Christopher S. Ripley is a Canadian media executive. He is the President and CEO of
Sinclair Broadcast Group
Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. (SBG) is a publicly traded American telecommunications conglomerate that is controlled by the descendants of company founder Julian Sinclair Smith. Headquartered in the Baltimore suburb of Cockeysville, Maryland, t ...
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Background
Chris Ripley has been the President and CEO of Sinclair Broadcast Group since January 2017 after serving as their Chief Financial Officer from April 2014 to January 2017. Ripley also serves as an Investor Director of hibu.
Before joining Sinclair, he was a managing director at
UBS Investment Bank’s Global Media Group and served as head of their
Los Angeles
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office. At UBS, Ripley advised, managed, and structured various financings along with acquisition and merger transactions in the entertainment and broadcast sectors. Before that position, he served as a principal in Prime Ventures as well as being an analyst in the investment banking division at
Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette
Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ) was a U.S. investment bank founded by William H. Donaldson, Richard Jenrette, and Dan Lufkin in 1959. Its businesses included securities underwriting; sales and trading; investment and merchant banking; fina ...
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"Sinclair's Mr. Smith Goes to Washington"
''TV Technology''. Retrieved 2020-04-23.
Ripley is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario
The University of Western Ontario (UWO), also known as Western University or Western, is a Public university, public research university in London, Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is located on of land, surrounded by resident ...
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Living people
Canadian media executives
Year of birth missing (living people)