Lee Ann Gliha

Notable work and positions

Nexstar Media Group, Inc. — Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (August 2021– )
Jefferies LLC — Former Managing Director (2016–2021)
Houlihan Lokey — Former Managing Director, media and out-of-home entertainment investment banking (2008–2016)

Biography

Lee Ann Gliha has served as executive vice president and chief financial officer of Nexstar Media Group since August 9, 2021, overseeing the company's financial reporting, internal audit, compliance and controls, investor relations, and treasury and capital markets functions, and playing a role in strategic planning and mergers and acquisitions. She joined Nexstar from Jefferies LLC, where she was a managing director from 2016 to 2021, and previously spent eight years at Houlihan Lokey specializing in media and out-of-home entertainment investment banking, completing more than 30 transactions and earning a spot on Investment Dealers' Digest's 2011 “40 Under 40 Dealmakers” list. Earlier in her career she held positions at UBS Investment Bank and Banc of America Securities, and served as executive vice president of corporate finance at Live Nation, Inc. from 2006 to 2008. Gliha graduated summa cum laude from Claremont McKenna College with a bachelor's degree in economics. She sits on the board of directors of the National Hot Rod Association and the management committee of Television Food Network, G.P., owner of the Food Network and the Cooking Channel, in which Nexstar holds a minority stake. Her sister, Lori Jane Gliha, is an investigative journalist at Nexstar's KDVR-TV in Denver.