Tommy Murov has been promoted from producer to executive producer at the New York office of bicoastal Spot Welders. He succeeds Tatiana Vasquez who left to go freelance. Murov’s executive producer counterpart in Spot Welder’s Venice, Calif., office is Heather Kojima.
Murov has been with Spot Welders since exiting King Cut Editorial, Los Angeles, in 1999 where he served as exec producer. He has produced assorted projects during his tenure at Spot Welders, including the first BMW online film in “The Hire” series, directed by the late John Frankenheimer and edited by Spot Welders’ Robert Duffy for Fallon, Minneapolis; Nike’s “Mask” directed by Tarsem of bicoastal/international @radical.media and cut by Duffy for Wieden+Kennedy, Portland, Ore.; and a multi-spot NFL package helmed by Tarsem and edited by Spot Welders’ Duffy in Los Angeles and Dick Gordon in New York.
In his new role as New York-based exec producer, Murov will work closely with Gordon. Murov brings extensive ad agency experience to the shop. He began as a coordinator in the broadcast production department at Rubin Postaer and Associates, Santa Monica. He was there for 10 years, rising to the position of senior producer and working on Honda, among other accounts.
In ’96, Murov moved to Fallon, Minneapolis, where he produced for such clients as BMW and United Airlines. He then made his first foray to the editorial house side of the business, joining King Cut in ’98.