{"id":2277383,"date":"2026-02-11T14:40:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T14:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2277383"},"modified":"2026-02-11T14:40:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T14:40:27","slug":"atg-entertainment-names-melanie-smith-as-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/atg-entertainment-names-melanie-smith-as-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Atg Entertainment Names Melanie Smith As CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0697402\/\">Atg Entertainment<\/a>, a leading theater producer and theater owner in the U.S. and the U.K, has appointed <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0809322\/\">Melanie Smith<\/a> as its new CEO.<\/p>\n<p>Smith takes on the role, effective Wednesday, after serving as CEO of the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0950705\/\">NEC Group<\/a>, the U.K.\u2019s largest live events venue operator and serving as deputy chair at the dance organization <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0360540\/\">Sadler\u2019s Wells<\/a>. Smith succeeds Ted Stimpson, who took on the role in October 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Atg owns ten West End theaters and seven Broadway theaters after acquiring theater owner <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0246161\/\">Jujamcyn Theaters<\/a> in 2023. The company has more than 70 venues across the U.K., the U.S., Germany, Austria and Spain, as well as its own ticketing platform. Private Equity firm <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0192067\/\">Providence Equity Partners<\/a> is the largest shareholder of Atg.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMel is an exceptional leader with a proven track record of running complex, global businesses across both the live entertainment and consumer sectors. Her combination of operational rigour,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atg Entertainment, a leading theater producer and theater owner in the U.S. and the U.K, has appointed Melanie Smith as its new CEO. Smith takes on the role, effective Wednesday, after serving as CEO of the NEC Group, the U.K.\u2019s largest live events venue operator and serving as deputy chair at the dance organization Sadler\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2277384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2277383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Atg-Entertainment-Names-Melanie-Smith-As-CEO.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2277383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2277385,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277383\/revisions\/2277385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2277384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2277383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2277383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2277383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}