Paramount’s New Board Members Include Ex-Judge, Attorney

The Paramount Studios in Los Angeles, California.

Photographer: Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg

Paramount Global, the owner of CBS and MTV, nominated three new members to its board of directors and one stepped down, bringing the total to seven as the media and entertainment company faces a lawsuit from the US president and seeks merger approval.

The company named Charles Ryan, general partner at venture capital firm Almaz Capital; Mary Boies, counsel at law firm Boies Schiller Flexner; and former judge Roanne Sragow Licht as nominees. Judith McHale, a former executive at Discovery Communications, isn’t standing for reelection.

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