Biography

Richard Gelfond has been sole Chief Executive Officer of the Company since 2009. Mr. Gelfond served as Co-Chairman of the Company from 1999 to 2009 and served as Co-Chief Executive Officer from 1996 to 2009. From 1994 to 1999, Mr. Gelfond served as Vice Chairman of the Company. Mr. Gelfond has also been the Chairman and Non-Executive Director of the Company’s subsidiary, IMAX China Holding, Inc. (“IMAX China”), since 2015, and has been a director of IMAX China since 2010.

Mr. Gelfond serves as chairman of the board of trustees of the Stony Brook Foundation, Inc., which is affiliated with Stony Brook University. He is also a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Mr. Gelfond serves on the International Advisory Board of the Turkana Basin Institute, a non-profit initiative focusing on field research in the Lake Turkana Basin of Kenya. Mr. Gelfond served as the chairman of the Columbia Shuttle Memorial Trust Steering Committee, which was established in co-operation with NASA to support the families of the seven crew members of the STS-107 mission of the Space Shuttle Columbia, which came to a tragic end on February 1, 2003.

Mr. Gelfond’s long service as Chief Executive Officer of the Company, as well as his marketing, financial, legal, and capital markets expertise, combined with his extensive knowledge of the business, operations, and domestic and international markets of the Company and his formidable relationships with studios, exhibitors, directors, talent, and other partners and stakeholders of the Company, are valuable assets to the Board.