Paramount CTO steps down

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Phil Wiser helped guide AI adoption at the media firm. His departure comes less than a month after Paramount’s Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition.

Published May 18, 2026

Dive Brief:

• Paramount CTO Phil Wiser is stepping down after more than seven years with the media company, according to a Friday LinkedIn post. The move comes less than a month after the company won a lengthy bidding war against Netflix for Warner Bros. Discovery, a transaction set to close in the third quarter of 2026. Paramount did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
• During his time at Paramount, Wiser led a cloud-based digital transformation resulting in more than 95% of compute and data transitioning to a cloud-native model, and deployed Oracle Fusion cloud-based enterprise applications at scale, he described in the LinkedIn post.
• Wiser, who plans to start an advisory company, said Paramount is well prepared for...

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