Company: SGA
Filing Date: 2025-04-09
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-033247
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Company: SAGA COMMUNICATIONS INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-09
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 8
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 2018, Mr. Clarke founded Gulfside Bank, a community bank in Sarasota, FL. As founder, he formed the organizing board of directors of community leaders, recruited the senior officers, raised $23 million in capital, and secured the charter for the bank. He serves as Chairman of the Board of the bank.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
 We believe that Mr. Clarke’s qualifications to sit on our Board include his more than twenty-five years in the advertising and public relations industry, including twenty as president of a full-service advertising and public relations agency servicing markets that included radio and television, as well as his involvement in the startup and management of three community banks.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              | ​ | ​ | December 2013  | ​ |
| Roy F. Coppedge III, 76 | ​ | ​ | Formerly Senior Advisor, BV Investment Partners (formerly Boston Ventures Management) from 2012 to 2017. From 1983 to 2012, Mr. Coppedge was Managing Director of BV Investment Partners, a founder and a Managing Director of Boston Venture Management, Inc. and a founder and general partner of Boston Ventures Partners. Mr. Coppedge is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School. During Mr. Coppedge’s career at Boston Ventures, he was a board member of fifteen media related companies including three profitable broadcast companies with radio stations (Duffy Broadcasting, Backyard Broadcasting and River City Broadcasting). Additionally, during Mr. Coppedge’s career at Boston Ventures, he helped raise seven limited partnership investment funds totaling more than $2 billion. 
 We believe that Mr. Coppedge’s qualifications to sit on our Board include his more than twenty-five years in the private equity investment industry, primarily at a firm that has made investments in seventy-eight private companies that have operated in the specific industries: media, communications, broadcasting, entertainment, and information and business services.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         | ​ | ​ | June 2013      | ​ |

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| Name and Age             
 Christopher S. Forgy, 64 
 Warren S. Lada, 70       | ​ 
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 ​ | Principal Occupation During the Past Five Years                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          
 President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director of Saga Communications, Inc. since December 7, 2022.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
 Mr. Forgy joined the Company in 1995 and has been with Saga for more than twenty