Paramount Skydance has named Scale AI chief financial officer Dennis K. Cinelli to its board of directors.

Cinelli will act as an independent director on the board, effective immediately. His appointment expands the board to 11 directors, following the post-merger appointments of new CEO David Ellison as chair, Sherry Lansing, former head of Paramount Pictures, Oracle CEO Safra Catz and RedBird Capital Partners’ Gerry Cardinale.

Paramount Skydance pointed to his work in AI as “a valuable resource in advancing Paramount’s growth objective.” Ellison has spoken about bringing more technology and innovation to the company under his leadership as a way to compete with Netflix and YouTube. To that end, the company recently announced the hiring of Dane Glasgow, who was most recently a

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