Michael lynton biography

The New Yorker, March 30, 1998

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Michael
Lynton

Snap Inc.

After 13 years in the top job at Sony Pictures Entertainment, Lynton will spend a six-month period as co-CEO before assuming the chairmanship full time at Snap Inc., where he was already serving on the board. It will mark the end of a reign that grew turbulent in the latter years, where he saw Sony through a devastating hack that would test the mettle of even the sturdiest corporate chieftain.

Lynton oversaw movie/TV studio and music businesses sprawled at massive scale across the globe. For example, Sony Pictures Television alone operates 18 wholly-owned production companies in 12 countries generating local content, and also 150 TV channel feeds reaching 178 territories.

On the movie-studio side, Lynton ushered in a revamp of the executive suite, now under Tom Rothman, that keeps a sharp eye the bottom line. But Lynton is also spending strategically with the $750 million buy last September of the remainder of its Sony/ATV Music Publishing venture from the Michael Jackson estate. That big-ticket transaction streamlines a complicated structure for money-machine Sony/ATV that holds the underlying rights to many Beatles songs.

Earlier in his career, he worked for Time Warner, AOL, publisher Pearson and Walt Disney Co. Lynton has undergraduate degre

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Mr. Lynton has served on our board of directors since April 2013 and has been Chairman of our board of directors since September 2016. Mr. Lynton served as Chief Executive Officer or Co-Chief Executive Officer of Sony Entertainment Inc., an international entertainment company, from April 2012 until August 2017, as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. from January 2004 until May 2017, and as CEO of Sony Corporation of America from March 2012 to August 2017. Mr. Lynton has served as a member of the board of directors of Ares Management Corporation, Pearson plc, Warner Music Group Corp., Schrödinger, Inc., and The Boston Beer Company. Mr. Lynton also served as a member of the board of directors of Pandora Media, Inc. from August 2017 until February 2019. Mr. Lynton holds a B.A. in History and Literature from Harvard College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. We believe that Mr. Lynton is qualified to serve as a member of our board of directors and Chairman due to his extensive leadership experience.