CEO, Streaming at Paramount. Former CEO & Co-founder of Pluto TV
Tom Ryan is the CEO of Streaming at Paramount where he leads the global direct-to-consumer business division which grew from $1.8 billion revenue in 2020 to $6.7 billion in 2023. He was the former CEO & Co-founder of Pluto TV, a leading free Internet TV service with millions of viewers that offered more than 100 channels in partnership with major TV networks, movie studios, publishers and digital media companies. Tom is a board member of Smule (the leader in social music) and Threadless (a popular crowdsourced art and e-commerce company where he served as CEO from 2008 - 2012). He served on the board of the men’s clothing service Trunk Club until its acquisition by Nordstrom in 2014. He previously served as SVP of Digital Strategy at EMI Music and as a co-founder of Cductive, an early digital music service that he merged with eMusic. He holds an AB from Dartmouth College and an MBA from INSEAD in France.