Paramount Skydance hires Jeff Silberman as an SVP company strategy

Paramount Skydance, who continues to complete his management ranks, hired Jeff Silberman as a senior VP of business strategy.

Silberman spent more than eight years at Boston Consulting Group, most recently as a partner in the 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 business strategy and development. Driscoll, who had served since September 2024 prior to the end of the Paramount Deal as an advisor to Skydance, previously held roles at Epic Games, Warnermedia, AT&T and Disney.

Silberman, who is located in the LA area, has obtained a bachelor’s degree in political sciences at Columbia University, a diploma at the Yale Law School and an MBA at the Columbia Business School.

On August 7, Skydance Media officially closed his takeover of Paramount Global, with which the ownership of the Redstone family of the media company was terminated. The company brings Skydance together with CBS, Paramount+ and Pluto TV, cable channels such as 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 NBCUIVERSAL) who takes on the role of President. Other Top-Execs are COO and Chief Strategy Officer Andy Gordon, who previously led the West Coast Office of Redbird Capital Partners (a financial support from the Paramount-SKYdance deal); and ex-Netflix VP of original content Cindy Holland, chairman of direct streaming.

Ellison and Shell have said they expect to lower more than $ 2 billion in costs from Paramount. That will include mass dismissals, with no fewer than 3,000 jobs eliminated by the beginning of November, Variety has reported.