Miguel Mier

Miguel is the Chief Operating Officer at Cinepolis, the largest cinema chain operator in Latin America and the third-largest in the world with 6,841 screens in 19 countries across America, Europe & Asia.

Miguel started his career in Cinepolis in 1994 as head of IT - developing and implementing the first software for operating theatres. Since 2003 in his current position as COO, he manages Operations, Film Booking, Marketing, IT, HR, Sales, and International Operations. During Miguel's tenure as COO, Cinépolis has evolved from a company running 310 screens in Mexico to a company with 6,841 screens in four continents.

Miguel launched the international operations in Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Panama before going to study an MBA at Stanford in 2006. While at Stanford, Miguel wrote the business plan to expand Cinépolis to India and that academic research was the foundation for the expansion not only to India but also to Brazil, Chile, Spain, and the USA. In 2014, he was appointed as the only non-family board member. He is also Co-founder at Greenlight Productions, where he bought the rights and produced the Mexican remake of the Indian Blockbuster “3 Idiots”. 

In 2022 was granted the International Exhibitor of the Year Award in ShowEast. 

Miguel has been teaching “Film Exhibition Management” at Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment Industry Management program in L.A since 2015.