New executives to support the company’s efforts to build the next generation of software and hardware.
disguise has announced its expansion with new appointments to its senior team, to further strengthen disguise’s position and support network worldwide.
Bill Collis was appointed as Chairman of the Board in early 2018, bringing significant senior leadership experience within the film and video industry to his new position, with over a decade as the CEO and then President of the Foundry. Collis built the Foundry organically transforming it from a London based niche visual effects software company into a high growth global force in development and distribution of media post-production tools and product design technology.
To support its CEO, Fernando Kufer, disguise has also hired an Executive team. That includes:
Paul Hunt as the newChief Finance Officer. Hunt brings 15 years experience as a key member of the Euromoney Institutional Investor Senior Management Team. He also has a strong commercial reputation for driving growth and change.
Tom Rockhillas Chief Sales Officer. Rockhill brings extensive experience in Media and Entertainment technology, having managed Sales in multiple countries. This new role involves continuing to push disguise into markets worldwide while helping to shape the product pipeline and direction of sales growth.
Lorna Bains joined disguise as Chief People Officer. Lorna has experience in HR, business transformation, and leadership roles, in corporate organisations and consultancy. Alongside her role at disguise, Lorna continues her work consulting to help companies achieve sustainable and significant improvements to performance and engagement.
Ed Plowman will join disguisein March 2019 as Chief Technology Officer. He brings a wealth of experience from 18 years at previous companies. He looks forward to bringing his vast knowledge of hardware and software technology to disguise.
With more than 18 years of experience, Roberto Scandian joins the team as the new Global Head of Operations. He started his career as System Engineer at Motorola and has worked in various different positions over the years including a Project Manager.
To support the executive team and continue business growth, disguise also announced the appointments of:
Charlotte Dawson who joined disguise as Head of Sales Operations. Dawson has extensive Marketing and Sales Operations experience after working in the computer software industry. She brings a wealth of specialist knowledge from her roles at Avid Technology and the Foundry where she worked in a host of roles including Channel Marketing Manager, Head of Channel and Sales Operations and Head of Sales Enablement.
Ethan Forde also joins the disguise team as Global Head of Support. Forde has brought extensive experience from his work as a freelance Production Video Engineer on a number of global projects including; Starlight Express, Bodyguard the Musical and the Secret Cinemas project presents Bladerunner.
Joining as Global Head of Marketing is Sagar Shah. Shah joined disguise from a consultancy background, where he marketed to the world’s largest brands and advertisers. With international experience and a strategic and commercial focus; he is well versed in implementing, building and utilising MarTech to enable overall business growth. His role will involve developing integrated and multi-channel marketing campaigns to aid insight, lead generation and commercial results.
disguise has ambitious plans to continue its growth in 2019 with further positions in Development, Support, QA, Product, Sales and Marketing becoming available.