Effective June 26, 2023, the Board of Directors of Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. has appointed John D. Harkey, Jr. to serve as a member of the Board. The Board has determined that Mr. Harkey qualifies as an “independent” director of the Company under the New York Stock Exchange listing standards.

Mr. Harkey has been appointed to serve as a member of the Audit and Risk Committee of the Board. Mr. Harkey has served as the principal and founder of JDH Investment Management, LLC, an investment advisory firm, since 2007, and as chairman and chief executive officer of Consolidated Restaurant Operations Inc., a full-service and franchise restaurants company, since 1998. Mr. Harkey is also a co-founder, and has served on the board of directors, of Cessation Therapeutics, a developer of vaccines for addictions to fentanyl, heroin and nicotine, since June 2018.

In addition, he was a co-founder of AveXis Inc., a biotechnology company, from 2010 until it was acquired in 2018 by Novartis AG, and served as executive chairman from 2010 to 2015. Mr. Harkey holds a B.B.A. in Business Honors from the University of Texas at Austin, a J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law, and an M.B.A. from Stanford Graduate School of Business. Mr. Harkey serves on the board of directors of several privately-held companies and non-profit organizations, and previously served on the board of directors of Sumo Logic Inc. until its acquisition by Francisco Partners in May 2023, Loral Space & Communications Inc. until its merger with Telesat Canada in November 2021, and Emisphere Technologies Inc. until its acquisition by Novo Nordisk in December 2020.

Mr. Harkey will serve as the designee of MHR Fund Management, LLC under that certain Investor Rights Agreement dated November 10, 2015 with Liberty Global Incorporated Limited, a limited company organized under the laws of the United Kingdom and a wholly owned subsidiary of Liberty Global plc, Discovery Lightning Investments Ltd., a limited company organized under the laws of the United Kingdom and a wholly owned subsidiary of Discovery Inc., Liberty Global plc, a public limited company organized under the laws of England and Wales, Discovery Inc., a Delaware corporation, and certain affiliates of MHR Fund Management, LLC.