Lightware Visual Engineering is excited to announce the appointments of Craig Storey as CEO and Craig McQueen as Sales Director to head the UK team. Under their leadership, Lightware UK will consolidate its position in the region with a new focus on growth after a hugely successful last financial year.

AE Live, a leading global provider of graphics and data solutions, is delighted to announce the appointment of Narelle Vine as General Manager for Australia.

Imagine Communications has appointed media industry executive Diana Horowitz to the newly created position of vice president, strategic sales, advertising technology. Based in New York City, Horowitz will drive the company’s strategy of helping customers generate greater profitability from their media assets by migrating toward a converged linear and digital advertising approach.

Clear-Com is pleased to announce the appointment of Calvin Long to the company’s renowned Applications Engineering team. Based in the Southeastern region of the US, Calvin brings industry experience and knowledge with a focus on both remote and hybrid broadcast operations from his time at Black News Channel (BNC) as Broadcast Manager of Operations for the live news channel. Calvin was a first-hand Clear-Com user in his previous role, configuring the intercom system to enable remote and hybrid broadcast workflows for the anchors, production team and engineers.

Recognizing the growing need from media organizations to partner with innovative technology vendors as they look to navigate their transition to an IP-connected and cloud-based landscape, Imagine Communications has added three key new appointments to its European sales team. Mark Beard becomes senior sales director for the UK and South Africa, Daniel Shihata is technical sales manager for the UK, and Niklas Fabian joins the Munich office as a pre-sales consultant for Imagine’s networking solutions, for all markets in EMEA and APAC.

Blu Digital Group, Inc. (BDG), a media and entertainment

technology company, announced today the appointment of Tony Rizkallah as Chief

Operations Officer, responsible for the operations and increased automation of

business processes of Blu Digital Group.

Amino, the global media and entertainment technology solutions provider, today announces that it is strengthening its executive team with the appointment of Mike Tometzki as Senior Vice President Sales.

Building on 25+ years' experience in the digital TV industry spanning roles at Kaon Media, Irdeto, Humax and Pace, Mike joins from Technicolor to help drive Amino's global growth and service excellence.

As part of the ongoing global expansion of Gravity Media, the EMEA Business Development team, led by Director of BD, Blair Wood, has continued its investment in the best broadcast and media talent with the arrivals of Beth Lowney as Business Development Manager and Claire Downey as TechnicalProducer–Proposals, as well as internal promotions for Katie Tookey as Proposals Manager – Production and Osaro Ewansiha as Proposals Researcher.

Vizrt appointments Sam Leadsom to its leadership team as Commercial Director of Global Sports as the company reinvigorates its sports offerings. Sam has a vast background in sports production with IMG Media, Fox Sports and Sail GP where he has been responsible for large sports productions in many parts of the world; the Premier League, Sail GP, Bundesliga, US Masters, and Moto GP are a few examples.

Caton Technology, a pioneer in next-generation IP network transport solutions, is developing ever-closer relationships with the market through the appointment of two leading figures to further drive growth. Eduardo Branco joins as sales director for Brazil and Portugal; Paul Shonfeld joins as sales director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

The Collectv, the Emmy award-winning broadcast solutions and workflows consultancy, is pleased to announce two new appointments to its UK team. Both based at the company’s London office, Nick Long joins as Project Manager, and Amy Kellie takes up the role of Operations Assistant.

Intinor, Sweden’s leading developer of products and solutions for high-quality video over internet, has made another high-level hire with the appointment of Christer Jernberg as its new Head of Software Development. Jernberg is the latest addition to the Intinor senior team as the company goes from strength to strength and joins in the wake of the company’s new CEO Lina Zackrisson.  

Grass Valley today announces the appointment of Jan Lange as Chief Revenue Officer. In this new role, Lange will report to Tim Shoulders, Grass Valley CEO and president and will oversee Grass Valley’s go-to-market strategy to empower customers to deliver the live moments that matter to people across the globe. Harnessing his commercial experience, Lange will lead the global sales team and help drive the company’s recently launched new strategic focus on live production. He will be responsible for expanding the GV Media Universe (GVMU) cloud-centered customer base and growing revenue through new partnerships and large enterprise pricing agreements.

Intinor, Sweden’s leading developer of products and solutions for high-quality video over internet, today announces that its Board of Directors has appointed Lina Zackrisson as the new CEO. Zackrisson will take up her new role in January 2022, replacing co-founder Roland Axelsson, who has been CEO since the company’s inception in 2003. 

Fabrizio Mariani has joined Imagine Communications as a regional sales manager. Based in Milan, Italy, he will cover Greece and Malta, as well as his native Italy.

Even while studying computer science at university in Milan, Mariani was working as a freelance graphics operator and designer in a television station. He has never left the industry, working with leading vendors on cutting-edge systems in video storage, networking and data management. This experience ideally suits him for his new role at Imagine Communications, where he will help deliver innovative solutions to contemporary challenges.