Naveen Chopra

EVP, Chief Financial Officer at Paramount

Naveen Chopra is Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer of ViacomCBS. In this role, 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 ViacomCBS, 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, Chopra 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 2014-2020 Chopra also served as a board member at Vonage Holdings, a multi-billion-dollar cloud-communications company. He is currently a member of the board of KQED, one of the nation’s largest public media organizations.

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

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