Cineplex Boss Ellis Jacob To Be Lauded With NATO Marquee Award At CinemaCon
deadline.comCineplex president and CEO and 35-year exhibition vet Ellis Jacob will receive the 2022 NATO Marquee Award at this year’s CinemaCon, which runs April 25-28 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.Jacob will be honored at CinemaCon’s “State of the Industry” program April 26.“Ellis Jacob is quite simply a marvelous human being,” said NATO president and CEO John Fithian. “He provided steady and insightful leadership as NATO chairman as the industry descended into the depths of the pandemic, and I continue to rely on his wise counsel.
His dedication to his company and this industry is unmatched. That dedication is paired with a kindness and courtesy that is rare and is a hallmark of his career.”Rolando Rodriguez, NATO chairman and chairman, president and CEO of Marcus Theatres, said: “Ellis Jacob, while running his own company, dedicated countless hours to guiding the industry through our deepest crisis.
It is impossible to overstate his contribution to NATO and his leadership. As his successor as NATO chairman during the worst of the pandemic, I know firsthand what that leadership meant to the industry and to me.
We are stronger because of him.”Jacob has kept Canada’s No. 1 movie theater chain on steady course as its weathered the reopening, closing, and then reopening again of cinemas in the Great White North, most recently due to Omicron.
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