Former Pixar CFO Courted for MGM Board

Ann Mather is also a director of Google and Netflix

Veteran entertainment executive Ann Mather is likely to join the board of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer once the cash-strapped studio emerges from bankruptcy, TheWrap has confirmed. 

Mather is best known for her five year stint as the chief financial officer of Pixar. After leaving the animation house in 2004, Mather joined the boards of Google, Netflix, and mobile game maker Glu Mobile. 

Bankruptcy filings reveal that MGM has tapped a combination of new and old media executives, as well as former creditors, for its overhauled board of directors. 

Jason O. Hirschhorn, co-president of MySpace, and former CBS chief financial officer Frederic G. Reynolds are among those who will be directors of the new company. 

Carl Icahn also has control of one board seat, a cherry the billionaire investor received for endorsing a post-Chapter 11 takeover by Spyglass chiefs Gary Barber and Roger Birnbaum.

Barber and Birnbaum will also have seats on the board.

News that Mather was contemplating joining the leadership of the once fabled, now debt plagued studio was first reported by the Los Angeles Times.

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