Ellen M. Cotter

Director Ellen M. Cotter joined our Board on March 13, 2013, and currently serves as the Vice-Chairperson, and as a member of our Executive Committee. Director Cotter was appointed Vice-Chairperson of our Board on May 19, 2021. Director Cotter served as Chair of our Board from August 7, 2014 until December 7, 2020, and served as our interim Chief Executive Officer and President from June 12, 2015 until January 8, 2016, when she was appointed our permanent Chief Executive Officer and President. She joined the Company in March 1998. Director Cotter is also a director of Cecelia Packing Corporation (a Cotter family-owned citrus grower, packer and marketer). In her capacity as the Co-Executor of the Estate of James J. Cotter, Chair Cotter (together with her sister and Co-Executor, Margaret Cotter) holds various positions in various real estate entities that are part of her father’s estate, which, include, without limitation, acting as the 50% Cotter general partner of Sutton Hill Associates, which is the parent company of Sutton Hill Capital, L.L.C. Director Cotter is a graduate of Smith College and holds a Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center. Prior to joining the Company, Director Cotter spent four years in private practice as a corporate attorney with the law firm of White & Case in New York City. Director Cotter is the sister of Chair Margaret Cotter. Prior to being appointed as our Chief Executive Officer and President, Director Cotter served for more than ten years as the Chief Operating Officer (“COO”) of our domestic cinema operations, in which capacity she had, among other things, responsibility for the acquisition and development, marketing and operation of our cinemas in the United States. Prior to her appointment as COO of Domestic Cinemas, she spent a year in Australia and New Zealand, working to develop our cinema and real estate assets in those countries. In recognition of her contributions to the independent film industry, Director Cotter was awarded the first Gotham Appreciation Award at the 2015 Gotham Independent Film Awards. She was also inducted that same year into the Show East Hall of Fame.

Director Cotter is the Co-Executor of her father’s estate, which is the record owner of 326,800 shares of Class A Stock and 427,808 shares of Class B Stock (representing 25.5% of such Class B Stock). Chair Cotter is a Co-Trustee of the James J. Cotter Foundation (the “Cotter Foundation”), which is the record holder of 102,751 shares of Class A Stock and Co-Trustee of the Cotter Living Trust, which is the record owner of 1,552,649 shares of Class A Stock and 696,080 shares of Class B Stock (representing an additional 41.4% of such Class B Stock).

Director Cotter brings to our Board her more than twenty-three (23) years of experience working in our Company’s cinema operations, both in the United States and Australia. She has also served as the Chief Executive Officer of the subsidiary that operates substantially all of our cinemas in Hawaii and California. In addition, with her direct ownership of 790,665 shares of Class A Stock and 50,000 shares of Class B Stock and her positions as Co-Executor of her father’s estate and Co-Trustee of the Cotter Trust and the Cotter Foundation, Chair Cotter is a significant stakeholder in our Company. Director Cotter is well recognized in, and a valuable liaison to, the film industry.