Sony Pictures names Ravi Ahuja as CEO

Sony Group Corporation and Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) today announced that SPE chairman and CEO Tony Vinciquerra will step down from his role as CEO, and that Ravi Ahuja, SPE’s current chairman of Global Television Studios and president and COO, will assume leadership of Sony Pictures Entertainment as president and CEO, effective January 2, 2025.

Vinciquerra will remain in an advisory role for Sony Pictures Entertainment as non-executive chairman until the end of December 2025. Ahuja will report to Sony Group Corporation chairman and CEO Kenichiro Yoshida and Sony Group Corporation president, COO and CFO Hiroki Totoki.

Ahuja joined SPE in 2021 to oversee all production businesses for Sony Pictures Television and the studio’s India business as chairman of Global Television Studios. SPT and its production companies produce several television series including The Crown, The Boys, Gen V, Cobra Kai, Better Call Saul, The Last of Us, Outlander, For All Mankind, The Night Agent, Twisted Metal, The Wheel of Time, S.W.A.T., The Good Doctor, Shark Tank, American Idol, So You Think You Can Dance, and many more.

Since joining SPE, Ahuja has also overseen SPE’s M&A activities, including the acquisitions of nonfiction entertainment company Industrial Media, leading UK production company Bad Wolf and VFX company, Pixomondo, as well as the sale of GSN Games to Scopely. Prior to joining SPE, Ahuja was president of Business Operations and CFO of Walt Disney Television. Prior to that he was in positions of increasing authority, including CFO, at the Fox Networks Group, and Virgin Entertainment Group, Inc.

“This is a special place - an iconic studio with an extraordinary 100-year history of storytelling. Thanks to Tony’s remarkable leadership, we have leading businesses with clear strategies and are set up for even greater success in the years to come. I am energised by the opportunities ahead and am lucky to work alongside thousands of talented colleagues around the world at SPE and at our Sony sister companies,” says Ahuja.

Since joining SPE in 2021, Ravi has been at the centre of Tony’s leadership team, navigating the unprecedented challenges of today’s media and entertainment environment and positioning SPE for further growth, says Yoshida. “Ravi brings with him years of experience from his time at some of the world’s most successful entertainment companies, and we look forward to working more closely with him in his new role as President and CEO of SPE,” Yoshida says.

“Under Tony’s watch, SPE became a critically important part of our efforts to maximise the value of our IP and find synergies across all our entertainment and technology businesses, and it remains a key driver in Sony Group’s ongoing corporate strategies to lean further into the creative and entertainment spaces,” says Yoshida.