AMC Entertainment has reorganized its board of directors, announcing two new directors and one departure.
Former Sundance Institute Chief and Miramax Productions President Keri Putman (a huge proponent of independent film) and Dee Clark, who has worked in information technology at Hasbro, Mattel, Warner Music and Apple, announced on January 1 that participate as a director. His one-year term is set for re-election in 2023. His Lee Wittlinger of Silver Lake, who has been on the board since 2018, will step down following common practice after the company pulls out of its investment in the company in January 2021.
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“With the appointment of Clarke and Putnam, and the departure of Wittlinger, AMC has made significant progress in meeting its diversity goals,” the company said. Three of her nine AMC directors will be women, but now she is one in eight.
Putnam founded and operates Putnam Pictures, producing films and television shows from creators with a clear and adventurous vision. Prior to that, from 2010 until 2021, he was CEO of the Sundance Institute, which runs the Sundance Film Festival. She previously served as President of the Production Division at Miramax Films.
Dee Clark, who also worked at Estée Lauder and MCI Systemhouse, has been an independent director of United Natural Foods for the past decade. She has previously served on the boards of Six Flags Entertainment and Caesars Entertainment, as well as the National AIDS Fund Trustees, the SAP Consumer Products Advisory Council, and the Women in Technology Institute.
Adom Aron, Chairman and CEO of AMC, thanked Wittlinger for his many years of service. “During his tenure, both before and during the pandemic, his contributions and advice have been invaluable to me and to AMC. I have never met a better director than Whittlinger, and I am thrilled to welcome Dee Clark and Keri Putnam to AMC’s board of directors, whose experience and leadership will be invaluable to our company, our guests and our shareholders. I am very much looking forward to working with them and their contributions as members of our Board of Directors.”
The entire board of directors of AMC Entertainment Holdings includes:
Aron, Putman, Clark, Howard W. ‘Hawk’ Koch, Jr., Principals of The Koch Company, former Presidents of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Producers Guild of America. Philip Lader, Senior Counsel at Morgan Stanley Institutional Securities, Administrator of the US Small Business Administration and former Chairman of WPP. Gary Rock, Trade Consultant, Owner of Rock Global Strategies, Former U.S. Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China, Former Governor of Washington State, Secretary of Commerce. Former Ernst & Young partner Kathleen Pauls. Anthony J. Saich, Director of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and Professor of Daewoo International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Adam Sussman, President of Epic Games. Former Nike Chief Digital Officer.
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