Shortly after the news of Jacob and Rodriguez’s election as officers of NATO broke, we received a couple of inquiries here at Celluloid Junkie wondering what exactly the organization’s Executive Board does. Rodriguez, who is taking over Jacob’s former position as Vice Chairman, is President and CEO of the Milwaukee, Wisconsin based Marcus Theatres. When not serving on NATO’s Executive Board, Jacob is President and CEO of Cineplex in Canada. Thus electing two well respected industry executives like Jacob and Rodriguez makes sense. NATO’s four officers are drawn from and elected by the 17-member Executive Board which is stocked with senior executives from leading North American exhibitors. Jacob, who was Vice Chairman at the time, became the interim Chairman until the Board could elect a new one for the remainder of the two-year term. NATO needed to fill the role because it’s previous Chairman, former Regal Cinemas CEO Amy Miles, left the industry in March and stepped down as an officer of the trade group. ![]() ![]() Rodriguez had, respectively, been elected to their board as Chairman and Vice Chairman, it seemed like a fairly ordinary organizational procedure. ![]() When the National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO) announced in June that Ellis Jacob and Rolando B.
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