---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-26-114113"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "PSKY"
cik: "0002041610"
company_name: "Paramount Skydance Corp"
filed_at: "2026-10-06T21:14:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-10-12T16:09:02.091187+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Skydance adds Robert Kotick, Laurene Powell Jobs to board effective at WBD merger close

## Summary
- Kotick, 63, ex-Activision Blizzard CEO (1991-2023; chairman 1991-2008), appointed Oct 4, 2026; will sit on Nominating and Governance Committee.
- Laurene Powell Jobs, 62, founder and president of Emerson Collective, appointed Oct 5, 2026; lead investor in Anonymous Content and majority investor/chair of The Atlantic.
- Both appointments take effect at closing of the Feb 27, 2026 deal merging Warner Bros. Discovery into Skydance subsidiary Prince Sub Inc.; WBD survives as a wholly owned unit.
- Both are eligible for a Pro-Rated Annual Award under Skydance's Non-Employee Director Compensation Program and signed standard director indemnification agreements.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-26-114113
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: PSKY
- cik: 0002041610
- company_name: Paramount Skydance Corp
- filed_at: 2026-10-06T21:14:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2041610/000110465926114113/0001104659-26-114113-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2041610/000110465926114113/tm2626659d9_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-26-114113.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Robert A. Kotick was appointed as Director at Paramount Skydance Corp.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On October 4, 2026, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Skydance Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), appointed Robert A. Kotick as a member of the Board, effective as of the closing (the “Closing”) of the transactions contemplated by the previously disclosed Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of February 27, 2026
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2041610/000110465926114113/0001104659-26-114113-index.htm
- Executive change
  Laurene Powell Jobs was appointed as Director at Paramount Skydance Corp.
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Director
  source text: On October 5, 2026, the Board appointed Laurene Powell Jobs as a member of the Board, effective as of the Closing.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2041610/000110465926114113/0001104659-26-114113-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.