Butler, Shine, Stern and Partners (BSSP) has appointed Lauren Trojan as its new business development director. Within this role, Trojan is charged with generating new business leads and ultimately building new relationships for BSSP–particularly with brands that would benefit from the agency’s expertise in the automotive, health & wellness, sports and entertainment, and CPG categories. Trojan will be directly reporting to BSSP’s president, Patrick Kiss. As a 15-year veteran of the industry and accomplished business development professional, Trojan has worked for a variety of ad agencies, big and small–including, McKinney, CP+B, Vladimir Jones, Sterling-Rice Group and Fortnight Collective. Throughout her time at these agencies, some of her most valuable wins include but are not limited to, Hotels.com, Jimmy Fallon, Infiniti, Slimfast, Bolthouse Farms, P&G, PetArmor, Ulta, Crocs and Suja….
Advanced Systems Group, LLC (ASG), a technology and services provider for media creatives and content owners, has brought Kelly Fox aboard as a strategic account executive. In her new role, Fox will focus on the development of business relationships with key accounts in the Central, Rocky Mountain, and Pacific Northwest regions of the U.S. Fox will be part of ASG’s sales team, reporting to Tyler Berry, sales director, Central Region. Fox joins ASG after spending the last 16 years working with broadcasters, Fortune 500 companies, video service providers, production companies, and event venues as an account manager at Grass Valley. While there, she worked closely with Sam Craig, now ASG’s VP of cloud production engineering, on the adoption and sales of Grass Valley’s AMPP (Agile Media Processing Platform) SaaS, and other live production, asset management, and on-prem solutions….
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 appointed Sjoerd Klinkers to the position of sales manager for the Benelux region. An experienced information technology specialist, Klinkers is skilled in AV solutions design, account management, and project engineering. He will report to Wilbert Kooij, regional sales director, Northern Europe, and Benelux, as he strengthens the company’s relations throughout Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. Before joining Riedel, Klinkers served as brand manager for Legrand AV, where he developed, managed, and supported the company’s sales channels while assisting in the design of AV and IT systems for hardware, software, and connectivity. He had also served as technical account manager for Grass Valley, a Belden Brand, where he was involved in technical account management for key customers, as well as service and support operations….
Carrie Coon Relishes Being Part Of An Ensemble–From “The Gilded Age” To “His Three Daughters”
It can be hard to catch Carrie Coon on her own.
She is far more likely to be found in the thick of an ensemble. That could be on TV, in "The Gilded Age," for which she was just Emmy nominated, or in the upcoming season of "The White Lotus," which she recently shot in Thailand. Or it could be in films, most relevantly, Azazel Jacobs' new drama, "His Three Daughters," in which Coon stars alongside Natasha Lyonne and Elizabeth Olsen as sisters caring for their dying father.
But on a recent, bright late-summer morning, Coon is sitting on a bench in the bucolic northeast Westchester town of Pound Ridge. A few years back, she and her husband, the playwright Tracy Letts, moved near here with their two young children, drawn by the long rows of stone walls and a particularly good BLT from a nearby cafe that Letts, after biting into, declared must be within 15 miles of where they lived.
In a few days, they would both fly to Los Angeles for the Emmys (Letts was nominated for his performance in "Winning Time" ). But Coon, 43, was then largely enmeshed in the day-to-day life of raising a family, along with their nightly movie viewings, which Letts pulls from his extensive DVD collection. The previous night's choice: "Once Around," with Holly Hunter and Richard Dreyfus.
Coon met Letts during her breakthrough performance in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?" on Broadway in 2012. She played the heavy-drinking housewife Honey. It was the first role that Coon read and knew, viscerally, she had to play. Immediately after saying this, Coon sighs.
"It sounds like something some diva would say in a movie from the '50s," Coon says. "I just walked around in my apartment in my slip and I had pearls and a little brandy. I made a grocery list and I just did... Read More