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KOUROSH TAJ
Executive Producer
Kourosh Taj is Head of Unscripted Development and Special Projects at Balboa Productions and a founding executive of Sylvester Stallone’s multi-platform production company, which produces elevated action, character-driven drama, and premium nonfiction for major global distributors. He leads Balboa’s unscripted and premium nonfiction slate and advances strategic expansion into adjacent and emerging sectors through new ventures, partnerships, and platforms.
Under his nonfiction leadership at Balboa, the company’s work includes the award-winning One Night: Joshua vs. Ruiz, Netflix’s critically acclaimed documentary Sly, Paramount+’s fan-favorite The Family Stallone, and FOX’s breakout primetime survival competition series Extracted. Prior to Balboa, Taj was the co-founder and CEO of No Good Entertainment and co-created No Good TV, one of YouTube’s first premium partner channels that scaled into a top global digital network, producing more than two dozen live-action and animated series and generating billions of views. With extensive U.S. and international experience spanning co-productions, global production oversight, and international distribution and syndication, he has developed formats, produced series, and led U.S. and international programming and marketing partnerships with leading networks, studios, and distributors including VH1, MTV, NBC Syndication, FOX, Lionsgate, MGM, Paramount, NBCUniversal, and Sony Pictures.
Taj has been instrumental in raising significant equity and debt financing across global markets for media ventures over 25 years, bringing capital markets fluency, platform-native audience instincts, and studio-grade execution.
Bio
Kourosh Taj is Head of Unscripted Development and Special Projects at Balboa Productions and a founding executive of Sylvester Stallone’s multi-platform production company, which produces elevated action, character-driven drama, and premium nonfiction for major global distributors. He leads Balboa’s unscripted and premium nonfiction slate and advances strategic expansion into adjacent and emerging sectors through new ventures, partnerships, and platforms.
Under his nonfiction leadership at Balboa, the company’s work includes the award-winning One Night: Joshua vs. Ruiz, Netflix’s critically acclaimed documentary Sly, Paramount+’s fan-favorite The Family Stallone, and FOX’s breakout primetime survival competition series Extracted. Prior to Balboa, Taj was the co-founder and CEO of No Good Entertainment and co-created No Good TV, one of YouTube’s first premium partner channels that scaled into a top global digital network, producing more than two dozen live-action and animated series and generating billions of views. With extensive U.S. and international experience spanning co-productions, global production oversight, and international distribution and syndication, he has developed formats, produced series, and led U.S. and international programming and marketing partnerships with leading networks, studios, and distributors including VH1, MTV, NBC Syndication, FOX, Lionsgate, MGM, Paramount, NBCUniversal, and Sony Pictures.
Taj has been instrumental in raising significant equity and debt financing across global markets for media ventures over 25 years, bringing capital markets fluency, platform-native audience instincts, and studio-grade execution.