Naveen Chopra

Naveen Chopra is an established financial and operational leader who has served as chief financial officer for several high-growth, innovative companies over the past 20 years. He has extensive knowledge and expertise in finance, corporate development, and business transformation. As Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer of Paramount, Chopra oversees the company’s financial operations, including treasury, tax, accounting, investor relations, information security and real estate, as well as global corporate development and strategy.

Prior to joining Paramount, Chopra was the CFO of Amazon’s Devices and Services Business where he oversaw some of Amazon’s fastest-growing and most strategic consumer businesses, including Alexa and Echo, FireTV, Ring, Kindle, and the Amazon Appstore. Before Amazon, he was the Chief Financial Officer at Pandora Media, where he ran finance, corporate development, music licensing, business development, investor relations, real estate, and CIO functions. While at Pandora, he helped lead a major corporate turn-around, which led to the acquisition of Pandora by SiriusXM for $3.5 billion.

Chopra also spent several years across a variety of roles at TiVo, including interim CEO, CFO, and head of Corporate and Business Development. During his tenure at TiVo, he guided the company through multiple phases of growth and transformation culminating in TiVo’s acquisition by Rovi. Earlier in his career, Chopra held business development roles at both large enterprises, like Microsoft and Hewlett Packard, and early-stage venture-backed companies, including WebTV, Ofoto, and Rearden Steel.

From 2014 to 2020, Chopra also served as a board member at Vonage Holdings, a publicly traded multi-billion-dollar cloud-communications company, which was subsequently acquired by Ericsson in 2022. At Vonage, he served on the audit and compensation committees. Chopra also currently serves on the board of KQED, a non-profit public media organization in San Francisco, California.

Chopra holds bachelor’s degrees in Computer Science and Economics from Stanford University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.