Sabrina Ellis to join Pinterest as Chief Product Officer

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Were announcing that Sabrina Ellis will be joining Pinterest as Chief Product Officer. Sabrina will be a member of Pinterests executive team and report directly to CEO, Bill Ready.

In her role at Pinterest, Sabrina will be responsible for leading the Product Management and Design teams. This includes accelerating an ambitious strategy of further integrating shopping across all surfaceshome feed, search and related Pinsto make everything on Pinterest shoppable. The Pinterest shopping experience is driven by cutting-edge machine learning enhanced by industry-leading human curation, resulting in world-class idea recommendations across brands, categories, and retailers.

Sabrina joins us from Google, where she was most recently VP of Product Management, leading work on Google Pixel. This included defining Googles smartphone vision, strategy and roadmap for delivering innovative, AI-based experiences to more than 1 billion users worldwide. Before Google, she was the Vice President of Product Management at Kosmix and also previously spent 8 years at Yahoo! in a number of leadership roles, including as Vice President of Messenger, Voice and Chat.

Sabrina will be taking on the role from Naveen Gavini, our current SVP of Products, who will remain at Pinterest until the end of September. After more than a decade at Pinterest, he has made the personal decision to leave the company to begin the next chapter of his career. Naveen has been instrumental in building and scaling Pinterest as an early employee. During his tenure, he touched almost every major new product and has led our engineering, design, and product teams.

Bill Ready, CEO at Pinterest

Sabrina is an innovative and uncompromising product leader and is the ideal Chief Product Officer for our next chapter of growth at Pinterest. She brings proven expertise in delivering groundbreaking product experiences to billions of users worldwide and managing large teams with a beloved leadership style. Sabrina will be building on a wonderful foundation: So, I must also celebrate Naveen Gavini, who has played a critical role in shaping and scaling Pinterest from the ground up for more than a decade. We will be cheering for him as he starts his next entrepreneurial chapter”

Sabrina Ellis

Im thrilled to join the incredible team at Pinterest. In a world where finding inspiration is more important than ever, Ive long admired how Pinterest stands out as the platform helping people turn real-life dreams into real-world action. Ive been passionate throughout my career about offering users experiences that enhance their lives and foster positivity. Pinterest is a natural fit for me to pursue this passion, and Im excited to create a world where inspiration and emotional wellbeing go so authentically hand-in-hand.

Naveen Gavini

When I joined Pinterest, I was motivated by the idea of building a first-of-its kind platform for people to discover inspiration for all aspects of their lives. More than a decade later, Im grateful for the opportunity to have helped scale Pinterest to a place that inspires hundreds of millions of users around the world. Im excited for Sabrina to steer the next phase of innovation at Pinterest while leading the most talented and hardworking individuals Ive ever had the privilege to work with and learn from.

Sabrina Caluori Elevated to Executive Vice President, – Head of Marketing and Brand Strategy for Nickelodeon

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Sabrina Caluori has been elevated to the position of Executive Vice President and Head of Marketing and Brand Strategy for Nickelodeon, leading on- and off-air consumer marketing, brand creative and content launches globally across the brand’s linear, digital and social platforms. The announcement was made today by Brian Robbins, President and CEO of Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon; and Chief Content Officer, Kids & Family for Paramount+, to whom Caluori will report.


Said Robbins, “Sabrina’s vast experience in brand building and marketing global franchises for linear and streaming will help move Nickelodeon forward as its audiences and platforms continue to grow. Her generous spirit and empathetic leadership is also key to guiding our stellar Marketing team during this time of continued industry transformation.”


In her expanded remit, Caluori will oversee brand and creative marketing, supporting content for Nick’s linear networks and the Nick content developed for Paramount+.  She also will continue to develop consumer campaigns designed to connect Nickelodeon and its franchises with kids and families around the world. Additionally, Caluori will add Vincent Arrico, Senior Vice President and Executive Creative Director, Nickelodeon; and Sara Francis, Vice President of Marketing Operations, to her existing direct reports.


Caluori’s appointment follows the departure of Jenny Wall, who stepped down this week from her position as Chief Marketing Officer at Nickelodeon. Noted Robbins, “Jenny played an important role during these last three years of Nick’s creative renaissance, and we are grateful to her for all the strategy and creative vision she brought to our organization.”


Caluori joined Nickelodeon in August of 2021 as Senior Vice President, Brand and Content Strategy, overseeing global brand strategy, original programming launches, media planning, digital and social media, and marketing analytics.


Prior to Nickelodeon, Caluori spent 12 years at HBO, most recently as Executive Vice President of Marketing & Digital Media where she built and led the digital and social marketing function across all brands and programming. She built massive, global franchises for iconic series including Game of Thrones, Girls, Insecure, Euphoria, Big Little Lies, VEEP, Westworld and Silicon Valley, leading to three Interactive Emmy wins and a Cannes Lion Grand Prix. Additionally, Caluori ran the publishing and editorial operations for all of HBO’s digital platforms including overseeing the go-to-market strategy for HBO’s entrance to direct-to-consumer streaming with HBO NOW.


During her time at HBO, Caluori was recognized as a leader shaping the industry at large. In 2015, Caluori was named to the Hollywood Reporter NextGen list, in 2016 she was inducted into the American Advertising Federation (AAF) Advertising Hall of Achievement and in 2019 she was named to Ad Age’s 40 under 40 list.


Before joining HBO, Caluori headed the account team at the interactive agency Deep Focus, where she oversaw digital media, creative and publicity for clients such as HBO, Miramax, Google, Court TV and Comedy Central.


About Nickelodeon


Nickelodeon, now in its 43rd year, is the number-one entertainment brand for kids. It has built a diverse, global business by putting kids first in everything it does. The brand includes television programming and production in the United States and around the world, plus consumer products, digital, location-based experiences, publishing and feature films. For more information or artwork, visit http://www.nickpress.com. Nickelodeon is a part of Paramount’s (Nasdaq: PARA, PARAA) global portfolio of multimedia entertainment brands.