Company 3 has promoted Mike Paterson to director of sales at its Toronto location. Paterson, a 20-year veteran of the company, most recently served as manager of customer service, which saw him manage the company’s entire production and client services teams for the past six years. He has interfaced extensively with the company’s artists and clients for all color and sound mixing projects completed at the Toronto facility. Paterson frequently moved during his childhood, spending a significant amount of time both in Hong Kong and Singapore before settling in Toronto in 1999. He then began his college studies in audio engineering, which led to an internship in the Deluxe Toronto (now Company 3) sound department, followed by a series of promotions, which provided him exposure to all facets of sound and picture post….
Signiant Inc. has appointed Dan Marshall to the newly created role of chief revenue officer. Reporting directly to CEO Margaret Craig, Marshall is now responsible for driving all of the Lexington, Mass.-headquartered company’s global sales activities. 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. Marshall joined AWS in 2015 via its acquisition of Elemental Technologies, a pioneer in multi-screen video streaming technologies, where he led the sales organization from the start-up phase through to market leadership. Prior to Elemental he managed sales and other customer-facing functions for Omneon, where he played a pivotal role in growing a global business that transformed the video server and storage market. Long established within the M&E industry for optimizing the transfer of large files over IP networks, Signiant’s role in the media technology stack has expanded dramatically in recent years. In today’s hybrid cloud, multi-cloud world, the company’s Software Defined Content Exchange (SDCX) platform provides the connective fabric between globally distributed content repositories–both within and between media companies of all sizes. In addition to providing fast, secure access to media assets regardless of storage type and location, this increasingly involves management of information about the assets….
