Multidisciplinary studio Los York has partnered with Simpatico for both East and West Coast representation. A female-led creative conduit, bringing together artists, composers, designers, directors, editors, and innovative thinkers within the advertising industry, Simpatico is led by founder Jolie Miller and partner Dunja Jovicic….
Thomas Phariss has joined Conductor Technologies as VP of sales, a newly formed role at the company. Phariss brings more than 20 years of experience in high performance computing and render management technology to the position. He will help creative studios quickly leverage cloud-based compute resources. He comes to Conductor from Amazon Web Services (AWS), which he joined following its acquisition of Thinkbox Software. As director of sales at Thinkbox Software, Phariss enabled clients across media and entertainment, engineering, architecture, and design to make the most of their on-premises and cloud-based compute resources with Deadline render management solution, as well as equip artist with tools such as Krakatoa, Frost and Stoke. He started with the company in 2012, and remained an instrumental part of the team following its acquisition by AWS in 2017. His role then expanded to extend cloud-based solutions across the entire production cycle, including for high profile studios that work on billion-dollar franchises. Phariss began his career in creative technology with Universal Computer Systems and AMD, and has also held sales roles at PipelineFX and BOXX. He is based in Austin, Texas. Conductor cloud platform supports most industry-standard creative applications, including Autodesk 3ds Max, Maya, and Arnold; Blender; Maxon’s Cinema 4D and Redshift; Foundry’s NUKE, Cara VR, KATANA, MODO and Ocula; Chaos Group’s V-Ray; Pixar’s Renderman; Isotropix’s Clarisse and others. It can be used with AWS or Google Cloud Platform….
