Executive Vice President – Chief Financial Officer · Cinemark Holdings, Inc. (CNK)

Melissa Thomas

A named executive officer of Cinemark in every fiscal year CompBrief holds from FY2021 to FY2025. Every figure below is printed as the company filed it and cited to the filing it came from.

Total disclosed compensation, FY2025

$3,365,789

FY2024: $2,940,575

Compensation figures as of the proxy filed April 1, 2026 (DEF 14A). Insider transactions since that proxy, current to 2026-09-24.

Melissa Thomas compensation by year

Cinemark Summary Compensation Table · all 5 fiscal years held
In US dollars, as Cinemark reports it. Most recent year shaded. Totals are the company’s disclosed totals.
ComponentFY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025
Salary$95,833$575,000$596,164$616,995$645,644
Bonus$500,000$0$0$0$0
Stock awards$3,621,972$987,849$1,049,985$1,177,982$1,364,979
Option awards—$0$0$0$0
Non-equity incentive$0$815,063$1,017,900$1,116,000$1,300,000
Pension and deferred compensation—$0$0$0—
All other$0$19,868$28,107$29,598$55,166
Total$4,217,805$2,397,780$2,692,156$2,940,575$3,365,789

Each year as stated in that year's proxy. A dash means the company reported no figure in that column. Source: Cinemark Holdings, Inc. DEF 14A filed April 1, 2026, accession 0001193125-26-138033, and prior-year filings. Open the filing on EDGAR.

$4.2M
$2.4M
$2.7M
$2.9M
$3.4M
FY21
FY22
FY23
FY24
FY25
SalaryBonusNon-equity incentiveStock awardsAll other

Equity holdings

unvested awards at FY2025 year-end
TypeUnvested unitsValue at year-endExercise price
PSU107,876$2,507,038—
PSU86,037$1,999,500—
PSU50,721$1,178,756—
RSU19,890$462,244—
RSU19,121$444,372—
RSU11,989$278,624—

Per the Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End table in Cinemark Holdings, Inc.'s FY2025 proxy; value at the fiscal year-end close, as the company printed it.

Insider transactions since the last proxy

2 Form 4 lines since the FY2025 proxy (filed April 1, 2026)
current to 2026-09-24 · updated nightly
DateTransactionPlanSharesPriceHeld after
2026-08-20Disposition to the issuer10b5-138,236$37.53129,076
2026-05-12Disposition to the issuer10b5-137,784$26.57167,312

The 2 most recent of 2 lines, each as reported on the Form 4. "10b5-1" marks a trade the filing reports under a pre-arranged trading plan. View every Form 4 filing on EDGAR →

Change-in-control & termination

estimated payments Cinemark discloses, by trigger · FY2025
TriggerCash severanceAccelerated equityBenefits continuationTotal as disclosed
Change in control and involuntary termination$1,300,000$7,078,555$62,895$10,717,278
Disability$650,000$4,822,161$25,158$6,798,147
Involuntary termination without cause$1,300,000$4,822,161$50,316$8,123,305
Death$650,000$4,822,161$25,158$6,798,147

Per the Potential Payments Upon Termination or Change in Control table in Cinemark Holdings, Inc.'s FY2025 proxy. Estimates as the company printed them; a dash means it printed no figure.

Cinemark’s named executive officers, FY2025

as the company reported each
Named executive officerRoleFY2025 total
Sean GamblePresident and Chief Executive Officer$10,815,407
Melissa Thomas · this pageExecutive Vice President – Chief Financial Officer$3,365,789
Michael CavalierExecutive Vice President –General Counsel$3,123,662
Valmir FernandesPresident – Cinemark$2,879,110
Wanda GierhartChief Marketing & Content Officer$2,563,049

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