---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001140361-22-000472"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CNK"
cik: "0001385280"
company_name: "Cinemark Holdings, Inc."
filed_at: "2022-01-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-27T20:54:52.787135+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Cinemark finalizes CEO Sean Gamble's employment agreement with $825K base salary

## Summary
- Board expanded from 10 to 11; Gamble appointed Class III director effective Jan 1, 2022.
- Amended employment agreement sets annual base salary at $825,000.
- Voluntary termination after 10 years accelerates vesting of equity awards.
- Termination without cause or within 1 year after change of control entitles to annual incentive cash bonus target.
- Gamble was named CEO on July 28, 2021; agreement formalizes terms.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001140361-22-000472
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CNK
- cik: 0001385280
- company_name: Cinemark Holdings, Inc.
- filed_at: 2022-01-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1385280/000114036122000472/0001140361-22-000472-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1385280/000114036122000472/brhc10032507_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001140361-22-000472
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001140361-22-000472.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001140361-22-000472.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Sean Gamble was appointed as Class III Director at Cinemark Holdings, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Class III Director
  source text: The Board appointed Sean Gamble to fill the newly-created vacancy on the Board and to serve on the Board as a Class III director.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1385280/000114036122000472/0001140361-22-000472-index.htm
- Executive change
  Sean Gamble was appointed as Chief Executive Officer at Cinemark Holdings, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Chief Executive Officer
  source text: Mr. Gamble was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of the Company effective as of the Effective Date.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1385280/000114036122000472/0001140361-22-000472-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.