Creative agency Battery has promoted Marco Vidalis to director, head of production.
In this role, Vidalis will oversee all of the agencyโs productions and manage production teams across each of Batteryโs lines of business.
Vidalis brings more than 10 years of experience to this position, previously holding freelance, executive, and senior producer roles at the likes of Crispin Porter+Bogusky, BBH LA, and MullenLowe. He brought his creative and production chops to Battery in 2022, and since then has held the roles of sr. producer and executive producer before his promotion. While at Battery, Vidalis has worked with clients in the finance, entertainment, and gaming industries, including RBC and Apex Legends.
Vidalis will report to Battery co-founders, Phillip Khosid, chief creative officer, and Anson Sowby, CEO.
โOur mission at Battery is to produce work that entertains as much as it innovates, and I can think of no one who embodies this approach better than Marco,โ said Khosid. โHis extensive experience in both production and advertising will allow us to continue delivering best-in-class creative work to our clients.โ
โIโm honored to continue my tenure at Battery as head of production,โ said Vidalis. โOur team is smart and scrappy and we continue to push ourselves to craft creative, engaging work. Iโm looking forward to continuing to raise the bar while also mentoring the next generation of creative talent. โ
Josh C. Kline joins Scripto as CEO
Josh C. Kline has been named the new CEO of Scripto, the innovative real-time, cloud-native platform designed for remote collaborative scriptwriting and production. Kline will steer Scripto into its next phase of growth. Plans call for Scripto to further transform collaboration throughout the writing and production stages, enabling creative teams to accelerate their workflow and enhance teamwork.
Emmyยฎ-winning programs such as โLate Night with Stephen Colbert,โ โLast Week Tonight with John Oliver,โ โThe Daily Show,โ and the Weekend Update on โSaturday Night Liveโ rely on Scriptoโs advanced workflow tools to allow show writers and production teams to work together seamlessly from any location.
โLate Nightโ host Colbert, co-founder of Scripto, said of Kline, โHis deep background in entertainment technology will help take our groundbreaking platform to new heights, and also ensure we are on the winning side when the AIs finally make their move, which we all know is coming. I canโt wait to see what weโll achieve together.
Kline brings a wealth of experience in technology and media. He previously served as head of media & entertainment at Box. Kline co-founded Sample Digital, where he developed Digital Dailiesโข, revolutionizing the review and approval process for film and TV production and earning him a Primetime Engineering Emmy Award. His entrepreneurial spirit continued with the launch of Secure Path Technology, a cloud-based content ID and metadata services company. Kline was chief strategy officer at Final Draft before joining Box as head of media & entertainment, and has consulted for major global clients including Microsoft, Avid, and Motion Picture Domain Registry.
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