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.

Cinegy GmbH, the premier provider of software technology for digital video processing, asset management, video compression and automation, and playout, has appointed Mikhail Efimov as regional sales manager for Eastern Europe, Russia and CIS (the former Soviet states). He joins Cinegy from Perspectiva, and brings with him many years’ technical and commercial experience in the broadcast industry.

Rohde & Schwarz and Pixel Power have appointed two new sales executives to cover their complete media technology portfolio for broadcasters and post production, from ingest through to playout.

Nevion, a Sony Group Company and award-winning provider of virtualized media production solutions, today announced that company founder Thomas Heinzer has been appointed as the CEO of Nevion, effective from 20 August 2021. The appointment follows the departure of Geir Bryn-Jensen to pursue new projects. Nevion’s existing management team remains unchanged.

Scott Noble has been announced as the new DigiBox Sales Manager.

Marc Risby, Managing Director of DigiBox said "I’m very happy to announce that effective immediately Scott Noble will be taking on the role of Sales Manager for DigiBox Europe.

Tyrell, a leading broadcast provider and Preferred Telestream Partner in the United Kingdom and Ireland, has announced the expansion of the team, with the appointment of Simon Wocka as Account Manager, based in the UK. The appointment of Simon reflects Tyrell’s continued growth strategy with client success at the core of our business. 

Telstra has named Noah Drake to lead the company’s Customer Solutions group for the Americas region. As Vice President, Customer Solutions, Drake will lead a specialized team that works with customers to create value by bringing together the full capabilities of Telstra’s products and services. 

ELEMENTS, provider of innovative, high-performance media storage and server systems for post-production and broadcast, has welcomed Heiko Schlüter to the team. He brings to the company extensive experience in delivering media systems, including specialist storage networks.

Canford serves a diverse range of customers from its headquarters in Washington, Tyne & Wear. In recent years Canford has enhanced its reputation as the supplier of choice for custom metalwork, and the group continues to expand and develop its in-house fibre termination facilities to meet rapidly increasing customer demand.

Prasad Corporation (Prasad) announces the appointment of Mark Smirnoff as President for– North America, responsible for sales and operations.

Prasad is one of the largest Film post-production houses globally, and after a stable growth year (2020-21), despite bearing the brunt of the pandemic, it is now set for growth. The company will consolidate its position as a preferred partner for several of its loyal customers in the US market.

Robert Nagy, lead developer and co-founder of innovative broadcast company nxtedition, has been appointed to the Technical Steering Committee of Node.js.

Node.js is seen as a key building block for scalable network applications with several major companies across the spectrum relying on the powerful open-source runtime environment, including Microsoft, Netflix and PayPal.

Signiant announced that media veteran Dan Marshall has been appointed to the newly created role of Chief Revenue Officer. Reporting directly to CEO Margaret Craig, Marshall is now responsible for driving all of the company's global sales activities. He assumed the role on May 3, 2021. Marshall brings many years of experience building and driving high-performance, customer-centric sales organizations in the media technology sector. He joins Signiant from Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he led several large teams involved in implementing media workflows in the cloud.    

Mo-Sys Engineering, world leader in virtual production and image robotics, announced today the appointment of Tanner Woodward as Sales Director, West Coast US.

Arriving at Mo-Sys with extensive industry experience, Woodward joins from RED Digital Cinema, where he spent five years managing existing channel partners and establishing new dealer networks, as well as creating the corporate creative vertical. Working with a wide variety of creatives, from small content creators to large scale live and in-studio production teams, Woodward built on his previous work as a camera operator and systems workflow manager for live events, specializing in speed, reliability, and efficiency all the way through from pre- to post-production.

Grass Valley is continuing to lead the industry transition to a cloud-first, software-based future with the appointment of media technology expert Barbara DeHart as director of alliances for the GV Media Universe. In this newly created role, DeHart will focus all of Grass Valley’s strategic partnerships on bringing together high-performance solutions from recognized broadcast technology vendors into a unified cloud-native ecosystem.