Ramsey Naito is President of Paramount Animation and Nickelodeon Animation.

As President of Paramount Animation since September of 2021, a role which she assumed in September 2021, Naito oversees all of the animation group’s operations from development through theatrical release. Naito previously served as Executive Vice President of Paramount Animation in 2018 before assuming her role as Executive Vice President of Animation Production and Development at Nickelodeon Animation. 

In her role as President of Paramount Animation and Nick Animation, Naito has been a driving force in reinvigorating the studio’s feature film animation business, with a robust and diverse slate of animated features including last year’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, and PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie, which helped the two franchises earn a combined 2.5B at retail in 2023 alone.

Most recently, she oversaw the release of the critically acclaimed Transformers One, which audiences awarded an A CinemaScore and a 98% Popcornmeter on Rotten Tomatoes. The film features an all-star voice cast including Chris Hemsworth as Young Optimus Prime, Brian Tyree Henry as Young Megatron, Scarlett Johansson as Elita-1, and Keegan-Michael Key as fan favorite Bumblebee.

Next year brings The Smurfs Movie to theatres July 18th, also with a star-studded voice cast, led by James Corden and Rihanna, who is voicing Smurfette in addition to writing, producing and performing original songs. And SpongeBob, which is celebrating its landmark 25th anniversary, is back and bigger than ever for Christmas 2025 with The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants. 

In 2026, the much-anticipated Aang: The Last Airbender hits theaters in Q1, followed by a third installment of the PAW Patrol Movie series, and a sequel to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, slated for October release. 

At Nickelodeon, Naito oversees animation content across all formats and platforms—spanning linear, digital, TV movies, theatrical motion pictures and SVOD. Since joining the network in 2018, Naito has overseen a renaissance at the studio of animation content and production in scale and creativity. Naito has transformed Nickelodeon’s Animation pipeline from 6 projects to over 70 series and movies, while emerging to launch hits on Paramount+, which have helped build the platform to the fastest growing streaming service in the US. 

Naito currently manages the day-to-day operations of Nickelodeon’s globally beloved franchises, including: the SpongeBob SquarePants universe and its spinoffs, The Patrick Star Show, Kamp Koral: SpongeBob’s Under Years and SpongeBob SquarePants; the PAW Patrol universe, including the first-ever spinoff, Rubble & Crew; and an all-new CG-animated DORA series, featuring the beloved Latina explorer, which was greenlit for a second season. 

Simultaneously, Naito has been a driving force at Nickelodeon, bringing hit projects, top talent and key partnerships to Nickelodeon Animation, further bolstering its content pipeline across preschool, kids 6-11, theatrical and its studio business. Notable projects include: The Tiny Chef Show, in partnership with Imagine Kids+Family; Rock Paper Scissors, the first series greenlit through Naito’s Intergalactic Shorts Program nominated for an Annie Award in writing; The Loud House recently picked up for its ninth season, and its spinoff series The Casagrandes; Transformers: EarthSpark, in partnership with Hasbro; Star Trek: Prodigy from Nickelodeon and CBS Studios’ Eye on Animation; along with best-selling book adaptations Big Nate; Max and the MidKinghts, debuting in 2025 and Real Pigeons Fight Crime, produced by James Corden and Ben Winston.

To continue growing Nickelodeon’s animation business beyond linear, in 2019, Naito oversaw the network’s multi-year output deal with Netflix to produce original animated feature films and television series, based both on the Nickelodeon library of characters as well as all-new IP for kids and families globally. This deal marked an expansion of the existing relationship between the companies, which has already brought several popular titles to Netflix, including newest movie, Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie, which ranked as Netflix’s most-watched title of the week in its opening weekend, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie and The Loud House Movie, along with animated specials Rocko’s Modern Life: Static Cling and Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus. Next up is Plankton: The Movie. 

Naito produced DreamWorks Animation’s Oscar®-nominated feature, The Boss Baby, while also earning her a PGA nomination for Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Pictures. Prior to DreamWorks Animation, Ramsey worked as a producer for Blue Sky Studios, at Cartoon Network as Head of Movies and at Nickelodeon Movies as Vice President of Development & Production. Her executive and producer credits include: Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins (2009), Barnyard (2006), The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004), The Wild Thornberrys Movie (2002), Hey Arnold! The Movie (2002), the Oscar®-nominated Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001), Rugrats in Paris: The Movie (2000), and South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999).

Naito is a member of Women in Animation, the Producers Guild of America and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She has been named to CableFax’s 2021 Most Powerful Women List, CableFax’s 2021 D&I Mentor of the Year, The Hollywood Reporter’s 2021 Women In Entertainment Power 100 List, and as an Asian-American champion of representative storytelling, Gold House’s 2021 Most Influential Asians List. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Maryland Institute College of Art and her Master of Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts. Naito is based in Nickelodeon’s Burbank, Calif. Studio.