Bicoastal production house Supply & Demand has hired Jeff Scruton as managing director and executive producer. Based at Supply and Demand's L.A. office, Scruton will liaise between the creative and business departments headed by founder and managing partner Tim Case and president and managing partner Charles Salice, respectively.
Scruton will take the reins from Kira Carstensen, who after seven years as Supply & Demand's EP/partner, is leaving to open the Pulse USA office as president of its commercial division.
Scruton has spent the past two years as president of Motion Theory (Mth).Prior to that he was at MJZ for 17 years. He joined when the company was in its infancy and helped steer its growth into one of the industry's most dominant players, overseeing hundreds of high profile projects that garnered recognition from Cannes, the DGA, the One Show, the AICP and the D&AD among many others.
Supply & Demand founder, Tim Case, stated, "Kira's departure is bittersweet. I regret her departure but am very happy that she has found a new and exciting opportunity with Pulse. I have heard nothing but good things about them and their team in London. Kira has been a terrific complement to Charles and myself….That said, we feel very, very fortunate that Jeff became available to us just as Kira was considering her options. Jeff and I worked together for some time back when I represented MJZ in the later '90s. Having someone of Jeff's caliber, experience, creativity and character join the company is exciting and hugely comforting for me."
Carstensen said, "Tim, Charles and the entire staff are like family to me and I am sad to be leaving my home of the last seven years. But I am thrilled to be turning the West Coast office over to Jeff's strong hands and excited about my new adventure with Pulse."
DGA Spot Nominees: Lance Acord, Kim Gehrig, Tim Heidecker & Eric Wareheim, Andreas Nilsson, Ivan Zacharias
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