Deluxe Vancouver Ltd., a division of Deluxe Entertainment Services Group Inc., has hired William Baldwin as Vice President Sales and Richard Cederlund as Vice President Operations. Baldwin will be responsible for all post production sales, including Deluxe’s digital and film laboratory services. Cederlund will be responsible for editorial, telecine and media management operations. Both executives will report to Mark Atkinson, Vice President and General Manager, Deluxe Vancouver.
Prior to joining Deluxe, Baldwin served as founder and President of PostWorks New York. He brings a deep technical knowledge as well as years of post production expertise to the Vancouver operation. Rick Cederlund is a long time member of the Vancouver post production community with a strong engineering background, and formerly served as Director of Operations for NorthWest Imaging & FX.
“Deluxe Vancouver is part of a network of services for filmmakers in North America,” says Mark Atkinson, Vice President & General Manager. “With these key additions to our senior management team we will be even better positioned to service the Vancouver market. And by providing top level motion picture laboratory, telecine, editorial and media management operations in the four largest markets of North America โ Vancouver, Toronto, Los Angeles and New York โ we’re able to collaborate more fully with our clients in production,” adds Atkinson.
Deluxe Vancouver and its sister company, CIS Vancouver, are the former post production and visual effects units of Rainmaker Entertainment Inc. acquired by Deluxe in January 2008.