AMC Entertainment appoints Keri Putnam, former president of Sundance Institute & Miramax Exec, to its board of directors

AMC Entertainment has reorganized its board of directors, announcing the election of two new board members and one to resign.

Keri Putman, former executive director of the Sundance Institute and director of production at Miramax, Keri Putman, a strong advocate of independent film, and Dee Clark, who has worked in information technology at Hasbro, Mattel, Warner Music and Apple, will join 1 January take office as directors. a one-year term with re-election in 2023. Silver Lake’s Lee Wittlinger, a member of the Board since 2018, will retire as usual after the Company exits its interest in the Company in January 2021.

“With the appointments of Ms. Clark and Ms. Putnam, and the departure of Mr. Wittlinger, AMC has made significant progress toward achieving its diversity goals,” the company said. Three of AMC’s nine directors will be women, compared to one in eight currently.

Putnam founded and operates Putnam Pictures to produce films and television programs from creators with a strong and adventurous vision. Before that, from 2010 to 2021, she was CEO of the Sundance Institute, which administers the Sundance Film Festival. Previously, she was executive producer at Miramax Films.

Dee Clark, who has also worked for Estée Lauder and MCI Systemhouse, has served as an independent director for United Natural Foods for the past 10 years. She previously served on the boards of Six Flags Entertainment and Caesars Entertainment, as well as the National AIDS Fund Board of Trustees, the SAP Consumer Products Advisory Council and the Women in Technology Institute.

AMC Chairman and CEO Adom Aron thanked Wittlinger for his many years of service. “During his tenure, both before and during the pandemic, his input and advice was invaluable to me and AMC. In over 30 years on boards, I have never met a better director than Lee Wittlinger. I can’t wait to welcome Dee Clark and Keri Putnam to the AMC board as new directors. Your experience and leadership skills will be valuable to our company, our guests and our shareholders. I am very much looking forward to working with them and the contributions they will make as members of our board.”

The full board of AMC Entertainment Holdings now consists of:

Aron, Putman, Clark, Howard W. “Hawk” Koch, Jr., President of the Koch Company, Past President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the Producers Guild of America; Philip Lader, Senior Advisor of Morgan Stanley Institutional Securities, Trustee of the US Small Business Administration and former Chairman of WPP; Gary Locke, trade consultant and owner of Locke Global Strategies and former US Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China and former Washington State Governor and Secretary of Commerce; Kathleen Pawlus, retired partner of Ernst and Young; Anthony J. Saich, director of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government; and Adam Sussman, president of Epic Games; formerly Chief Digital Officer of Nike.