Sean Gupta

P. Sean Gupta is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia Business School, where he teaches a class on television named “The Business of Television & Streaming.”  He is currently the SVP of Corporate Development for TEGNA, one of the largest TV broadcasters in the country with 64 TV stations in 51 markets.

Prior to this role, he was the SVP of Streaming Strategy for Paramount+ and Pluto TV and the SVP of Strategy & Business Operations at Paramount’s BET Networks and a Founder and Board of Director of BET+ (BET’s OTT streaming service).  Before Paramount (previously known as ViacomCBS), Gupta held executive positions at Time Warner Cable and was a media investment banker at Deutsche Bank on Wall Street for many years.

Gupta is an Emmy voter, was featured in a 2018 HBS case study, and is a national BOD member for T-Howard and previously was for NAMIC (which champion diversity across the media industry). In 2020, Gupta was recognized by the industry publication, CableFax, as one of the “Most Influential Multi-Ethnic Media Executives.”  In 2022, Gupta was recognized by The Asia Society as the “Most Innovative APA Leader” and a “Driver for Diversity.”

Gupta lives in NYC and holds a BA from The University of Chicago and an MBA from Columbia Business School, where he focused on Media and Finance and was Cluster Chair, GSB CFO, and in one of the most famous CBS Follies comedy shows ever!