-- Jaclyn Ranere, an entrepreneurial executive with extensive digital and interactive experience in music, video and film, will serve as Deluxe Entertainment Services Group Inc. VP of global marketing and communications. Ranere is charged with leading the global marketing and communication strategy at Deluxe. An industry veteran with significant experience, she has fulfilled marketing leadership roles across every facet of the communications spectrum. Ranere will report to David Kassler, CEO, and Maggie Williams, executive VP, global head of human resources. Ranere joins Deluxe from The Orchard, where she led efforts to shape and communicate the company’s value to its record label, artist/artist management and filmmaker clients across the music and film industry in more than 25 global markets. She led a team covering corporate communications, interactive and digital marketing, digital advertising, audience development, licensing, strategic partnerships, lifestyle marketing, design, product positioning and analysis. Before joining The Orchard in 2004, she ran Moonshoot Productions, a company focused on creating and using video to drive digital marketing campaigns….
Bicoastal integrated content studio Humble has secured indie firm The House of Representatives to handle sales in the Midwest. Humble is being repped by the House of Representatives’ Chris Karabas and Rob Mueller…..
Colorfront, the Academy and Emmy Award-winning developer of high-performance, on-set dailies and transcoding systems for motion pictures, high-end episodic TV and commercials, has named Bruno Munger as its new director of business development. Munger will immediately focus on continuing the successful roll-out of Colorfront Transkoder, the company’s standalone, high-performance, file-conversion and mastering system for digital cinema and high-end UHDTV production, as well as overseeing sales expansion of Colorfront’s Express Dailies and On-Set Dailies systems. He is based in Los Angeles and will also collaborate with Colorfront CTO Bill Feightner to further develop the company’s services and consulting business. Munger brings the best part of 25 years of experience to Colorfront, with specialist expertise in workflow design for file-based 2D/3D image capture, file-based delivery, VFX and Digital Intermediate color grading. He arrives with an intimate knowledge of Colorfront technology having previously worked at Colorfront reseller ALT Systems–the LA-based, full-service, systems integrator and workflow solutions provider for the entertainment industry–where he was CTO and company VP. During a four-and-a-half year stint at ALT Systems, Munger managed the expansion of business services, especially in the area of on-set dailies solutions, and oversaw sales and implementations of Colorfront systems to major motion picture and high-end television post-production facilities, including Technicolor, HBO, Bling Digital, Deluxe and 21st Century Fox. Colorfront will continue to work closely with ALT Systems as its main U.S. distributor and reseller. Prior to working at ALT Systems, Munger was involved in product management, product design, business development and customer training for industry-leading companies including Digital Vision, Autodesk, MTI Films and Snell & Wilcox….
