Paramount Skydance has named its 10-member board of directors, which includes tech scion David Ellison, Oracle Chief Executive Safra A. Catz and former Paramount Pictures chairwoman Sherry Lansing .

Ellison will serve as chairman of the board.

The board is scheduled to reconstitute Thursday with the close of Skydance Media’s $8.4-billion acquisition of Paramount Global.

Only one current Paramount board member — Barbara Byrne — will remain. Paramount’s current chairwoman, Shari Redstone, and others are set to exit, handing over the legendary entertainment company that includes CBS, Comedy Central, MTV, Showtime and Melrose Avenue’s century-old movie studio, Paramount Pictures, to the new group of owners.

The board tilts heavily toward firms that have a financial stake: The Larry

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