Michael Lynton

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Mr. Michael Lynton serves as a Board Member at Boston Beer Co and IEX Exchange. He serves as Chairman, Chair of the Executive Committee, and Member of the Finance Committee at Warner Music Group. He is a Co-Founder & serves as Advisor at 25madison. He co-founded & also served as Chairman of the Board of Directors at 25m Health. He also serves as Chairman of Snap. Previously, he was Chairman at Sony Entertainment. He also serves as a Director at Ares Management. He is also a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers and serves on the boards of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Tate, and the Rand Corporation. Mr. Lynton also serves as an advisor to 25madison, a venture capital firm. Mr. Lynton is also a member of the Smithsonian, the Rand Corporation, and the Tate. He served as the Chief Executive Officer of Sony Entertainment from April 2012 until February 2017, overseeing Sony's global entertainment businesses, including Sony Music Entertainment, Sony/ATV Music Publishing, and Sony Pictures Entertainment. Mr. Lynton also served as Chairman and CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment from January 2004 to January 2017. Before joining Sony Pictures Entertainment, Mr. Lynton worked for Time Warner and served as CEO of AOL Europe, President of AOL International and President of Time Warner International, and earlier served as Chairman and CEO of Pearson plc's Penguin Group where he oversaw the acquisition of Putnam, Inc. and extended the Penguin brand to music and the internet. Mr. Lynton holds a B.A. in History and Literature from Harvard College, where he also received his M.B.A.