Michael R Costa has sold SNI and made no open-market buys since Mar 2017

Michael R. Costa is a senior finance and investment banking professional who served as an independent Director on the Board of Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc., bringing specialized expertise in media and telecommunications to the company’s governance and strategic transactions.( At Scripps Networks Interactive, he sat on the audit and compensation committees and helped guide the publicly traded lifestyle media company—owner of HGTV, Food Network, and Travel Channel—through its evolution from a spin‑off of its newspaper parent to its eventual sale to Discovery, contributing to the creation of more than $6 billion in shareholder value.(

Prior to his board service at SNI, Costa spent roughly 25 years in investment banking, most recently as Head of Mergers and Acquisitions and Vice Chairman of Investment Banking at Cowen and Company, and previously as Managing Director in Global Markets and Investment Banking/M&A at Merrill Lynch & Co., where he focused on large media and telecom mergers, acquisitions, and restructurings.( Before entering banking, he was a mergers and acquisitions attorney at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.( He holds a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School and a bachelor’s degree from Colgate University, and he has continued to engage in board, advisory, and angel investing roles within the technology, media, and digital sectors.(

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