Ravi Ahuja to succeed Tony Vinciquerra as the CEO, SPE

Ravi Ahuja will replace Tony Vinciquerra as the Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) CEO, effective January 2, 2025. Sony’s current chairman of global television and the chief operating officer of Sony Pictures, Ahuja will report to Sony Group Chairman Kenichiro Yoshida and Hiroki Totoki, the company’s chief operating and financial officer, Sony said in a statement Monday.

Despite the leadership changes, Vinciquerra will remain connected to SPE until the end of December 2025. Over the next year, he will take on an advisory role as the non-executive Chairman.

While thanking the team for the opportunity, Vinciquerra highlighted Ahuja as the most suited successor to his post. He said, “He has a very good EQ and IQ. He’s much smarter than I am. And much better with people than I am.”

Since joining SPE in 2021, Ravi has been at the center of Tony’s leadership team, navigating the unprecedented challenges of today’s media and entertainment environment and positioning SPE for further growth,” Yoshida said in the statement.

Ahuja came to Sony after a career in television management at the Fox networks and Walt Disney Co. At Sony, he’s overseen the production of award-winning series including The Crown, The Boys, Gen V, Better Call Saul and The Last of Us.

Vinciquerra has been at Sony Pictures since June 2017. And, during his tenure, he led the acquisition of anime studio Crunchyroll in 2021 and forged a streaming distribution deal with Netflix Inc. rather than follow rivals in building a proprietary online video platform — initiatives that have lost Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., Paramount Global and Disney tens of billions of dollars in recent years.