Jeff Shell
American media executive
Jeff Shell is an American media executive who served as president of Paramount Skydance Corporation from August 2025 to April 2026. He was the CEO for NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast, from 2019 to 2023.
Career
Shell is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied economics and applied mathematics, and Harvard Business School, where he received an MBA. He began his career at Salomon Brothers.
In 2001, Shell was president of FOX Cable Network Group before joining Comcast in 2004, where he was president of Comcast Programming Group. In September 2013, Shell became the chairman of Universal Filmed Entertainment Group. In 2019, it was announced that he would succeed Steve Burke as CEO of NBCUniversal. Shell assumed the role on January 1, 2020, and reported directly to Comcast CEO Brian L. Roberts.
In April 2008, Shell signed an open letter endorsing Barack Obama for the Pennsylvania primary. He was named by President Barack Obama as chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors replacing Sony Pictures executive Michael Lynton.
In May 2020, The New York Times reported that Shell was considering replacing CNBC's current primetime offerings of business reality shows with right-wing talk shows, in a bid to appeal to conservative viewers.
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