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Bob Bakish Out as Paramount Global CEO


Bob Bakish is about to step down as CEO of Paramount Global after eight years at the helm of Shari Redstone’s media empire.

Amid the M&A drama enveloping Paramount Global, Bob Bakish is about to step down as CEO after eight years at the helm of Shari Redstone’s media empire. Word of Bakish’s pending exit first surfaced Friday in the Wall Street Journal. Another group, Sony Pictures and Apollo Global Management, is poised to field a formal all cash offer for the company this week as the May 3 expiration of the exclusive negotiating window with Skydance expires.

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