Sean Gamble
Chief Executive Officer
2022 – Present
4 years (current)
Legacy
Gamble serves as Chief Executive Officer and Director and leads Cinemark's theater operations, premium formats, loyalty, and capital allocation strategy. Gamble, a Bucknell University graduate, spent 15 years at General Electric including as CFO of GE Oil & Gas' equipment business in Florence, Italy, before joining NBCUniversal (then part of Comcast) as EVP and CFO of Universal Pictures. He joined Cinemark as EVP and CFO in 2014, became COO in 2018, president in 2021, and CEO on January 1, 2022. He has led Cinemark through the industry-wide recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, which shut down movie theaters for extended periods and forced a wave of bankruptcies among smaller theater chains, while Cinemark maintained sufficient liquidity to avoid a similar fate and later reported record profitability as moviegoing rebounded. He received NATO's (National Association of Theatre Owners) Marquee Award at CinemaCon in 2024, recognizing his leadership in the theatrical exhibition industry. He is 50 years old as of his CEO tenure.