Republic, a Dallas-based production, editorial and design collective, has secured industry veteran Fran Montoya as its director of sales. Montoya brings almost 30 years of experience to the role and will be charged with leading Republic’s internal sales and marketing teams and coordinating their efforts with outside representation. Montoya’s experience as both an independent and in-house rep–with a historical roster of companies ranging from VFX to production to music to traditional postproduction–has allowed her to build strong relationships with agency creatives, producers, industry creatives and talent. A critical player in Reel FX’s commercial division’s success in the mid 2000’s, she was most recently head of sales at charlieuniformtango. Proficient in Spanish, with strong relationships in both the general and Hispanic markets, Montoya was born in El Paso and destined for a career at the intersection of sales and creativity. Raised by parents who owned competing advertising agencies, her father, Rudy Montoya, was a famous Southwest artist who owned a local print advertising agency, while her mother wrote, produced and directed for her own company. While in high-school, a young Montoya answered phones for her father before running her mother’s casting agency at the age of 18. Montoya moved to Dallas at age 21 and started a small repping firm working with such companies as DNA Productions and Concrete Productions, and as an independent rep. She went in-house at Reel FX in 2007, where she expanded its commercial roster and client base and gained a deep understanding of the animation and visual effects arena….
Global design firm Forever–launched back in January via a deal between London-based FutureDeluxe and Canada’s Tendril–has hired Joel Dennis as global head of growth. Dennis takes on responsibility for growing the Forever business and expanding the global group’s footprint both internally and externally. Reporting into Forever’s U.K.-based CEO James Callahan, Dennis hails from Sid Lee where his role was director for growth & innovation. Having worked across automotive, ecommerce, and tech, Dennis brings with him a wealth of sales and business development experience, alongside expertise in sales process improvement…..
Riedel Communications–which designs, manufactures, and distributes real-time video, audio, data, and communications networks for broadcast, pro audio, event, sports, theater, and security applications–has expanded its sales team in France with the appointment of Philippe Delépine as regional sales manager and François Sarbinowski as sales specialist, live production. Delépine joins Riedel with decades of experience proposing and implementing audio and video solutions for major players across the broadcast and professional AV industries. He was a sales engineer and project manager at Audiopole, where he contributed to numerous successes with notable French media organizations, and more recently served as a commercial engineer with CVS Engineering, a system integrator covering all areas of broadcast TV sets, control rooms, as well as institutional clients. Sarbinowski began his career in the industry as a video assistant and today has three decades of experience using state-of-the-art, live slow-motion replay technology for some of the world’s most notable live sports events. Spending many years with EVS Broadcast Equipment in France, he served as a training manager and then as presales/operation manager, introducing the company’s products to customers across Europe. More recently, Sarbinowski was a video technology coordinator for the International Cycling Union and a technical consultant for different jobs, including remote production with the Simplylive Production Suite for a major tennis tournament in Paris….
