Paramount Hires Barak Turovsky to Lead Consumer AI Across 2 Streaming Platforms

1 articles · Updated · Hollywood Reporter · May 18

Barak Turovsky joined Paramount on Monday as executive VP and head of consumer AI, reporting to chief product officer Dane Glasgow and taking charge of the company’s consumer AI push.
Paramount said Turovsky will scale its AI and machine-learning teams to improve personalization, content discovery, platform intelligence, consumer engagement and monetization across Paramount+ and Pluto TV.
Turovsky most recently served as General Motors’ chief AI officer and previously held AI leadership roles at Cisco, Trax and Google, where he spent more than a decade.
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