Tim Handren — who led Santikos Enterprises through the coronavirus pandemic and a writers strike that upended the film industry, while expanding the San Antonio-based movie theater chain to become the eighth-largest cinema operator by number of screens in the country — is retiring.
There wasn’t much rigor and discipline around how it went about its day-to-day business. That’s not meant to be critical. Those are just things that I have come to highly value because I recognize, from my USAA days, if you don’t have good process and good rigor and discipline around how you’re moving forward, it’s a bit chaotic. Getting all that established, that’s kind of my wheelhouse. 2019 was the best financial year in Santikos’ history. Then we went through the pandemic.