Brian Gaffney Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

MTI Film is a full service, one-of-a-kind, post production facility. Our creative talent and renowned software supports many of the world’s most popular scripted television and motion pictures. Software products include The most complete post production utility software available. Anywhere.The Cortex family of products includes solutions for on set and post with a fully featured dailies application, IMF and DCP validation, AS-02, AS-11, and Dolby Vision™ packaging, multiple QC modules including Dead Pixel Correction, Video Measurement Tools and IMF validation, world class UpRes with MTI-Samsung rescaling, and all with Enhanced Edit capabilities.The Industry-Leading Film Restoration Software DRS™Nova is a full suite of automated and manual tools to fix everything from common dust and dirt to catastrophic tears and warps. MTI Film has spent 30 years refining and perfecting our application to include powerful tools that work the way restoration artists want – simply and efficiently.

San Francisco, Us

Responsible for the sales of the Unity WETA tools that help artists create photo-realistic materials and characters using AI-assisted artistry and Machine Learning plus procedural modeling tools for Virtual Art, Cinema quality VFX and Games. Working closely with the Product Management and Marketing teams, I helped advance the Virtual Production experiences and Virtual Art sales for Unity via a full range of agnostic art tools to support multiple creative use cases for VFX, Virtual Production, Environment and Vegetation design, Character and creature animation built upon a legacy of award winning tools by award winning creators. All connected via the Unity Pro platform via our network of certified partners and solutions providers. In my role I focused on AI generative and ML based tools for AI assisted artistry with ArtEngine, for material authoring of PBR generated materials and with Ziva Dynamics, harnessing AI and ML technology to bring digital humans and creatures to life. Ziva tools power the world’s leading 3D CGI characters for films, television, and games. With sophisticated simulation and deformation, machine learning, and real-time character creation, Ziva helps you create accurate and scalable characters with greater control and speed. I provided consultive selling to key Unity customers including Google, Microsoft, YouTube, Material Bank, and all of the leading VFX studios and VAD studio in the market.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Reporting directly to the Chief Design Officer and Managing Director of Codex Inc., based in London, England. I am responsible for Global Sales, direct and indirect, across the entire Codex digital recording and workflow product line, including the APAC region with key partners in Korea, working at KOFIC and KOCCA in Seoul. In addition, I assist the Managing Director and Vice President of Engineering with strategic business development opportunities for new products and strategic partnerships and acquisitions. As an officer of the company, I also manage the entire U.S. Operations and manage the office located in Los Angeles, CA. The Director of Support and IT department report directly to me, as well as the worldwide sales team. I manage all functions of office and facility operations directly. This includes hiring and termination of employees, creating and writing job descriptions, approving and signing mutual Non-Disclosure agreements, approving Expense Reports and Payroll, negotiating lease contracts and monthly parking terms. I also manage all marketing and trade-show events, including product training. In addition, I provide creative input and approval on all web content and email distributions, including Press Releases, White papers and online case studies to tell a compelling story about the products. I develop the sales programs and marketing messaging that we promote through our social media campaigns and sales channel for all the camera manufactures and rental partners. SWOT and competitive analysis reports are routinely generated for the Business Advisory Board to make sure we innovate the right products at the right time. Since I joined Codex in early 2015, I have grown sales of non-OEM product by over 150%, helping strengthen the company’s position, making it less reliant on OEM partner sales to grow the business. This growth came by leveraging my direct relationships across the industry.

Los Angeles, Us

Reported directly to the General Manager of Advanced Production Technology, a software development group within Technicolor Entertainment Services. Responsible for Product Management and vision, for a new suite of products aimed to better serve the client base. The Software as a Service (SaaS) platform features a Dashboard and Notification system with detailed information displayed to monitor and track a production across all phases of the project lifecycle, from the initial script and development phase, to pre-production, production, post-production, and archival, including theatrical and B2B distribution. Suggest, recommend, and test new technologies and consult on new partnerships that will help accelerate growth in new areas such as Digital Asset Management, Scalable Cloud Storage and Compute, Secure Streaming Dailies, and Metadata Management.

Los Angeles, Us

Lead the technology innovation and deployment of the Technicolor color pipeline from set to near set, which was defined by the final color facility decisions. Helped focus business on supporting the new business model of near set dailies, in support of States offering tax incentives, for productions produced in the state. Helped the team develop and support new products for new 4K cameras and 3D workflows for 3D Television and key partners of Technicolor. I deployed color pipelines in support of various standards, REC709, LOG Film, plus ACES. Job required interaction with 3rd party software developers, in-house engineering teams and Studio and Production Companies in the development of “DP Lights” On Set Color Management system and “Dailies on Demand”, a 2D and 3D playback server. Awarded two patents for “Color Assist” and “Gestural Interface Color Correction”.

