Luke Parker Bowles, CEO of Cinema Lab

Luke Parker Bowles is CEO of Cinema Lab; a movie theatre development and management  company, who believes the theatrical experience is important, purely because it is the best  way to share movies and creates a sense of community and empathy. They are opening  community-based, technology-forward, ecologically-conscious movie theatres that lead the  way in hospitality, programming, presentation, design and cater our guests with expanded  hot and cold menu options and adult beverages. Additionally, Luke serves as CEO of Odd Sausage LLC – an East Coast -based Film,  Television and Video production company committed to acquiring, developing, and  producing multi-platform premium content through unique access to quality material. Odd  Sausage combines strong creative relationships and an executive team that has produced  award winning and commercially successful films. Productions include Starz’s OUTLANDER and Focus Features EVENING and the recent  FEATURE thriller EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE. On the Video side, clients include TED, UPS, UBS, Logitech, British Airways, Transferwise and many others. Parker Bowles previously served as Executive Vice President of Production for Open Road  Integrated Media, a digital publisher and multimedia content company. Open Road  publishes and markets eBooks from authors including Pat Conroy, William Styron, Alice Walker, James Jones, and Pearl S. Buck. At Open Road, he created and oversaw the Digital  Entertainment division, which created short documentary film pieces about its authors in  order to market their eBooks. He managed a worldwide team of filmmakers who  interviewed Open Road authors and their families, colleagues, and friends. Hailing from London, Parker Bowles began his film-industry career at International Creative  Management (ICM) London in 1999 after obtaining his degree from the University of  London. An established film industry executive in both the United Kingdom and the United  States, Parker Bowles has developed and managed a diverse slate of films for both major studios and independent film companies, including Working Title Films, Hart Sharp  Entertainment, and Sharp Independent at HarperCollins. Parker Bowles joined Working Title Films’ creative department in 2001. There, he was  involved in the development of hit films such as Chris and Paul Weitz’s About a Boy, Beeban  Kidron’s Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason, Joe Wright’s Pride & Prejudice and Atonement, Shekhar Kapur’s Elizabeth: The Golden Age, and Richard Curtis’s Love Actually. In the fall of 2003, Parker Bowles moved to New York and began working in the  independent film world at Hart Sharp Entertainment. Parker Bowles served as Chairman of BAFTA in New York and is a Director and Founder of the Queen Elizabeth II Garden in New York and The Montclair Film Festival. He is also a  member of both the Pilgrims Society and the St. George’s Society. He was awarded the  inaugural Leadership Award by the St. George’s Society in 2017 for his work in bringing Britains and Americans closer together and for his work with non-profits, including Comic Relief, of which he is a Senior Ambassador and has raised more money than any other single  individual in America for the charity. In addition to attending the University of London, Parker Bowles studied at Yale University  and Carnegie Mellon University.