Kurt Hall '82

Kurt Hall is a media executive, entrepreneur, and lifelong outdoorsman whose career has spanned professional sports, public accounting, and leadership of some of the country’s largest cinema and advertising companies.

A native Vermonter, Kurt began his athletic career as a competitive ski racer and soccer player and later played professional baseball as a catcher with the minor league affiliates of the Detroit Tigers and New York Yankees. After his baseball career, he returned to Vermont and completed his accounting and finance degree at the University of Vermont in 1982. Kurt began his professional career with KPMG before moving into the media industry with United Artists Entertainment Company (UATC), a cable television and cinema subsidiary of Telecommunications, Inc.

He went on to serve as CFO and then CEO of UATC’s theatre operations, which later became part of Regal Entertainment Group (REG), the world’s largest cinema operator. As REG’s Co Chairman and Co CEO, he founded the cinema advertising network that grew into National CineMedia, Inc. (NCMI), the largest cinema advertising company in the U.S. 

After retirement as National Cinemedia’s chairman and CEO, Kurt has served on many corporate and not-for-profit boards and currently serves on the boards of Vector Media (a New York based out-of-home advertising company), PatientPay LLC (a healthcare payments tech company), the Aspen Education Foundation (a foundation that helps fund the Aspen public schools), the Aspen Valley Ski and Snowboard Club, and the University of Vermont Foundation.