People
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Naveen Chopra of Paramount on time horizons, decision-making and his rise to the top
Naveen Chopra has held the role of executive vice president and CFO at Paramount Global since August 2020. He joined the business from KQED, a broadcast media production and distribution firm, where he was also member of the board. Before KQED, Chopra covered a variety of C-suite roles at companies including Amazon, Vonage and TiVo. Your career path to Paramount involved degrees in computer science and economics from Stanford, a variety of C-suite roles at TiVo and a stint as CFO overseeing Amazon’s Alexa, Appstore, FireTV, Ring and Kindle. How do those experiences influence how you think about Paramount in terms…
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The five functions of investor relations
In a research project carried out by Universtät Leipzig and supported by German IR association DIRK and the IR Club, Kristin Köhler explores how IR has become institutionalized as a management practice in capital market-oriented companies and as a profession in Germany. She interviewed a total of 80 IR managers at German companies and other capital market players. The following is a summary of her findings.
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Seven questions to expect in an IR interview
What IR recruiters want to know about you and how to best prepare for an interview