With a vision on how the industry was transforming in reaction to digital technology and file-based workflows, I started a company called Creative Bridge in 2006, focused on building a market in on location production services. Technicolor Creative Services acquired the company in 2007 and hired me as the V.P./General Manager to build a business model with the goal of assisting production and bridging a workflow back to the core post-production business. Creative Bridge successfully launched a division that developed an on set color correction system, with a traceable color decision list, that would track through the entire post-production process from beginning to end, as metadata in the form of a CDL.xml file. On Location Services developed tools across the entire production chain that prepared content for the commercial, broadcast, motion picture, and web business units, and sold these solutions to the six major motion picture studios and independent production companies. Creative Bridge generated incremental revenue and helped capture back-end post- production services for the facility and produced the highest operating profit margins of any division, due to low capitalization costs and lower cost headcount.

New Orleans, Louisiana, Us

Turbo Squid is a 3D Online Asset Storefront. As President, I was responsible for new growth initiatives in Game Development and Mobile Content for a CRM based online content distribution and publishing company focusing on B2C and B2B business. I consulted for the founding partners to develop strategies to grow the operation in revenue and horizontal business opportunities. I was asked to lead the organization and build a team to address these opportunities. I Introduced a new consumer level game product, the TURBO MODMAKER and filed a provisional patent on the application. I launched a content game pack for GMAX supported titles, called the TURBO TOYBOX at E3. I also launched a Mobile Developers Forum complete with Mobile downloads featuring direct-to-phone delivery of 3D animated content for Symbian based Series 60 Nokia phones. I developed a business model for game mod extensions, in the form of a subscription service, in conjunction with a leading game boutique, to support franchise level PC game titles online.

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Successfully managed a complete product re-branding campaign and developed an integrated product line of Windows based Film tools, from a suite of disparate command line applications. I built a global sales channel of resell distribution partners for commercial and educational sales. I launched a new website complete with online support and a PR section. Developed and wrote all the press releases and managed all trade show events. Designed all print advertisements and handled all signage layouts for resellers and corporate events. In addition, I managed the business development opportunities with 3rd party partners and OEM suppliers. Developed direct buying relationships with key hardware partners such as NVIDIA, IBM, DELL, DVS and StorageTek, to manage our costs and increase our profit margin on custom system sales. I acted as an adviser to the Board of Directors and was involved in the sale of the MTI Machine Vision division to an outside group. I helped plan the re-investment of these funds into the Film division and hired a product manager and sales manager to help grow the operation.

Commercial Post Production facility in Santa Monica, CA, catering to high end Advertising Agencies. Responsible for the Sales and Marketing operation of a Commercial Advertising post-production company based in Santa Monica, CA. I helped develop ideas and pitches with the Executive Producer and had to break down the cost structure of scripts and storyboards, to produce and create visual effects shot budgets, for Broadcast TV Commercials, Film and 3D cinematic elements. Projects I was directly responsible for producing; Lord of the Rings – The Two Towers for EA Games; Spiderman – The Game for Activision – A commercial produced at 2K Film resolution for theatrical release; Leadership & Success Product Demonstration opening for AMGEN’s product launch of their $1 billion AranespTM Cancer Treatment Drug, featuring Lance Armstrong. I also launched a new 3D pre-visualization division called START.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Promoted from Director of Sales - Americas to Senior Worldwide Business Development Director. Directly responsible for all new Business Development and Strategic Partnership Alliances on a Worldwide basis while still managing the Americas sales team. I managed over (50) strategic business partners for Discreet including SGI, Apple, Intel, Microsoft, Pinnacle Systems, da Vinci Systems, Wam!Net and a host of software and hardware partners. In addition, I developed new business opportunities and was the first Business Development Director to carry a target quota. Proven sales experience and excellent customer support allowed me to command revenue from partners for marketing support and development opportunities. All financial analysis, sales forecasting and marketing and support implementation were my responsibility to sign off on before we would approve any new initiatives. I worked closely with the General Manager, VP of Legal Counsel, the CFO and VP of Worldwide Sales. The new initiatives developed supported our current revenue streams and were focused to develop “growth” in line with our corporate objectives.

Started as employee # 50 in a small software start-up in Montreal. I excelled in the company from West Coast demo/sales to West Coast Sales Manager. The company was acquired by Autodesk in 1999 and I was promoted to Director of Sales for the Americas. I successfully merged two sales teams and managed 72 people and grew sales to $84 million from less than $1.3 million, when I started at Discreet Logic in 1994.

A.S., Laser Electro Optics

Associate Of Science - As, Electrical, Electronic And Communications Engineering Technology/Technician