大卫·埃里森旗下的天空之舞传媒在完成与华纳兄弟探索集团1100亿美元合并仅几周后，便已启动整合工作。据《商业内幕》获得的一份内部备忘录显示，天空之舞首席产品官戴恩·格拉斯哥在备忘录中详细列出了合并后实体的产品与技术领导架构。备忘录称，华纳兄弟探索集团四位高管将离职。他们包括：杜瓦尔、萨克塞纳和惠特沃斯将以“顾问身份留任，协助我们完成这一过渡”，格拉斯哥在备忘录中写道。
Consolidation is underway at David Ellison's Skydance just a few weeks after the company closed its $110 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. Skydance's chief product officer, Dane Glasgow, laid out the product and tech leadership structure of the combined entity in a memo viewed by Business Insider. Four top WBD executives are leaving, according to the memo. They include: Duvall, Saxena, and Whitworth will stay on in an "advisory capacity as we undergo this transition," Glasgow wrote.
公司合并后的技术与产品组织主要由派拉蒙高管掌管。这些领导者包括：根据格拉斯哥的备忘录，少数华纳兄弟探索集团高管将留任天空之舞合并后的领导层。他们包括布林顿·米勒，此前担任华纳兄弟探索集团媒体技术与运营负责人，将出任天空之舞制作与影棚技术执行副总裁；以及詹姆斯·克罗斯兰，此前担任华纳兄弟探索集团全球内容运营负责人，将出任其全球内容运营执行副总裁。
The company is mostly keeping Paramount executives in charge of its combined tech and product organization. These leaders include: A few WBD executives are staying on in Skydance's post-merger leadership, per Glasgow's memo. They include Brinton Miller, formerly WBD's media technology and operations lead, who will serve as Skydance's executive vice president of production and studio technology, and James Crossland, formerly head of global content operations at WBD, who will serve as its EVP of global content operations.
过去一年，天空之舞一直在重组其技术与产品团队，频频从科技公司挖角人才。格拉斯哥此前来自Meta，而李某（注：原文未给出名字，仅提及“Lee”）则来自微软AI部门。合并后架构中的其他团队负责人包括设计主管苏珊·佩利坎，此前为谷歌高管；休·威廉姆斯，曾任职于谷歌、eBay和微软；以及巴拉克·图罗夫斯基，此前担任通用汽车首席AI官及思科AI副总裁，后加入派拉蒙。
Skydance has spent the past year revamping its tech and product team, often recruiting talent from tech companies. Glasgow joined Paramount from Meta, while Lee joined from Microsoft's AI division. Other team leaders in its post-merger structure include head of design Suzanne Pellican, formerly a Google exec; Hugh Williams, a former Google, eBay, and Microsoft exec; and Barak Turovsky, who came to Paramount after serving as chief AI officer at General Motors and VP of AI at Cisco.
为派拉蒙引入技术专长一直是埃里森的重中之重，他希望将这家百年媒体品牌打造成为像Netflix一样现代化、技术驱动的企业。公司于1月重塑了数据与洞察战略，3月合并了部分工程团队以强化流媒体技术。
Bringing technical expertise to Paramount has been a priority for Ellison, who wants to turn the century-old media brand into a modern, tech-forward business like Netflix. The company revamped its data and insights strategy in January, and merged some engineering teams in March to bolster its streaming tech.
“建设一个能与硅谷任何公司一较高下的产品与技术组织”，埃里森本月初接受CNBC采访时表示。
"We are building a product and tech organization that can compete with anybody coming out of Silicon Valley," Ellison told CNBC earlier this month.
在备忘录中，格拉斯哥对派拉蒙和华纳兄弟探索（WBD）员工的工作表示感谢，他写道，他“对早期的合作、你们提出的大胆新想法，以及你们探索与同事合作新方式的开放态度感到鼓舞。”他同时也承认，结构性变革可能会造成干扰。“我知道，这种规模的变革会带来疑问，尤其是在我们认识新团队和新同事的过程中，”格拉斯哥写道。“你们的领导将在未来几周分享更多关于其组织的情况，我们很快就会把团队聚在一起，继续共同建设、相互学习。”
In his memo, Glasgow expressed gratitude for the work of both Paramount and WBD staffers, writing that he was "encouraged by the early collaboration, the bold new ideas you're bringing forward, and your openness to exploring new ways of working with your colleagues." He also acknowledged the structural changes could be disruptive. "I know a change of this scale brings questions, especially as we get to know new teams and colleagues," Glasgow wrote. "Your leaders will share more about their organizations in the coming weeks and we'll bring our teams together soon to keep building with and learning from each other."