC
• George Cheeks, Co-Chair and Chief Content Officer, Skydance TV
• Dana Goldberg, Co-Chair, Skydance Motion Picture Group
• Josh Greenstein, Co-Chair, Skydance Motion Picture Group
• James Gunn, Co-Chairman of DC Studios
• JB Perrette, Co-Chair & Chief Business Officer, Skydance TV and Co-Chair & Chief Business Officer, Skydance DTC
• Peter Safran, Co-Chairman of DC Studios

CEO News Executive Leadership Team

• Mark Thompson, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of CNN Worldwide
• Bari Weiss, Editor-in-Chief of CBS News

Ellison in the statement said that he was  “incredibly proud” to introduce the team that will lead Skydance forward.

“Together, Paramount and Warner Bros. will form a creative-first home with the scale, imagination and technology to define entertainment for a generation,” he added.

Ynon Kreiz, Co-CEO of Paramount opined that their “goals as a team are to establish Skydance as the premier” Hollywood content engine and home for the world’s leading storytellers.

Together, he asserted, the team will win in storytelling by leveraging combined creative capabilities, talent relationships, production prowess and expansive library of iconic IP, while building the “most technologically capable media company”.