# Naveen Chopra
> Chief Financial Officer at roblox
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- Last updated: 2026-05-03T00:00:00.000Z
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## Summary
CFO who steered Paramount Global through the streaming-pivot earnings cycle from 2020 to mid-2025 before exiting to become CFO of Roblox. A two-decade media-and-tech finance operator with prior CFO seats at TiVo, Pandora, and Amazon's Devices and Services group.

## Profile facts

- Current title: Chief Financial Officer
- Current company: roblox (https://thestateofstreaming.com/companies/roblox/)


## Career trajectory

- 2012-01-01 — Chief Financial Officer (and SVP, Corporate Development & Strategy) at tivo. Promoted to CFO after a decade in business development and corporate development roles at TiVo (joined 2003).
- 2016-01-01 — Interim CEO (concurrent with CFO) at tivo. Took on interim CEO duties at TiVo in January 2016; departed September 2016 following the Rovi acquisition.
- 2017-02-01 — Chief Financial Officer at pandora. Joined Pandora as CFO in February 2017; later served a stretch as interim CEO during the company's turnaround.
- 2019-08-01 — Chief Financial Officer, Devices and Services at amazon. Ran finance for Amazon's Devices and Services group — Alexa, Echo, Fire TV, Ring, Kindle, the Amazon Appstore, and (per Roblox's announcement) Project Kuiper.
- 2020-08-10 — Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at paramount-global. Joined ViacomCBS (later Paramount Global) as CFO effective Aug. 10, 2020, succeeding Christina Spade.
- 2025-06-09 — CFO Transition Announced at paramount-global. Paramount announced Chopra's departure and named Andrew Warren — former CFO of Discovery Communications, NBCUniversal Television Group, and STX Entertainment — as EVP, Interim CFO. Dennis Cinelli later took the permanent CFO role at Paramount Skydance.
- 2025-06-30 — Chief Financial Officer at roblox. Effective June 30, 2025, succeeding Michael Guthrie.

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## Key facts

- Was appointed Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of ViacomCBS effective Aug. 10, 2020, succeeding Christina Spade. — Paramount Investor Relations: https://ir.paramount.com/news-releases/news-release-details/viacomcbs-appoints-naveen-chopra-executive-vice-president-chief
- Departed Paramount Global on June 30, 2025 to join Roblox as CFO; Andrew Warren was named EVP, Interim CFO at Paramount on the same announcement. — Variety: https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/paramount-global-cfo-naveen-chopra-exits-roblox-1236423923/
- Roblox announced Chopra's appointment as CFO on June 9, 2025, effective June 30, 2025, succeeding Michael Guthrie. — Roblox Newsroom: https://about.roblox.com/newsroom/2025/06/roblox-appoints-cfo-naveen-chopra
- Before Paramount, served as CFO of Amazon's Devices and Services business beginning August 2019, with finance oversight of Alexa, Echo, Fire TV, Ring, Kindle, and the Amazon Appstore. — The Hollywood Reporter: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/viacomcbs-hires-amazon-executive-naveen-chopra-as-cfo-1301318/
- Earlier career: 13 years at TiVo (CFO from 2012, interim CEO January 2016 through the Rovi acquisition that September), then CFO of Pandora from February 2017. — Variety: https://variety.com/2017/digital/news/pandora-cfo-naveen-chopra-1201998086/


## Related

- paramount global (Former CFO (2020-2025)) — https://thestateofstreaming.com/companies/paramount-global/
- roblox (Current CFO (2025-)) — https://thestateofstreaming.com/companies/roblox/
- dennis cinelli (Successor as CFO at Paramount (Skydance)) — https://thestateofstreaming.com/people/dennis-cinelli/


## External coverage

- 2020-07-01 — Paramount Investor Relations: ViacomCBS Appoints Naveen Chopra as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer (https://ir.paramount.com/news-releases/news-release-details/viacomcbs-appoints-naveen-chopra-executive-vice-president-chief)
- 2025-06-09 — Roblox Newsroom: Roblox Appoints Naveen Chopra as Chief Financial Officer (https://about.roblox.com/newsroom/2025/06/roblox-appoints-cfo-naveen-chopra)
- 2025-06-09 — Paramount Investor Relations: Paramount Announces CFO Transition (https://ir.paramount.com/news-releases/news-release-details/paramount-announces-cfo-transition)
- 2025-06-09 — Variety: Paramount Global CFO Naveen Chopra Exits, Andrew Warren Set as Interim (https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/paramount-global-cfo-naveen-chopra-exits-roblox-1236423923/)
- 2025-06-09 — Deadline: Paramount Global CFO Naveen Chopra Leaving Post (https://deadline.com/2025/06/paramount-global-cfo-naveen-chopra-departing-1236428617/)
- 2025-06-09 — The Hollywood Reporter: Naveen Chopra Exits as Paramount Global CFO (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/naveen-chopra-exits-paramount-cfo-1236260422/)
- 2025-06-09 — Roblox Investor Relations: Roblox Appoints Naveen Chopra as Chief Financial Officer (IR) (https://ir.roblox.com/news/news-details/2025/Roblox-Appoints-Naveen-Chopra-as-Chief-Financial-Officer/default.aspx)

## Profile
Chopra is one of the most-watched media-and-tech CFOs of the last decade because of where he keeps choosing to sit: at companies in the middle of an identity reset. He took TiVo through its Rovi sale, ran finance at Pandora during its turnaround, oversaw Amazon's Devices and Services P&L through the build-out of Alexa and Fire TV, and then spent five years inside Paramount as the company collapsed Showtime into Paramount+, ran down linear, and negotiated its way toward Skydance. His exit timing — out the door before the Skydance close, into a Roblox seat that puts him at the intersection of platform, ad-tech, and immersive media — is itself an industry data point.

For our coverage purposes, Chopra is the CFO whose investor-day language set the frame Paramount Skydance is now operating against. The streaming-pivot math he used in earnings calls (DTC scale, content amortization, sports-rights ROI) is the inheritance Dennis Cinelli is reworking on the other side of the merger close.

## Tags

- cfo
- paramount
- roblox
- streaming-finance
- media-tech

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