About

Fazal F. Merchant is an Independent Director of Warner Bros. Discovery, serving on the Audit Committee and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. He has been a director since 2022.

He brings expertise in financial reporting and controls, financial strategy, M&A and capital markets from over three decades of corporate finance, investment banking and advisory experience, including service as CFO of media and technology companies and technology and cybersecurity experience at Tanium, Wiz and others.

Roles

Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.
Independent Director · Current role
2022–present
Wiz
President and CFO · A cloud security company acquired by Alphabet/Google in March 2026, since 2025.
Sixth Street Partners
Senior Advisor · A global investment firm, since 2023.
Tanium, Inc.
Co-CEO · Co-CEO until retirement in 2020; COO & CFO (2017 to 2019) and Director (2019 to 2022) of a subscription-based cybersecurity and IT management company.
2019 to 2020
DreamWorks Animation SKG
CFO · An animation studio acquired by Comcast in 2016.
2014 to 2016
DirecTV
SVP Corporate Development, Corporate Treasurer, and CFO of Latin America · Several executive roles; DirecTV was acquired by AT&T in 2015.
2012 to 2014
Barclays Capital Inc., Royal Bank of Scotland and Ford Motor Company
Investment banking roles

External Roles

Ryman Hospitality Properties
Director
2017 to 2025
Meritor, Inc.
Director
2020 to 2022

Also at Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.

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