Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaChris Petrikin has stepped down from his role as executive vice president of global communications and corporate branding at Paramount Pictures.
His exit comes on the heels of the announcement this week that ViacomCBS is replacing studio chief Jim Gianopulos with Nickelodeon head Brian Robbins.
More executives are expected to follow him out the door during the leadership transition.Petrikin was closely aligned with Gianopulos, with the pair working together for decades at 20th Century Fox.
After Stacey Snider took over the studio, Petrikin left Fox to form a strategic communications and crisis management consultancy.Petrikin joined Fox in 2007 from the William Morris Agency to oversee corporate.
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