People on the Move

Cutters has promoted Kristin Gerhart to editor. The announcement was made by executive producer Megan Dahlman and executive producer/partner Craig Duncan.

Gerhart landed with Cutters in Chicago soon after earning her B.A. from Columbia College Chicago in 2008.  Beginning as an assistant editor honing her craft alongside the company’s highly regarded editors, she relocated to California in 2012. “She has been cutting for the last year with clients,” noted Dahlman, “so we decided it was time to make it official.”

In the commercial realm, Gerhart has edited campaigns for BCBG, CVS Health, Esurance, Jack In The Box, Kellogg’s, and Toyota, among many others.  According to Duncan, not only is she actively sought-after for projects happening all across America, she is also largely responsible for earning many ongoing assignments related to network television upfront presentations.

Currently busy preparing presentations for dozens of new network dramas and comedies for ABC Television, Gerhart said, “I honestly love working on a wide variety of projects: documentary-style, montage, drama and comedy.  For me, I just love to tell a story in the best way possible.  I’ve edited commercials and films that are everything from comedy to crime dramas and even sci-fi.”

Following her interests, she has recently edited director Anthony Vietro’s narrative feature film “Collusions,” which is set to debut later this year, as well as director Raphael Rogers’ dramatic short “Revelations: The Fall” and the half-hour documentary “The Chain” from director Scott Weintrob.

“The Chain is about altruistic kidney donors starting off a chain reaction by paying it forward,” Gerhart continued. “I engulfed myself in that project for several months as I pieced it together from over 50 hours of footage.  After screening at the American Documentary Film Festival and elsewhere, many donations were made to UCLA and the National Kidney Registry because of it.  There’s something really fun in the challenge of being handed a project with 30-50 hours of footage and no script and turning it into something beautiful with a powerful message.”

At Cutters LA, Gerhart joins staff editors Chris Hafner, Barnett Kiel, Jacob Kuehl and Adam Parker, each of whom is available for projects anywhere through any of Cutters’ facilities.

Ashley McKim has joined Company 3 as executive producer. Based in Santa Monica, McKim will report to Bill Romeo, chief marketing officer, as she builds and expands the company’s commercial finishing business in the Southern California market.

McKim comes to Company 3 from a successful tenure at Cutters, where she worked with award-winning editors, building agency relationships; led marketing and sales initiatives, and developed new business opportunities for the global editorial house as well as its partner companies.

Prior to Cutters, McKim held a similar role at Hybrid Edit and served as EP and head of sales at Beef Films and Chop House Post, where, as partner, she finely honed her entrepreneurial abilities. McKim comes from a background of advertising, marketing and media relations.

Film and TV marketing veteran Sharre Jacoby has been named executive producer of Buster, the animation and design studio of Los Angeles-based Stun Creative. She will report directly to Michael Vamosy, Stun’s chief creative officer. Jacoby will oversee all aspects of production at Buster, and take an active role in new business development.

Prior to joining Buster, Jacoby was executive producer/head of operations at Pembrook Productions, a design and marketing agency with clients including HBO, BET, Discovery, OWN, ITV and Lifetime. Before that, she was sr. producer, and then head of production at New Wave Entertainment where she worked for over a decade producing film main titles and broadcast design for clients such as HBO, MTV, Discovery Channel, BET and Bravo. She began her career working as a postproduction supervisor/post producer on films including Terry Gilliam’s “The Fisher King” and Robert Duvall’s “The Apostle.” She has been honored with PromaxBDA Gold for Discovery’s “Shark Week,” a Create Award for HBO’s “Sports of the 20th Century” main title design, and an Emmy nomination for “On the Record with Bob Costas.”

Havas Worldwide has appointed Beth Pasciucco to serve as managing director, global financial services practice leader, and global client lead. Pasciucco will focus on developing innovative growth strategies, acquisition marketing, and brand and customer experiences across the financial sector and beyond, and will also have responsibility for key client relationships. Based out of the network’s New York headquarters, Pasciucco will report to Havas Creative Group and Havas Worldwide CEO Andrew Benett.

Pasciucco’s appointment reflects Havas’ commitment to providing clients with top-notch, diverse talent to meet the ever-changing world of marketing. Her hire is part of Havas’s strategy to create best-in-class practice areas focused on developing innovation, best practices, and thought leadership.

“Our goal is to help our clients grow their businesses into the future, and we are always looking at new ways to do that. Beth’s excellent track record in building brands in complex categories—including the financial sector—and her expertise in helping brands cultivate customer relationships, will be of great benefit to our clients,” Benett said.

Prior to joining Havas, Pasciucco was managing director and head of brand management and customer experience at AXA. Her previous experience includes serving as chief marketing officer, global wealth management group at Morgan Stanley and as a managing director, director of institutional marketing at Putnam Investments. She was named a worldwide partner and the director of global marketing for a division of Mercer Consulting, and also held the most senior marketing position at Fidelity Investments for Fidelity Personal Investments, managing the brand and retail promotion to individual investors.

“The move to Havas represents not just the next step in my career, but also a homecoming,” said Pasciucco, who began her career on the ad agency side of the business at Arnold Worldwide, a Havas Creative Group agency. “Havas looks very different now, with its bold ambition to create the most integrated client offering available anywhere.”

Pasciucco holds a BA in English from College of the Holy Cross and is a member of the Board of Trustees for Next Step Foundation, Cambridge, MA.