Jay D. Roth, national executive director of the Directors Guild of America (DGA), announced the promotion of three senior staff executives and the expansion of the senior staff team.
Eastern executive director/associate national executive director Russ Hollander will be relocating from New York to Los Angeles effective January 1, 2016 and taking on additional national staff duties operating out of the National Office.
Hollander will join associate national executive directors Bryan Unger and David Korduner on the West Coast to focus on industry negotiations and the growing challenges of national and international representation of directors and their teams in all genres represented by the DGA.
Both Hollander and Unger will be dropping their respective Eastern and Western executive director titles. Associate Eastern executive director Neil Dudich has been promoted to Eastern executive director effective January 1, 2016 and will head the New York Office. Danny Bush, associate Western executive director, has been promoted to Western executive director effective January 1, 2016 and will have regional responsibility for administration of the West Coast Office.
“As the membership of the Guild has grown, so too has the staff infrastructure to support directors and their teams throughout the nation and the world,” said Roth. “I am pleased that Russ will be joining Bryan and David here in the National Office for the continuing benefit of all DGA members. The promotions of Neil Dudich and Danny Bush to Eastern and Western Executive Directors will enable expanded member service in these geographic regions.”
The expansion of the Guild and the strengthening of the organization’s staff leadership were also evidenced by the recent hiring of Joan Sumpter as the Guild’s new CFO (announced October 12, 2015) and the promotions of: associate Western executive director Lisa Layer to lead organizing on a national scale (announced October 7, 2015), and associate executive director Sahar Moridani to oversee the administration of a number of the Guild’s operations including Reports Compliance, Residuals Processing and related contract administration and enforcement functions (announced June 23, 2015).
