Monday, 3 March 2008 | Levent OZLER
Tim Kolb Joins Digieffects as Chief Product Officer
Tim Kolb, an Emmy, Chicago Film Festival Hugo, and Telly Award-winning director and a 20 year veteran of video and television post production has joined Digieffects as the Chief Product Officer. In this capacity, Tim, will lead the company's product marketing and management efforts.
Tim has experience with a wide range of creative initiatives ranging from interactive projects as early as 1986 to broadcast news production and working with HD and 2K RAW acquisition/post production and compositing. He has been a tour presenter for Canopus, Adobe, CineForm, Sony, and Silicon Imaging, a forum moderator at Creative Cow and author of multiple articles on the web and for TV Technology and Post Magazine. Tim has been featured in articles in Millimeter, Video Systems, EventDV, Studio Monthly, Film and Video, and Studentfilmmaker magazines and is the author of "The Easy Guide to Adobe Premiere Pro" and more recently, the technical editor of "Hands on HDV" (Gloman/Pescatore) from Focal Press. Tim was named one of the "Top 100 Producers" of 2002 by AV Video/ Multimedia Producer Magazine.
"I've enjoyed building my career in production, and I still plan on continuing with certain projects and clients, but for a number of years I've also enjoyed working with industry manufacturers, furnishing input from the user's perspective." said Kolb. "Now I have a chance to be involved with an excellent group of people during some very exciting times at Digieffects, and instead of simply offering input, I'll be helping put it in action."
"We are thrilled and honored to have Tim join the company" said Robert Sharp, president of Digieffects. "I've known Tim for many years and have always been impressed with his strong technical and product knowledge as well as his ability to relate to the needs of users".
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