Mary Berner - Cumulus Media CEO and Director

Ms. Mary G. Berner is a Chief Executive Officer of the Company. She has served as our Chief Executive Officer since October 2015 and as one of our directors since May 2015. She was also appointed as our President in March 2016. Prior to being appointed as Chief Executive Officer in October 2015, Ms. Berner served as President and Chief Executive Officer of MPAThe Association of Magazine Media, which is the industry association for multiplatform magazine media companies, since September 2012. From 2007 to 2011, she served as Chief Executive Officer of Readers Digest Association, a global media and direct marketing company, and a member of the board. While at Readers Digest Association, Ms. Berner successfully led that company through a restructuring of its debt in a voluntary prearranged reorganization under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code in under eight months, emerging from bankruptcy protection in February 2010. Nearly two years after Ms. Berner resigned from Readers Digest Association, that company again filed for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11 in February 2013. Before that, from November 1999 until January 2006, she led Fairchild Publications, Inc., first as President and Chief Executive Officer and then as President of Fairchild and as an officer of Cond Nast. She has also held leadership roles at Glamour, TV Guide, W, Womens Wear Daily, Every Day with Rachael Ray and Allrecipes.com. Ms. Berner has served on numerous industry and notforprofit boards since 2015.