NEW YORK, NY (August 10, 2016) — Time Inc. (NYSE:TIME) Chairman and CEO Joe Ripp today named Lauren Ezrol Klein Executive Vice President, General Counsel. Klein, previously Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, will succeed Lon Jacobs who will be leaving Time Inc. on September 2. She will report to Ripp.

"With her experience and skills, Time Inc. is very fortunate to have someone of Lauren’s caliber take on the critical general counsel role. I’m delighted to have her on my executive leadership team,” said Ripp. "I want to thank Lon for his leadership and contributions to our organization."

Since joining Time Inc. in 1996, Klein has worked on most of Time Inc.'s significant acquisitions, dispositions and other corporate transactions, including having played a leading role in the June 2014 spin-off from Time Warner Inc.

As the company’s second-most-senior lawyer since 2014, she has overseen the Time Inc. corporate legal group, including the company's transactional, public company, corporate governance, corporate contracts and non-editorial businesses’ legal work. In this role she has managed the legal department’s M&A and securities function and has worked closely with the Board of Directors.

Klein has been practicing corporate law for 25 years, beginning her career as an associate at the New York law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP. At Simpson Thacher, she worked on a wide variety of transactions in the M&A, securities and banking areas.

She graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School and received her BS from the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University.

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