Mr. Lhota has been the Chief Financial Officer of NYU Langone Health since February 2024 and has served as its Executive Vice President, Vice Dean and Chief of Staff since 2014. He has also been an adjunct professor for the NYU Grossman School of Medicine since 2014. In 2013, Mr. Lhota was a candidate for Mayor of the City of New York. He previously served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority from 2011 to 2012 and Chairman from 2017 to 2018. Mr. Lhota was Executive Vice President of MSGN from 2010 to 2011 and Executive Vice President of Cablevision from 2002 to 2010. Mr. Lhota was also New York City s Deputy Mayor for Operations from 1997 to 2001 and Budget Director from 1995 to 1997. Prior to government service, Mr. Lhota had a career in investment banking and public accounting from 1976 to 1994. Mr. Lhota previously served as a director and chairman of the audit committee of MSGN from 2016 until the Networks Merger in July 2021, and as a director of MSGS from 2017 to April 2020, a director and the chairman of the audit committee of FirstAviation Services, Inc. from 2002 until it became a private company in 2015, and a director of Cablevision from 2014 to 2016. In light of Mr. Lhota s experience as a former executive of MSGN, as well as the knowledge he has gained about the Company s business and the contributions he has made during his tenure as a director of the Company, as well as during his tenure as a director of MSGS, MSGN and Cablevision, his experience as a senior executive and director of other public companies, his knowledge of the media and entertainment industry, his government service (including leading a major governmental organization) and his experience as an investment banker and accountant, our Board has concluded that Mr. Lhota should serve as a director of the Company.