Tom Ryan is an entrepreneur, angel investor and board member. He currently serves as CEO and President of Paramount Global (formerly ViacomCBS) Streaming, following the $340m acquisition of Pluto TV, an Internet television platform he co-founded and led as CEO.
Tom also serves on the boards of Smule, a mobile music creation community with over 25 million monthly active users, and Threadless, an online art community and e-commerce company of which he was CEO from 2008 to 2012. Tom was also an early investor and board member at Trunk Club (acquired by Nordstrom), and Society6 (acquired by Demand Media).
Earlier in his career, Tom served as senior vice president of digital strategy and business development at EMI Music and was part of the early team at Virgin Mobile USA. Additionally, Tom co-founded Cductive, a pioneering online music service, acquired by eMusic in 1999.
He received an A.B. from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. from INSEAD in France. Tom lives in Los Angeles with his wife and three children.