Key Experience and Qualifications
Mr. Lynch brings significant leadership, media, technology, and internet experience to Mattel.
He has a wealth of consumer experience, including experience leveraging changing consumer behaviors that can be
applied to help further Mattel’s growth.
Additionally, Mr. Lynch has extensive experience leading, innovating, and scaling consumer media and technology
businesses globally, including having guided a number of companies through critical transformation periods.
Through his media industry experience, Mr. Lynch has frequently worked with large content providers to create
business models that embrace technological changes in distribution.
Director Since: 2018
Career Highlights
Condé Nast, a global media company
- Chief Executive Officer (2019-2026)
Pandora Media, Inc., a streaming music service
- Chief Executive Officer, President, and Director (September 2017 – February 2019)
Sling TV Holding LLC, an on-demand internet streaming television service (subsidiary of DISH Network)
- Chief Executive Officer and Director (July 2012 – August 2017)
Dish Network LLC, a pay television operator
- Executive Vice President, Advanced Technologies (November 2009 – July 2012)
Video Networks International, Ltd., an internet protocol television provider
- Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (2002 – 2009)
Chello Broadband N.V., a broadband internet service provider in Europe
- President and Chief Executive Officer (1999 – 2001)
Additional Leadership Experience and Service
- Director, News Media Alliance since 2022
- Director, Partnership for New York City since 2021
- Director, USC Dornsife School of Letters, Arts and Sciences since 2018
- Director, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth since 2017
- Director, Quibi LLC (2018 – 2020)
- Board Observer, Roku LLC (2012 – 2017)
- Director, Digitalsmiths LLC (2010 – 2015)