Paramount Skydance adds two former Google leaders to its tech ranks

In a memo to staff, Dane Glasgow revealed that Paramount Skydance has recruited two additional former Google executives. Nick Lee, who spent almost 17 years at Google and later served as corporate vice president of Microsoft AI, is joining as executive vice president of media systems, tasked with unifying the company's media supply chain and platform strategy. Suzanne Pellican, formerly Google's vice president of ads user experience and a veteran of Intuit, will take on the role of executive vice president and head of design, overseeing design consistency across consumer, advertising, production and enterprise products.

Lee will operate out of Seattle and Pellican from the Bay Area, joining a broader hiring wave that includes other ex-Google talent such as Hugh Williams and Barak Turovsky. The moves signal an intensified investment in Paramount's product and technology divisions as the company seeks to transform the historic studio into a tech-focused entity amid its stalled merger with Warner Bros. Discovery.