Meow Wolf CEO Jose Tolosa will step down after more than three years leading the immersive art conglomerate with five locations nationally, including Convergence Station in Denver. The company that brings guests into alternate universes and fantastical realms will conduct an external search for a new CEO; boardmember Rebecca Campbell has been appointed as interim CEO in the meantime.
Campbell will begin her interim position on May 1, and Tolosa will remain until the end of May to ease the transition. The news comes about a month after Meow Wolf announced its plans to install a seventh permanent exhibit in New York City. It has a sixth location in the works in Los Angeles, which is set to open in 2026.
A statement from Meow Wolf about Tolosa's departure states that Tolosa led the company through a period of growth and transformation, overseeing the opening of exhibitions in Grapevine and Houston, Texas; surpassing 10 million guests nationally; and recruiting a new executive team. Meow Wolf Denver public relations manager Ru Johnson said that Tolosa is stepping down after completing the work he was brought in to lead.
"With a strong foundation now in place, it felt like a natural time for a transition," Johnson told Westword, adding that the company isn't yet sharing additional details about the new CEO search process.
"Leading Meow Wolf through this phase of transformation has been the greatest honor of my professional life," Tolosa says in a statement. "I'm incredibly proud of what we built together, and I'm confident the company is poised for an even more magical and mind-expanding future."
At the end of last year, Meow Wolf laid off 20 percent of its central workforce, which included 75 roles — six of them in Denver. Last April, Meow Wolf laid off fifty Denver employees as part of a massive move that cut 165 employees in an effort to effort to reduce the company's expenses by 10 percent.