CuriosityStream Appoints Veteran Media Finance Executive Sean Piche as Chief Financial Officer (Form 8-K)

CuriosityStream Appoints Veteran Media Finance Executive

Sean Piche as Chief Financial Officer

Appointment comes as Curi enters next phase of growth following record financial performance

Silver Spring, Md. - CuriosityStream Inc. (Nasdaq: CURI), a leading global factual entertainment media company, today announced the appointment of Sean Piche, CPA, as Chief Financial Officer, effective September 1, 2026. Piche will report directly to CuriosityStream President and CEO Clint Stinchcomb.

Piche joins CuriosityStream at a pivotal stage in the company's growth, following record second-quarter financial results and increased full-year guidance for both revenue and adjusted EBITDA. In the second quarter, CuriosityStream reported revenue of $23.2 million, up 22% year over year; record net income of $8.9 million; and record adjusted EBITDA of $11.4 million, up 276% year over year.

With a mission to satisfy the world's curiosity through premium video and audio that inspires, informs and entertains, CuriosityStream has built a durable and increasingly profitable business generating more than $80 million in annualized revenue and more than $20 million in annualized adjusted EBITDA. From its foundation as a direct-to-consumer subscription service, CuriosityStream has expanded into a diversified media and content business spanning global streaming, distribution and traditional content licensing, while rapidly growing the licensing of premium video, audio and other proprietary content and data for AI training and related applications.

Piche will oversee CuriosityStream's global finance organization and play a central role in shaping the financial strategy for the company's next phase of growth, including capital allocation, strategic partnerships and initiatives designed to drive sustainable growth and long-term shareholder value.

"CuriosityStream has entered an important new phase," said Clint Stinchcomb, President and CEO of CuriosityStream. "We have built a durable, profitable business, delivered the strongest quarterly financial performance in our history and raised our full-year outlook for both revenue and adjusted EBITDA. Sean's experience is exceptionally well suited to where CuriosityStream is today and where we intend to go. He brings deep media and public-company expertise, an operator's mindset and significant transactional experience. As we scale our core businesses, capitalize on the rapidly expanding opportunities in AI and traditional licensing and evaluate the full range of opportunities to create shareholder value, Sean is the right financial leader to help drive CuriosityStream's next stage of growth."

Piche brings 30 years of finance and accounting experience across media, entertainment, technology and telecommunications, spanning emerging-growth businesses and some of the world's largest public media and entertainment companies. His career combines senior operating leadership with extensive public-company finance, capital markets and transaction expertise.

Most recently, Piche provided CFO services to growth-stage companies, where he led finance operations, supported the development of new revenue streams and arranged financing to support strategic growth initiatives. Previously, he was a Partner and Global Media & Entertainment Co-Leader at CFGI and spent a decade as a Partner in Ernst & Young's Financial Accounting Advisory Services practice. During his tenure at EY, he advised leading media and entertainment companies on complex accounting matters, transactions, financial reporting and finance transformation, including Comcast NBCUniversal, Paramount Skydance, SiriusXM, Warner Bros. Discovery and Warner Music Group.

Earlier in his career, Piche held senior finance roles at NBCUniversal and Viacom, with responsibility for financial reporting, technical accounting and accounting operations. He began his career at EY in its Audit and Transaction Advisory Services practices, providing financial due diligence and transaction-structuring support to private equity firms and corporate acquirers. Piche is a Certified Public Accountant and holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Binghamton University.

"CuriosityStream has built a distinctive portfolio of premium intellectual property and demonstrated the ability to create value from those assets across an expanding range of businesses and technologies," said Piche. "Joining the company at a time of record financial performance, growing profitability and expanding opportunities in AI and traditional licensing is especially exciting. I look forward to working with Clint and the leadership team to build on that momentum, maintain disciplined capital allocation and financial execution, and help drive sustained profitable growth and long-term shareholder value."

Piche succeeds Brady Hayden, who is departing the company.

"I also want to thank Brady for his many contributions to CuriosityStream," Stinchcomb said. "His leadership helped put the company in the strong financial position we are in today, and we are grateful for everything he has done for CuriosityStream."